Do animals work? Is it possible to work with animals without exploiting them? Might animals even be empowered through work? This provocative collec...

Animal minds and animal ethics - different origins, connecting similarities. Philosophers working on questions of animal ethics usually draw on res...

Anonymity practices in electronic music culture have long been the object of journalistic and academic discourse. Yet anonymity itself is ephemeral...

Berlin is increasingly emerging as a hub of Arab intellectual life in Europe. In this first study of Arab culture to zoom in on the thriving metrop...

What consequences does the design of the virtual yield for architecture and to what extent can the nature of architecture be used productively to t...

This book examines the different roles of architects in rural post-disaster housing and their impact on the degree of success of the projects from ...

The planetary instantaneity that digital technologies have enabled is leading to an effacement of the divisions that separate the past from the fut...

Digital archives are transforming the Humanities and the Sciences. Digitised collections of newspapers and books have pushed scholars to develop ne...

This pioneering volume explores the Arctic as an important and highly endangered archive of knowledge about natural as well as human history of the...

Debates about the possibility of an open culture - or indeed about the possibility of an open debate about the openness of culture - often turn on ...

Emerging forms of alternative economic frameworks are changing the structure of society, redefining the relationship between centre and periphery, ...

What is the cultural dimension of sustainability? This book offers a thought-provoking answer, with a theoretical synthesis on "cultures of sustain...

The established cultural sector is facing a paradigm shift. At the center of this change is the demand to do justice to the diversity of the popula...

Until recently still a blank spot on the world map of art, China today occupies one of the top positions in the rankings of the global art market a...

This book offers a compelling perspective on the striking similarity of art and commerce in contemporary culture. Combining the history and theory ...

Non-conformist, non-linear, unruly thought and action have always led to great works of art, pathbreaking inventions and forward-looking perspectiv...

Although the asymmetrical concepts have been well-known to scholars across the social sciences and humanities, their role in structuring the human ...

How to account for the peculiar attraction of certain photos? How to deal with the specific use of images in particular contexts? Monika Schwärzler...

In medieval and early modern times, female visionary writers used the mode of prophecy to voice their concerns and ideas, against the backdrop of c...

In the past two decades, a discourse of crisis has emerged about the democratic institutions and political culture of the US: many structures of au...

This book gives an insight into the media constructions of historical remembrance reflecting transnational, national or nationalistic forms of poli...

Starting from the unmistakable contrast of two socially developed "movement systems", the aesthetic performing art of classical ballet vis-à-vis th...

Carl Franz Bally founded a shoe factory in Switzerland in 1851. Within decades, the Bally name had achieved worldwide recognition for its high-qual...

Second-person storytelling is a continually present and diverse technique in the history of literature that appears only once in the oeuvre of an a...