Professional musicians who perform in hospitals, retirement homes, and prisons, creatively stimulated by the residents; babies crawling over exerci...

Russia's large-scale invasion on the 24th of February 2022 once again made Ukraine the focus of world media. Behind those headlines remain the comp...

Rivers, landscapes, whole territories: these are the latest entities environmental activists have fought hard to include in the relentless expansio...

Interdisciplinarity is an inflationary concept in the discourses of higher education and science policy. Yet, some recent structural reforms in Eur...

Luhmann's theory is fascinating and complex. It offers incomparably enlightening insights, references and research opportunities, but reveals its u...

In the past years, the transiency of European city-making and dwelling has become increasingly hard to disregard. This urban flux calls for a metho...

How are art, architecture, critical research, and activism entangled with the politics of urban transformation under the regimes of modern capitali...

Urban spaces became battlefields, signifiers have been invaded, new structures have been established: Netculture replaced counterculture in most pa...

Urban agglomerations host the most vital and creative societies. This applies particularly to Africa, where cities have the highest growth rates wo...

This book takes a close look at the interrelated phenomena of international business migrants and rural migrant workers in Shanghai. Through separa...

Urbanisation in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, poses challenges to urban living conditions. Despite large scale housing programmes from the side of the gover...

Urban Resilience is seen by many as a tool to mitigate harm in times of extreme social, political, financial, and environmental stress. Despite its...

How did American cities change throughout the 20th and early 21st century? This timely publication integrates research from American Literary and C...

Piazza virtuale by the group of artists known as Van Gogh TV was not only the biggest art project ever to appear on television, but from a contempo...

The COVID-19 pandemic has reorganized existing methods of exchange, turning comparatively marginal technologies into the new normal. Multipoint vid...

Video is a part of everyday life, comparable to driving a car or taking a shower. It is nearly omnipresent, available on demand and attached to nea...

This volume compiles papers from the Young Academics Workshop at the Clash of Realities conferences of 2017 and 2018. The 2017 workshop - Perceivin...

In recent years, ideas of post- and transhumanism have been popularized by novels, TV series, and Hollywood movies. According to this radical persp...

The study of the museum visitor has undergone radical transformation. Each author here has asked unfamiliar questions and responded with fresh answ...

Due to global processes of transformation and the social challenges posed by demographic change, rural areas increasingly demand attention from pol...

Waiting is an inescapable part of life in modern societies. We all wait, albeit differently and for different reasons. What does it mean to wait fo...

Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems theory can help to better understand and describe developments of the 21st century. The contributors address t...

Scientific practices of removing waste in mega-cities of the global South are embedded in socio-cultural belief systems which reproduce existing so...

What is nostalgia in television? How far does a nostalgic text trigger nostalgic emotions? And how are nostalgic series received by different audie...