Borders are much more than territorial markers on a map. In recent years, borders have gained more and more scholarly attention, and the field of b...

This collection of essays explores the continuities and disruptions in the perceptions of criminality, its causes and ways of fighting it in late i...

LGBTQ people have strategies of resilience at their disposal to help them deal with the challenge that heteronormativity as a power structure poses...

Mobility is a keyword of late modernity that suggests an increasingly unrestrained and interconnected world of individual opportunities. However, a...

In 1938 gymnastics instructor Carola Spitz escaped from Nazi Germany. In New York she turned into Carola Speads, revered teacher of mindfulness. Sh...

"White trash" is a liminal figure that dramatizes the intersection of race and class. Contemporary British novelists like Irvine Welsh, Niall Griff...

Recent portrayals of the private sector as the engine of poverty alleviation in Africa's agricultural growth corridors have sparked critique by sch...

Brooklyn has all the features of a "global borough": It is a base of immigrant labor and ethnically diverse communities, of social and cultural cap...

The demonstrations of monks in Tibet and Myanmar (Burma) in recent times as well as the age-old conflict between a predominantly Buddhist populatio...

Building blocks are practical materials for playing, learning and working at kindergartens, schools, universities and companies. How did building b...

The Egyptian revolution of 2011 has significantly changed the relationship between citizens, public space, and visual expression. "Cairo: Images of...

"Camp Comforts" investigates the wide-ranging impact of camp on AIDS literature and places this impact within two different traditions of camp anal...

Campus Medius explores and expands the possibilities of digital cartography in cultural and media studies. Simon Ganahl documents the development o...

Institutional care for seniors offers a cultural repository for fears and hopes about an aging population. Although enormous changes have occurred ...

In what way is "care" a matter of "tinkering"? Rather than presenting care as a (preferably "warm") relation between human beings, the various cont...

"Caribbean Food Cultures" approaches the matter of food from the perspectives of anthropology, sociology, cultural and literary studies. Its strong...

Caste hierarchy has frequently been singled out as the overriding principle of Indian society. This book examines its significance among the highly...

Cultural encounters are often being stylized not only as experiences of uncontrollability and unpredictability par excellence, but also as challeng...

This volume puts an emphasis on the question how children themselves experience and manage migration and by means of which they construct an identi...

Using the theoretical frameworks of Freud, Todorov, and Bahktin, this book explores how American writers of the late 20th century have translated t...

How do people live together in cities shaped by inequality? This comparative ethnography of two African cities, Maputo and Johannesburg, presents a...

The ongoing crisis in Europe has dramatic impact on the life in many Southern European cities: Unemployment, social deprivation, poverty, political...

Through biographical narratives, Claiming Home traces how queer migrant women living in Switzerland navigate often contradictory perspectives on se...