The effects of the intra-African and European deportation regimes brought about since the European Union's externalization of its migration and dev...

Pinar Tuzcu explores rapper Lady Bitch Ray's performance and particularly her use of the term Kanackin. She combines issues of popfeminism and post...

Popular newspapers like the British "The Sun" and the German "Bild" regularly invite controversy over their morals and methods, power and responsib...

This book examines the construction and articulation of diasporic cultural identity among the Turkish working-class youth in Kreuzberg (Little Ista...

Several of the most prolific and influential conspiracy theories have originated in Eastern Europe. The far reaching influence of conspiracy narrat...

In recent years there has been a shift in how diversity and representation are discussed in the German cultural sector. The PostHeimat network, a t...

Who is meant when people talk about the citizens or the activists? Often, they are implied to mean the most privileged positionalities. Simultaneou...

Algorithms are not to be regarded as a technical structure but as a social phenomenon - they embed themselves, currently still very subtle, into ou...

(Dis)Orientation appears to be a phenomenon that is connected to media in numerous respects: today, finding your way in the world often means findi...

Taking its cue from contemporary western debates on presence in the social sciences and the humanities, this volume focuses on 'presence' both as e...

Which everyday practices allowed women to sustain and fulfill individuality and agency under dictatorial rule? This book adds to a rich scholarship...

The documentary My heart of Darkness (Sweden 2011) tells the story of a South-African paratrooper returning to Angola: Facing former enemies, he tr...

Media depictions of Arabs and Muslims continue to be framed by images of camels, belly dancers, and dagger-wearing terrorists. But do only Hollywoo...

Numerous contemporary televisual productions revisit the past but direct their energies towards history's non-events and anti-heroic subjectivities...

The British and American Congo Reform Movement (ca. 1890-1913) has been praised extensively for its "heroic" confrontation of colonial atrocities i...

Building on concepts from Science & Technology Studies, Simon David Hirsbrunner investigates practices and infrastructures of computer modeling...

Globalization euphoria and enthusiasm for the West are on the decline in contemporary China. Critical voices make themselves heard in artistic and ...

While psychiatry and the neurosciences have dismissed the concept of neurosis as too vague for medical purposes, in recent years literary studies h...

Ageing and Memory are two cultural processes that establish their own relationships with time. They affect our ways of living, in the present, and ...

In this book, Natàlia Cantó Milà elaborates on Georg Simmel's relational approach to a theory of value, pointing at the heuristic possibilities tha...

Radical ideologies may manifest differently at first, but they do follow a similar logic: truth claims, promises of salvation and a unifying common...

Armed conflicts and restrictions on academic freedom have forced many scholars into exile. So far, few comprehensive studies exist on the professio...

The beginning of the 20th century saw a reinterpretation of the concept of the accident. While accidents had traditionally been considered as inevi...

This volume offers transdisciplinary perspectives on the study of acting and performance in moving image forms. It assembles 26 international schol...

Despite a number of retrospective works on cultural studies, to date no other book dedicates itself to the historical and theoretical examination o...

This study is a concise introduction to Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory and its application in a literary analysis of urban narratives of the 2...

The cultural field of advertising is a much-debated topic with perspectives focusing on a range of concepts from harassment and the anxiety of infl...

This volume is dedicated to the interrelation between temporality and representation. It presumes that time cannot be conceived of as an abstract c...

What makes up a public, what governs dominant discourses, and in which ways can counterpublics can be created through narrative? This edited collec...

"After the Storm" traces the cultural and political responses to Hurricane Katrina. Ever since Katrina hit the Gulf coast in 2005, its devastating ...

When Toula's father in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" says to his daughter (age 30) "you look so old" or when Don DeLillo's protagonist (age 28) "feels...

The booming increase of the senior population has become a social phenomenon and a challenge to our societies, and technological advances have undo...

Dominant cultural narratives about later life dismiss the value senior citizens hold for society. In her cultural-philosophical critique, Hanne Lac...

The sustained expansion of the life span and the attendant demographic changes in the West have fuelled the production of cultural texts that explo...

In Slavic studies, aging and old age have thus far been only marginal concerns. This volume brings together the scattered research that has been do...

The linking of age and ill-health is part of a cultural narrative of decline as age is often defined as the absence of good health. Research has sh...