Since the dawn of humanity, people have developed concepts about themselves and the natural world in which they live. This volume aims at investiga...

Food is more than just nutrition. Its preparation, presentation and consumption is a multifold communicative practice which includes the meal's des...

The exploration of what May Sarton calls the »foreign country of old age« usually does not go far beyond the familiar: the focus of aging studies h...

During the early republican period, architectural interventions in rural Turkey took the form of social engineering as part of the state's moderniz...

Michel Foucault is considered one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. Marita Rainsborough examines the current relevance of his...

How is solidarity understood by the people who practice it actively and daily? What is the role of solidarity in reconciling the relationship of in...

According to Walter Benjamin, the past that is not recognized by the present threatens to disappear irretrievably. As a consequence, photographs ca...

This book is a rich ethnographic and historic account of the juridification of prior consultation in Brazil. In her case study on the national regu...

In the late 19th century, the so-called »German Method«, which employed spoken language in deaf education, triumphed all over the Western world. At...

Hysteria, a mysterious disease known since antiquity, is said to have ceased to exist. Challenging this commonly held view, this is the first cross...

This study of contemporary literature from the former Yugoslavia (Post-Yugoslavia) follows the ways in which the feminist writing of gender, body, ...

In Zaatari camp, Jordan, thousands of Syrian refugees were sheltered in tents and caravans, which they steadily appropriated and turned into dwelli...

Fugitive Borders explores a new archive of 19th-century autobiographical writing by black authors in North America. For that purpose, Nele Sawallis...

The radical novelty of modern society consists of the global autonomy and dynamics of communication systems such as the economy, polity, science, l...

Cultures as well as individuals continually balance the demands of nostalgia and sustainability as they construct historical narratives of ›futures...

How can videogames portray love and loss? Games and Bereavement answers this question by looking at five videogames and carrying out a participator...

Why do we play games and why do we play them on computers? The contributors of »Games and Rules« take a closer look at the core of each game and th...

How did games rise to become the central audiovisual form of expression and storytelling in digital culture? How did the practices of their artisti...

Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel Snow Crash conceived of the Metaverse as an escapist medium within a dystopian future. By the early 2000s, his vision...

Despite the efforts of modern scholars to explain the origins of science communication as a social, rhetorical, and aesthetic phenomenon, most rese...

Prenatal diagnosis, especially noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT), has changed the experience of pregnancy, prenatal care and responsibilities in ...

Could the Caspian Region replace Russia's or the Persian Gulf's immense energy potential with their energy resources? Yunis Gurbanov explores the s...

Questions of truth, ethics, state power, and propaganda, of how to render account of catastrophes and reconcile oneself with one's past are not onl...

We are witnessing a worldwide resurgence of reactionary ideologies and movements, combined with an escalating assault on democratic institutions an...