Perhaps unexpectedly, English travel writing during the long eighteenth century reveals a discourse of global civility. By bringing together repres...

Be resilient! Today, we hear this line in almost any context. The term resilience is among the most repeated buzzwords. But why, simply, do we need...

What does it take to cross a border, and what does it take to belong? Sandra Noeth examines the entangled experiences of borders and of collectivit...

`The truth will set you free' is a maxim central to both theories and practices of resistance. Nonetheless, it is a claim that has come under fire ...

Soundscapes profoundly connect listeners to the places they inhabit and thereby reveal the vibrant and resonant fabrics that lie beneath the deline...

Infrastructure comprises a combination of sociotechnical, political, and cultural arrangements that provide resources and services. The contributor...

While research in right-wing populism has recently been blossoming, a systematic study of the intersection of right-wing populism and gender is sti...

People experience disasters very differently. Conflicts about a »correct« interpretation of the risks might arise. The side-by-side of different tr...

As a reaction to typically dead-end debates on future human and robot collaboration that tend to be either dismissive or overly welcoming towards »...

German-Americans represent the largest self-declared ancestry group in the United States of America. The period from the 200th anniversary celebrat...

The structures of rule in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) have been challenged by the Humanitarian Initiative and the Treaty on the Proh...

For at least two decades, major cities in Turkey have been subjected to endless waves of urban development that has left scores of building demolit...

The American Gothic novel has been deeply shaped by issues of race and raciality from its origins in British Romanticism to the American Gothic nov...

Savings and insurance associations are widespread not only in Ethiopia but also in its diaspora, even in countries with diversified and comprehensi...

Scale matters. When conducting research and writing, scholars upscale and downscale. So do the subjects of their work – we scale, they scale. Altho...

Understanding is an ability manifested by grasping relations of a phenomenon and articulating new explanations. Hence, scientific understanding is ...

The relationship between economy, finance and society has become opaque. Quantum leaps in complexity and scale have turned this deeply interdepende...

With the right to petition the United Nations, the Ewe and Togoland unification movement enjoyed a privilege unmatched by other dependent peoples. ...

The belief that »Nature« exists as a blank, stable stage upon which humans act out tragic performances of international relations is no longer tena...

The 17 essays in this volume investigate potentials for democratizing democracies. From finding faith to reclaiming the commons, each essay aims to...

In present-day South Africa, urban development agendas have inscribed doctrines of desirable and undesirable life in city spaces and the public tha...

Through a genealogy of photosensitive elements in media devices and artworks, this book investigates three dichotomies that impoverish debates and ...

Are aesthetics and politics really two different things? The book takes a new look at how they intertwine, by turning from theory to practice. Case...

The word »state« has a double meaning, signifying both a condition and a political entity. Starting from this observation, the contributors to this...

The history of sexuality, family planning, and reproduction in Central and Eastern Europe sounds out the historical dimensions across a broad field...

The interactions between artistic, technical, scientific, living, and nonliving things have inspired new artistic approaches. The contributors to t...

Culture is constructed, negotiated, managed, and shared by various ideological, political, and moral reasonings which manifest themselves tangibly ...

Shielding offers a collection of conceptual approaches through which bodies, intentionally or involuntarily, become shields. Bodies take on an ambi...

This book opens the often narrow discourse on the future of Europe and criticises the false dichotomy between nationalism on the one hand and a neo...

Depicting the world, territory, and geopolitical realities involves a high degree of interpretation and imagination. It is never neutral. Cartograp...

The pursuit of knowledge has always been seen as the key to a better life, whether from an individual or collective perspective, and the social val...

Continually attacked by government officials and educators, installment or colportage novels fascinated their underprivileged readers. Melodrama an...

Focusing on staging processes in contemporary dance and art performance creates new opportunities to study creative participation and co-authorship...

Cultural communities are shaped and produced by ongoing processes of translation understood as aesthetic media practices – such is the premise of t...

When talking about monuments, size undeniably matters – or does it?But how else can we measure monumentality?Bringing together researchers from var...

The inclusion of skateboarding as an official discipline in the 2020 Olympic Games marks the pinnacle of a decades-long process of commercializatio...

Public and political interest in social entrepreneurship (SE) is increasing while it remains a contested and ambiguous concept. Philipp Kenel trace...

Social forms of religion – the ways in which individuals and groups coordinate religious practice – produce community at the same time as they enab...

Robots as social companions in close proximity to humans have a strong potential of becoming more and more prevalent in the coming years, especiall...

As Multilateral Development Banks increasingly gained influence in shaping global development, transnational social movements pushed to hold them a...

Is it possible to work with sound in sociology rather than being about sound? Can there be a »sonic sociology«? Rémy Bocquillon reflects on the pro...

We cannot simply listen to our urban past. Yet we encounter a rich cultural heritage of city sounds presented in text, radio and film. How can such...

Southeast Asia is one of the most dynamic regions in the world. This volume offers a timely approach to Southeast Asian Studies, covering recent tr...

As China races towards modernity, its cities are experiencing an unprecedented surge in urbanisation, characterised by a relentless influx of migra...

As spaces of knowledge, the national museums and galleries of nineteenth-century Europe played an important role both in the shaping of nation-stat...

Alarming environmental shifts and disasters have raised public awareness and anxieties regarding the future of the planet. While planetary in scale...

In times of resurgence of ultra-nationalistic and xenophobic tendencies across Europe, education and awareness-raising for all age groups about the...

Music festivals have become important events for people to experience music collectively and take a break from their everyday lives. Companies and ...