As a writer, critic, and philosopher, Stanisław Brzozowski (1878–1911) left a lasting imprint on Polish culture. He absorbed virtually all topical ...

We are constantly growing older, and there are an increasing number of elderly people living with dementia who are merely being ›taken care of‹. Th...

Hidden from view, data centres process and store scientific data while requiring extensive energy and metal extraction. How can science become sust...

In the mid-1870s, the experimental therapy of lamb blood transfusion spread like an epidemic across Europe and the USA. Doctors tried it as a cure ...

Artistic research has become an established mode of inquiry and knowledge production in many fields. Johanna Schindler examines the collaborative p...

Recent U.S. literature has both been informed by, and critically engaged with, materialist conceptions of selfhood. Over the past decades, discipli...

Geological phenomena have a strong visual presence in the landscape of the Chilean Andes. Volcanoes, thermal springs, earthquakes and geysers arise...

The large-scale use of semantic transfer and inversion as rhetorical tactics is particularly prevalent in right-wing discourses and populist »alter...

Businesses want to be sustainable but how can they promote sufficiency? Sufficiency-oriented business models focus on creating sustainable value, p...

Despite formal equality gains such as LGBTQ workplace protections (Bostock v. Clayton County 2020), heteronormative cultural orders still permeate ...

Humanity is failing at solving complex socio-ecological problems like global climate change, biodiversity loss and population growth. The existing ...

New knowledge, created in international cooperation, is essential for global sustainability. Set against this background, this study focuses on Ger...

Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among older Mexican migrants in Chicago, Franziska Bedorf investigates the phenomenon of return migration...

Is there an option to oppose without automatically participating in the opposed? This volume explores different perspectives on dissent, understand...

In 2001, Freestyle, a survey exhibition curated by Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum in Harlem, introduced both a young generation of artists of A...

The belief in democracy and democratic institutions is waning. Political malaise, populism and radicalization are widespread. Everywhere in the Wes...

Contemporary life is caught in prisons of identity. Public, academic, and political discourses do not seem to be possible without circling around t...

This book explores the points of convergence between corporate capitalist and terrorist practice. Assessing an increase in the number of terrorist ...

Artistic strategies have a great transformative potential to improving research, teaching, and artistic expression. The contributors to this volume...

Since the 1990s, the concern to define areas of research in design has dominated academic debates. As a result, we are now facing a multitude of un...

How we sense and move our bodies shapes how we relate with each other. Current socio-economic practices are reducing generative qualities of relati...

In Tarlabasi, an Istanbul neighbourhood facing massive redevelopment and displacement, marginalised residents speak about belonging, stigma, and wh...

In September 2021 a very special academic conference took place: T2051MCC – The 2051 Munich Climate Conference. Researchers from across the academi...

Twenty-first-century Western culture is characterized by profound transformations in its forms of collective organization. While traditional instit...

How do participatory museum projects with forced migrants impact both the museum and the participants? What happens during these projects and what ...

By drawing together widely dispersed yet central writings, the Berlin Reader is an essential resource for everyone interested in urban development ...

Discoveries in biomedicine and biotechnology, especially in diagnostics, have made prevention and (self)surveillance increasingly important in the ...

In Western neo-liberal society, the human body is increasingly used as an »identity project« and »designable object«. Antje Velsinger investigates ...

In the 1970s, the whole Brazilian Amazon was opened up by road construction and the exploitation of its rich resources increased considerably. Jan ...

In the Brazilian planning region “Amazônia Legal”, deforestation of rain forests for the extraction of mineral resources, cattle breeding, soybean ...

In the context of the ever-increasing political problematization of migration in Europe, agencies charged with migrant administration create divers...

In 2015 many camps were opened to accommodate newly arriving migrants in Berlin. Christian Sowa studies this form of accommodation. Moving beyond a...

Notwithstanding its ruthless dynamics, the capitalist economy has the flaw of deficient employment-generating spending. This leads to unemployment ...

What is the function of clerical leadership in Alevism based on sociocultural and political understandings? To answer that complex question, Deniz ...

Inspired by the success of the US Christian Right and the rise of the global far-right, ultraconservative Christians in Europe are joining forces a...

When the German chemist Emil Fischer presented his lock-and-key hypothesis in 1899, his analogy to describe the molecular relationship between enzy...

Art is a prerequisite for the progress of society. Corporate Art Initiatives contribute to this progression. Based on extensive research, Viviane M...

Wherever we turn, we find creative practices and creative spaces, creative organizations and creative subjects. At work or in public places, in med...

Against the background of the media commercialization reform since the 1990s in China and drawing on the case of »X-Change« (2006–2019), Wei Dong i...

The symbolic meaning of plants, their relevance to religion and the metaphorical provocations in the order of knowledge, culture and political powe...

In Southern Africa, marriage used to be widespread and common. However, over the past decades marriage rates have declined significantly. Julia Pau...

After a long time of neglect, Artificial Intelligence is once again at the center of most of our political, economic, and socio-cultural debates. R...

Are computer simulations theory, experiment, or something in between? Anne Dippel and Martin Warnke explore the epistemological status of computer ...

Research on electronic dance music communities has been initiated by scholars in the fields of sociology, cultural studies, public health research ...

Are anxiety or dread negative stages before freedom, a confrontation with humans' own mortality and finitude? Joana Serrado inaugurates anxiousness...

In the Hobsbawmian long 19th century, gender and processes of sexualization and feminization have been crucial in the construction of the »Jewish O...

Europe is stumbling from crisis to crisis. The financial and debt crises are endangering the European currency union; referenda in several EU count...

Since its invention in the late nineteenth century, the penetrating gaze of the X-ray has changed our vision of the inside of the human body. After...