The ghost as a literary figure has been interpreted multiple times: spiritually, psychoanalytically, sociologically, or allegorically. Following th...

In post-migrant societies, belonging, identity and transnationality go far beyond inclusion and exclusion. Intersecting elements behind circulating...

While the concept of the documentary film is well established, interactive documentary is a newly emerging form of non-linear, non-fiction narrativ...

What does it mean to be called an ›Outsider‹? Marion Scherr investigates structural inequalities and the myth of the Other in Western art history, ...

With the advent of the reformation, concepts of living and dying were profoundly reconfigured. As purgatory disappeared from the spiritual landscap...

In remote areas of Europe, local history museums struggle to connect with the rapidly changing and increasingly diverse communities around them. In...

What is the logic of design process? Departing from this question, Tiago da Costa e Silva investigates the characteristic feature of every projecti...

The Loop: Chicago Architecture and the Social Imaginary discusses the social function of architecture. Through close readings of skyscrapers, opera...

The Lower !Garib, or Orange River, flows through the historical Namaqualand and since 1990 has formed the international border between Namibia and ...

In the early 20th century, Korean women began to manifest themselves in the public sphere. Sung Un Gang explores how the women's gaze was reimagine...

F. Scott Fitzgerald once said: »Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.« In the 1990s, nobody fell deeper than O.J. Simpson. Once considered ...

In a positive departure from modernism, the work of the art critic and urbanist Ludwig Hilberseimer offers schemata towards the design for the city...

As ethnographic fieldwork blurs the boundaries between ›private‹ and ›professional‹ life, ethnographers always appear to be on duty, looking out fo...

This essential introduction to American studies examines the core foundational myths upon which the nation is based and which still determine discu...

Social practice theories help to challenge the often hidden paradigms, worldviews, and values at the basis of many unsustainable practices. Discour...

How does artistic practice lead to the production of knowledge? How does, in turn, artistic knowledge relate to its material base? How does conting...

The architect Andrea Palladio was a draughtsman and a designer, a mason and an engineer, an innovator and an image maker. His growing importance fr...

Repair, reuse and disposal are closely interlinked phenomena related to the service lives and persistence of technologies. When technical artefacts...

What does plausibility mean in relation to scenario planning and how do users of scenarios assess it? Despite the concept's ubiquity, its epistemol...

Vituperation, disparagement, and debasement seem to have become part of the mainstream discourse in contemporary US-American media culture. Zooming...

Malaria remains one of the main causes of mortality and morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa. Matian van Soest looks at the malaria epidemic in the peri...

Many claim that political deliberation has become exceedingly affective, and hence, destabilizing. The authors of this book revisit that assumption...

Digitization is transforming our world economically, culturally, and psychologically. The influx of new forms of communication, networking, and bus...

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the American theater emerged as a crucial cultural space for debates around gender stereotypes, gendered...

This book explores Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer and Alexander Kluge's analyses of the role that a rejuvenation in the capacity for imaginati...

Fictional TV politics played a pivotal role in the popular imaginaries of the 2010s across cultures. Examining this curious phenomenon, Sebastian N...

How is the Internet produced as an infrastructure in post-socialist Lithuania? Migle Bareikyte contributes to the growing field of STS and media st...

The African museum landscape is changing. A new generation of scholars and curators is setting international standards for the reappraisal and revi...

Lucas Haasis found a time capsule: A complete mercantile letter archive of the merchant Nicolaus Gottlieb Luetkens who lived in 18th century Hambur...

»There's nothing really fun about the park in winter!« – Christina Ergler is the first one to explore why ›play‹ resonates differently across urban...

In the small world of Swiss graphic design, prizes such as the Swiss Design Awards (SDA) are followed closely. The winners' works are admired, envi...

With a novel quality theory of consumption which treats opulence and self-restraint in consumption styles symmetrically, Ernst Mohr shows how socia...

Dynamic processes and conflicts are at the core of the urban condition. Against the background of continuous change in cities, concepts and assumpt...

Riding, hunting, fishing, bullfighting: Human-animal relations are diverse. This anthology presents various case studies of situations in which hum...

While the disciplinary architecture of hospitals has long prevailed in psychiatry, many care teams now work in smaller structures, within communiti...

How can we understand long-term change in world politics better? Based on readings of thinkers as diverse as Habermas, Foucault and Luhmann, the au...

Paseo La Estación, a mall in Buenos Aires, is as much a place of transit as a place of encounter, where long-term residents and newcomers, people w...

Human differentiation encompasses human classification and categorization processes that we encounter on a daily basis. Klaus Behnam Shad offers a ...

In an age of immediate and global exchange of information, the ability to theorize about political conditions remains largely an elite, technocrati...

Since the 1990s, the virus and the network metaphors have become increasingly popular, finding application in a broad range of everyday discourses,...

What if the terms "technology" and "the body" did not refer to distinct phenomena interacting in one way or another? What if we understood their re...

This first comprehensive study of Norwegian humanities education employs systems theory to analyze its transformation from a form of teacher traini...

This study investigates power, belonging and exclusion in British society by analysing representations of the mosque, the University of Oxford, and...

Today, we not only design and produce artifacts, but also subjective experiences, life models and social change. This active shaping of our life ci...

Financial inclusion appears as a timely development policy. Ostensibly, providing poor households with access to credit and other financial service...

How does the US make sense of its elite educational system, given that it seems to be at odds with core American values, such as equality of opport...

Whether driven by developments in plant science, bio-philosophy, or broader societal dynamics, plants have to respond to a litany of environmental,...

Species are going extinct, forests are burning, and children are worried about the future and their peers worldwide. But that is not the whole stor...