Studying the entangled histories of the areas conceptualized as Middle Eastern and North Atlantic World in the interwar years is crucial to underst...

How do migrant women living in illegality build intimate relationships? How do they experience, resist or take advantage of the tight link between ...

The cultural practices of hip-hop have been among people's favorite forms of popular culture for decades. Due to this popularity, rap, breaking, gr...

This is the first academic biography of the scientist and politician Jacob Moleschott (1822-1893). Based on a vast range of primary sources in Germ...

Migration is not a state of emergency, but a basic existential experience of humanity. It shapes contemporary societies by challenging established ...

How is a new intranet involved in an ongoing merger integration process? Katja Schönian analyses internal communication and branding strategies in ...

Kashmiri nationalism is defined by its dichotomy between the ethnic and the civic. Arshi Javaid delves into this dichotomy, unravelling the politic...

What bodily experiences did fighters make through their lifetime and especially in violent conflicts? How were the bodies of fighters trained, nour...

How can performing be transformed into cognition? Knowing in Performing describes dynamic processes of artistic knowledge production in music and t...

The integration of audible space is a central aspect of electroacoustic music. Ever since the earliest analogue days of electroacoustic music, pion...

The concept of la chance accounts for everyday knowledge production in uncertain contexts in Bamako, Mali, where university graduates constitute an...

The Ethiopian textile industry is particularly affected by high labor turnover. In a compelling social study, Michaela Fink investigates the causes...

The body has become central to practices of self-tracking. By focusing on the relations between quantification, the body, and labor, this volume sh...

In contemporary popular culture, armed women take center stage – but how can they be read from a feminist perspective? How do films, comics, and TV...

Since 2008, foreign land acquisitions have attracted international attention under the term »land grabbing.« Illustrated by rich and nuanced empiri...

Harnessing large urban housing estates in former socialist countries as a resource for the future housing supply requires innovative and practicabl...

Peru's industrial mining sector is highly conflictual and characterized by social disputes. Many of these conflicts are fought not only in politics...

Being a home to more than 80 ethnic groups, Ethiopia has to balance normative diversity with efforts to implement state law across its territory.Th...

Let Them Haunt Us analyzes contemporary aesthetics engaged in trauma and critically challenges its canonical status as »unrepresentable«. Focusing ...

This new go-to reference book for global melodrama assembles contributions by experts from a wide range of disciplines, including cultural studies,...

What is a libidinal economy? How are we psychically hooked into the circuits of the capitalist economy? The contributors to this book question the ...

The Internet has penetrated material reality to such an extent that it is now often impossible to disentangle the material from the virtual. In thi...

Listen Up! is the first publication worldwide to take an in-depth look at the development of Radio Art in the United States as a distinct sound art...

Narrative strategies, immersion, interaction, participation, identification, multimodality, characters and the connection between physical and fict...