Over the last decades, studies on cultural memory have taken a »spectral turn« and have explored the potential of haunting metaphors for addressing...

In German spoken theatre, prompt books used to be written by multiple participants engaging in diverse manuscript practices which continually revis...

Are artists seismographs during processes of transformation? Is theatre a mirror of society? And how does it influence society offstage? To address...

What is »justice« from the perspective of contemporary Arabo-Islamic philosophy? Kaouther Karoui takes a transcultural approach, open to different ...

The Kemi River is the major watercourse in the Finnish province of Lapland and the »stream of life« for the inhabitants of its banks. Franz Krause ...

Since the relational turn, scholars have combated methodological universalism, nationalism, and individualism in researching social-spatial transfo...

The notion of »the problematic« has changed its meaning within the history of power and knowledge since the early 20th century, leading up to today...

Video games are temporal artifacts: They change with time as players interact with them in accordance with rules. In this study, Federico Alvarez I...

The romance of extraction underlies and partly defines Western modernity and our cultural imaginaries. Combining affect studies and environmental h...

Analysing recent documentary films dealing with undocumented migration at the Schengen Area's fringes and against the backdrop of what has been ter...

Totalitarianism has been an object of extensive communicative research since its heyday: already in the late 1930s, such major cultural figures as ...

Touch has manifold layers of meaning, especially so in the context of the affectivity unleashed by humor, where often touching spaces ensue in deco...

What role can the humanities play in shaping our common future? What are the values that guide us in the 21st century? How can we unleash the poten...

Intercultural, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research interfaces confront researchers with considerable challenges. Towards Shared Resea...

How did urban Italy come to look the way it does today? This collection of essays assembles recent studies in architectural history and theory expl...

Whether and to what extent African states and societies have been able to break away from colonial impact is a still contentious issue.Harald Barre...

Around the world trans and gender diverse people are marginalized and discriminated against in medical, psychological, and nursing care. This antho...

Between 2014 and 2017, the artistic research project "TransCoding – From 'Highbrow Art' to Participatory Culture" encouraged creative participation...

Is the pícaro, the roguish hero of early modern Spanish adventure fiction, a 'real man'? What position does he hold in the gender hierarchy of his ...

This book explores the formative correlations and inventive transmissions of Anglophone Arab representations ranging from early 20th century Mahjar...

Ayse Güngör investigates art practices between art and anthropology in Turkey, as well as the implications of contemporary art for those discipline...

In an era of heightened global interconnectedness and cultural exchange, social cleavages and dynamics of alienation become increasingly apparent. ...

Who owns cultural assets? Who has narrative control? What could fair and just approaches to dislocations of cultural assets look like, independentl...

Transnationalizing Radio Research presents a theoretical and methodological guide for exploring radio's multiple »global ages«, from its earliest y...

Transport is the only sector that has not yet contributed to the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions. To understand why sustainable transport has...

In the age of globalization, the transnational dimension of sciences like medicine seems to be given. However, the agents connecting different part...

In Europe, the far right is gaining momentum on the streets and in parliaments. By taking a close look at contemporary practices and strategies of ...

Namibia’s colonial history casts a long shadow over the country’s present. Contemporary authors and artists confront the legacies of German and Sou...

Professional musicians who perform in hospitals, retirement homes and prisons, creatively stimulated by the residents; babies crawling over exercis...

Russia's large-scale invasion on the 24th of February 2022 once again made Ukraine the focus of world media. Behind those headlines remain the comp...

Rivers, landscapes, whole territories: these are the latest entities environmental activists have fought hard to include in the relentless expansio...

Liberal democracy is under pressure worldwide. It is challenged by anti-liberal movements and parties as well as by authoritarian regimes. Liberali...

In the past years, the transiency of European city-making and dwelling has become increasingly hard to disregard. This urban flux calls for a metho...

How are art, architecture, critical research, and activism entangled with the politics of urban transformation under the regimes of modern capitali...

Despite the impact of ideological rigidity, the primary challenge of heritage planning in Tehran and beyond lies not in the dominance of an inflexi...

Urban Resilience is seen by many as a tool to mitigate harm in times of extreme social, political, financial, and environmental stress. Despite its...

When the Bell Telephone Company built their new research facility in 1957, they did not opt for a functional box but for a cathedral of glass, stee...

Piazza virtuale by the group of artists known as Van Gogh TV was not only the biggest art project ever to appear on television, but from a contempo...

The archipelago of Venice is often at the centre of socio-ecological discussions due to its uniqueness and ambiguity. It is a world cultural herita...

The COVID-19 pandemic has reorganized existing methods of exchange, turning comparatively marginal technologies into the new normal. Multipoint vid...

How do video games and mental health intersect from the perspectives of psychology and game design? In recent years, the topic of mental health has...

This volume compiles papers from the Young Academics Workshop at the Clash of Realities conferences of 2017 and 2018. The 2017 workshop – Perceivin...

In recent years, ideas of post- and transhumanism have been popularized by novels, TV series, and Hollywood movies. According to this radical persp...

While it has traditionally been seen as a means of documenting an external reality or expressing an internal feeling, photography is now capable of...

Due to global processes of transformation and the social challenges posed by demographic change, rural areas increasingly demand attention from pol...

Voice Assistants such as Amazon's Alexa populate private homes as well as smartphones, TVs and cars. While suggesting easy living with smart device...

Waiting is an inescapable part of life in modern societies. We all wait, albeit differently and for different reasons. What does it mean to wait fo...

Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems theory can help to better understand and describe developments of the 21st century. The contributors address t...