What is it like to perceive a virtual object through the sensed presence of a virtual body? How do subject-object relations occur and can be actual...

Club culture has become an ever-growing interdisciplinary research field in the social sciences. The contributors to this volume offer state of the...

This comparative ethnography of a Muslim and a Christian Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon focuses on contrasting social belonging processes thro...

Studying the life situations of trans persons reveals preceding and ongoing political, societal and cultural transformations. This ethnographic stu...

Is it possible to create a community where everyone lives according to their own rhythm, and yet respects the individual rhythms of others? This vo...

»We must declare war on the virus,« stated UN chief António Guterres on March 13, 2020, just two days after the WHO had characterized the outbreak ...

With their return to Germany, wolves leave their traces in personal feelings, in the atmospheres of rural landscapes and even in the sentiments and...

Queer spaces are crucial for the construction of LGBTQ+ communities, as they constitute places where queer subjects can create political, social, a...

Where do computer games »happen«? The articles collected in this pioneering volume explore the categories of »space«, »place« and »territory« featu...

This book supports and deepens the existing interfaces between art, science, and technology – transgressing traditional principles and styles of re...

Ties to the homeland have always been a central focus of global diaspora and migration studies. How and why do the descendants of migrants maintain...

Diabetes is regarded as one of the most challenging global health issues of the 21st century. Especially countries with weak health infrastructure ...

In the light of social and environmental unsustainability and injustice, the continuing attachment to the idea that a growth-based economy is recon...

»Yes, No, Perhaps« are the most written words in Mary Bauermeister's artworks. Together they stand for the concept of many-valued aesthetics in the...

Black communities have been making major contributions to Europe's social and cultural life and landscapes for centuries. However, their achievemen...

How can we map differing perceptions of the living environment? Mapping the Unmappable? explores the potential of cartography to communicate the re...

In the past fifty years, port cities around the world have experienced considerable changes to their morphologies and their identities. The increas...

While there has been renewed interest in Marx recently, we cannot simply apply his more than 170-year-old texts to today's world. Across the discip...

What does the development of a truly robust contemporary theory of domination require? Ashley J. Bohrer argues that it is only by considering all o...

Global mobility is one of the crucial phenomena of our time. Combining the theoretical frameworks of masculinity studies and age studies, the contr...

In the past, our ideas of psychiatric hospitals and their history have been shaped by objects like straitjackets, cribs, and binding belts. These p...

What is »materiality« in dance and performance? What role does »the material« play in the formation for the cultural memory of ephemeral arts? The ...

While the so-called material turn in the humanities and the social sciences has inspired a vibrant discourse on objects, things, and the concept of...

Dualistic thinking has been questioned by some writers associated with the material, ontological, and affective turns. Yet, these and other writers...