In the past decades, developments in the fields of medicine, new media, and biotechnologies challenged many representations and practices, question...

Cultural, social and economic production is always medially constituted, since it is formed through processing, storage and transmission of certain...

The external border of the EU remains under permanent construction. Sabrina Ellebrecht engages with two of its primary building sites – the Europea...

In the face of social inequalities, digital divides, hegemonic power relations, capitalist conflicts of interests, asymmetric gender relations and ...

As a literary genre, the nonfictional reportage has particular implications for the role of the writer. Pascal Sigg shows how six U.S. American wri...

In modern societies the functional differentiation of medicine and religion is the predominant paradigm. Contemporary therapeutic practices and con...

In the past decades, children of immigrants have drawn increased attention not only in press and media, but also in a number of academic fields, am...

As the body politics of life writing in the United States change, illness and disability memoirs receive considerable attention. Although these nar...

Gaming has never been disconnected from reality. When we engage with ever more lavish virtual worlds, something happens to us. The game imposes its...

Metropolitan research requires multidisciplinary perspectives in order to do justice to the complexities of metropolitan regions. This volume provi...

Migration processes affect migrants' families and family relations – in complex and diverse ways. Family fragmentation lasting for years or even de...

How to study a media object on the web that is at the same time a documentary, a reportage, and a game which combines both fiction and non-fiction ...

In her endeavour to overcome the established methodological, conceptual, and empirical dualism of mobility and migration, Anna Xymena Wieczorek dev...

Migration, networks, skills: these keywords not only denote three popular and important fields of current investigation in Social Sciences and Cult...

Why should mindfulness and meditation be taught at universities? What impact could the establishment of such programs have on students and on the e...

Scholars have long seen trust as a foundational social good. We therefore have ample studies on building trust in free markets, on cultivating trus...

While multicultural comedies criticise hegemonic whiteness and outdated stances on race relations, they simultaneously perpetuate the colonial aest...

Videogames allow us to immerse ourselves in worlds that are reflective of cultural phenomena. At the same time, games are in the process of occupyi...

To achieve social and environmental sustainability, the performing arts' modes of production are in urgent need of significant transformation, as g...

In contrast to buildings divided by walls, monospace buildings are determined far less by its shell than by a reciprocal relationship between space...

We know that robots are just machines. Why then do we often talk about them as if they were alive? Laura Voss explores this fascinating phenomenon,...

In the global context of the Great Acceleration, things and people have been on the move more than ever before. Moritz Frischkorn takes a fresh loo...

The journal "movements" collects academic, activist and artistic output that deals with migration and border regimes. It fosters exchange between a...

In the complex and multi-layered process of migration and identity-building, classical migration theories and approaches of transnationalism seem n...