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...

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...