In Bolivia's plurinational conjuncture, novel political articulations, legal reform, and processes of collective identification converge in unprece...

While many Americans dismissed the borough of The Bronx in the late 1970s through the belief that »The Bronx is burning,« this study challenges tha...

This book explores the potential of the Internet for enabling new and flexible political participation modes. It meticulously illustrates how the I...

Increasing irrigation efficiency has been high on the political agenda in Spain for many years. However, the overarching aim to reduce agricultural...

In the early years of the Cold War, Western nations increasingly adopted strategies of public diplomacy involving popular music. While the diplomat...

Automated facial recognition algorithms are increasingly intervening in society. This book offers a unique analysis of these algorithms from a crit...

South Africa's post-apartheid narrative is one of democracy and equality – but its flaws run deep, argues Ives S. Loukson. Disclosing prejudices ab...

How have digital tools and networks transformed the far right's strategies and transnational prospects? This volume presents a unique critical surv...

Post-Growth Geographies examines the spatial relations of diverse and alternative economies between growth-oriented institutions and multiple socio...

Can sound be perceived independently of its social dimension? Or is it always embedded in a discursive network? »Postcolonial Repercussions« explor...

This book compiles lectures by the world's leading practitioners of postdramatic theatre from East Asia and the German-speaking world, which were g...

The concept of »postmigration« has recently gained importance in the context of European societies' obsession with migration and integration along ...

Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, formerly socialist countries have gone through manifold transformations, whilst remnants of socialism remain ub...

Power is the essence of politics. Whoever seeks to understand and master it must understand its logic. Drawing on two decades of international expe...

According to relational sociology, power imbalances are at the root of human conflicts and consequently shape the physical and symbolic struggles b...

What makes a reading experience »powerful«? This volume brings together literary scholars, linguists, and empirical researchers who tackle the ques...

This volume offers innovative ways to think about speculation at a time when anticipation of catastrophe in an apocalyptic mode is the order of the...

The contributors to this volume explore the intertwined relationship of imagining and practicing from different fields of study (sociology, philoso...

Digital sovereignty has become a hotly debated concept. The current convergence of multiple crises adds fuel to this debate, as it contextualizes t...

How »family« is construed on a material and discursive level has gained increasing interest among educational and social work professionals. The co...

Painting, according to recent findings, dates back more than seventy thousand years, and, across the millenia, it proved to be an extremely robust ...

This book offers a study of the literary marketplace in the early 2000s. Focusing on the Man Booker Prize and its impact on a novel's media attenti...

Told from the perspective of the dancers, »Processing Choreography: Thinking with William Forsythe's Duo« is an ethnography that reconstructs the d...

What does »creativity« mean in the context of IT and what happens when IT acts in its name? Jan Sebastian Zipp examines the concept of creativity i...