Perhaps unexpectedly, English travel writing during the long eighteenth century reveals a discourse of global civility. By bringing together repres...

Be resilient! Today, we hear this line in almost any context. The term resilience is among the most repeated buzzwords. But why, simply, do we need...

What does it take to cross a border, and what does it take to belong? Sandra Noeth examines the entangled experiences of borders and of collectivit...

`The truth will set you free' is a maxim central to both theories and practices of resistance. Nonetheless, it is a claim that has come under fire ...

Soundscapes profoundly connect listeners to the places they inhabit and thereby reveal the vibrant and resonant fabrics that lie beneath the deline...

Infrastructure comprises a combination of sociotechnical, political, and cultural arrangements that provide resources and services. The contributor...

While research in right-wing populism has recently been blossoming, a systematic study of the intersection of right-wing populism and gender is sti...

People experience disasters very differently. Conflicts about a »correct« interpretation of the risks might arise. The side-by-side of different tr...

As a reaction to typically dead-end debates on future human and robot collaboration that tend to be either dismissive or overly welcoming towards »...

German-Americans represent the largest self-declared ancestry group in the United States of America. The period from the 200th anniversary celebrat...

The structures of rule in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) have been challenged by the Humanitarian Initiative and the Treaty on the Proh...

For at least two decades, major cities in Turkey have been subjected to endless waves of urban development that has left scores of building demolit...

The American Gothic novel has been deeply shaped by issues of race and raciality from its origins in British Romanticism to the American Gothic nov...

Savings and insurance associations are widespread not only in Ethiopia but also in its diaspora, even in countries with diversified and comprehensi...

Scale matters. When conducting research and writing, scholars upscale and downscale. So do the subjects of their work – we scale, they scale. Altho...

Understanding is an ability manifested by grasping relations of a phenomenon and articulating new explanations. Hence, scientific understanding is ...

The relationship between economy, finance and society has become opaque. Quantum leaps in complexity and scale have turned this deeply interdepende...

With the right to petition the United Nations, the Ewe and Togoland unification movement enjoyed a privilege unmatched by other dependent peoples. ...

The belief that »Nature« exists as a blank, stable stage upon which humans act out tragic performances of international relations is no longer tena...

The 17 essays in this volume investigate potentials for democratizing democracies. From finding faith to reclaiming the commons, each essay aims to...

In present-day South Africa, urban development agendas have inscribed doctrines of desirable and undesirable life in city spaces and the public tha...

Through a genealogy of photosensitive elements in media devices and artworks, this book investigates three dichotomies that impoverish debates and ...

Are aesthetics and politics really two different things? The book takes a new look at how they intertwine, by turning from theory to practice. Case...

The word »state« has a double meaning, signifying both a condition and a political entity. Starting from this observation, the contributors to this...