The history of sexuality, family planning, and reproduction in Central and Eastern Europe sounds out the historical dimensions across a broad field...

The interactions between artistic, technical, scientific, living, and nonliving things have inspired new artistic approaches. The contributors to t...

Culture is constructed, negotiated, managed, and shared by various ideological, political, and moral reasonings which manifest themselves tangibly ...

Shielding offers a collection of conceptual approaches through which bodies, intentionally or involuntarily, become shields. Bodies take on an ambi...

This book opens the often narrow discourse on the future of Europe and criticises the false dichotomy between nationalism on the one hand and a neo...

Depicting the world, territory, and geopolitical realities involves a high degree of interpretation and imagination. It is never neutral. Cartograp...

The pursuit of knowledge has always been seen as the key to a better life, whether from an individual or collective perspective, and the social val...

Continually attacked by government officials and educators, installment or colportage novels fascinated their underprivileged readers. Melodrama an...

Focusing on staging processes in contemporary dance and art performance creates new opportunities to study creative participation and co-authorship...

Cultural communities are shaped and produced by ongoing processes of translation understood as aesthetic media practices – such is the premise of t...

When talking about monuments, size undeniably matters – or does it?But how else can we measure monumentality?Bringing together researchers from var...

The inclusion of skateboarding as an official discipline in the 2020 Olympic Games marks the pinnacle of a decades-long process of commercializatio...

Public and political interest in social entrepreneurship (SE) is increasing while it remains a contested and ambiguous concept. Philipp Kenel trace...

Social forms of religion – the ways in which individuals and groups coordinate religious practice – produce community at the same time as they enab...

Robots as social companions in close proximity to humans have a strong potential of becoming more and more prevalent in the coming years, especiall...

As Multilateral Development Banks increasingly gained influence in shaping global development, transnational social movements pushed to hold them a...

Is it possible to work with sound in sociology rather than being about sound? Can there be a »sonic sociology«? Rémy Bocquillon reflects on the pro...

We cannot simply listen to our urban past. Yet we encounter a rich cultural heritage of city sounds presented in text, radio and film. How can such...

Southeast Asia is one of the most dynamic regions in the world. This volume offers a timely approach to Southeast Asian Studies, covering recent tr...

As China races towards modernity, its cities are experiencing an unprecedented surge in urbanisation, characterised by a relentless influx of migra...

As spaces of knowledge, the national museums and galleries of nineteenth-century Europe played an important role both in the shaping of nation-stat...

Alarming environmental shifts and disasters have raised public awareness and anxieties regarding the future of the planet. While planetary in scale...

In times of resurgence of ultra-nationalistic and xenophobic tendencies across Europe, education and awareness-raising for all age groups about the...

Music festivals have become important events for people to experience music collectively and take a break from their everyday lives. Companies and ...