What are the characteristic features of avatar-based singleplayer videogames, from Super Mario Bros. to Grand Theft Auto? Rune Klevjer examines thi...

In exile and migration, the things that forcibly displaced people take with them become mobile testimonies of defiance, mourning, creativity, and r...

How do artist archives survive and stay authentic in radically changed contexts? The volume addresses the challenge of continuity, sustainability, ...

Where the Everyday Begins is a study of environment and everyday life. It uses innovative research methods to bear witness to the ways by which env...

The courageous acts of whistleblowing that inspired the world over the past few years have changed our perception of surveillance and control in to...

Ethnic diversity, race, and racism have been subject to discussion in American Studies departments at German universities for many years. It appear...

In a neighbourhood facing massive redevelopment, racialized residents speak about stigma, social mixing, and what the island community means to the...

The arrival of telegraphy and railroads changed power relations throughout the world in the nineteenth century. In the Mesilla region of the Americ...

In the late 1960s, the feminist scholar Kate Millet broadly defined »politics« as arrangements of power which enable individuals collectively to as...

Women in science face particular challenges, such as structural inequalities, highly competitive work environments, and at times toxic cultures. Th...

Various modes of women's contemporary cultural, social and political leadership can be found in music. Informed by different histories and cultural...

Misunderstandings are often perceived as something to be avoided yet delineate an integrative part of everyday work. This book addresses the role t...

Working with nature – and not against it – is a global trend in coastal management. This ethnography of coastal protection follows the increasingly...

With the mainstream's growing acceptance of worlds and storytelling spread among several different texts – e.g., films, television series, novels, ...

After a long period of neglect, emotions have become an important topic within literary studies. This collection of essays stresses the complex lin...

»Fact« is one of the most crucial inventions of modern times. Susanne Knaller discusses the functions of this powerful notion in the arts and the s...

In the Romantic period, women writers developed specific aesthetics and writing strategies in their engagements with climate change and climate cat...

By combining an ethnographic study of youth with an analysis of the local state in the making, this research monograph introduces the perspective o...

Die jährlich in zwei Heften erscheinende, referierte »Zeitschrift für Kulturmanagement« initiiert und fördert eine wissenschaftliche Auseinanderset...

What is the heritage of our cities? Which are the monuments, places, and spaces in which it accumulates, and by which practices is it formed, hande...

Post-foundationalism departs from the assumption that there is no ground, necessity, or objective rationale for human political existence or action...

The effects of the intra-African and European deportation regimes brought about since the European Union's externalization of its migration and dev...

Throughout its history, the American West symbolized a place of hope and new beginnings, where anything was possible, especially for men. However, ...

Pinar Tuzcu explores rapper Lady Bitch Ray's performance and particularly her use of the term Kanackin. She combines issues of popfeminism and post...

Over the last decade, the role of diversity, migration, and representation in the German cultural sector has drastically changed. The PostHeimat ne...

Several of the most prolific and influential conspiracy theories have originated in Eastern Europe. The far reaching influence of conspiracy narrat...

Who is meant when people talk about the citizens or the activists? Often, they are implied to mean the most privileged positionalities. Simultaneou...