How do participatory museum projects with forced migrants impact both the museum and the participants? What happens during these projects and what ...

By drawing together widely dispersed yet central writings, the Berlin Reader is an essential resource for everyone interested in urban development ...

Discoveries in biomedicine and biotechnology, especially in diagnostics, have made prevention and (self)surveillance increasingly important in the ...

In Western neo-liberal society, the human body is increasingly used as an »identity project« and »designable object«. Antje Velsinger investigates ...

In the 1970s, the whole Brazilian Amazon was opened up by road construction and the exploitation of its rich resources increased considerably. Jan ...

In the Brazilian planning region “Amazônia Legal”, deforestation of rain forests for the extraction of mineral resources, cattle breeding, soybean ...

In the context of the ever-increasing political problematization of migration in Europe, agencies charged with migrant administration create divers...

In 2015 many camps were opened to accommodate newly arriving migrants in Berlin. Christian Sowa studies this form of accommodation. Moving beyond a...

Notwithstanding its ruthless dynamics, the capitalist economy has the flaw of deficient employment-generating spending. This leads to unemployment ...

What is the function of clerical leadership in Alevism based on sociocultural and political understandings? To answer that complex question, Deniz ...

Inspired by the success of the US Christian Right and the rise of the global far-right, ultraconservative Christians in Europe are joining forces a...

When the German chemist Emil Fischer presented his lock-and-key hypothesis in 1899, his analogy to describe the molecular relationship between enzy...

Art is a prerequisite for the progress of society. Corporate Art Initiatives contribute to this progression. Based on extensive research, Viviane M...

Wherever we turn, we find creative practices and creative spaces, creative organizations and creative subjects. At work or in public places, in med...

Against the background of the media commercialization reform since the 1990s in China and drawing on the case of »X-Change« (2006–2019), Wei Dong i...

The symbolic meaning of plants, their relevance to religion and the metaphorical provocations in the order of knowledge, culture and political powe...

In Southern Africa, marriage used to be widespread and common. However, over the past decades marriage rates have declined significantly. Julia Pau...

After a long time of neglect, Artificial Intelligence is once again at the center of most of our political, economic, and socio-cultural debates. R...

Are computer simulations theory, experiment, or something in between? Anne Dippel and Martin Warnke explore the epistemological status of computer ...

Research on electronic dance music communities has been initiated by scholars in the fields of sociology, cultural studies, public health research ...

Are anxiety or dread negative stages before freedom, a confrontation with humans' own mortality and finitude? Joana Serrado inaugurates anxiousness...

In the Hobsbawmian long 19th century, gender and processes of sexualization and feminization have been crucial in the construction of the »Jewish O...

Europe is stumbling from crisis to crisis. The financial and debt crises are endangering the European currency union; referenda in several EU count...

Since its invention in the late nineteenth century, the penetrating gaze of the X-ray has changed our vision of the inside of the human body. After...