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...

This volume aims to bridge the disciplinary gap between tourism studies and aging studies. It investigates the intersections of tourism and aging f...

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...

Serialized storytelling provides intriguing opportunities for critical representations of age and aging. In contrast to the finite character of fil...

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...

Racism has become difficult to name in Europe. Racial semantics are shifting, race is coded in multiple ways and the defense of naturalized privile...

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