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

In recent years, the term global art has become a catchphrase in contemporary art discourses. Going beyond additive notions of canon expansion, thi...

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...

Spatial and identity research operates with differentiations and relations. These are particularly useful heuristic tools when examining border reg...

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 ...

The Brazilian Constitution provides a remarkable set of social rights, including the right to housing. Despite this fact, struggles for decent livi...

As a writer, critic, and philosopher, Stanisław Brzozowski (1878–1911) left a lasting imprint on Polish culture. He absorbed virtually all topical ...

We are constantly growing older, and there are an increasing number of elderly people living with dementia who are merely being ›taken care of‹. Th...

Hidden from view, data centres process and store scientific data while requiring extensive energy and metal extraction. How can science become sust...

In the mid-1870s, the experimental therapy of lamb blood transfusion spread like an epidemic across Europe and the USA. Doctors tried it as a cure ...

Artistic research has become an established mode of inquiry and knowledge production in many fields. Johanna Schindler examines the collaborative p...

Recent U.S. literature has both been informed by, and critically engaged with, materialist conceptions of selfhood. Over the past decades, discipli...