In remote areas of Europe, local history museums struggle to connect with the rapidly changing and increasingly diverse communities around them. In...

What is the logic of design process? Departing from this question, Tiago da Costa e Silva investigates the characteristic feature of every projecti...

The Loop: Chicago Architecture and the Social Imaginary discusses the social function of architecture. Through close readings of skyscrapers, opera...

The Lower !Garib, or Orange River, flows through the historical Namaqualand and since 1990 has formed the international border between Namibia and ...

In the early 20th century, Korean women began to manifest themselves in the public sphere. Sung Un Gang explores how the women's gaze was reimagine...

F. Scott Fitzgerald once said: »Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.« In the 1990s, nobody fell deeper than O.J. Simpson. Once considered ...

In a positive departure from modernism, the work of the art critic and urbanist Ludwig Hilberseimer offers schemata towards the design for the city...

The monsters of the horror genre never remain dead – they invariably return in new and terrifying shapes for another installment. In this study Chr...

As ethnographic fieldwork blurs the boundaries between ›private‹ and ›professional‹ life, ethnographers always appear to be on duty, looking out fo...

This essential introduction to American studies examines the core foundational myths upon which the nation is based and which still determine discu...

Social practice theories help to challenge the often hidden paradigms, worldviews, and values at the basis of many unsustainable practices. Discour...

How does artistic practice lead to the production of knowledge? How does, in turn, artistic knowledge relate to its material base? How does conting...

The architect Andrea Palladio was a draughtsman and a designer, a mason and an engineer, an innovator and an image maker. His growing importance fr...

Repair, reuse and disposal are closely interlinked phenomena related to the service lives and persistence of technologies. When technical artefacts...

What does plausibility mean in relation to scenario planning and how do users of scenarios assess it? Despite the concept's ubiquity, its epistemol...

Vituperation, disparagement, and debasement seem to have become part of the mainstream discourse in contemporary US-American media culture. Zooming...

Malaria remains one of the main causes of mortality and morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa. Matian van Soest looks at the malaria epidemic in the peri...

Many claim that political deliberation has become exceedingly affective, and hence, destabilizing. The authors of this book revisit that assumption...

Digitization is transforming our world economically, culturally, and psychologically. The influx of new forms of communication, networking, and bus...

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the American theater emerged as a crucial cultural space for debates around gender stereotypes, gendered...

This book explores Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer and Alexander Kluge's analyses of the role that a rejuvenation in the capacity for imaginati...

Fictional TV politics played a pivotal role in the popular imaginaries of the 2010s across cultures. Examining this curious phenomenon, Sebastian N...

How is the Internet produced as an infrastructure in post-socialist Lithuania? Migle Bareikyte contributes to the growing field of STS and media st...

The African museum landscape is changing. A new generation of scholars and curators is setting international standards for the reappraisal and revi...