Lucas Haasis found a time capsule: A complete mercantile letter archive of the merchant Nicolaus Gottlieb Luetkens who lived in 18th century Hambur...

»There's nothing really fun about the park in winter!« – Christina Ergler is the first one to explore why ›play‹ resonates differently across urban...

In the small world of Swiss graphic design, prizes such as the Swiss Design Awards (SDA) are followed closely. The winners' works are admired, envi...

With a novel quality theory of consumption which treats opulence and self-restraint in consumption styles symmetrically, Ernst Mohr shows how socia...

Nicolas Wasser critically examines how sexual and racial identities are currently being articulated through capitalist brands and labor. On the bas...

Dynamic processes and conflicts are at the core of the urban condition. Against the background of continuous change in cities, concepts and assumpt...

Riding, hunting, fishing, bullfighting: Human-animal relations are diverse. This anthology presents various case studies of situations in which hum...

While the disciplinary architecture of hospitals has long prevailed in psychiatry, many care teams now work in smaller structures, within communiti...

How can we understand long-term change in world politics better? Based on readings of thinkers as diverse as Habermas, Foucault and Luhmann, the au...

Paseo La Estación, a mall in Buenos Aires, is as much a place of transit as a place of encounter, where long-term residents and newcomers, people w...

Human differentiation encompasses human classification and categorization processes that we encounter on a daily basis. Klaus Behnam Shad offers a ...

In an age of immediate and global exchange of information, the ability to theorize about political conditions remains largely an elite, technocrati...

Since the 1990s, the virus and the network metaphors have become increasingly popular, finding application in a broad range of everyday discourses,...

What if the terms "technology" and "the body" did not refer to distinct phenomena interacting in one way or another? What if we understood their re...

This first comprehensive study of Norwegian humanities education employs systems theory to analyze its transformation from a form of teacher traini...

This study investigates power, belonging and exclusion in British society by analysing representations of the mosque, the University of Oxford, and...

Today, we not only design and produce artifacts, but also subjective experiences, life models and social change. This active shaping of our life ci...

Financial inclusion appears as a timely development policy. Ostensibly, providing poor households with access to credit and other financial service...

How does the US make sense of its elite educational system, given that it seems to be at odds with core American values, such as equality of opport...

Whether driven by developments in plant science, bio-philosophy, or broader societal dynamics, plants have to respond to a litany of environmental,...

Species are going extinct, forests are burning, and children are worried about the future and their peers worldwide. But that is not the whole stor...

Over the last decades, studies on cultural memory have taken a »spectral turn« and have explored the potential of haunting metaphors for addressing...

In German spoken theatre, prompt books used to be written by multiple participants engaging in diverse manuscript practices which continually revis...

Are artists seismographs during processes of transformation? Is theatre a mirror of society? And how does it influence society offstage? To address...