We witness an era with more screens than ever before, and within each screen, a multitude of visual varieties. Lisa Gotto investigates this medial ...

In the face of climate change, the destruction of biodiversity or genetic experimentation, Bio Art appears as a form that is most directly grapplin...

From self-help books and nootropics, to self-tracking and home health tests, to the tinkering with technology and biological particles – biohacking...

Human rights violations linked to norms of health, fitness, and social usefulness have long been overlooked by Historic Justice Studies. Kathrin Br...

Contemporary Afro-diasporic post-cinematic practices should be considered to be genealogically linked with those established in militant African ci...

What does it mean for Black diasporic writers to travel to Africa? Focusing on the period between the 1990s and 2010s, Isabel Kalous examines autob...

Unlike previous media-analytic research, Sarah Jurkiewicz's anthropological study understands blogging as a social field and a domain of practice. ...

Where are all the bodies? Political institutions are populated by living, breathing human beings, who eat, sleep, gesture, desire and suffer. And y...

Is materialism right to claim that the world of everyday-life experience – the phenomenal world – is nothing but an illusion produced in physical r...

30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we live in a time of globalization and free trade. Nevertheless, 70 new border walls have been built in...

Borders are much more than territorial markers on a map. In recent years, borders have gained more and more scholarly attention, and the field of b...

This collection of essays explores the continuities and disruptions in the perceptions of criminality, its causes and ways of fighting it in late i...

LGBTQ people have strategies of resilience at their disposal to help them deal with the challenge that heteronormativity as a power structure poses...

Breathing is an unavoidable, vital act, yet it cannot be taken for granted, as the experiences of the pandemic, profound changes in our environment...

In 1938 gymnastics instructor Carola Spitz escaped from Nazi Germany. In New York she turned into Carola Speads, revered teacher of mindfulness. Sh...

"White trash" is a liminal figure that dramatizes the intersection of race and class. Contemporary British novelists like Irvine Welsh, Niall Griff...

Recent portrayals of the private sector as the engine of poverty alleviation in Africa's agricultural growth corridors have sparked critique by sch...

Building blocks are practical materials for playing, learning and working at kindergartens, schools, universities and companies. How did building b...

»Building Institution« chronicles the expansion of architecture as a profession and discipline in the postmodern era. Kim Förster traces the compel...

Campus Medius explores and expands the possibilities of digital cartography in cultural and media studies. Simon Ganahl documents the development o...

In what way is »care« a matter of »tinkering«? Rather than presenting care as a (preferably »warm«) relation between human beings, the various cont...

When reflecting the logic of care, the challenges inherent to healthcare need to be considered: The human body is complex, healthcare is full of un...

Care has become a trend in the art field, but much of the recent curatorial focus seems to be limited to symbolic gestures through exhibitions and ...

Caste hierarchy has frequently been singled out as the overriding principle of Indian society. This book examines its significance among the highly...

Mega events are accelerators of urban transformation with lasting effects on urban environments. In the spotlight of the spectacle these crucial fa...

Poets, Guitarists, Songwriters, TV Stars, Provocateurs, Riot Grrrl founders: the authors in this study challenge perceptions of punk music and poli...

A World of Changemakers – how can a hybrid arts lecture series concept in e-learning create attitudes and shape skills as a playful and critical th...

How do people live together in cities shaped by inequality? This comparative ethnography of two African cities, Maputo and Johannesburg, presents a...

What became of the upsurge in civic action that saw millions of volunteers rally in support of migrants during the 2015/16 refugee reception crisis...

Through biographical narratives, Claiming Home traces how queer migrant women living in Switzerland navigate often contradictory perspectives on se...

Digital games as transmedia works of art – Games as social environments – The aesthetics of play – Digital games in pedagogy – Cineludic aesthetics...

The big societal challenges, such as climate change and public health, call for innovative approaches to address them. The contributors of this boo...

How can collaborative methods of planning and design act as tools to develop insurgent urbanism? Juliana Canedo analyses practices that arise from ...

How has the world lost three quarters of its crop diversity in less than a century? How does a collection of seeds frozen in the Arctic help face t...

Restitution, reparation, renaming – the colonial past is omnipresent in today's cultural, political and academic debates. Christina Haritos sheds l...

Comfort is a prominent and highly loaded concept, as popular discourses on cosy environments, safe spaces, but also the importance of ›getting out ...