Authoritarianism operates on a visceral level rather than relying on arguments. How can we counter authoritarian affects? This publication brings t...

This book calls for an investigation of the ›borderlands of narrativity‹ — the complex and culturally productive area where the symbolic form of na...

In many countries, the political backlash against neoliberalism has mainly been a retreat from democracy, with a decline in independence of the jud...

How do artificial neural networks and other forms of artificial intelligence interfere with methods and practices in the sciences? Which interdisci...

Beyond the Civil War Hospital understands Reconstruction as a period of emotional turmoil that precipitated a struggle for form in cultural produc...

Since the late 1980s visibility has become a currency of social recognition, and a political issue. It also brought forth a new discipline, visual ...

Can DeepL and ChatGPT translate Shakespeare? The recent developments in AI present a timely opportunity to look at the concept of literary translat...

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...

Britain's recent historical culture is marked by a shift. As a consequence of new political directives, black history began to be mainstreamed into...

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...

Parallel to the abolition of Atlantic slavery, new forms of indentured labour stilled global capitalism's need for cheap, disposable labour. The fa...

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...

Mobility is a keyword of late modernity that suggests an increasingly unrestrained and interconnected world of individual opportunities. However, a...

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...

»Caribbean Food Cultures« approaches the matter of food from the perspectives of anthropology, sociology, cultural and literary studies. Its strong...

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...