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...

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...

Cultural encounters are often being stylized not only as experiences of uncontrollability and unpredictability par excellence, but also as challeng...

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 ...

This book is based on almost five years of fieldwork with street-related communities in the city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, between 2001 and 2015. T...

The COVID-19 pandemic hit the world as a (purportedly) novel situation with which people struggled to come to terms. The contributions to this volu...

Western humanism has established a reifying and predatory relation to the world. While its collateral visual regime, the perspectival image, is sti...

Comparisons not only prove fundamental in the epistemological foundation of modernity (Foucault, Luhmann), but they fulfil a central function in so...

Despite frequent protests and abounding discussions about the subject, climate action measures to counter human-made climate change have so far rem...

The »return of great power competition« between (among others) the US, China, Russia and the EU is a major topic in contemporary public debate. But...

Occupy, Commons and other social experiments show: New collectivities are invented and tested. Gesa Ziemer enriches this debate through the insight...

In history, cities and nature are often treated as two separate fields of research. »Concepts of Urban-Environmental History« aims to bridge this g...

Organizations are not only functional structures but equally defined through their humans, objects, spaces and practices in relation with each othe...

Under conditions of heightened uncertainty, cities face enormous challenges in responding to contemporary crises. The contributors to this volume e...

To justify the plundering of today's Democratic Republic of the Congo, U.S. intellectual elites have continuously produced dismissive Congo discour...

Newsreel cinema and television not only served as an important tool in the shaping of political spheres and the construction of national and cultur...

In the context of critical museology, museums are questioning their social role, defining the museum as a site for knowledge exchange and participa...

Contemporary PerforMemory looks at dance works created in the 21st century by choreographers identifying as Afro-European, Jewish, Black, Palestini...

This book deals with the values of medicinal plants and associated knowledge(s) in the field of bioprospecting in post-apartheid South Africa. Biop...

In the summer of 2015, an extraordinary number of German residents felt an urge to provide help to refugees. Doing good, however, is not as simple ...

Since the introduction of photography by commercial studio photographers and the colonial state in Kenya, this global medium has been intensely deb...

In an era of rapid change and growing uncertainty, we are facing an urgent question: How can cities be built for futures that defy prediction? The ...

What steps are needed to make life better and more convivial? The Second Convivialist Manifesto (2020) has presented a short diagnosis of the curre...

How do religious individuals, communities, and political institutions navigate diversity and how do they foster social cohesion? This volume focuse...

This volume proposes a “deep internationalization” of media and communication studies by offering insights and guidance on how to integrate a cosmo...

In the context of ongoing debates about memory practices in the public sphere, monuments and the collective processes around them are part of an in...

Michael Lent asks what role art has in colonisation and subsequent dissolution. He proposes a practice informed by the fatal strategies and 'raw' p...

How does historical reality interrelate with fiction? And how much are readers themselves involved in the workings of fictional literature? With in...