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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

What can we learn from a teacher's journal about working with challenging youth? Why does the Training Room Program in German schools impede the de...

Business is woven into the very fabric of American life, yet rarely surfaces in the nation's literary history. Even in novels about business, it pr...

During the uprisings of the Arab Spring between 2010 and 2012, oppositional movements used political humor to criticize political leaders or to exp...

In its constructive and speculative nature, design has the critical potential to reshape prevalent socio-material realities. At the same time, desi...

Despite the increasing influence of data technologies on our world, many people still lack a profound understanding of what this ›datafication‹ mea...

What does migration-generated diversity mean for cultural policy and the performing arts scene in Germany and how is it promoted? Through bridging ...

In the early twenty-first century, the concept of citizenship is more contested than ever. As refugees set out to cross the Mediterranean, European...

The same computer games are played by youths all over the world, and worldwide games become matters of concern in relation to children: worries ris...

The ubiquitous »cultural turn« of the 1990s did not spare the thinkers of economics – however, at the same time, economic topics have gained a new ...

How to do cultural studies in the twenty-first century? This essay collection is not a handbook, encyclopedia, or a »state of the field« compendium...

In which ways are environments (post-)socialist and how do they come about? How is the relationship between the built environment, memory, and deba...

Contemporary music, like other arts, is dealing with the rise of »curators« laying claim to everything from festivals to playlists – but what are t...

Breaking, popping, locking, waacking, and hip-hop dance are practiced widely in contemporary Vietnam. Considering the dance practices in the larger...

The time to come – as well as the exploration thereof – remains elusive for social actors and social scientists alike.The contributors accept the c...

The American cultural imaginary is hungry for death, and thus representations of death are prominently repeated and serialized in US literature and...

This collection investigates the concept of modernity in music and its multiple interpretations in Europe and East Asia. Through contributions by b...

How do digital media technologies affect society and our lives? Through the cultural theory hypotheses of hyper-modernism, hyperreality, and posthu...