What is »justice« from the perspective of contemporary Arabo-Islamic philosophy? Kaouther Karoui takes a transcultural approach, open to different ...

The Kemi River is the major watercourse in the Finnish province of Lapland and the »stream of life« for the inhabitants of its banks. Franz Krause ...

Since the relational turn, scholars have combated methodological universalism, nationalism, and individualism in researching social-spatial transfo...

The notion of »the problematic« has changed its meaning within the history of power and knowledge since the early 20th century, leading up to today...

Video games are temporal artifacts: They change with time as players interact with them in accordance with rules. In this study, Federico Alvarez I...

The romance of extraction underlies and partly defines Western modernity and our cultural imaginaries. Combining affect studies and environmental h...

Analysing recent documentary films dealing with undocumented migration at the Schengen Area's fringes and against the backdrop of what has been ter...

Totalitarianism has been an object of extensive communicative research since its heyday: already in the late 1930s, such major cultural figures as ...

Touch has manifold layers of meaning, especially so in the context of the affectivity unleashed by humor, where often touching spaces ensue in deco...

This book focuses on the pivotal role which space and spatiality assume in plot and narrative discourse of contemporary U.S.-American literary narr...

What role can the humanities play in shaping our common future? What are the values that guide us in the 21st century? How can we unleash the poten...

Intercultural, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research interfaces confront researchers with considerable challenges. Towards Shared Resea...

How did urban Italy come to look the way it does today? This collection of essays assembles recent studies in architectural history and theory expl...

This collection consists of eight essays that examine the way narratives determine our understanding of old age and condition how the experience is...

Whether and to what extent African states and societies have been able to break away from colonial impact is a still contentious issue.Harald Barre...

Around the world trans and gender diverse people are marginalized and discriminated against in medical, psychological, and nursing care. This antho...

Between 2014 and 2017, the artistic research project "TransCoding – From 'Highbrow Art' to Participatory Culture" encouraged creative participation...

Daniel Defoe's work displays a keen interest in stories of supernatural encounters. Once considering how one might prove supernatural occurrences a...

Is the pícaro, the roguish hero of early modern Spanish adventure fiction, a 'real man'? What position does he hold in the gender hierarchy of his ...

This book explores the formative correlations and inventive transmissions of Anglophone Arab representations ranging from early 20th century Mahjar...

Ayse Güngör investigates art practices between art and anthropology in Turkey, as well as the implications of contemporary art for those discipline...

In an era of heightened global interconnectedness and cultural exchange, social cleavages and dynamics of alienation become increasingly apparent. ...

Who owns cultural assets? Who has narrative control? What could fair and just approaches to dislocations of cultural assets look like, independentl...

Markus Nehl focuses on black authors who, from a 21st-century perspective, revisit slavery in the U.S., Ghana, South Africa, Canada and Jamaica. Ne...