Due to global processes of transformation and the social challenges posed by demographic change, rural areas increasingly demand attention from pol...

Voice Assistants such as Amazon's Alexa populate private homes as well as smartphones, TVs and cars. While suggesting easy living with smart device...

Waiting is an inescapable part of life in modern societies. We all wait, albeit differently and for different reasons. What does it mean to wait fo...

Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems theory can help to better understand and describe developments of the 21st century. The contributors address t...

War and mass displacement in Ukraine triggered intensive reevaluations of the past and collective identities. The contributors to this volume exami...

Modern waste disposal systems in mega-cities of the global South are embedded in socio-cultural belief systems, colonial histories and neoliberal l...

What is nostalgia in television? How far does a nostalgic text trigger nostalgic emotions? And how are nostalgic series received by different audie...

A new take on Afrofuturism, this book gathers together a range of contemporary voices who, carrying legacies of 500 years of contact between Africa...

In the Global South, Indigenous and Native people continue to live under colonial relations within formally independent nation-states. Sebastian Ga...

From time immemorial, humans have been making deals, consuming goods, cultivating interests, thereby manifesting specific forms of life. Now, these...

In the Weimar Republic, popular culture was the scene of heated controversies that tested the limits of national cohesion. How could marginal figur...

What exactly is rape? And how is it embedded in society?Hilkje Charlotte Hänel offers a philosophical exploration of the often misrepresented conce...

What are the characteristic features of avatar-based singleplayer videogames, from Super Mario Bros. to Grand Theft Auto? Rune Klevjer examines thi...

In exile and migration, the things that forcibly displaced people take with them become mobile testimonies of defiance, mourning, creativity, and r...

How do artist archives survive and stay authentic in radically changed contexts? The volume addresses the challenge of continuity, sustainability, ...

Where the Everyday Begins is a study of environment and everyday life. It uses innovative research methods to bear witness to the ways by which env...

The courageous acts of whistleblowing that inspired the world over the past few years have changed our perception of surveillance and control in to...

Ethnic diversity, race, and racism have been subject to discussion in American Studies departments at German universities for many years. It appear...

In a neighbourhood facing massive redevelopment, racialized residents speak about stigma, social mixing, and what the island community means to the...

The arrival of telegraphy and railroads changed power relations throughout the world in the nineteenth century. In the Mesilla region of the Americ...

In the late 1960s, the feminist scholar Kate Millet broadly defined »politics« as arrangements of power which enable individuals collectively to as...

Women in science face particular challenges, such as structural inequalities, highly competitive work environments, and at times toxic cultures. Th...

Various modes of women's contemporary cultural, social and political leadership can be found in music. Informed by different histories and cultural...

Misunderstandings are often perceived as something to be avoided yet delineate an integrative part of everyday work. This book addresses the role t...