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...