Aesthetic disgust is a key component of most classic works of drama because it has much more potential than to simply shock the audience. This firs...

How were the concepts of the observer and user in architecture and urban planning transformed throughout the 20th and 21st centuries? Marianna Char...

In post-war Greece, Western Allies, the country's conservative political elite and parts of the middle class share a dream of consolidating and mai...

Leaking water infrastructures, heritage tourism, investments in artworks, failing electronics: Durability lies at the heart of a wide range of seem...

The specific role of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the later nation of Austria within the formation of regional art histories in East Central Eur...

American ecopoetries of migration explore the conflicted relationships of mobile subjects to the nonhuman world and thus offer valuable environment...

After years of military interventions, the current situation in Afghanistan is highly ambivalent and partially contradictory – especially regarding...

What is the subject of video?Charlotte Klink traces the development of electromagnetism in the pursuit of »Electric Seeing« that emerged in the 19t...

Do liminal embodied experiences such as illness, death and dying affect literary form? In recent years, the concept of embodiment has been theorize...

Multiple refugee regimes govern the lives of forced migrants simultaneously but in an often conflicting way. As a mechanism of inclusion/exclusion,...

This volume is a response to the growing need for new methodological approaches to the rapidly changing landscape of new forms of performative prac...

Innovation is ubiquitous and has become a universal term that is indispensable to describe interventions, projects, or products. Franziska Sörgel a...

As the largest class action suit in Canadian history, the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (2007-2015) had a great impact on the liv...

Health programmes that offer ›help to self-help‹ are meant to empower ageing adults to remain independent and self-sufficient at home for as long a...

Collective Actions is one of the most significant artistic practices to emerge from Moscow Conceptualism. The group's enigmatic idea of 'Empty acti...

To date, the relationship between Otto Kirchheimer and Carl Schmitt has invariably been described as friendly, despite their political differences....

This volume collects academic as well as artistic explorations highlighting historical and contemporary approaches to the ›energetic‹ in its aesthe...

How are im/mobilities articulated, imagined and practiced in relation to multiple futures? A critical examination of im/mobilities raises questions...

The impulse for the recent transformations in the Arab world came from the Maghreb. Research on the region has been on the rise since, yet much rem...

The Edinburgh and South-East Scotland City Region Deal (CRD) constitutes a long-term infrastructure investment that is designed to transform the ci...

The »global« is permanently made and remade by how it is envisioned in political projects, in language, and in literature. Through a range of case ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the lives of many people around the globe and has brought to the fore discussions about the ways in which relati...

Between 1990 and 2015, American literature saw the emergence of a new corpus of epilepsy metaphors which tackle the stigma of epilepsy within three...

The practice of philosophy has led to both emancipation and exclusion in society. Questions around how philosophy should be practiced, who should e...

Gender impact assessment has been both celebrated as a beacon of hope for the cause of gender equality and criticised as being ineffectual. More th...

This collection features comprehensive overviews of the various ethical challenges in organ transplantation. International readings well-grounded i...

Throughout the nineteenth century, social expressions and dynamics have been reflected in the surge of various printed products. The contributors a...

How are prestige and power anchored in EU-Brussels? Which performances are valued and which are not? Pawel Lewicki's ethnographic analysis gives an...

The trade-routes connecting Europe and East Asia have fascinated scholars, traders, and adventurers throughout the centuries. Although its modern i...

At the beginning of the 21st century, the EU is facing deep political, social, and economic changes. The benefit of supranational organization is n...

Polish-born artist Ewa Partum is considered a pioneer of Central-Eastern European feminist art produced within the conceptual idiom. Her work can a...

From objects to sounds, choreography is expanding beyond dance and human bodies in motion. This book offers one of the rare systematic investigatio...

Digital (intercultural) experiences and practices are embedded into—and influenced by—sociocultural phenomena at the heart of social life in our po...

The fantastic represents a wide and heterogeneous field in literary, cultural, and media studies. Encompassing some of the field's foremost voices ...

Social media increasingly shapes the way in which we perceive conflicts and conflict parties abroad. Conflict parties, therefore, have started usin...

While aging and the life-course appear to be normalized processes, the complex construction of age at the intersection of biology, society, and cul...

As the fashion industry grapples with sustainability challenges, Fair Trade and other alternative models offer pathways to ethical and environmenta...

Forgeries are an omnipresent part of our culture and closely related to traditional ideas of authenticity, legality, authorship, creativity, and in...

Is the family in crisis? Or do crises crystallize in families' lived realities? Families as constitutive units of all social architectures are cent...

What if James T. Kirk and Spock had a baby, left the Enterprise and moved to New Vulcan to live happily ever after?Fan fiction plots like this are ...

Fantasy novels are products of popular culture. They owe their popularity also to the visualization of medievalist artifacts on book covers and des...

In the genre of horror, elderly people are often used as a trope to evoke both a fear of death and a fear of aging. Old age is therefore equated wi...

Lesbian Web Series narrate female-centred stories, strengthen identity construction, and generate transnational communities beyond cultural barrier...

Feminist movements from the Americas provide some of the most innovative, visible, and all-encompassing forms of organizing and resistance. With th...

»Fictional Practices of Spirituality« provides critical insight into the implementation of belief, mysticism, religion, and spirituality into world...

Gabriela Stoicea examines how the incidence and role of physical descriptions in German novels changed between 1771 and 1929 in response to develop...

Gerrit Haas re-theorises the peculiar textual conduct of ficto/critical writing, which inextricably intersects fictional with critical discourses a...

The rise of China is ever-present in debates on globalisation and ongoing power shifts. In a time of rising international tensions, understanding t...