Since the dawn of humanity, people have developed concepts about themselves and the natural world in which they live. This volume aims at investiga...

Food is more than just nutrition. Its preparation, presentation and consumption is a multifold communicative practice which includes the meal's des...

The exploration of what May Sarton calls the »foreign country of old age« usually does not go far beyond the familiar: the focus of aging studies h...

During the early republican period, architectural interventions in rural Turkey took the form of social engineering as part of the state's moderniz...

Michel Foucault is considered one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. Marita Rainsborough examines the current relevance of his...

How is solidarity understood by the people who practice it actively and daily? What is the role of solidarity in reconciling the relationship of in...

According to Walter Benjamin, the past that is not recognized by the present threatens to disappear irretrievably. As a consequence, photographs ca...

This book is a rich ethnographic and historic account of the juridification of prior consultation in Brazil. In her case study on the national regu...

In the late 19th century, the so-called »German Method«, which employed spoken language in deaf education, triumphed all over the Western world. At...

Hysteria, a mysterious disease known since antiquity, is said to have ceased to exist. Challenging this commonly held view, this is the first cross...

This study of contemporary literature from the former Yugoslavia (Post-Yugoslavia) follows the ways in which the feminist writing of gender, body, ...

In Zaatari camp, Jordan, thousands of Syrian refugees were sheltered in tents and caravans, which they steadily appropriated and turned into dwelli...

Fugitive Borders explores a new archive of 19th-century autobiographical writing by black authors in North America. For that purpose, Nele Sawallis...

The radical novelty of modern society consists of the global autonomy and dynamics of communication systems such as the economy, polity, science, l...

Cultures as well as individuals continually balance the demands of nostalgia and sustainability as they construct historical narratives of ›futures...

How can videogames portray love and loss? Games and Bereavement answers this question by looking at five videogames and carrying out a participator...

Why do we play games and why do we play them on computers? The contributors of »Games and Rules« take a closer look at the core of each game and th...

How did games rise to become the central audiovisual form of expression and storytelling in digital culture? How did the practices of their artisti...

Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel Snow Crash conceived of the Metaverse as an escapist medium within a dystopian future. By the early 2000s, his vision...

Despite the efforts of modern scholars to explain the origins of science communication as a social, rhetorical, and aesthetic phenomenon, most rese...

Prenatal diagnosis, especially noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT), has changed the experience of pregnancy, prenatal care and responsibilities in ...

Could the Caspian Region replace Russia's or the Persian Gulf's immense energy potential with their energy resources? Yunis Gurbanov explores the s...

Questions of truth, ethics, state power, and propaganda, of how to render account of catastrophes and reconcile oneself with one's past are not onl...

We are witnessing a worldwide resurgence of reactionary ideologies and movements, combined with an escalating assault on democratic institutions an...

How can higher education empower students as agents of the social transformations that our societies need so urgently? Linn Friedrichs connects Joh...

How is photography connected to global practices? This is a first edited collection to trace the relationship between history, photography and memo...

This book is a critical study of Iranian dance and the works of Iranian-American female dancers in exile. Focusing on the study of contemporary Ira...

How do white queer people portray our own whiteness? Can we, in the stories we tell about ourselves, face the uncomfortable fact that, while queer,...

The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) is the central executive authority on migration and integration policy in Germany. Vinzenz Kra...

The collaboration between scientists and artists in the form of Artist-in-Lab residencies may not only cause a productive disturbance for a day's w...

Queer cultures are vibrant components of the constantly transforming societies of the 21st century. This is both socially and anthropologically rec...

How do digital media technologies shape or restructure social practice? And which transitions and demarcations of different forms of publicness ari...

Many countries, communities, and social actors around the world are struggling to cope with the impacts of climate change. Adapting to climate chan...

Listening, experiencing, drawing or interpreting spaces: narratives, experiences, visualizations and discourses can be helpful for the empirical in...

What is transdisciplinarity – and what are its methods? How does a living lab work? What is the purpose of citizen science, student-organized teach...

Monika Lilleike's performance analytic study on Hawaiian Hula `Olapa reveals how this genuine performing art practice shapes and transmits oral his...

While it has become fashionable in the arena of international health to think about health systems, the theoretical underpinning of Niklas Luhmann'...

This book deals with various facets of the human right to health: its normative profile as a universal right, current political and legal conflicts...

If pictures can be sexist, can analyzing sound reveal sexism, too? Where is the language to discuss sexism in music? LJ Müller tackles these import...

In his aesthetic reflections, Hegel identifies the Judaic Psalms, which he calls sacred poetry, as the core of the sublime. While it has often been...

Where do we end up when we enter the time machine that is the digital game? One axiomatic truth of historical research is that the past is the time...

Critical analysis of the dramatisation of homosexuality in British fiction about the Second World War is noticeable only by its relative absence fr...

In recent years, the US-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq have had an impact on the UK rivalled only by Brexit and the global financial crisis....

In health and medicine, imagining the future is essential in giving meaning to the past and the present and for propelling people into action. This...

The challenge of housing is increasingly recognised in international policy discussions in connection to the processes of migration, climate change...

How do clinical psychiatrists arrive at their diagnostic conclusions? Little attention has been directed to this question by philosophers of psychi...

While Ibsen's plays were seldom performed in Romania in the first half of the 20th century, historical sources highlight his strong impact on the n...

Switzerland is known for its multilingualism, yet not all languages are represented equally in society. The situation is exacerbated by the influx ...