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...

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...