In contemporary society, digital images have become increasingly mobile. They are networked, shared on social media, and circulated across small an...

How do Mexican migrants in Germany perceive themselves and their lives? Innovatively combining theories of interculturality and social imaginaries,...

The way we conceptualise the economy and ourselves as homo economicus has profound consequences for our lives. The contributions to this anthology ...

In American visual culture, the 1930s and 1940s were a key transitional period shaped by the era of modernism and the global confrontation of World...

What do literary texts tell us about growing old? The essays in this volume introduce and explore representations of ageing and old age in canonica...

While concepts of Earth have a rich tradition, more recent examples show a distinct quality: Though ideas of wholeness might still be related to my...

From museums to memorials, all cultural heritage institutions are constantly driving the digital transformation of their educational outreach. In t...

Immigration is a persistent and complex phenomenon intertwined with geographical, political, societal, and economic challenges. The number of inter...

Dieser durchgehend zweisprachige Band versammelt Beiträge zu ästhetischen, künstlerischen und pädagogischen Fragestellungen der musikalischen Impro...

Technologies and techniques have informed artistic practices and discourses since the avantgardes' heyday, and their proliferation, now in an incre...

In/Visibility is unequally distributed in society and closely related to the distribution of power and privilege. Using images and narratives to mo...

How do young people from immigrant families become engaged in politics? Anja Schmidt-Kleinert examines the case of young Israelis who are actively ...

Over the past 20 years European theatre underwent fundamental changes in terms of aesthetic focus, institutional structure and in its position in s...

Focusing on a private collection of 60 postcards of modern architecture in Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Agra, the contributors to this v...

After the revolutions in 2011, Tunisia became a symbol of freedom and justice and thus the hope of an entire region. Now, the picture has been reve...

Through a series of intricate informal processes and human-centric institutional arrangements, beneficiaries of South African government-subsidized...

Left-wing intellectuals in Britain and the US had long repudiated the Soviet regime. Why was the collapse of the Eastern Bloc experienced as a shoc...

How can exhibitions not only stage existing knowledge, but also raise questions that lead to new research? This question has become ever more relev...

From media art archeology to contemporary interaction design – the term interface culture is based on a vivid and ongoing discourse in the fields o...

The relation between education and gender identity formation is a contested terrain: Located between reproducing society’s status-quo and inhabitin...

This annual report is a call to action to recognize the things that are having an impact on the internet today, and to embrace the notion that we a...

How did and does the fate of refugees unfold in internment camps? The contributors to this book facilitate an extensive engagement with the organiz...

What constitutes a data practice and how do contemporary digital media technologies reconfigure our understanding of practices in general? Autonomo...

Intersectionality is a transformative framework that transcends traditional social categorizations, emphasizing the interconnectedness of identitie...

Studying the entangled histories of the areas conceptualized as Middle Eastern and North Atlantic World in the interwar years is crucial to underst...

How do migrant women living in illegality build intimate relationships? How do they experience, resist or take advantage of the tight link between ...

The cultural practices of hip-hop have been among people's favorite forms of popular culture for decades. Due to this popularity, rap, breaking, gr...

This is the first academic biography of the scientist and politician Jacob Moleschott (1822-1893). Based on a vast range of primary sources in Germ...

Migration is not a state of emergency, but a basic existential experience of humanity. It shapes contemporary societies by challenging established ...

How is a new intranet involved in an ongoing merger integration process? Katja Schönian analyses internal communication and branding strategies in ...

Kashmiri nationalism is defined by its dichotomy between the ethnic and the civic. Arshi Javaid delves into this dichotomy, unravelling the politic...

What bodily experiences did fighters make through their lifetime and especially in violent conflicts? How were the bodies of fighters trained, nour...

How can performing be transformed into cognition? Knowing in Performing describes dynamic processes of artistic knowledge production in music and t...

The integration of audible space is a central aspect of electroacoustic music. Ever since the earliest analogue days of electroacoustic music, pion...

The concept of la chance accounts for everyday knowledge production in uncertain contexts in Bamako, Mali, where university graduates constitute an...

The Ethiopian textile industry is particularly affected by high labor turnover. In a compelling social study, Michaela Fink investigates the causes...

The body has become central to practices of self-tracking. By focusing on the relations between quantification, the body, and labor, this volume sh...

In contemporary popular culture, armed women take center stage – but how can they be read from a feminist perspective? How do films, comics, and TV...

Since 2008, foreign land acquisitions have attracted international attention under the term »land grabbing.« Illustrated by rich and nuanced empiri...

Harnessing large urban housing estates in former socialist countries as a resource for the future housing supply requires innovative and practicabl...

Peru's industrial mining sector is highly conflictual and characterized by social disputes. Many of these conflicts are fought not only in politics...

Being a home to more than 80 ethnic groups, Ethiopia has to balance normative diversity with efforts to implement state law across its territory.Th...

Let Them Haunt Us analyzes contemporary aesthetics engaged in trauma and critically challenges its canonical status as »unrepresentable«. Focusing ...

This new go-to reference book for global melodrama assembles contributions by experts from a wide range of disciplines, including cultural studies,...

What is a libidinal economy? How are we psychically hooked into the circuits of the capitalist economy? The contributors to this book question the ...

The Internet has penetrated material reality to such an extent that it is now often impossible to disentangle the material from the virtual. In thi...

Listen Up! is the first publication worldwide to take an in-depth look at the development of Radio Art in the United States as a distinct sound art...

Narrative strategies, immersion, interaction, participation, identification, multimodality, characters and the connection between physical and fict...