What is it like to perceive a virtual object through the sensed presence of a virtual body? How do subject-object relations occur and can be actual...

Club culture has become an ever-growing interdisciplinary research field in the social sciences. The contributors to this volume offer state of the...

This comparative ethnography of a Muslim and a Christian Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon focuses on contrasting social belonging processes thro...

Studying the life situations of trans persons reveals preceding and ongoing political, societal and cultural transformations. This ethnographic stu...

Is it possible to create a community where everyone lives according to their own rhythm, and yet respects the individual rhythms of others? This vo...

»We must declare war on the virus,« stated UN chief António Guterres on March 13, 2020, just two days after the WHO had characterized the outbreak ...

With their return to Germany, wolves leave their traces in personal feelings, in the atmospheres of rural landscapes and even in the sentiments and...

Queer spaces are crucial for the construction of LGBTQ+ communities, as they constitute places where queer subjects can create political, social, a...

Where do computer games »happen«? The articles collected in this pioneering volume explore the categories of »space«, »place« and »territory« featu...

This book supports and deepens the existing interfaces between art, science, and technology – transgressing traditional principles and styles of re...

Ties to the homeland have always been a central focus of global diaspora and migration studies. How and why do the descendants of migrants maintain...

Diabetes is regarded as one of the most challenging global health issues of the 21st century. Especially countries with weak health infrastructure ...

In the light of social and environmental unsustainability and injustice, the continuing attachment to the idea that a growth-based economy is recon...

»Yes, No, Perhaps« are the most written words in Mary Bauermeister's artworks. Together they stand for the concept of many-valued aesthetics in the...

Black communities have been making major contributions to Europe's social and cultural life and landscapes for centuries. However, their achievemen...

How can we map differing perceptions of the living environment? Mapping the Unmappable? explores the potential of cartography to communicate the re...

In the past fifty years, port cities around the world have experienced considerable changes to their morphologies and their identities. The increas...

While there has been renewed interest in Marx recently, we cannot simply apply his more than 170-year-old texts to today's world. Across the discip...

What does the development of a truly robust contemporary theory of domination require? Ashley J. Bohrer argues that it is only by considering all o...

Global mobility is one of the crucial phenomena of our time. Combining the theoretical frameworks of masculinity studies and age studies, the contr...

In the past, our ideas of psychiatric hospitals and their history have been shaped by objects like straitjackets, cribs, and binding belts. These p...

What is »materiality« in dance and performance? What role does »the material« play in the formation for the cultural memory of ephemeral arts? The ...

While the so-called material turn in the humanities and the social sciences has inspired a vibrant discourse on objects, things, and the concept of...

Dualistic thinking has been questioned by some writers associated with the material, ontological, and affective turns. Yet, these and other writers...

In the past decades, developments in the fields of medicine, new media, and biotechnologies challenged many representations and practices, question...

Cultural, social and economic production is always medially constituted, since it is formed through processing, storage and transmission of certain...

The external border of the EU remains under permanent construction. Sabrina Ellebrecht engages with two of its primary building sites – the Europea...

In the face of social inequalities, digital divides, hegemonic power relations, capitalist conflicts of interests, asymmetric gender relations and ...

As a literary genre, the nonfictional reportage has particular implications for the role of the writer. Pascal Sigg shows how six U.S. American wri...

In modern societies the functional differentiation of medicine and religion is the predominant paradigm. Contemporary therapeutic practices and con...

In the past decades, children of immigrants have drawn increased attention not only in press and media, but also in a number of academic fields, am...

As the body politics of life writing in the United States change, illness and disability memoirs receive considerable attention. Although these nar...

Gaming has never been disconnected from reality. When we engage with ever more lavish virtual worlds, something happens to us. The game imposes its...

Metropolitan research requires multidisciplinary perspectives in order to do justice to the complexities of metropolitan regions. This volume provi...

Migration processes affect migrants' families and family relations – in complex and diverse ways. Family fragmentation lasting for years or even de...

How to study a media object on the web that is at the same time a documentary, a reportage, and a game which combines both fiction and non-fiction ...

In her endeavour to overcome the established methodological, conceptual, and empirical dualism of mobility and migration, Anna Xymena Wieczorek dev...

Migration, networks, skills: these keywords not only denote three popular and important fields of current investigation in Social Sciences and Cult...

Why should mindfulness and meditation be taught at universities? What impact could the establishment of such programs have on students and on the e...

Scholars have long seen trust as a foundational social good. We therefore have ample studies on building trust in free markets, on cultivating trus...

While multicultural comedies criticise hegemonic whiteness and outdated stances on race relations, they simultaneously perpetuate the colonial aest...

Videogames allow us to immerse ourselves in worlds that are reflective of cultural phenomena. At the same time, games are in the process of occupyi...

To achieve social and environmental sustainability, the performing arts' modes of production are in urgent need of significant transformation, as g...

In contrast to buildings divided by walls, monospace buildings are determined far less by its shell than by a reciprocal relationship between space...

We know that robots are just machines. Why then do we often talk about them as if they were alive? Laura Voss explores this fascinating phenomenon,...

In the global context of the Great Acceleration, things and people have been on the move more than ever before. Moritz Frischkorn takes a fresh loo...

The journal "movements" collects academic, activist and artistic output that deals with migration and border regimes. It fosters exchange between a...

In the complex and multi-layered process of migration and identity-building, classical migration theories and approaches of transnationalism seem n...