In recent years, spectacular images of ruined boats, makeshift border camps, and beaches littered with life vests have done much to consolidate the...

Horticulture in Oceania has been under increasing scrutiny due to climate change and related policies. In Vanuatu, cultivators navigate crop growth...

While the nation-state gave rise to the advent of museums, its influence in times of transculturality and post-/decolonial studies appears to have ...

Connecting migration studies and the theory of valuation, this collection offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of transnational music ...

Music and sound shape the emotional content of audio-visual media and carry different meanings. This volume considers audio-visual material as a pr...

Since the early transformation of European music practice and theory in the cultural centers of Asia, Latin America, and Africa around 1900, it has...

How is musical practice connected with everyday life? Eva-Maria Houben shows that performing music as an activity – indeed, as playing – is a meani...

Many children in Namibia find themselves facing a social crisis. They have been abandoned or abused, are malnourished, homeless, or live in shacks ...

Narcissistic mothers are an important motif in modernist literature. Tracing its appearance in the works of writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virgi...

While Alzheimer's might be associated with a difficulty to express oneself, Ana Paula Barbosa-Fohrmann addresses this topic by examining experience...

In present times, we are increasingly witnessing a loss of life, especially among animals and plants. Some species are becoming extinct, while othe...

What do planners need to know in order to use narrative approaches responsibly in their practice? This practical field guide makes insights from na...

What do stories in games have in common with political narratives?This book identifies narrative strategies as mechanisms for meaning and manipulat...

As the dominant narrative forms in the age of media convergence, films and games call for a transmedial perspective in narratology. Games allow a p...

Survivors' narratives are an invaluable source for the study of violence across academic fields. At the same time, they present several difficultie...

How do nations continue to be made on a daily basis? In this important contribution to nationalism studies, Dave Poitras explores how nationhood an...

Over the last 70 years, media have become increasingly central to nautical mobility. Asher Boersma describes how, in the 1960s and 1970s, the focus...

How do humans, their needs, and technology interact in society? Marcel Siegler explores the dialectical relationship between human needs and desire...

While social change regarding trans(sexuality) has evolved within an expanding nexus of concepts, practices, regulations and institutions, this pro...

The information age has brought about a growing conflict between proponents of a data-driven society on the one side and demands for protection of ...

Gender- and sex-related norms have an impact on us from the first to the last day of our lives. What are the effects of such norms on the education...

Can friendship as a political practice offer enough traction to imagine a borderless world? The startling contemporary rise in aggressive ethno-nat...

How do conflicts escalate? This is one of the major questions in conflict research. To offer further answers, Richard Bösch follows a tripartite ag...

The expression »to come out of the closet« calls for an analysis of how language and notional as well as social spaces interact and intersect to co...

In Early Modern times, techniques of assembling, compiling and arranging pre-existing material were part of the established working methods in many...

In times of right-wing populists gaining traction worldwide, conservative Christians engage in both continuous and dynamic action forms to gain soc...

What are organizations? Where do they come from? How are they transformed and adapted to new situations? In the digital age and in the global netwo...

Lara Schrijver examines the work of Oswald Mathias Ungers and Rem Koolhaas as intellectual legacy of the 1970s for architecture today. Particularly...

During the first mandatory lockdowns of the Covid-19 pandemic, citizens worldwide turned to »pandemic fictions« or started to produce their own »Co...

Gaming no longer only takes place as a ›closed interactive experience‹ in front of TV screens, but also as broadcast on streaming platforms or as c...

In the past three decades, radical right parties had the opportunity to directly influence political developments from the highest public office in...

Since its inception, U.S. American cinema has grappled with the articulation of racial boundaries. This applies, in the first instance, to featurin...

After the failed Siege of Vienna of 1683, the Ottoman Empire gradually withdrew from Europe. Even so, monumental reminders of its former presence s...

The history of theatre has often been written as a history of great writers, actors, or directors. This book takes a different approach: The contri...

What future challenges are we facing already today, what room for action needs to be secured and which impulses result from this for professional f...

In Kenya, technology entrepreneurs and makers have to employ their work and emotions in order to re-script their peripheral positionalities within ...

How is performativity shaped by digital technologies – and how do performative practices reflect and alter techno-social formations? "Performing th...

Philological practices have served to secure and transmit textual sources for centuries. However – this volume contends –, it is only in the light ...

The relationship between philosophy and Jewish thought has often been a matter of lively discussion. But despite its long tradition and the variety...

The proliferation of digital technology has changed our visual perception and the way we interpret terms such as 'representation', 'immersion', and...

Martyr posters are more than obituary images – they can act as visual politics. Focusing on Rabih Mroué's play How Nancy Wished That Everything Was...

This volume provides new, ground-breaking perspectives on the globally renowned work of the Tanztheater Wuppertal and its iconic founder and artist...

Participatory art practices allow members of an audience to actively contribute to the creation of art. Annemarie Kok provides a detailed analysis ...

The increasing platformization of urban life needs critical perspectives to examine changing everyday practices and power shifts brought about by t...

From a controversial reading of Plato’s and Aristotle’s contributions and by questioning some traditional concepts such as the autonomy of art, the...

Game culture and material culture have always been closely linked. Analog forms of rule-based play (ludus) would hardly be conceivable without dice...

Video games permeate our everyday existence. They immerse players in fascinating gameworlds and exciting experiences, often inviting them in variou...

Media narratives inform our ideas of the future – and Games are currently making a significant contribution to this medial reservoir. On the one ha...