Algorithms are not to be regarded as a technical structure but as a social phenomenon – they embed themselves, currently still very subtle, into ou...

Taking its cue from contemporary western debates on presence in the social sciences and the humanities, this volume focuses on 'presence' both as e...

Which everyday practices allowed women to sustain and fulfill individuality and agency under dictatorial rule? This book adds to a rich scholarship...

The documentary My heart of Darkness (Sweden 2011) tells the story of a South-African paratrooper returning to Angola: Facing former enemies, he tr...

Numerous contemporary televisual productions revisit the past but direct their energies towards history's non-events and anti-heroic subjectivities...

Ever since climate change has been identified as one of the most significant challenges of humanity, climate change deniers have repeatedly tried t...

Building on concepts from Science & Technology Studies, Simon David Hirsbrunner investigates practices and infrastructures of computer modeling...

Globalization euphoria and enthusiasm for the West are on the decline in contemporary China. Critical voices make themselves heard in artistic and ...

While psychiatry and the neurosciences have dismissed the concept of neurosis as too vague for medical purposes, in recent years literary studies h...

Ageing and Memory are two cultural processes that establish their own relationships with time. They affect our ways of living, in the present, and ...

Brexit is a tale of two unions, not one: the British and the European unions. Their origins are different, but both struggle to maintain unity in d...

The British and American Congo Reform Movement (ca. 1890-1913) has been praised extensively for its ›heroic‹ confrontation of colonial atrocities i...

For the societies of Central and Eastern Europe, the century since the Balkan Wars has been a time of profound ruptures. The contributors to this v...

Restrictions on academic freedom, persecution and armed conflict have forced many scholars into exile. So far, the professional trajectories of the...

The beginning of the 20th century saw a reinterpretation of the concept of the accident. While accidents had traditionally been considered as inevi...

What kind of relationship do we have with artificial beings (avatars, puppets, robots, etc.)? What does it mean to mirror ourselves in them, to per...

This study is a concise introduction to Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory and its application in a literary analysis of urban narratives of the 2...

Aesthetic practices shape and are shaped by spatial formations. The essays of this volume survey configurations of spaces as macro, micro and meso,...

This volume is dedicated to the interrelation between temporality and representation. It presumes that time cannot be conceived of as an abstract c...

What makes up a public, what governs dominant discourses, and in which ways can counterpublics be created through narrative? This edited collection...

Aminata Camara, Maya K., Lafia T., Oxana Chi and Layla Zami are middle-class, highly educated women in Germany and come from families of mixed Afri...

The booming increase of the senior population has become a social phenomenon and a challenge to our societies, and technological advances have undo...

Dominant cultural narratives about later life dismiss the value senior citizens hold for society. In her cultural-philosophical critique, Hanne Lac...

The sustained expansion of the life span and the attendant demographic changes in the West have fuelled the production of cultural texts that explo...