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

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...

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...

The work of Agnes Martin has frequently been associated with East Asian philosophies. Particularly highlighting the oeuvre of this US artist, Mona ...

Artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly important topic in the cultural sector. While museums have long focused on building digital obj...

The emergence of artificial intelligence has triggered enthusiasm and promise of boundless opportunities as much as uncertainty about its limits. T...

The global field of contemporary art is shaped by inter-racial conflicts. Alleviative Objects approaches Caribbean art through intersectional entan...

The volume entails a collection of contributions by leading scholars (Raymond Bryant, Michael K. Goodman, Benjamin Huybrechts, Andrew E.G. Jonas, R...

Amnesty International's (AI) focus on civil and political rights has marked their work with a gender bias from the outset. In the first comprehensi...

The essays, poetry, and visual art collected here consider the more-than-human cultures of our multispecies world. At a time when humanity's impact...

Can fiction teach us how to live? This study offers a fresh take on the North American short story, exploring how the genre has engaged in the cons...

andererseits provides a forum for research, commentary, and creative work on topics related to the German-speaking world and the field of German St...

andererseits seeks to provide a forum for unique and exciting research and reflections on topics related to the German-speaking world and the field...

andererseits is a collaborative project undertaken by students and faculties of universities in the USA (Duke and the University of Notre Dame), in...

andererseits is a collaborative project undertaken by students and faculties of universities in the USA (Duke and the University of Notre Dame), in...

andererseits provides a forum for research, commentary, and creative work on topics related to the German-speaking world and the field of German St...

Do animals work? Is it possible to work with animals without exploiting them? Might animals even be empowered through work? This provocative collec...

Anonymity practices in electronic music culture have long been the object of journalistic and academic discourse. Yet anonymity itself is ephemeral...

Popular media play an important role in reconstructing collective imaginations of history. Dramatic events and ruptures of the 20th century provide...

From pre-Columbian times till today, human interventions in aquatic environments have been shaping the geopolitics of Latin America – the technolog...

Berlin is increasingly emerging as a hub of Arab intellectual life in Europe. In this first study of Arab culture to zoom in on the thriving metrop...

What consequences does the design of the virtual yield for architecture and to what extent can the nature of architecture be used productively to t...

Under the premise that architecture makes life ›better‹, architecture is often presented as the ›solution‹ to social problems, made ›green‹ when pr...

The planetary instantaneity that digital technologies have enabled is leading to an effacement of the divisions that separate the past from the fut...

This pioneering volume explores the Arctic as an important and highly endangered archive of knowledge about natural as well as human history of the...

Emerging forms of alternative economic frameworks are changing the structure of society, redefining the relationship between centre and periphery, ...

What is the cultural dimension of sustainability? This book offers a thought-provoking answer, with a theoretical synthesis on »cultures of sustain...

Artists always react to the times in which they live. They may celebrate them or criticize them, often trying to change them. But this is the first...

The established cultural sector is facing a paradigm shift. At the center of this change is the demand to do justice to the diversity of the popula...