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Political participation in the digital age
This book explores the potential of the internet for enabling new and flexible political participation modes. With an ethnographic focus on Icelandic and German tools Betri Reykjavík and LiquidFriesland, it offers plentiful advice for citizens, programmers, politicians, and administrations alike ...
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Housing and human settlements in a world of change
This book addresses the challenges of housing and emerging solutions along the lines of three major dynamics: migration, climate change, and neoliberalism. It explores the outcomes of neoliberal “enabling” ideas, responses to extreme climate events with different housing approaches, and how the d...
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Temporality and aesthetic regimes in the ›black atlantic‹ 2
Part of a two-volume exploration of philosophical notions and aesthetic forms of temporality in the Black Atlantic, this second one focuses on how blackness and temporality have impacted the arts and culture in the US.
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From pathology to public sphere
In the late 19th century, the so-called »German Method«, which employed spoken language in deaf education, triumphed all over the Western world. At the same time as deaf German schoolchildren were taught to articulate and read lips, an emancipation movement of signing deaf adults emerged across t...
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Coming of age on the streets of java
This book is based on almost five years of fieldwork with street-related communities in the city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, between 2001 and 2015. The author inquires into children's and adolescents' coming of age on the streets and their remarkable social and emotional competences, instead of res...
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Enduring enmity
How did the relationship between the politically very disparate theorists Carl Schmitt and Otto Kirchheim shape their political thinking? Hubertus Buchstein investigates the personal, political, and theoretical dimensions between the infamous legal theorist Schmitt and his former student Kirchhei...
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Queer turkey
Queer Turkey offers a broad range of reflections on queer Turkish cultures within a transnational, Euro-American context. Ralph J. Poole discusses queer travel writers, poets, playwrights, and film directors whose multifarious works manifest the subtle and subversive ways in which artists crisscr...
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Mediating the real
As a literary genre, the nonfictional reportage has particular implications for the role of the writer. Pascal Sigg shows how six U.S. American writers, including David Foster Wallace, George Saunders, and Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, reflect on themselves as human media in their reportage.
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Nationhood at work
Dave Poitras explores how nationhood and the idea of living in a world of nations are experienced in the cities of Montreal and Brussels. Drawing on ethnographic research, he identifies the typical ways of enacting nationhood, exploring marginalization in biethnonational milieus.
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Paratextualizing games
This anthology examines paratexts that gaming cultures have produced as well as the way in which paratexts influence the development of games. How is knowledge about games generated and shaped today and how do boundaries between (popular) criticism, journalism, and scholarship have started to blur?
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The changing leadership roles of »dedes« in the alevi movement
What is the function of clerical leadership in Alevism based on sociocultural and political understandings? Deniz Cosan Eke examines the political, cultural, and religious debates surrounding Alevis and the Alevi movement in relation to the ideas and claims of the Turkish state, Alevi communities...
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History in games
Claims of authenticity are prominent in discussions surrounding digital games. What is historical authenticity and does it even matter? When does authenticity or the lack thereof become political? By answering these questions, the book illuminates the ubiquitous category of authenticity from the ...
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Jahrbuch migration und gesellschaft / yearbook migration and society 2022/2023
The 2022/2023 edition of the Yearbook Migration and Society focuses on the topic Climate.
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Update liberalism
The essays in this book show that liberalism as a school of thought is not dead and they present new liberal concepts to cope with the great challenges of our time.
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The bureaucratic production of difference
In the context of the ever-increasing political problematization of migration in Europe, agencies charged with migrant administration create diverse categories of difference to distinguish between the “deserving migrant” and the illegal one. This book analyzes how organizational interpretations o...
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Building institution
In Building Institution, Förster chronicles the expansion of architecture as a profession and discipline in the postmodern era.
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Migrating through the web
Nicole Braida digs into the structures of serious games, text-adventures, newsgames, interactive maps, and data visualizations, in which refugees and migrants become the subject of humanitarian discourse. They distinguish who is vulnerable and who is not and are a symptom of a deeper crisis of t...
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Beyond neoliberalism and neo-illiberalism
This book examines the impact of neoliberal economic policies in relation to cultural and political factors and how these have promoted the recent authoritarian turn, as well as probing the economic policies and performance of the illiberal regimes.
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Sensing and making sense
Through a genealogy of photosensitive elements in media devices and artworks, this book investigates three dichotomies that impoverish debates and proposals in media art: material/immaterial, organic/machinic, and theory/practice.
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Situated in translations
This volume sheds light on composite cultural and heterotypical translation processes across various media, such as texts, films, graphic novels, theater, and dance performances. The authors explore the cultural contexts of diverse media milieus in order to explain how cultural communities come i...
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Futures worth preserving
This collection of essays and artistic contributions problematizes the relationship between past-oriented practices of sustaining and future-oriented forms of remembering. The present becomes the moment in which both notions overlap: Cultures have to position themselves both in relation to what t...
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Remixing the hip-hop narrative
This book addresses hip hop's historical and regional struggles for representation of race, gender, generation, place, and language, as well as the tension between authenticity and commercialization.
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Salvaging buildings
Salvaging Buildings is an in-depth ethnographic study of the under-the-radar livelihood of the reclaimers, (çıkmacıs), an informal network of building salvagers.
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Dancing youth
Sandra Kurfürst examines youth’s aspirations and desires embodied in dance. Drawing on a rich and diverse range of qualitative data, including interviews and sensory and digital ethnography, she shows how dancers confront social and gender norms while following their passion.
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Machines as agency
This book supports and deepens the existing interfaces between art, science, and technology – transgressing traditional principles and styles of research, and selectively overcoming the side-by-side coexistence in favour of an integrated »laboratory of the future«. Instead of relying on tradition...
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Exploring the fantastic
The fantastic represents a wide and heterogeneous field in literary, cultural, and media studies. Encompassing some of the field's foremost voices such as Fred Botting and Larissa Lai, as well as exciting new perspectives by junior scholars, this volume offers a mosaic of the fantastic now. The c...
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Cities of entanglements
How do people live together in cities shaped by inequality? This comparative ethnography of two African cities, Maputo and Johannesburg, presents a new narrative about social life in cities often described as sharply divided.
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Border wall aesthetics
Is there a deeper significance in the artistic encounter with border walls? Elisa Ganivet revisits the history of border wall aesthetics and compares more recent border-related works by artists including Joseph Beuys, Banksy, and Frida Kahlo.
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Subversive semantics in political and cultural discourse
This book examines semantic transfer and inversion as rhetorical tactics in right-wing discourses and populist alternative knowledge production.
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Ukraine's many faces
Addressing readers from diverse backgrounds, this volume approaches the history of Ukraine and its people through primary sources, from the early modern period to the present.
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Zones of tradition - places of identity
Gerhard Vinken takes readers to twelve cities on three continents and analyses the diverse and contradictory heritage formations that have had a lasting impact on urban life. The vitality of urban heritage, as these vivid and in-depth case studies show, lies in the dynamic and often conflictual p...
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Home/fronts
Janina Wierzoch offers an analytical survey of British contemporary war narratives in novels, drama, film, and television that seek to make sense of the experience. The study shows how the narratives, instead of reflecting on the UK`s role as invader, portray war as invading the British home.
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British white trash
"White trash" is a liminal figure that dramatizes the intersection of race and class. Contemporary British novelists like Irvine Welsh, Niall Griffiths and John King use this originally US-American stereotype to interrogate the racializing discourse of class in British society. Their novels are i...
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The depths of illusion
A long overdue investigation into the relationship between simulation and reality.
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Holocaust literature and ego documents
Literary and historical perspectives on Holocaust literature and ego documents: What is their relevance for Holocaust studies?
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Lived-body experiences in virtual reality
Zeynep Akbal explores the impact of virtual reality (VR) technology on the subjective experience of the body.
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Remembering future disasters
An ethnographic exploration of the multiple ways in which disasters and time are co-constituted in the Peruvian Andes.
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The biosecurity individual
Frederike Offizier offers a cultural critique of the intersection between health, security and identity.
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Legal pluralism in ethiopia
Being a home to more than eighty ethnic groups, Ethiopia has to balance normative diversity with efforts to implement state law across its territory. This volume explores the coexistence of state, customary, and religious legal forums from the perspective of legal practitioners and local justice ...
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Sentimental state(s)
Starting with the double-meaning of the word state, which signifies both a condition and a political entity. This book provides a cross-cultural and cross-media discussion of the role of the sentimental in political culture.
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Hearing sexism
Analyzing the voices of Kurt Cobain, Kate Bush, Björk and others, Müller demonstrates how gender is performed vocally and interacts with gendered aspects of embodiment and affect.
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Tangier/gibraltar – a tale of one city
By studying the relationship between the Moroccan city of Tangiers and the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, Dieter Haller shows how cross-boundary experiences, practices, and identifications create a sense of neighborhood beyond official discourses.
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Radio as art
Acoustic signals, voice, sound, articulation, music and spatial networking are dispositifs of radiophonic transmission which have brought forth a great number of artistic practices. Up to and into the digital present radio has been and is employed and explored as an apparatus-based structure as w...
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Becoming a migrant worker in nepal
Based on ethnographic research in Nepal, Hannah Uprety retraces the practices of recruitment and instruction that - step by step - transform Nepali labor into an internationally marketable commodity. In doing so, she uncovers a migration regime that effectively turns local men and women into »mig...
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Competition in world politics
The “return of great power competition” among (among others) the United States, China, Russia and the EU is a major topic in contemporary public debate. This cutting-edge edited collection offers a fresh account of competition in world politics, looking beyond its military dimensions to questions...
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Plurinational afrobolivianity
In Bolivia, novel political articulations, legal reform, and processes of collective identification converge in unprecedented efforts to transform society. This ethnography explores the experiences of Afrodescendants in plurinational Bolivia and offers a fresh perspective on the social and politi...
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Playing utopia
While dystopias are part of the standard gaming repertoire, games feature utopias much less frequently. This anthology examines playful utopias from two perspectives. It investigates utopias in digital games as well as utopias of the digital game; that is, the role of ludic elements in scenarios ...
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Conflicts in urban future-making
An inquiry into conflictual dynamics arising from imagining, negotiating, and materializing different urban futures in contemporary times of crisis.
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Beyond quantity
This book asks what epistemological challenges arise when we think about the use of AI beyond its dependency on big data.
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Moves - spaces - places
This ethnography leads the reader into the lives of five Jamaican women in Montreal; their daily practices and experiences, their spaces of communion, their memories and projections for the future. Lisa Johnson sheds light on the mobile biographies and migratory agency of her interlocutors.
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Digital feedback in higher education
An exploration of the dynamic domain of digital feedback, emphasizing current issues of curriculum design, social media and artificial intelligence.
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Narratives crossing boundaries
This transdisciplinary compendium covers: game studies and media studies, but also sociology and psychology, to take into account the great influence of storytelling on social discourses and human behavior.
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Schreiben im zwiegespräch / writing as dialogue
Obwohl Praktiken des Lektorats und des Mentorats zum alltäglichen Bestandteil schriftstellerischer Tätigkeiten gehören, wurden sie von den Literaturwissenschaften bislang kaum untersucht.Der bilinguale Band versammelt Akteure aus dem literarischen Feld sowie der Autorschafts- und Schreibprozessth...
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Translations and participation
The contributors to this book spark a cross-disciplinary dialogue on the intersection of translations - linguistic and cultural - and participation.
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Women's leadership in music
The contributors ask what can be considered as leadership in culture from a female point of view today.
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From shelters to dwellings
Can a shelter within a refugee camp ever become a dwelling? Ayham Dalal argues that the transformation from shelter to dwelling is a creative and imaginative process, in which social relations are carved into space while politics, time, and materiality are negotiated.
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Maritime poetics
In the past fifty years, port cities around the world have experienced considerable changes to their morphologies and their identities. This volume argues that contemporary artistic practices and critical poetics trace an alternate construction of the imaginaries and aspirations of our present so...
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Youth and the state in guinea: meandering lives
By combining an ethnographic study of youth with an analysis of the local state in the making, this monograph introduces the perspective of “meandering lives” to grasp being young and growing up in the Guéckédou borderland, a remote space approximately 700 kilometers southeast of Conakry, Guinea’...
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Pictorial appearing
The proliferation of digital technology has changed our visual perception and the way we interpret terms such as 'representation', 'immersion', and 'virtuality'.Kresimir Purgar examines some of the topics fundamental to an understanding of the contemporary culture of images. The principal thesis ...
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Staying with the planet
A refreshing visual and ethnographic dive into scientific data infrastructure—troubling an increasingly data-driven science’s relations to the planet.
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Informal transactions of low income houses in south africa
Sandile Mbatha explores the concept of informality in relation to how such beneficiaries challenge predominant understandings of property relations.
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Zeitschrift für interkulturelle germanistik
Die Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Germanistik versammelt aktuelle Beiträge aus Literatur-, Kultur- und Sprachwissenschaft, die das zentrale Konzept der Interkulturalität weiterdenken.Angesichts von Migrationsbewegungen und Globalisierung sind Transiträume von besonderer Aktualität. Die Beiträge...
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The discovery of anxiousness
Joana Serrado inaugurates anxiousness as a category of mystical knowledge in this innovative historical and philosophical study.
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Claiming home
Claiming Home traces transnational configurations of sexualities through biographical narratives of queer migrant women. This book maps how these women navigate diverging and often contradictory perspectives on sexuality, conflicting loyalties, and the multiple mechanisms of exclusion to which th...
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Dealing with elusive futures
The time to come – as well as the exploration thereof – remains elusive for social actors and social scientists alike.The contributors accept the challenge to depict young men and women's future-creating activities in urban contexts of sub-Saharan Africa. Very consciously, they study young gradua...
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The ghosts within
Janna Odabas analyzes ghosts in Asian American literature as self-reflexive figures, showing how they renegotiate the image of Asian America as heterogeneous and transnational and resist morally or politically preconceived approaches. She explores how literary works rethink conceptions of ghosts ...
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Blogging in beirut
Unlike previous media-analytic research, Sarah Jurkiewicz's anthropological study understands blogging as a social field and a domain of practice. This approach underlines the significance of blogging in practitioners' daily lives and for their self-understanding. In this context, the notion of p...
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Andererseits - yearbook of transatlantic german studies
andererseits seeks to provide a forum for unique and exciting research and reflections on topics related to the German-speaking world and the field of German studies. Works come from a wide variety of genres including book reviews, poetry, essays, editorials, forum discussions, notes, lectures, ...
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Explorations in digital interculturality
An exploration of digital intercultural practices that deepens our understanding of digital interculturality, offering insights from various disciplinary perspectives.
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Transport in capitalism
To understand why sustainable transport has not been developed yet, Oliver Schwedes highlights the special features of the transport sector and describes the political conditions for a successful change in transport development.
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Religious freedom and populism
This book examines the appropriation of freedom of religion by right-wing populists and extremists worldwide.
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It's how you flip it
This book investigates the possibilities and limits of working with hip-hop as a pedagogical tool.
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Aesthetic practices and spatial configurations
Aesthetic practices shape and are shaped by spatial formations. The essays of this volume survey configurations of spaces as macro, micro and meso, and study from a transregional perspective the ways they are created, described, negotiated and appropriated across cultures. The interdisciplinary s...
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Refugee routes
Drawing on historical and contemporary examples from Turkey, the Ottoman Empire, Iraq, Syria, the UK, Germany, France, the Balkan Peninsula, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Kenya, this volume draws attention to refugees, asylum seekers, exiles, and forced migrants as individual subjects...
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Grain & noise – artists in synthetic biology labs
Collaboration between scientists and artists in the form of Artist-in-Lab residencies may not only cause a productive disturbance for a day's work in the laboratory, but also reveal new ways of understanding.
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Black british music video
Reframing the estates: audiovisual reimaginations of urban space in British grime culture.
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Making transformative geographies
Benedikt Schmid considers the development of visions, alternatives, and strategies for a radical transformation beyond growth-based economies. Covering a sample of 24 eco-social organizations, projects, and groupings in the city of Stuttgart, Germany, the study drills down into the social, spatia...
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Materials of culture
This book calls for a materials-based perspective on culture, which has become all the more pertinent by the need for sustainability.
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Popular music and public diplomacy
In the early years of the Cold War, Western nations increasingly adopted strategies of public diplomacy involving popular music. While the diplomatic use of popular music was initially limited to such genres as jazz, the second half of the 20th century saw a growing presence of various popular ge...
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Between violence, vulnerability, resilience and resistance
How are the structures of power and the notion of agency among Syrian women during the recent Syrian conflict connected? Rand El Zein investigates gender politics around displacement, conflict, the body, and the nation, examining how Arab television news discursively represented the experiences o...
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Large housing estates under socialism
This book argues that harnessing large urban housing estates in former socialist countries as a resource for the future housing supply requires innovative and practicable strategies and concepts.
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Voice assistants in private homes
This book discusses voice assistants and how they have transformed everyday linguistic, media, and data practices thanks to platformized conditions and new interfaces.
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The good, bad, and challenging migrant
Fatma Haron scrutinizes the impact of social remittances on the transnational identification process between new Tyrol and new Turkey.
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Shared habitats
The interactions among artistic, technical, scientific, living, and nonliving things have inspired new artistic approaches. The contributors to this volume either relate to theoretical discourses raised by artworks, show how young artists today approach cultural issues, or develop situations of l...
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Let them haunt us
This book redefines trauma as a productive framework for exploring individual, collective, and cultural conflicts addressed in current artistic and curatorial practices. Anna-Lena Werner considers the aesthetic realm as a potential forum that provides methods of understanding the humanitarian con...
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Modes of production
This book challenges the predominant notions of professionalization that have underpinned theatre training practices.
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Queer and feminist relationships in contemporary fiction
This book analyzes friendly, amorous, sexual, political and artistic contacts within and around contemporary fictions of Romance cultures.
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Violence | perception | video games
This volume compiles papers from the Young Academics Workshop at the Clash of Realities conferences of 2017 and 2018. From BA students to postdoctoral researchers, the young academics of this anthology stem from a spectrum of backgrounds, including game studies, game design, and phenomenology.
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»postheimat« – inquiries into migration, theatre, and networked solidarity
The PostHeimat network, a three-year-long experiment in networked solidarity between major public German theatres and migrant actors and directors, discusses in this book how to think about Heimat after migration. The contributions document the emergence, frictions, and difficulties in migrant th...
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Aging experiments
The contributors to this volume show how artists in science-fiction, fantasy and the avant-garde develop visions of late life transformation, improvisation and adaptation to new circumstances. The studies particularly focus on perspectives on aging that challenge the predominant narratives of dec...
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Land grabbing and home country development
Between 2000 and 2016, China and the UK acquired large areas of land through investment projects in sub-Saharan Africa. Ariane Goetz explains the global phenomenon of land grabbing from the perspective of these two investor countries, offering insights into the political economies that enable the...
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The plausibility of future scenarios
What does plausibility mean in relation to scenario planning and how do users of scenarios assess it? Ricarda Schmidt-Scheele offers an interdisciplinary perspective: she presents approaches from philosophy of sciences, cognitive psychology, narrative theory and linguistics, and tests key hypothe...
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Academics in exile
This volume addresses the situations and networks of scholars in exile, the challenges they face in their host countries and the opportunities they use. These issues are highly relevant to discussions about the moral economies of higher education institutions and support programs.
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Queerbeograd cabaret
This book demonstrates how staging QueerBeograd contributed to the advancement of the intersectionality perspective beyond identity.
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Scale matters
This volume brings together scholars from diverse fields, working on different geographical areas and time periods, to engage with scale-conscious questions regarding human sociality, culture, and evolution.
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Durable economies
This book argues for a deeper engagement with durability, which is essential for understanding of how economies work; and for envisaging alternative economies built on principles of environmental stewardship and social justice.
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Material cultures of psychiatry
In the past, our ideas on psychiatric hospitals and their history have been shaped by objects like straitjackets, cribs, and binding belts. By focusing on material cultures, this book offers a new perspective on the history of psychiatry as a complex entanglement where power is permanently negoti...
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