Bordertextures

Astrid M. Fellner, Christian Wille, Eva Nossem

• Paperback | Engels | Culture & Theory
• Borders are much more than territorial markers on a map. In recent years, borders have gained more and more scholarly attention, and the field of bord... Lees meer

Prizing Debate

Anna Auguscik

• Paperback | Engels | Culture & Theory
• This book offers a study of the literary marketplace in the early 2000s. Focusing on the Man Booker Prize and its impact on a novel's media attention,... Lees meer

Libidinal Economies of Crisis Times

• Paperback | Engels | Culture & Theory
• What is a libidinal economy? How are we psychically hooked into the circuits of the capitalist economy? The contributors to this book question the rel... Lees meer

Practices of Speculation

Jeanne Cortiel, Christine Hanke, Jan Simon Hutta, Colin Milburn

• Paperback | Engels | Culture & Theory
• This volume offers innovative ways to think about speculation at a time when anticipation of catastrophe in an apocalyptic mode is the order of the da... Lees meer

Realms of Royalty

Christina Jordan, Imke Polland

• Paperback | Engels | Culture & Theory
• Monarchies are constantly adapting to the challenges of contemporary society--consequently, research on monarchies has to adapt as well. This collecti... Lees meer

Weimar Controversies

Fisher Peter S

• Paperback | Engels | Culture & Theory
• In the Weimar Republic, popular culture was the scene of heated controversies that tested the limits of national cohesion. How could marginal figures ... Lees meer

The Object as a Process

• Paperback | Engels | Culture & Theory
• How does artistic practice lead to the production of knowledge? How does, in turn, artistic knowledge relate to its material base? How does contingent... Lees meer

Building Blocks

Jose Mu Alvis

• Paperback | Engels | Culture & Theory
• Building blocks are practical materials for playing, learning, and working at kindergartens, schools, universities, and companies. How did building bl... Lees meer

Rethinking Infrastructure Across the Humanities

• Paperback | Engels | Culture & Theory
• Infrastructure comprises a combination of sociotechnical, political, and cultural arrangements that provide resources and services. The contributors t... Lees meer

Narrativity and Violence

• Paperback | Engels | Culture & Theory
• Survivors' narratives are an invaluable source for the study of violence across academic fields. At the same time, they present several difficulties f... Lees meer

Coming to Terms with a Crisis

• Paperback | Engels | Culture & Theory
• The COVID-19 pandemic hit the world as a (purportedly) novel situation with which people struggled to come to terms. The contributors to this volume s... Lees meer

Cultures of Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century

Vanessa Evans, Mita Banerjee

• Paperback | Engels | Culture & Theory
• In the early twenty-first century, the concept of citizenship is more contested than ever. As refugees set out to cross the Mediterranean, European na... Lees meer

Postsocialist Landscapes

Thomas Lahusen, Schamma Schahadat

• Paperback | Engels | Culture & Theory
• Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, formerly socialist countries have gone through manifold transformations, whilst remnants of socialism remain ubiqu... Lees meer

Imagined Economies--Real Fictions

Jessica Fischer, Gesa Stedman

• Paperback | Engels | Culture & Theory
• The way we conceptualize the economy and ourselves as homo economicus has profound consequences for our lives. The contributions to this anthology tak... Lees meer

Comfort in Contemporary Culture

Dorothee Birke, Stella Butter

• Paperback | Engels | Culture & Theory
• Comfort is a prominent and highly loaded concept, as popular discourses on cozy environments, safe spaces, but also the importance of »getting out of ... Lees meer

Taking Sides

Elke Bippus, Anne Ganzert, Isabell Otto

• Paperback | Engels | Culture & Theory
• Is there an option to oppose without automatically participating in the opposed? This volume explores different perspectives on dissent, understanding... Lees meer

Home/Fronts

Janina Wierzoch

• Paperback | Engels | Culture & Theory
• In recent years, the US-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq have had an impact on the UK rivalled only by Brexit and the global financial crisis. Fo... Lees meer

Family in Crisis?

Eva–sabine Zehelein, Andrea Carosso, Aida Rosende–perez

• Paperback | Engels | Culture & Theory
• Is the family in crisis? Or do crises crystallize in families' lived realities? Families as constitutive units of all social architectures are central... Lees meer

Fictional Practices of Spirituality I

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• »Fictional Practices of Spirituality« provides critical insight into the implementation of belief, mysticism, religion, and spirituality into worlds o... Lees meer

Breathing in Manhattan

Christoph Ribbat

• Paperback | Engels | Culture & Theory
• In 1938 gymnastics instructor Carola Spitz escaped from Nazi Germany. In New York she turned into Carola Speads, revered teacher of mindfulness. She b... Lees meer

Change the Record - Punk Women Music Politics

M I Franklin

• Paperback | Engels | Culture & Theory
• Poets, Guitarists, Songwriters, TV Stars, Provocateurs, Riot Grrrl founders: the authors in this study challenge perceptions of punk music and politic... Lees meer

Hardcore Research

• Paperback | Engels | Culture & Theory
• For more than 40 years, hardcore and punk have promised to offer an alternative to what is perceived as the norm and the mainstream. Hardcore Research... Lees meer