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Feminist organizing and theorizing from the Americas have provided some of the most innovative, visible, and all-encompassing spaces of resistance against sexism and sexualised violence, misogyny,...

This book provides critical insight into the implementation of belief, mysticism, religion, and spirituality in the worlds of interactive, virtual worlds. Whether that be the digital realms of video...

How did games rise to become the central audiovisual form of expression and storytelling in digital culture? How did the practices of their artistic production come into being? How did the academic...

How can videogames portray love and loss? Games and Bereavement answers this question by analyzing five videogames and conducting a participatory design study with grievers. Sabine Harrer offers both...

This book presents a broad spectrum of established methods and innovative method development to capture and understand different facets of spaces.Author: Anna Juliane Heinrich, Séverine Marguin,...

This book uses the tools of medical anthropology to address the pragmatics of hope and uncertainty within the health sector.Author: Bernhard Hadolt, Andrea StöcklPublisher: Transcript...

While Ibsen's plays were seldom performed in Romania in the first half of the 20th century, historical sources highlight his strong impact on the national theatre practice. To address this...

The contributors to this book discuss multidisciplinary perspectives and factors that contribute to the visibility of forced migration beyond a policy-centered discourse.Author: Monika Mokre, Maria...

This book explores representations of intersex - intersex persons, intersex communities, and intersex as a cultural concept and knowledge category - in contemporary North American literature and...

This book investigates the possibilities and limits of working with hip-hop as a pedagogical tool.Author: Linus Eusterbrock, Chris Kattenbeck, Oliver KautnyPublisher: Transcript PublishingPublication...

The concept of la chance accounts for everyday knowledge production in uncertain contexts in Bamako, Mali, where university graduates constitute an educational elite strongest affected by...

In contemporary popular culture, armed women take center stage - but how can they be read from a feminist perspective? How do films, comics, and TV series depict the newly fashionable gunwomen...

Harnessing large urban housing estates in former socialist countries as a resource for the future housing supply requires innovative and practicable strategies and concepts. What are the challenges...

Peru's industrial mining sector is highly conflictual and characterized by social disputes. Many of these conflicts are fought not only in politics but also in the courts, as activists attempt to...

What is a libidinal economy? How are we psychically hooked into the circuits of the capitalist economy? The contributors to this book question the relevance of a concept that began reappearing in...

This book engages with the cultural changes brought about by an intensified digitalization process in the context of formal education.Author: Luisa Conti, Fergal LenehanPublisher: Transcript...

Narrative strategies, immersion, interaction, participation, identification, multimodality, characters and the connection between physical and fictional or virtual worlds: the fields of inquiry into...

Club culture has become an ever-growing interdisciplinary research field in the social sciences. The contributors to this volume offer state of the art perspectives on night studies in France and...

Combining the theoretical frameworks of masculinity studies and age studies, this book explores ageing masculinitiesAuthor: Heike Hartung, Roberta Maierhofer, Christian Schmitt-KilbPublisher:...

The »material turn« in science and art has brought the artistic process and the materiality of staging into focus, thereby challenging the paradigm of dance and performance as ephemeral arts. At the...

Mediating the Real : Self-Reflection in Recent American ReportageAuthor: Pascal SiggPublisher: Transcript PublishingPublication Date: Aug 27, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

In the global context of the Great Acceleration, things and people have been on the move more than ever before. Moritz Frischkorn takes a fresh look at recent performing arts practices that deal with...

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

Survivors' narratives are an invaluable source for the study of violence across academic fields. At the same time, they present several difficulties for academic research. Sources may be marked by...

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

How do conflicts escalate? This is one of the major questions in conflict research. To offer further answers, Richard B?sch follows a tripartite agenda: First, he develops a constructivist...

It is only recently, with the increasing interest in origami and folding in natural sciences and the humanities, that the fold as a new concept in a whole range of disciplines has begun to be thought...

Based on ethnographic research in makerspaces and co-working spaces in Nairobi, Alev Coban argues that postcolonial technology entrepreneurship is neoliberal, and inherently political work.Author:...

The relationship between philosophy and Jewish thought has often been a matter of lively discussion. But despite its long tradition and the variety of positions that have been taken in it, the debate...

Historical photographs taken in Latin America have become key sites for memory politics, ethnographic imagination, and the negotiation of identity. This volume opens up a set of questions relating to...