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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...

This collection brings together experts from media and communication studies with postcolonial studies scholars to illustrate how the two fields may challenge and enrich each other. It encompasses...

According to relational sociology, power imbalances are at the core of human conflicts. They shape subsequent physical and symbolic struggles between interdependent groups or individuals. The...

Relationships play a crucial role in feminist and queer fictions of the 21st century, whether we think of the connection among the artists and between them and their audience or the interaction of...

This book demonstrates how staging QueerBeograd contributed to the advancement of the intersectionality perspective beyond identity.Author: Ivana MarjanovicPublisher: Transcript PublishingPublication...

The charge of "Ressentiment" can in today's world - less from traditionally conservative quarters than from the neo-positivist discourses of particular forms of liberalism - be used to undermine the...

This book examines the appropriation of freedom of religion by right-wing populists and extremists worldwide.Author: Bernd Hirschberger, Katja VogesPublisher: Transcript PublishingPublication Date:...

Although hip hop is now a well-established global music genre and cultural form, its history and current impact have not yet been sufficiently studied. The interdisciplinary contributions to this...

Infrastructure comprises a combination of sociotechnical, political, and cultural arrangements that provide resources and services. The contributors to this volume show, in their respective fields,...

For at least two decades, major cities in Turkey have been subjected to endless waves of urban development that has left scores of building demolitions in its wake. The construction waste produced is...

Savings and insurance associations are widespread not only in Ethiopia but also in its diaspora, even in countries with diversified and comprehensive formal financial institutions. The contributors...

Scientific Understanding : What It Is and How It Is AchievedAuthor: Anna Elisabeth H?lPublisher: Transcript PublishingPublication Date: Apr 27, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

This book explores the intersection of cultural heritage and nationality in societies that are characterized by national, multi-national, and post-national concepts.Author: Dalya Markovich,...

Singular Plural Ways of Staging Together : Perspectives on Contemporary Dance, Art Performance and Visual ArtAuthor: NAPublisher: Transcript PublishingPublication Date: Sep 10, 2024Number of Pages:...

Social forms of religion - the ways in which individuals and groups coordinate religious practice - produce community at the same time as they enable individual religious experiences. A mix of group,...

Michael D. Fowler presents an interdisciplinary approach to investigating the sound world of traditional Japanese gardens by drawing from the diverse fields of semiotics, acoustic ecology,...

This book offers insights into how the Chinese government has made massive investments to modernize the urban fabric without paying much attention to the socioeconomic impacts of these...

Alarming environmental shifts and disasters have raised public awareness and anxieties regarding the future of the planet. While planetary in scale, the negative effects of this global crisis are...

The large-scale use of semantic transfer and inversion as rhetorical tactics is particularly prevalent in right-wing discourses and populist alternative knowledge production. The contributors to...

Businesses want to be sustainable but how can they promote sufficiency? Sufficiency-oriented business models focus on creating sustainable value, promoting a sufficiency-oriented lifestyle and...

Twenty-first-century Western culture is characterized by profound transformations in its forms of collective organization. While traditional institutions of Western liberal democracies still wield...

Frederike Offizier offers a cultural critique of the intersection between health, security and identity.Author: Frederike OffizierPublisher: Transcript PublishingPublication Date: Apr 23, 2024Number...

Antje Velsinger develops choreographic strategies for becoming unfamiliar to the own self and play as two means for emancipating the body from the neo-liberal imperative of optimization and control...

Are anxiety or dread negative stages before freedom, a confrontation with humans' own mortality and finitude? Joana Serrado inaugurates anxiousness as a category of mystical knowledge in this...

Fatma Haron scrutinizes the impact of social remittances on the transnational identification process between new Tyrol and new Turkey.Author: Fatma HaronPublisher: Transcript PublishingPublication...

A book about Korean female spectators of the colonial era, which argues that public discourse aimed to mold them into a male-driven and top-down modernization project.Author: Sung Un GangPublisher:...

In a positive departure from modernism, the work of the art critic and urbanist Ludwig Hilberseimer offers schemata towards the design for the city itself: its mereological composition. The resonance...

This essential introduction to American Studies examines the core foundational myths which the nation is based upon and which still determine discussions of US-American identities today. These myths...

How can we understand long-term change in world politics better? Based on readings of thinkers as diverse as Habermas, Foucault and Luhmann, the authors of this book propose a framework for...

A guided tour through the nuanced politics of architectural illusion, The Vatican to Vegas takes the reader from lavish Baroque fantasies of the seventeenth century to the Electronic Baroque of today...