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(Dis)Obedience in Digital Societies: Perspectives on the Power of Algorithms and Data
Transcript VerlagCurrent price €35.69Original price €41.99Algorithms are not to be regarded as a technical structure but as a social phenomenon - they embed themselves, currently still very subtle, into ou...
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(Post)Colonial Histories: Trauma, Memory and Reconciliation in the Context of the Angolan Civil War
Transcript VerlagCurrent price €38.69Original price €42.99The documentary My heart of Darkness (Sweden 2011) tells the story of a South-African paratrooper returning to Angola: Facing former enemies, he tr...
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A Poetics of Neurosis Narratives of Normalcy and Disorder in Cultural and Literary Texts
Dietmar MeinelCurrent price €47.03Original price €47.99While psychiatry and the neurosciences have dismissed the concept of neurosis as too vague for medical purposes, in recent years literary studies h...
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A Senior Moment: Cultural Mediations of Memory and Ageing
Transcript VerlagCurrent price €47.69Original price €52.99Ageing and Memory are two cultural processes that establish their own relationships with time. They affect our ways of living, in the present, and ...
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A Spectre Is Haunting Arabia: How the Germans Brought Their Communism to Yemen
Miriam M. MullerCurrent price €51.51Original price €55.99Radical ideologies may manifest differently at first, but they do follow a similar logic: truth claims, promises of salvation and a unifying common...
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Active Audience: A New Materialistic Interpretation of a Key Concept of Cultural Studies
Huimin JinCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99Despite a number of retrospective works on cultural studies, to date no other book dedicates itself to the historical and theoretical examination o...
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Actors and Networks in the Megacity A Literary Analysis of Urban Narratives
Prachi MoreCurrent price €43.19Original price €47.99This 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...
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Aging in Slavic Literatures Essays in Literary Gerontology
Dagmar Gramshammer-hohCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99In Slavic studies, aging and old age have thus far been only marginal concerns. This volume brings together the scattered research that has been do...
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Alive and Kicking at All Ages: Cultural Constructions of Health and Life Course Identity
Transcript VerlagCurrent price €41.39Original price €45.99The linking of age and ill-health is part of a cultural narrative of decline as age is often defined as the absence of good health. Research has sh...
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Ambiguity in Star Wars and Harry Potter: A
Christina FlotmannCurrent price €52.19Original price €59.99The study combines theories of myth, popular culture, structuralism and poststructuralism to explain the enormous appeal of Star Wars and Harry Pot...
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American Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire A Conceptual Metaphor Analysis of Missionary Narrative, 18201898
Hami Inan GumusCurrent price €43.19Original price €47.99This book is a metaphor based analysis of the texts produced by the missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in the...
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andererseits - Yearbook of Transatlantic German - 2018-19
Georg MeinCurrent price €38.68Original price €45.50andererseits seeks to provide a forum for unique and exciting research and reflections on topics related to the German-speaking world and the field...
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Art History and Fetishism Abroad: Global Shiftings in Media and Methods
Transcript VerlagCurrent price €34.43Original price €41.99By focusing on the various modes and media of the fetishised object, this anthology shifts the debates on thingness into a new global art historica...
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Art Practices in the Migration Society Transcultural Strategies in Action at Brunnenpassage in Vienna
Anne WiederholddaryCurrent price €36.11Original price €41.99The 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...
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Ballet and Taiji in Practice A Comparative Autoethnography of Movement Systems
Robert MitchellCurrent price €41.75Original price €47.99Starting from the unmistakable contrast of two socially developed movement systems, the aesthetic performing art of classical ballet vis-á-vis the ...
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Beware of the Other Side(s): Multiple Personality Disorder and Dissociative Identity Disorder in American Fiction
Heike SchwarzCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This interdisciplinary study examines the still vivid phenomenon of the most controversial psychiatric diagnosis in the United States: multiple per...
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Beyond the Civil War Hospital: The Rhetoric of Healing and Democratization in Northern Reconstruction Writing, 1861-1882
Kirsten TwelbeckCurrent price €62.09Original price €68.99Beyond the Civil War Hospital understands Reconstruction as a period of emotional turmoil that precipitated a struggle for form in cultural product...
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Beyond the Screen: Transformations of Literary Structures, Interfaces and Genres
Transcript VerlagCurrent price €54.80Original price €62.99While literature in computer-based and networked media has so far been experienced by looking at the computer screen and by using keyboard and mous...
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Black History - White History: Britain''s Historical Programme between Windrush and Wilberforce
Barbara KorteCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99Britain's recent historical culture is marked by a shift. As a consequence of new political directives, black history began to be mainstreamed into...
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Black Travel Writing: Contemporary Narratives of Travel to Africa by African American and Black British Authors
Isabel KalousCurrent price €54.39Original price €63.99What does it mean for Black diasporic writers to travel to Africa? Focusing on the period between the 1990s and 2010s, Isabel Kalous examines autob...
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Body and Reality An Examination of the Relationships Between the Body Proper, Physical Reality, and the Phenomenal World Starting from Pl
Jasper Van BuurenCurrent price €52.07Original price €55.99Is materialism right to claim that the world of everyday-life experience - the phenomenal world - is nothing but an illusion produced in physical r...
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Bonded Labour: Global and Comparative Perspectives
Transcript VerlagCurrent price €38.69Original price €42.99Parallel to the abolition of Atlantic slavery, new forms of indentured labour stilled global capitalism's need for cheap, disposable labour. The fa...
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Border Wall Aesthetics Artworks in Border Spaces
Elisa GanivetCurrent price €99.95Original price €101.9930 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we live in a time of globalization and free trade. Nevertheless, 70 new border walls have been built in...
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Borders and Border Regions in Europe: Changes, Challenges, and Chances
Transcript VerlagCurrent price €43.19Original price €47.99Focussing European borders: The book provides insight into a variety of changes in the nature of borders in Europe and its neighborhood from variou...
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