Förderer: KU Select
History's Queer Stories
Retrieving and Navigating Homosexuality in British Fiction about the Second World War
- Nobitz, Natalie Marena
History's Queer Stories disrupts seemingly well-established knowledge of the Second World War and its literary negotiation when adding homosexuality to the battlefield.
Erscheinungstermin: 07. Januar 2021
Squatting in Rio de Janeiro
Constructing Citizenship and Gender from Below
- Wittger, Bea
Struggles for decent living conditions have become key issues in the daily urban lives of many people in Brazil. The study explores questions of citizenship and gender in two squats of the housing movements in Rio de Janeiro.
Erscheinungstermin: 07. Januar 2021
Landscapes of Music in Istanbul
A Cultural Politics of Place and Exclusion
- Papadopoulos, Alex G.
- Duru, Asli
- (eds.)
The anthology forwards innovative ways of studying everyday articulations of music, place, urban politics, and inclusion/exclusion, while drawing on Istanbul's musical histories, geographies, and cultures.
Erscheinungstermin: 07. Januar 2021
Migration and (Im)Mobility
Biographical Experiences of Polish Migrants in Germany and Canada
- Wieczorek, Anna Xymena
Combining migration studies theories with approaches of mobility studies Wieczorek conceptualizes three patterns of (im)mobility emerging in transnational biographies of Polish migrants in Germany and Canada.
Erscheinungstermin: 07. Januar 2021
Negotiating the Borders of the Gender Regime
Developments and Debates on Trans(sexuality) in the Federal Republic of Germany
- de Silva, Adrian
How sexology, the law, federal politics and the trans movement interacted to generate or challenge concepts of transsexuality.
Erscheinungstermin: 07. Januar 2021
Digital Media and Textuality
From Creation to Archiving
- Côrtes Maduro, Daniela
- (ed.)
How have digital media changed our notions of textuality, narrative and medium and the ways we write, read and teach? This volume assembles answers from different fields.
Erscheinungstermin: 07. Januar 2021
Imagining Ageing
Representations of Age and Ageing in Anglophone Literatures
- Concilio, Carmen
- (ed.)
What do literary texts tell us about growing old? Representations of ageing and old age in canonical works of English and postcolonial literature.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. März 2020
Architectonics of Game Spaces
The Spatial Logic of the Virtual and Its Meaning for the Real
- Gerber, Andri
- Götz, Ulrich
- (eds.)
If reality is a construction and architecture is part of it, then the virtual spaces of games can teach us a lot about architecture and the role it plays in and for society.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. März 2020
Belonging and Narrative
A Theory of the American Novel
- Bieger, Laura
Laura Bieger discusses American novels from four centuries to show how the human need to belong is a driving force of literary production.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. März 2020
Cultures of Computer Game Concerns
The Child Across Families, Law, Science and Industry
- Sörensen, Estrid
- (ed.)
Although the same computer games are played across cultures, they give rise to different concerns: nationally, across families, law, science and industry.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. März 2020