Förderer: KU Select 2016: Frontlist Collection
Resistance
Subjects, Representations, Contexts
- Butler, Martin
- Mecheril, Paul
- Brenningmeyer, Lea
- (eds.)
This volume explores phenomena of resistance in a range of historical and contemporary environments, thus opening up a theoretical dialogue on terms and concepts of resistance both in and across disciplines.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. Juni 2017
Culinary Turn
Aesthetic Practice of Cookery
- van der Meulen, Nicolaj
- Wiesel, Jörg
- (eds.)
Cooking, eating and nutrition have become omnipresent cultural topics. This volume investigates the dimensions of a culinary turn, combining for the first time the theory and practice of cooking.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. April 2017
Intellectual Radicalism after 1989
Crisis and Re-orientation in the British and the American Left
- Berg, Sebastian
What did the collapse of the Eastern Bloc in 1989 mean for the British and American Left? Has it put an end to their distinctive socialist vision?
Erscheinungstermin: 01. März 2017
Performing the Digital
Performativity and Performance Studies in Digital Cultures
- Leeker, Martina
- Schipper, Imanuel
- Beyes, Timon
- (eds.)
»Performing the Digital« maps the registers of performance at work in digital cultures and seeks to place performance studies in today's media landscapes.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. März 2017
Target Markets – International Terrorism Meets Global Capitalism in the Mall
- Mirgani, Suzi
This book is a powerful exploration of how city-central business malls provide a space for a conference between two of the most powerful forces of contemporary culture – corporate capitalism and religious extremism and terrorism.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. März 2017
Independent Theatre in Contemporary Europe
Structures – Aesthetics – Cultural Policy
- Brauneck, Manfred
- ITI Zentrum Deutschland
- (eds.)
What about the state of independent theatre? A reflection about the last 20 years – and agile insights in heterogeneous european productions.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. März 2017
Culture – Theory – Disability
Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies
- Waldschmidt, Anne
- Berressem, Hanjo
- Ingwersen, Moritz
- (eds.)
How can Cultural and Disability Studies stimulate each other? This essential volume addresses a variety of overlaps and resonances.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. März 2017
Digital Environments
Ethnographic Perspectives across Global Online and Offline Spaces
- Frömming, Urte Undine
- Köhn, Steffen
- Fox, Samantha
- Terry, Mike
- (eds.)
Digital technology has already permeated the physical world. This volume presents innovative forms of ethnographic research into the digital realm.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. März 2017
The Nile: Natural and Cultural Landscape in Egypt
- Willems, Harco
- Dahms, Jan-Michael
- (eds.)
Ancient Egypt as we know it with all its wonders like pyramids and temples wouldn't have existed without the Nile. The first recent attempt to explain the importance of this natural phenomenon for the culture of pharaonic Egypt.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. März 2017
Negotiations of the »New World«
The Omnipresence of »Global« as a Political Phenomenon
- Selchow, Sabine
The use of »global« – this is the first book that engages with the use of the adjective »global« and uncovers it as the discursive negotiation of the notion of the »new world«.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. März 2017