Förderer: KU Select 2018: Backlist Collection
Historicizing the Uses of the Past
Scandinavian Perspectives on History Culture, Historical Consciousness and Didactics of History Related to World War II
- Bjerg, Helle
- Lenz, Claudia
- Thorstensen, Erik
- (eds.)
The book offers a presentation of new developments in Scandinavian memory cultures related to World War II combining this focus with the perspective of history didactics.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. February 2019
Imagining Earth
Concepts of Wholeness in Cultural Constructions of Our Home Planet
- Nitzke, Solvejg
- Pethes, Nicolas
- (eds.)
Imagining Earth gathers interdisciplinary perspectives on the medial, philosophical and literary conditions of the emergence and popularization of the central object of current environmental and ecocritical discussions: Planet Earth.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. February 2019
Bonded Labour
Global and Comparative Perspectives (18th–21st Century)
- Damir-Geilsdorf, Sabine
- Lindner, Ulrike
- Müller, Gesine
- Tappe, Oliver
- Zeuske, Michael
- (eds.)
After slavery, indentured labour stilled global capitalism's need for cheap labour. This volume investigates global variants of bonded labour that exist until today.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. February 2019
Humour and Laughter in History
Transcultural Perspectives
- Cheauré, Elisabeth
- Nohejl, Regine
- (eds.)
By using examples from different cultures and different historical epochs this book shows how humour can be used as a means of coping with problematic historical events, especially in times of war and crisis.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. February 2019
Spaces and Identities in Border Regions
Politics – Media – Subjects
- Wille, Christian
- Reckinger, Rachel
- Kmec, Sonja
- Hesse, Markus
- (eds.)
The authors examine spaces and identities resulting from social practice in cross-border contexts in Germany, France, Belgium and Luxembourg.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. February 2019
The Berlin Reader
A Compendium on Urban Change and Activism
- Bernt, Matthias
- Grell, Britta
- Holm, Andrej
- (eds.)
The ultimate Berlin Reader and only book in English focused on urban development processes, for everybody interested in the latest history of the German capital.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. February 2019
Congoism
Congo Discourses in the United States from 1800 to the Present
- Van Hove, Johnny
Congoism radically deconstructs the many dismissive discourses on today's Democratic Republic of the Congo in the works of U.S. intellectuals.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. February 2019
Doing Anthropology in Wartime and War Zones
World War I and the Cultural Sciences in Europe
- Johler, Reinhard
- Marchetti, Christian
- Scheer, Monique
- (eds.)
Anthropology between field research and fire trenches. This volume investigates the hardly recognized cooperation between anthropologists and the military during World War I. An enlightening insight into the dark history of a discipline.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. February 2019
Totalitarian Communication
Hierarchies, Codes and Messages
- Postoutenko, Kirill
- (ed.)
Totalitarianism reviewed – this volume combines historical, sociological, and linguistic approaches into contemporary totalitarianism research: totalitarianism is a peculiar societal constellation of hierarchies, codes, and networks.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. February 2019
Creative Networks and the City
Towards a Cultural Political Economy of Aesthetic Production
- van Heur, Bas
After the creative industries hype, a proper analysis is overdue. With the help of cultural science, this volume unfolds a political economy of urban creative networks, also pointing out the limits of controlling them politically.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. February 2019