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Prayer in the CityThe Making of Muslim Sacred Places and Urban LifePatrick a. DesPlat anD

Dorothea e. schulz, eDitors

This volume uses social practices surround-ing mosques, shrines, and public spaces in urban contexts to unlock the diverse ways in which Muslims in different regional and historical settings imagine, experience, and inhabit places and spaces as sacred. Unlike most studies on Muslim communities, this volume focuses on cultural, material, and sensuous practices and urban everyday experiences. Drawing on a range of analyti-cal perspectives, contributors examine spatial practices in Muslim societies from an interdisciplinary perspective, an approach widely neglected in Islamic studies and the social sciences.

PatrIck a. DesPlat is lecturer in the Department of

Social Anthropology at the University of Cologne.

Dorothea e. schulz is professor of social anthropology

at the University of Cologne.

Islam and the Politics of Culture in EuropeMemory, Aesthetics, ArtFrank Peter, sarah DornhoF,

anD elena arigita, eDitors

Debates surrounding the “new pres-ence of Muslims” in Europe often center on European values, multicultural policies, and secularism. The phenomenon’s conflict-ridden transformation of European identities is discussed with reference to normative orders, historical legacies, public philosophies, and political ideologies. The volume extends this discussion to the transformation of European cultural politics. Over the past decade, multiple images of Islam and Muslims have shaped the cultural particularities and sensibilities defining European identities. This volume examines these developments against memory politics, cultural production, and Islamic art.

Frank Peter is assistant professor of Islamic and Middle

Eastern studies at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

sarah DornhoF is completing her Ph.D. in cultural

anthropology at the European University Viadrina in

Frankfurt (Oder).

elena arIGIta is a senior researcher at Casa Arabe–IEAM.

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Balkan MemoriesMedia Constructions of National and Transnational Historytanja zimmermann, eDitor

This study provides insight into media constructions of historical remembrance that reflect national, transnational, and nationalistic forms of politics. Authors from post-Yugoslavia and neighboring countries focus on the diverse national (such as Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian) and trans-national (such as Austro-Hungarian and Yugoslav) memory cultures of southeastern Europe, their interaction, and their rivalry. They examine constructions of memory in different media from the nineteenth century to recent wars. These include longue durée images; breaks and gaps; selection and suppression; traumatic events and the loss of memory; nostalgia; false memory; reactiva-tion; rituals; and traces of memory.

tanja zImmermann teaches East European literature

and art history at the University of Constance in Germany.

Her research interests concern literature, art, and media in

Russia, southeastern Europe, and Poland in the nineteenth

and twentieth centuries.

The Aesthetics of AuthenticityMedial Constructions of the RealWolFgang Funk, Florian gross,

anD irmtrauD huber, eDitors

A concept of growing importance in con-temporary cultural discourse, authenticity emerges as a site of tearing tensions between the fictional and the real, the original and the fake, the margin and the center, and the same and the other in this collection, which explores the paradoxical nature of authentic-ity within the context of various media. Essays give ample proof of the fact that authenticity, which depends on giving the impression of being inherent or natural and found not created, is frequently the result of a careful aesthetic construction relying on the use of identifiable techniques to achieve certain effects for certain reasons.

WolFGanG Funk teaches English literature and culture

at Leibniz University Hanover.

FlorIan Gross teaches American literature and culture

at Leibniz University Hanover.

IrmtrauD huber teaches English literature at the

University of Berne, Switzerland.

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american studies / cultural studies

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film studies / cultural studies

Grinding CaliforniaCulture and Corporeality in American Skate Punkkonstantin butz

Grinding California is the first book-length academic analysis of the subculture of skate punk, establishing highly critical evaluations of the discourses that influenced early skateboarding and punk cultures. Examining songs, flyers, magazines, and videos, Konstantin Butz revisits American popular cultures of the 1980s through a variety of theoretical and methodological lenses. He pinpoints the rebellious potential within skate punk’s material and corporeal contesta-tions in the site-specific locale of suburban southern California. Theoretical recourses to thinkers such as Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Jean Baudrillard, and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht are matched with excerpts from interviews with some of the most influential protagonists of the 1980s skate punk scene.

konstantIn butz has studied American studies and

cultural studies at the University of Bremen and at Dickinson

College. His research interests include (un-)popular music

and literature.

Ambiguity in Star Wars and Harry PotterA (Post)Structuralist Reading of Two Popular Mythschristina Flotmann

This study combines theories of myth, popular culture, structuralism, and poststruc-turalism to explain the enormous appeal of Star Wars and Harry Potter. Although much research exists on both stories individually, this book is the first to explicitly bring them together to explore their set-up and the ways in which their structures help produce ideologies on gender and ethnicity. The comparison yields central insights into the workings of modern myth and uncovers structure as integral to the success of the popular genre. It addresses academic audiences and general readers wishing to approach these iconic tales from fresh angles.

chrIstIna Flotmann teaches English literary

and cultural studies at the University of Paderborn.

Her research concerns contemporary popular culture

and the Victorian era.

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american studies / arcHitecture

american studies

$40.00 paper 978-3-8376-2080-1


american studies

american studies

Ornamenting the Cold RoastThe Domestic Architecture and Interior Design of Upper-Class Boston Homes, 1760–1880Dorothee Wagner von hoFF

This book features meticulous case studies of three individual homes from different eras, depicting the social, political, and cultural effects of domestic architecture and interior design on the upper classes, the city of Boston, and the national American identity. The book takes the reader through eigh-teenth- and nineteenth-century Boston and provides insight into the lives of prominent men and women. The volume is a novel examination of the cultural significance of domestic architecture and interior design and, because of its absorbing storytelling and exquisite attention to detail, offers a fascinating narrative for curious readers and cultural historians alike.

Dorothee WaGner Von hoFF received her Ph.D. from

the University of Munich. Her research interests include

colonial and Victorian architecture and interior design, as

well as urban studies and American literature.

Placing AmericaAmerican Culture and Its Spacesmichael Fuchs anD

maria-theresia holub, eDitors

In Call Me Ishmael, Charles Olson argues space is “the central fact to man born in America.” Indeed, from its founding, American identity has been intricately tied to issues of space. From the idea of the “city upon a hill” to the transnational (soft) power of the United States, space has always served as an important parameter of power gained or lost and of the struggles to maintain or resist it. With essays confronting the construction of America in (European) academic discourses to its place in children’s fiction, this collection provides an extensive and insightful study of how space influences our understanding of America.

mIchael Fuchs teaches American literature and media

studies at the University of Graz.

marIa-theresIa holub is a research and teaching

associate in the Department of American Studies at the

University of Graz.

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african american studies / european History

american studies

$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-2216-4

2 0 1 3 280 pages

american H istory / european History

america: culture-History-politics

Transatlantic Cultural ExchangeAfrican American Women’s Art and Activism in West Germanykatharina gerunD

From Josephine Baker’s performances in the 1920s to solidarity campaigns for Angela Davis in the 1970s, from Audre Lorde,

“mother” of the 1980s Afro-German move-ment, to the literary stardom of 1993 Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, West Germans have actively engaged with female African American art and activism throughout the twentieth century. This study examines the discursive strategies that have shaped West German reactions to African American women’s social activism and cultural work, offering not only a nuanced understanding of African Americanizations as a form of cultural exchange but also shedding new light on the role of African American culture in the development of West German society, culture, and national identity.

katharIna GerunD teaches American studies at the Uni-

versity of Erlangen–Nuremberg, where she also coordinates

the interdisciplinary doctoral program “Presence and Tacit

Knowledge.”

The Transatlantic SixtiesEurope and the United States in the Counterculture Decadegrzegorz kosc, clara juncker,

sharon monteith, anD britta

WalDschmiDt-nelson, eDitors

This book presents new and original essays by twelve established European and American studies scholars who explore the 1960s from a transatlantic perspective. The anthology examines topics ranging from the impact of the American civil rights movement in Germany, France, and Wales to the transatlantic dimension of feminism and the global nature of the counterculture movement. Essays explore the vicissitudes of Europe’s status in U.S. foreign relations, anti-Vietnam European documentaries, USIA broadcasts, and the role of the arts in collective and cultural memory.

GrzeGorz kosc is associate professor in American stud-

ies at the University of Warsaw and the University of Lodz.

clara juncker is associate professor in American stud-

ies at the University of Southern Denmark.

sharon monteIth is professor of American studies

at the University of Nottingham.

brItta WalDschmIDt-nelson is deputy director of

the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C.

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cultural studies

cultural studies

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cultural studies / media studies

culture & tHeory

Active AudienceA New Materialistic Interpretation of a Key Concept of Cultural Studieshuimin jin

To date, there is no book dedicated to a historical and theoretical examination of British cultural studies’ engagement with the active audience theory of the Birmingham School and its legacies. Yet this book is no mere reconstruction of active audience theory. Huimin Jin develops new theoretical insights through a critical review of Stuart Hall’s classical model of encoding/decoding and close readings of David Morley’s groundbreaking ethnographic audience studies. Questioning the discourse model of the active audience proposed by Hall and Morley, Jin elaborates a new materialistic concept of audiences for the twenty-first century.

huImIn jIn is 211 Chair Professor of Cultural Theory and

Aesthetics at Shanghai International Studies University

and professor of literary theory at the Chinese Academy of

Social Sciences, Beijing.

TranslationNarration, Media, and the Staging of DifferencesFeDerico italiano anD

michael rössner, eDitors

The concept of “translation” has grown increasingly important in our globalizing world and multimedia society. Seeing translation as the negotiation of different approaches to identity construction not only develops an understanding of contemporary cultural processes but also makes it possible to establish orientation and critical insights in a world of constantly changing social, political, and media spaces. This collection discusses the “translational turn,” providing new theoretical approaches and insight into the relation between narration and identity construction and translation processes and the media.

FeDerIco ItalIano teaches comparative literature at

the University of Munich.

mIchael rössner teaches Romance literature at

the University of Munich.

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gender studies / media studies

critical media studies

$50.00 paper 978-3-8376-1931-7

2 0 1 2 372 pages

polit ics / cultural studies

memory cultures

Feminist MediaParticipatory Spaces, Networks, and Cultural Citizenshipelke zobl anD ricarDa Drüeke,

eDitors

While feminists have long recognized the importance of self-managed, alternative media to transport their messages, challenge the status quo, and spin novel social pro-cesses, the topic is sorely under-researched. This book explores the processes behind women’s and feminist media production within the context of participatory spaces, technology, and cultural citizenship. The collection is composed of theoretical analy-ses and critical case studies. It highlights contemporary alternative feminist media in general and blogs, zines, culture jamming, and street art in particular.

elke zobl is assistant professor in the Department of

Communication and director of the program area “Cultural

Production and Contemporary Arts” at the University of

Salzburg (in cooperation with Mozarteum University).

rIcarDa Drüeke is a postdoctoral researcher in the

Department of Communication at the University of Salzburg.

Reconciliation, Civil Society, and the Politics of MemoryTransnational Initiatives in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centurybirgit schWelling, eDitor

How has civil society functioned as a locus for reconciliation initiatives since the begin-ning of the twentieth century? The essays in this collection challenge the conventional understanding of reconciliation as a benign state-driven process. They explore how a range of civil society actors, from Turkish intellectuals apologizing for the Armenian genocide to religious organizations working toward the improvement of Franco-German relations, have confronted and coped with the past. These essays offer a critical perspec-tive on local and transnational reconciliation acts by questioning the extent to which speech became an alternative to silence, remembrance an alternative to forgetting, and engagement an alternative to oblivion.

bIrGIt schWellInG is the academic director of the

research group History and Memory at the University

of Konstanz.

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sociology /polit ics

sociology

$50.00 paper 978-3-8376-2119-8


european History

disability studies: body–power–difference

Futures of ModernityChallenges for Cosmopolitical Thought and Practicemichael heinlein, corDula kroPP,

juDith neumer, angelika PoFerl,

anD regina römhilD, eDitors

Global risks, mobilities, and interdependen-cies lead to an inner globalization of societies in which worldwide constellations of “reflexive,” “multiple,” “entangled,” and

“global” modernities clash in social action. These essays address this premise and interpret imminent challenges, concomitant social dynamics, and political implications. With contributions by Arjun Appadurai, Zygmunt Bauman, Ulrich Beck, Edgar Grande, Maarten Hajer, Ronald Hitzler, Wolf Lepenies, Anna Tsing, Angela McRobbie, Bruno Latour, Hans-Georg Soeffner, Natan Sznaider, and Yunxiang Yan.

mIchael heInleIn is a sociologist at LMU Munich.

corDula kroPP is professor of social innovation and

future studies, and juDIth neumer is a sociologist at the

University of Applied Sciences in Munich.

anGelIka PoFerl is professor of sociology at the

University of Applied Sciences Fulda.

reGIna römhIlD is professor of European ethnology

at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

From Pathology to Public SphereThe German Deaf Movement, 1848-1914Ylva söDerFelDt

In the late nineteenth century, the so-called German method, which employed spoken language in deaf education, triumphed over the Western world. At the same time that deaf German schoolchildren were taught to articulate and read lips, an emancipation movement led by signing deaf adults emerged across the German empire. This book tells the story of how deaf people moved from being isolated objects of administration or education to an urban middle-class collective with claims of self-determination. The first comprehensive work on one of the world’s oldest dis-ability movements, this volume traces the emergence of deaf organizations, what they fought for, and who was left behind.

YlVa söDerFelDt teaches the history of medicine at the

University Hospital in Aachen, Germany. Her research con-

fronts the juncture between intellectual and social history,

focusing on the history of medicine and disability history.

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world History / cultural studies

History in popular cultures

$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-2116-7

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cultural studies / world H istory

Histoire

Popular History Now and ThenInternational PerspectiveseDiteD bY barbara korte

anD sYlvia Paletschek

The present boom in popular history is not unprecedented. The essays in this volume investigate peaks of historical interest favoring popular approaches from 1800 to the present. They analyze the media, genres, and institutions through which historical knowledge has been disseminated, from artifacts to the archive, from poetry to photography, from music to murals, and from periodicals to popular television series. Contributors trace the evolution of major traditions in popular imagery of the past. Cultural contexts include Western and Southern Europe, the United States, and West Africa. Contributors hail from a range of disciplines, including history, literary and cultural studies, musicology, and social and cultural anthropology.

barbara korte is professor of British literature and

culture at the University of Freiburg.

sYlVIa Paletschek is professor of modern history at

the University of Freiburg.

Peripheral MemoriesPublic and Private Forms of Experiencing and Narrating the PasteDiteD bY elisabeth boesen,

Fabienne lentz, michel margue,

Denis scuto, anD renée Wagener

Memory studies tend to focus on particular memory processes, namely, those connected with war, persecution, and expulsion. In this sense, the memory, or rather the trauma, of the Holocaust is paradigmatic for the entire field, understood as constitutive of a global memory community mediating universal values. This volume instead concentrates on everyday subjects of memory, enabling a fuller portrait of the interdependencies between public and private memory and, more specifically, public and family memory.

elIsabeth boesen is a cultural anthropologist working

at the University of Luxembourg.

FabIenne lentz is a historian completing a Ph.D.

on migration memory in Italian immigrant families

in Luxembourg.

mIchel marGue teaches history at the University

of Luxembourg.

DenIs scuto teaches history and renée WaGener is

a social scientist at the University of Luxembourg.

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sociology / european studies

culture and social practice

$35.00 paper 978-3-8376-2255-3


sociology

culture and social practice

$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-1941-6

2 0 1 2 292 pages

pHilosopHy

being Human: caugHt in tHe web of

cultures—Humanism in tHe age of

globalization

The Cop and the SociologistInvestigating Diversity in German Police Forcesbarbara thériault

Drawing on the work of Max Weber, Barbara Thériault investigates relations toward difference within German police forces. Accompanying and interviewing police offi-cers, she outlines three ideal types of actors—empathetic, principled, and opportunist—and the motives underlying their actions. A fourth type, the specialist, is conspicu-ously absent. Resolving this dilemma points to a specific

“spirit” of diversity and a singular way to apprehend the individual in Germany.

barbara thérIault is associate

professor of sociology and director of

the Canadian Centre for German and

European Studies at the University of

Montreal.

Couchsurfing CosmopolitanismsCan Tourism Make a Better World?DaviD PicarD anD

sonja buchberger,

eDitors

This unique study maps computer-mediated hospital-ity and its transformation of contemporary tourism and travel. Focusing on Couchsurfing.org, one of the largest online hospitality communities worldwide, contributors explore how social relations, intimacy, and trust are built in online and offline contexts of contact, travel, and hospitality.

DaVID PIcarD is senior research

fellow at the Centre for Research

in Anthropology, New University of

Lisbon.

sonja buchberGer lectures at the

Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne and the

School for Oriental and African Studies.

Shaping a Humane WorldCivilizations–Axial Times–Modernities–Humanismsoliver kozlarek,

jörn rüsen, anD

ernst WolFF, eDitors

These essays take a decentral-ized, globalized approach to understanding the genera-tion of meaning. Civilization, humanism, and modernity—far from being exclusively Western ideas—help reflect on the universality of the human condition and the quest for a plural yet shared humane world.

olIVer kozlarek teaches political

and social philosophy and social

theory at the Universidad Michoacana

de San Nicolás de Hidalgo in Mexico.

jörn rüsen is senior fellow at the

Institute for Advanced Study in the

Humanities at Essen.

ernst WolFF teaches philosophy at

the University of Pretoria.

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Global stuDIes


$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-1959-1


sociology / environmental studies

$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-2022-1


antHropology / african studies

Environmental Uncertainty and Local KnowledgeSoutheast Asia as a Laboratory of Global Ecological Changeanna-katharina horniDge anD

christoPh antWeiler, eDitors

Southeast Asia is a microcosm of the world’s ecological issues. Environmental change, natural resource exploitation, and global climate change increasingly threaten people’s livelihoods, and environmentally based uncertainties foster immense knowl-edge uncertainty. While these uncertainties threaten agricultural production, it is possible for local communities to develop coping strategies. Contributors to this vol-ume focus on environmental developments that create knowledge uncertainties. Regions discussed include Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, Moluccas, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia’s West Sumatra and South Sulawesi, and Bangladesh’s Tangail Region.

anna-katharIna hornIDGe is a sociologist and senior

researcher at the Center of Development Research, Bonn

University.

chrIstoPh antWeIler is an anthropologist and head of

the Southeast Asia Department at the Institute for Oriental

and Asian Studies, Bonn University.

Urban Life-Worlds in MotionAfrican Perspectiveshans Peter hahn anD

kristin kastner, eDitors

Urban agglomerations host the most vital and creative societies. This applies particu-larly to Africa, where cities have the highest growth rates worldwide and where the urban population is the youngest on earth. Urban life-worlds form the basis for the development of new lifestyles and cultural phenomena. Rooted in empirical ethnographic research, this book reproduces case studies that enhance our understanding of the dynamics of urbanity in Africa and beyond, envisioning cities as crossroads in which cultures, biographies, and networks collide.

hans Peter hahn teaches anthropology at Goethe-

University Frankfurt am Main.

krIstIn kastner is a research assistant at Goethe-

University Frankfurt am Main.

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medic ine / b iotecHnology

$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-2028-3


medic ine / antHropology

Emerging DiseasesStructure, Controversy, and Change in the Scientific Constitution of Disease Patternsmartin Döring anD regine kollek,

eDitors

Hypotheses about diseases and their causes are often controversial and contested. Concepts of diseases have always been subject to modification and disagreement. At the core of these debates are the argu-ments among scientists, clinicians, and patients over causes, transmission routes, and contributing factors. These processes produce recategorizations in different fields of research and sometimes lead to the social emergence of disease concepts. This volume studies disease concepts empirically along with underlying processes of emergence, contestation, and change within the biomedical sciences.

martIn DörInG is a researcher at BIOGUM, Hamburg

University.

reGIne kollek is professor of technology assessment

and leads the research group Technology Assessment of

Modern Biotechnology in Medicine at BIOGUM.

Rethinking Biomedicine and Governance in AfricaContributions from AnthropologyPaul Wenzel geissler,

richarD rottenburg,

anD julia zenker, eDitors

The relation among bodies, citizenship, nations, and governments has changed dramatically over the past four decades, especially in Africa. Populations are now faced with a total lack of medical care, rendering the disciplinary regimes of moder-nity irrelevant. How can we maintain our sophisticated critique of knowledge regimes and our doubts of narratives of development, when so many people in Africa are dreaming about modernity and envisioning a renais-sance? This volume transcends critiques of old modernization and the disciplinary regimes of imperial times.

Paul Wenzel GeIssler teaches social anthropology at

the University of Oslo and the London School of Hygiene

and Tropical Medicine.

rIcharD rottenburG holds a chair in social and cultural

anthropology at the University of Halle in Germany.

julIa zenker teaches at the University of Bern.

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tecHnology

science studies

$35.00 paper 978-3-8376-2212-6

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medic ine / gerontology

aging studies

Past and Present Energy SocietiesHow Energy Connects Politics, Technologies, and Culturesnina möllers anD karin zachmann,

eDitors

Abundant, salutary, and problematic, energy influences technologies, politics, societies, and cultural worldviews. Focusing on a range of energy types, from electricity and oil to bioenergy, this volume analyzes energy’s social, cultural, and political con-cepts and discourses and their implementa-tion and materialization within technical systems, applications, media representations, and consumer practice. By examining and connecting aspects of production, mediation, and consumption from an international and interdisciplinary perspective, this book offers an innovative view on how energy is imagined, discussed, staged, and used.

nIna möllers is researcher at the Deutsches Museum

in Munich and curator of the Rachel Carson Center.

karIn zachmann is professor of history and technology

at the Technical University of Munich.

The Ages of LifeLiving and Aging in Conflict?ulla kriebernegg anD

roberta maierhoFer, eDitors

The binary construction of “young” and “old,” which is based on a biogerontological model of aging as decline, can be redefined as the ambiguity of aging from a cultural studies perspective. This concept enables an analysis of the social functions of images of aging with the aim of providing a basis for interdisciplinary exchange in gerontological research. The essays in this volume treat the relationship between living and aging as a productive antagonism, focusing on the interplay between continuity and change as a marker of life-course identity. Aging and growing older are processes that cannot be reduced to the chronology of years. Instead, they are shown to be shaped by the individual’s interaction with the changing circumstances of life.

ulla krIeberneGG is an assistant professor at the Center

for Inter-American Studies at the University of Graz.

roberta maIerhoFer is a director and professor at the

Center for Inter-American Studies at the University of Graz

and adjunct professor at Binghamton University.

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$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-2151-8

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dance

critical dance studies

$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-1648-4


film studies

metabasis

Dance [and] Theorygabriele branDstetter

anD gabriele klein, eDitors

This anthology collects observations by choreographers and scholars, dancers, dramaturges, and dance theorists in an effort to trace the multiple ways in which dance and theory correlate and redefine each other. What is the nature of their relationship? How can we outline a theory of dance from our particular historical perspective that will treat dance as both a practice and an academic concept? Contributors examine which concepts, interdependencies, and discontinuities of dance and theory are relevant for current and future scholar-ship. They address crucial topics such as artistic research, aesthetics, politics, visuality, archives, and the “next generation.”

GabrIele branDstetter is professor of theater and

dance studies at the Freie Universität Berlin and director of

the Institute for Movement Research.

GabrIele kleIn is professor of the sociology of move-

ment and dance and director of performance studies at the

University of Hamburg.

Acting and Performance in Moving Image CultureBodies, Screens, Renderingsjörg sternagel, Deborah levitt,

anD Dieter mersch, eDitors

With a Foreword by Lesley Stern

This volume assembles twenty-six inter-national scholars from dance, theater, film, media, and cultural studies, and from art history and philosophy, to investigate the art of acting and the presence of the human body in analog and digital film, animation, and video art. The volume features classical case studies and essays devoted to acting his-tory and acting and genres. It also introduces a wide range of groundbreaking theoretical approaches, from continental and analytic philosophy to new media theory and cognitivist research, all of which interrogate fundamental conceptions of “act” and “actor” underwriting popular and academic notions of performance in moving image culture.

jörG sternaGel teaches media studies at the University

of Potsdam.

Deborah leVItt is assistant professor in culture and

media studies at Eugene Lang College.

DIeter mersch is professor in media theory and media

studies at the University of Potsdam.

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film studies

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film studies

Rubble, Ruins, and RomanticismVisual Style, Narration, and Identity in German Post-War Cinemamartina moeller

Traditional critiques of German postwar cinema tend to treat rubble films as simplis-tic texts of low artistic quality, reaffirming the spectator’s image of himself or herself as

“a good German” living in “bad times.” This study claims some rubble films are actually informed by a type of visual and narrative romantic discourse that provokes a critical discussion of German national identity and its reconstruction in the aftermath of the Third Reich. Considering the lack of analyses with regard to the key aspects of romantic visual style, narration, and literary motifs in rubble films, this study fills a major gap in relevant research.

martIna moeller works as a DAAD lecturer in the Ger-

man Department at the Université Mohammed V in Rabat,

Morocco. Her research interests include German cinema, film

theory, and intercultural literature.

European VisionsSmall Cinemas in Transitionjanelle blankenshiP anD

tobias nagl, eDitors

This volume examines the challenges that cinemas in small European countries have faced since 1989. It explores how notions of scale and “small cinemas” relate to questions of territory, transnational media flows, and globalization. Employing a variety of approaches from industry analysis to Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concept of the “minor,” contribu-tors address the relationship between small cinemas and Hollywood, the role of history and memory, and the politics of place in postsocialist cinemas.

janelle blankenshIP is assistant professor of film

studies at the University of Western Ontario.

tobIas naGl is associate professor of film studies at the

University of Western Ontario.

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Does War Belong in Museums?The Representation of Violence in ExhibitionsWolFgang muchitsch,

eDitor

Presentations of war and violence in museums struggle to balance a fascination with terror and the urge to analyze violence and make it easier to handle and prevent. Does war really belong in museums? And if it does, what objectives and means are involved in its represen-tation? Can museums avoid trivializing and aestheticizing war, transforming violence, injury, death, and trauma into tourist attractions? What images of shock or identification should one generate, and what images are desirable?

WolFGanG muchItsch is the

scientific manager of the Landes-

museum Joanneum GmbH.

Fusing Lab and GalleryDevice Art in Japan and International Nano Artsarah m. schlachetzki

Why do Japanese artists join with engineers to create device art? What is a nanoscientist’s motiva-tion in approaching the art world? Media art has proven especially important in generating a dialogue between these fields. This book contributes to current debates over the relationship between art and science, interdisciplinarity, and the discourse on innovation. It critically reassesses artistic positions that reflect the ongoing attempt to localize art’s position within techno-logical and societal change.

sarah m. schlachetzkI is an art

historian and former teacher of con-

temporary art history at the University

of Zurich.

The Body at StakeExperiments in Chinese Contemporary Art and Theatrejörg huber anD

zhao chuan, eDitors

This book explores the role and treatment of the body in contemporary Chinese visual culture. What mean-ings are assigned to the body in artistic practice, what does it represent, and what (hi)stories does it refer to? Nineteen Chinese artists, theater practitioners, and theorists describe their personal experiences, discuss-ing how art can shed light on the individual and collective experiences that emerge in the wake of historical change and newly won freedom.

jörG huber is professor of cultural

theory and aesthetics at the Zurich

University of the Arts.

zhao chuan is a writer, theater

worker, and art critic.

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sound studies

sound studies

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art H istory / urban studies

urban studies

Queer ArtA Freak Theoryrenate lorenz

Queer Art explores how strategies of denormalization initiated by visual arts can be expanded through writing. Art theoretical debates are combined with queer theory, postcolonial theory, and (dis-)ability studies, illuminating the concepts of radical drag, transtemporal drag, and abstract drag. Artists discussed include Zoe Leonard, Shinique Smith, Jack Smith, Wu Ingrid Tsang, Ron Vawter, Bob Flanagan, Henrik Olesen, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Sharon Hayes, and Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz.

renate lorenz works as an artist

and independent author and is profes-

sor of art and research at the Academy

of Fine Arts in Vienna.

Soundscapes of the Urban PastStaged Sound as Mediated Cultural Heritagekarin bijstervelD,

eDitor

This volume studies the stag-ing of Amsterdam, Berlin, and London soundscapes in historical documents, radio plays, and films, and offers insights into such themes as film sound theory and museum audio guides. It features contributions by Jasper Aalbers, Karin Bijsterveld, Carolyn Birdsall, Andrew Crisell, Andreas Fickers, Annelies Jacobs, Evi Karathanasopoulou, Patricia Pisters, Holger Schulze, Mark M. Smith, and Jonathan Sterne.

karIn bIjsterVelD is a historian

and professor of science, technology,

and modern culture at Maastricht

University, Netherlands.

Thick SpaceApproaches to MetropolitanismDorothee brantz,

sasha Disko, anD

georg Wagner-kYora,

eDitors

Essays offer interdisciplinary approaches to the complex dynamics of large-scale urbanization, analyzing the social, environmental, and cultural dimensions of metropolitan spaces from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. It considers the role of plan-ning and urban parks, the impact of ethnic diversity and segregation, the place of cinematic visions, and the centrality of infrastructures and architecture.

Dorothee brantz is director of

the Center for Metropolitan Studies.

sasha DIsko and GeorG

WaGner-kYora are urban historians

affiliated with CMS.

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media studies / pol it ics

Digital Tools in Media StudiesAnalysis and Research: An Overviewmichael ross, manFreD grauer,

anD bernD Freisleben, eDitors

Digital tools are increasingly used in media studies, opening up new perspectives for research and analysis while at the same time creating new problems. In this volume, international media scholars and computer scientists describe the results of their proj-ects, varying from powerful film-historical databases to automatic video-analysis software and the application of digital tools. The first publication of its kind, this book provides a helpful guide to applications, standards, and problems for both media scholars and computer scientists who intend to use digital tools in their research.

mIchael ross is a researcher on the film-historical project

Industrialization of Perception, and manFreD Grauer

and bernD FreIsleben head the project Methods and

Tools for Computer-Assisted Analysis in Media Studies at

the Collaborative Research Center Media Upheavals, Siegen

University.

Political Campaigning on the WebsigriD baringhorst, veronika kneiP,

anD johanna niesYto, eDitors

Drawing upon a common conceptual framework of political Web campaigning, this book offers theoretical reflections on Internet-based campaign politics. It provides a comparative overview of the use of the Internet as a campaigning tool by diverse intermediary political actors. Considering the empirical findings of Internet appropria-tions, the volume discusses the impact of political Web campaigning on (transna-tional) democracy and the transformation of public spheres.

sIGrID barInGhorst is director of the research project

Changing Protest and Media Cultures at the Collaborative

Research Centre Media Upheavals, University of Siegen.

VeronIka kneIP and johanna nIesYto are research

fellows on the project Changing Protest and Media Cultures

at the Collaborative Research Centre Media Upheavals,

University of Siegen.

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Reading Moving LettersDigital Literature in Research and Teaching: A Handbookroberto simanoWski,

jörgen schäFer,

anD Peter genDolla,

eDitors

Scholars and teachers from different countries and disciplines articulate their approach to the study and teaching of digital literature, providing a broad, state-of-the-art understanding of the subject along with an international comparison.

roberto sImanoWskI is assistant

professor of German studies at Brown

University.

jörGen schäFer is a postdoctoral

research fellow at the Cultural Studies

Research Center Media Upheavals,


Peter GenDolla is professor of

literature, art, new media, and tech-

nologies at the University of Siegen.

Beyond the ScreenTransformations of Literary Structures, Interfaces, and Genresjörgen schäFer anD

Peter genDolla,

eDitors

This volume focuses on literary processes in interac-tive installations, locative narratives, and immersive environments, in which active engagement and bodily interaction is required to perceive a literary text. Contributions from interna-tional scholars analyze how literary structures, interfaces, and genres change and how transitory aesthetic experi-ences can be documented, archived, and edited.

jörGen schäFer is a postdoctoral

research fellow and Peter Gen-

Dolla is professor of literature, art,

new media, and technologies at the

Cultural Studies Research Center

Media Upheavals, University of Siegen.

The Aesthetics of Net LiteratureWriting, Reading, and Playing in Programmable MediaPeter genDolla, anD

jörgen schäFer,

eDitors

Contributors from Germany, France, Finland, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States consider the ruptures and upheavals of literary communication in electronic and networked media. Essays focus on new qualities of literariness; terms and methods; productive links between the logics of literary texts and their reception; and the relationship between literary writing and programming.

Peter GenDolla is professor

of literature, art, new media, and

technologies and jörGen schäFer

is a postdoctoral research fellow at the


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cultural studies

Lived TemporalitiesExploring Duration in Guatemala: Empirical and Theoretical Studiesjulia mahler

In our contemporary global capitalist culture, time-consciousness has become more important than self-consciousness. In the realm of lived time, the identity of the self opens up to an encounter with otherness. Insight into the way this dynamic unfolds enables us to affirm human temporalities and their potential difference to the tempo-ralities of global capitalism. This book offers an empirical exploration of lived temporali-ties within markets, buses, and traditional subsistence in Guatemala and conducts a theoretical exploration of these phenomena through the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and the interrelational approaches of psychoanalysis.

julIa mahler earned her degree in sociology from

Hamburg University and her Ph.D. in cultural studies from

the University of London, Goldsmiths’ College. She works as

a researcher and writer in London.

Moment to MonumentThe Making and Unmaking of Cultural SignificancelaDina bezzola lambert anD

anDrea ochsner, eDitors

Why are certain works accepted into the canon while others only enjoy a brief moment of recognition, if at all? How do moments produce monuments, and why does it only take a moment to erase monu-ments erased from our cultural memory? Taking into account these cultural processes of creating, storing, remembering, and forgetting that are omnipresent and have an immense influence on how we perceive artifacts and cultural events, the articles in this collection analyze the phenomenon of cultural production, transmission, and reception from various angles, drawing on approaches from literary and cultural studies.

laDIna bezzola lambert works as a literary scholar

and lecturer.

anDrea ochsner teaches English literature and cultural

studies at the University of Basel.

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Lad TroubleMasculinity and Identity in the British Male Confessional Novel of the 1990sanDrea ochsner

In the 1990s, the male confessional novel, most prominently represented by Nick Hornby (High Fidelity), but also by Tim Lott (White City Blue) and Mike Gayle (My Legendary Girlfriend), articulated the structure of feeling of the male generation in their late twenties to early- to mid-thirties. This book challenges the feminist claim that the genre was a backlash against feminism and a relapse into sexism. By applying an eclectic theoretical framework sourced in the theories of Raymond Williams, Anthony Giddens, Judith Butler, and Jacques Derrida, this study convincingly shows how postmodern gender scripts add to a crisis of identity and the problematic nature of clearly defined gender relationships.

anDrea ochsner teaches English literature and cultural

studies at the University of Basel.

Love It or Loathe ItAudience Responses to Tabloids in the UK and Germanymascha k. brichta

Popular newspapers like the The Sun and Bild regularly invite controversy over their morals and methods, power and responsibilities, and political and social effects. At best, their reporting is treated as trivial, vulgar, and tasteless; at worst, it is deemed hazardous to the health of a democratic society. Yet these papers attract large audiences and contribute significantly to the daily lives of millions of readers. This book considers popular newspapers from an audience perspective. Examining the crucial relationship between news and entertain-ment, it provides empirical evidence for the value tabloids really have for readers in modern-day Britain and Germany. With a foreword by Peter Dahlgren of Lund University, Sweden.

mascha k. brIchta is a professional media researcher

and photographer. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of

Westminster and now lives in Hamburg.

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Paradoxes of AuthenticityStudies on a Critical Conceptjulia straub, eDitor

Hollowed out by postmod-ernist theory, authenticity paradoxically persists as an important backdrop for the discussion of literature, film, and the visual arts. The essays in this volume explore perspectives on authenticity and case studies of “the authentic.” Essays show how the paradoxical persistence of authenticity in contemporary critical discourse can be turned into a fruitful point of departure for an analysis of literary texts, films, and the visual arts.

julIa straub is a senior lecturer

in North American literature at the

University of Berne in Switzerland.

Pursuit of MeaningAdvances in Cultural and Cross-Cultural Psychologyjürgen straub, Doris

WeiDemann, carlos

kölbl, anD barbara

zielke, eDitors

Essays discuss recent theo-retical and methodological approaches in crosscultural and cultural psychology to explore their potential for advancing the concept of culture, the conceptualiza-tion and methodical comple-tion of comparative cultural studies, and the scientific understanding of cultural difference.

jürGen straub is a professor

at Ruhr-University Bochum.

carlos kölbl teaches at the

Institute of Psychology and Sociology,

University of Hannover.

DorIs WeIDemann teaches intercul-

tural communication and barbara

zIelke teaches psychology at the

Chemnitz University of Technology.

Rewind, Play, Fast ForwardThe Past, Present, and Future of the Music VideohenrY keazor anD

thorsten Wübbena,

eDitors

For the first time, this volume brings together journalists, museum curators, and gallery owners from different disciplines to discuss the past and present state of the music video, experimenting with method-ological approaches that may be suitable to map the genre and speculate about its future.

henrY keazor holds the chair in art

history at Saarland University.

thorsten Wübbena works at the

Art Historical Institute at Frankfurt

University.

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Represented ReportersImages of War Correspondents in Memoirs and Fictionbarbara korte

War correspondents grasped the cultural imaginary in the mid-nineteenth century. Focusing on Britain, this study investigates the representation of war cor-respondents from Victorian times to the present in memoirs, novels, and films. Such representations react to prevailing notions about war reporters and participate in their further construction. With its cultural approach, this book complements studies of war correspondents within media and communication studies, history, and ethnology.

barbara korte teaches English

literature and culture at the University

of Freiburg.

Real Wars on Virtual BattlefieldsThe Convergence of Programmable Media at the Military- Civilian MarginsteFan Werning

This book dissects the exchange of algorithmic technologies and concepts between the military and the media from the early 1990s to today. It drafts a model of programmable media grounded in a close reading of key technologies and reconsiders technical disciplines from a humani-ties perspective. The model is then applied to the effects of algorithmic logic on the military-civilian continuum, including economic practices, patterns of media usage, and military decision making.

steFan WernInG is an assistant

professor of digital media at the

University of Bayreuth.

Totalitarian CommunicationHierarchies, Codes, and Messageskirill Postoutenko,

eDitor

This book takes the first step in building a firmly actual, integrated historical, sociological, and linguistic understanding of totalitarian society. By using the history and theory of communica-tion as an integrative methodological device, it confronts properties of totalitarian society that appear to be beyond the grasp of specific disciplines. It ultimately redefines the term “totalitarian” within the specific constellation of hierarchies, codes, and networks of a given society.

kIrIll Postoutenko teaches lit-

erature, sociology, and anthropology at

Smolny College in St. Petersburg and

at Constance University in Germany.

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art H istory

$45.00 paper 978-3-89942-884-1

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Not Berlin and Not ShanghaiArt Practice on the Peripherymona schieren anD

kirsten einFelDt,

eDitors

This volume discusses the periphery/center dichotomy and its connotations of east/west, north/south, and local/international. With art centers in regions that used to be perceived as periphery, the idea of center/periphery is now open to debate. Also, the center/periphery relationship exists among places with intensive art output, a prime art world, and cultures of discourse, as well as subsidiary locations situated in the provinces.

mona schIeren is a curator and

teaching researcher at the University

of the Arts Bremen.

kIrsten eInFelDt is an art historian

at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.

Machines as AgencyArtistic PerspectiveschristoPh lischka anD

anDrea sick, eDitors

This book supports and deepens the interface among art, science, and technology, transgressing traditional principles and styles of research and overcoming side-by-side coexistence in favor of an integrated “laboratory of the future.” Heterogeneous networks with humans and nonhumans (Latour) are opened in shared contexts of agency. New momentary propositions are developed, meeting the complexity of discovering, exploring, and inventing things that do not exist as given beings.

chrIstoPh lIschka is professor of

poietic machines and anDrea sIck

is professor of cultural studies and

media theory at the University of the

Arts Bremen.

Interface CulturesArtistic Aspects of Interactionchrista sommerer,

laurent mignonneau,

anD Dorothée king,

eDitors

Interface culture is based on an ongoing discourse in interactive art, interaction design, game design, tan-gible and auditory interfaces, fashionable technologies, wearable devices, intelligent ambiences, sensor technolo-gies, telecommunication, and new forms of human-machine, human-human, and machine-machine interactions. Essays discuss new forms of hybridization in art, media, and science.

chrIsta sommerer and laurent

mIGnonneau are professors at the

University of Art and Industrial Design

in Linz.

Dorothée kInG teaches at the

Interface Cultures study program.

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Space (Re)SolutionsIntervention and Research in Visual CulturePeter mörtenböck anD

helge mooshammer,

eDitors

Social networking, political projects, cross-border move-ments, artistic interventions, urban and environmental initiatives, and self-organized educational practices all articulate the challenges of organizing the spaces we share. In this volume, visual culture scholars from around the world discuss the “practi-cal turn” in different fields of critical engagement, propos-ing fresh ways to assert an interpenetrated space of research and intervention.

Peter mörtenböck and helGe

mooshammer teach visual culture

at Goldsmiths College, University of

London, and at the Vienna University

of Technology.

Media, Culture, and MedialityNew Insights Into the Current State of ResearchluDWig jäger, erika

linz, anD irmela

schneiDer, eDitors

Culturally oriented media studies have significantly advanced mediality, media culture, media discourse, and the procedures of media. Focused on this new termi-nological field, this volume presents landmark contribu-tions in media studies, providing fresh insight into the current state of research on media theory and media culture and initiating an agenda for future research.

luDWIG jäGer teaches linguistics

and media studies at RWTH Aachen

University.

erIka lInz teaches linguistics at

Siegen University.

Irmela schneIDer teaches media

studies at Cologne University.

Mind and MatterComparative Approaches Towards Complexitygünther Friesinger,

johannes

grenzFurthner, anD

thomas ballhausen

New challenges cast the nature of “mind” and “matter” into doubt. Net culture has exposed the causality of these superficially contradic-tory systems, translating them into new technological realities. This book investi-gates cultural, artistic, and technical entanglements to document developments, clarify the scientific commu-nity’s status quo, and glimpse the future.

Günther FrIesInGer is a

philosopher, artist, writer, curator, and

edu-hacker living in Vienna and Graz.

johannes GrenzFurthner is an

artist, writer, curator, and director.

thomas ballhausen is a lecturer

at the University of Vienna.

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pHilosopHy / cultural studies

cultural and media studies

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The Politics of ImaginationBenjamin, Kracauer, Klugetara Forrest

“[contributes] well to the increasing

interest in emergent studies, the

interactions between literature, art,

science, and science philosophy.”

—Cultural Studies Review

This book explores Walter Benjamin's, Siegfried Kracauer's, and Alexander Kluge’s analyses of the role imagination can play in reconceiving past, present, and future possibilities. Through a detailed analysis of their engagements with subjects spanning literature, children’s play, film, photog-raphy, history, and television, this book casts imagination as critical to a mode of perception and experience that can create and sustain a desire for a different future.

tara Forrest lectures on film and

cultural studies at the University of

Technology in Sydney.

Staging the PastThemed Environments in Transcultural PerspectivesjuDith schlehe,

michiko uike-bormann,

carolYn oesterle, anD

WolFgang hochbruck,

eDitors

Drawing upon themed environments across continents, essays focus on how such appropriations bypass, are different from, or contradict traditional and scientific modes of dissemi-nating historical knowledge. Combining theorists and practitioners, they help build an interdisciplinary and transcultural theory of the staging of pasts in various social contexts.

juDIth schlehe, mIchIko uIke-

bormann, carolYn oesterle,

and WolFGanG hochbruck are

members of a research group focusing

on history in popular culture at the

University of Freiburg.

Black History– White HistoryBritain’s Historical Programme Between Windrush and Wilberforcebarbara korte anD

eva ulrike Pirker

New political directives in Britain have mainstreamed black history into national history. This volume assesses manifestations of this new cultural historiography on screen and on stage, in museums, and in other acces-sible sites within the context of the Windrush anniversary and the 1807 abolition bicentenary. It investigates the terms on which a new historical program could take hold, its sustainability, and its representational politics.

barbara korte is professor of

English literature and eVa ulrIke

PIrker is lecturer in English literary

and cultural studies at the University

of Freiburg.

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tHeater studies

Screening Nostalgia100 Years of German Heimat FilmalexanDra luDeWig

The Heimat film genre, assumed by many to be outdated, is very much alive. Who would have thought that this genre, which has been almost unanimously denounced within academic circles yet seems to resonate so deeply with the general public, would experience a renaissance in the twenty-first century? The genre’s recent resurgence is perhaps due less to an obsession with generic storylines and stereotyped figures than to a basic human need for grounding that has resulted in a passionate debate about issues of past and present. This book traces the history of Heimat film from the early mountain films to Fatih Akin’s contemporary interpretations of Heimat.

alexanDra luDeWIG is associate dean of education

and convener of German studies at the University of

Western Australia.

Theater in LebanonProduction, Reception, and Confessionalismtarek salloukh

Drawing on a rich history of conflict and a society full of contrasts, Lebanese theater boasts a wide spectrum of social peculiarities. Confessionalism defines the images of the

“self ” and the “other” within the Christian and Moslem social worlds and describes the manner in which they interrelate. The genre also generates a complex base for the interpretation of theatrical signs and sym-bols, theater being another stage on which the interaction between two conflicting social worlds takes place. This book sheds light on theater in Lebanon, its production and reception, the significance of theatrical performance and its implications, and the many categories ruling this phenomenon.

tarek salloukh studied drama and theater arts at the

Lebanese University in Beirut. An actor and director, he

performed in the theaters of the Lebanese capital for many

years and concluded his studies by earning a Ph.D. at the

University of Konstanz in South Germany, where he now

lives.

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Setting the Record QueerRethinking Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Virginia Woolf ’s Mrs. DallowayDirk schulz

“To define is to limit,” Lord Henry claims, and Mrs. Dalloway “would not say of anyone . . . that they were this or that.” Why, then, are these novels mostly read, and in recent adaptations rewritten, in denial of their genuinely ambiguous designs? Bringing these two literary classics together for the first time, this study reveals their shared concerns regarding textual and sexual identities. Challenging a critical record rooted in Oscar Wilde’s and Virginia Woolf ’s mythologized biographies, this work underscores the value of constantly rethink-ing labels by liberating these texts from the grip of categorical readings.

DIrk schulz is a postdoctoral researcher in the English

Department at the University of Cologne, where he teaches

courses on anglophone literature and culture and is editorial

assistant at Gender Forum: An Internet Journal for Gender

Studies.

Camp ComfortsReparative Gay Literature in Times of AIDSchristian lassen

Camp Comforts investigates the wide-ranging impact of camp on AIDS literature and places this influence within two different traditions of camp analysis: a politically subversive one that aims at social change and an aesthetically uplifting one that aims at personal healing. Christian Lassen argues that camp may in fact serve both ends, social change and personal healing, and goes on to explore reparative reading practices to rehabilitate alleviation and relief as vital objectives in literary representations of gay grief. In this way, Camp Comforts reveals the dynamics that make camp so crucial as a strategy for survival in the time of AIDS.

chrIstIan lassen teaches English literature and British

cultural studies at the University of Oldenburg. His research

interests include queer studies, gender studies, and contem-

porary literature.

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Mittelbau-Dora: American and German Representations of a Nazi Concentration CampLiterature, Visual Media, and the Culture of Memory from 1945 to the Presentbruno arich-gerz

In 1945, Americans liberated the Nazi con-centration camp complex of Mittelbau-Dora, retrieving tons of intact rocket technology from the nearby Mittelwerke factory. Today, an astounding mix of first-hand memoirs; biographies; false survivor tales, novels, and theater plays; Hollywood movies; and newsreel footage portray the role of the United States in liberating Mittelbau-Dora. This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of these textual and visual representations, juxtaposing them against publications by German eyewitnesses, local researchers, and academic historians, as well as experts in cultural memory.

bruno arIch-Gerz is a junior professor at TU

Darmstadt, Germany. His research centers on American

studies and media studies, e-learning, Thomas Pynchon,

and Namibia studies.

Chronotopes of the UncannyTime and Space in Postmodern New York Novels: Paul Auster’s City of Glass and Toni Morrison’s JazzPetra eckharD

Using the theoretical frameworks of Sigmund Freud, Tzvetan Todorov, and Mikhail Bakhtin, this book explores how American writers of the late twentieth century have translated the psychoana-lytical concept of “the uncanny” into their novelistic discourses. The two texts under scrutiny, Paul Auster’s City of Glass and Toni Morrison’s Jazz, show that the uncanny has developed into a crucial trope delineating personal and collective fears often grounded in the postmodern disruption of spatio-temporal continuities and coherences.

Petra eckharD teaches American literature at the

University of Graz. Her research concerns contemporary

American prose literature, graphic narratives, and American

gothic fiction.

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mainz Historical cultural sciences

$35.00 paper 978-3-8376-1348-3


gender studies / sociology

postcolonial studies

Cultural History in EuropeInstitutions–Themes–Perspectivesjörg rogge, eDitor

What are the current discussions taking place in cultural history? Which European institutions engage exclusively in cultural history and what topics do they address? How will cultural history develop in the future?

These and other questions are raised in this volume by European scholars as they discuss the institutions, themes, and perspectives of cultural history. The collection provides a profound overview of contemporary devel-opments in Scandinavia, Finland, Great Britain, Latvia, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, and Spain.

jörG roGGe teaches medieval history at the University

of Mainz, specializing in the methods and theory of cultural

historical sciences and the social and cultural history of late

medieval Europe.

Deconstructing Gender in CarnivalA Cross-Cultural Investigation of a Social Ritualvaleria sterzi

This book explores the complexity of the dialectic relationship between ritual-like activities and social structure, focusing on women’s growing presence in Trinidad carnival and the ways in which their participation becomes part of the conflict over efforts to change the basic distribution of power within society. Femininity emerges in Caribbean carnival as a sexualized body unmasking power relations simultaneously affirmed and denied. Paying attention to the ideological process through which gender relations are constructed, this event is analyzed in relation to economic, political, and social factors, as well as the changes caused by the clash between colonial and postcolonial societies.

ValerIa sterzI received her Ph.D. in sociology at the

University of Hamburg.

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History / sociology

Doing Anthropology in Wartime and War ZonesWorld War I and the Cultural Sciences in EuropereinharD johler,

christian marchetti, anD

monique scheer, eDitors

“[the] combination of carefully developed specific points

of research and thorough reexamination of paradigmatic

theoretical models should make this volume indispensable

reading and an important point of reference for years to

come.”

—Anthropos

Distinct national traditions and institutions emerged during World War I, partly due to collaborations with the military. Cultural science researchers used war zones to access informants, prisoner-of-war and refugee camps, occupied territories, and the front lines. Anthropologists tailored their inquiries to aid the war effort, contributed to interpretations of the war as a struggle between races, and assessed the warlike nature of the Balkan region, whose crises were key to the outbreak of the Great War.

reInharD johler is professor of European ethnology

and chrIstIan marchettI is a doctoral candidate in

European ethnology at the University of Tübingen.

monIque scheer is a research scholar at the Max Planck

Institute for Human Development in Berlin.

Asymmetrical Concepts After Reinhart KoselleckHistorical Semantics and BeyondkaY junge anD kirill Postoutenko,

eDitors

Asymmetrical concepts are well known to scholars across the social sciences and humanities, yet their role in structuring the human world has not been researched in detail. Thirty-five years ago, Reinhart Koselleck established the historical semantics between Hellenes/barbarians, Christians/pagans, and Übermensch/Untermensch, but his insights have rarely been developed in a systematic fashion. This volume brings together scholars at the crossroads of history, sociology, literary criticism, linguistics, political science, and international studies to elaborate on Koselleck’s notion of asymmetric counter-concepts and to adapt it to current research.

kaY junGe teaches sociology at the University

of Constance.

kIrIll Postoutenko teaches literature, sociology, and

anthropology at the Smolny College of Liberal Arts and

Sciences in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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middle east studies / cultural studies

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Dissonant Memories, Fragmented PresentExchanging Young Discourses Between Israel and Germanycharlotte misselWitz anD

cornelia siebeck, eDitors

How do young Israelis and Germans communicate about national socialism and the Holocaust? In this collection, contribu-tors from both societies elaborate on the past, their present, and their identity, pondering various switches of track in German-Israeli exchanges and social and political realities. By highlighting marginalized memories, such as Palestinian and migrant ones, they challenge monolithic national-memory discourse. Altogether, a transnational memory discourse emerges, albeit a dis-sonant and highly subjective one, truthfully reflecting the fragmentations that exist in both societies.

charlotte mIsselWItz is a freelance writer for

newspapers and radio.

cornelIa sIebeck is a historian and publicist.

Doing Identity in LuxembourgSubjective Appropriations–Institutional Attributions–Sociocultural MilieusiPse—iDentités Politiques sociétés

esPaces, eDitor

Luxembourg: international financial center, European administrative center, and destina-tion country for immigrants? This empirical study provides insights into a society that has largely eluded scientific investiga-tion, observing the processes of identity construction in globalized conditions. An interdisciplinary team of authors exposes subjective appropriations and institutional attributions at work in the fields of language, space, perceptions of the self and others, and everyday cultures, and identifies for the first time sociocultural milieus in the Grand Duchy and the ambivalences and dynamics of a multicultural and multilingual society.

the IPse research unIt (IDentItés, PolItIques,

socIétés, esPaces), based at the University of

Luxembourg, addresses socially relevant topics, particularly

the analysis of social and cultural identity construction

processes.

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antHropology

The Making and Unmaking of DifferencesAnthropological, Sociological, and Philosophical PerspectivesricharD rottenburg, burkharD

schnePel, anD shingo shimaDa,

eDitors

This book tracks the making and unmaking of sociocultural differences, as seen from anthropological, sociological, and philo-sophical perspectives. Some contributions address the problem of translation or the enigma of alienity or queer theory; others throw light on the integration of Muslims in Norway, identity-formation processes in Creole societies, and neo-traditionalist movements and identity in Africa. Special emphasis is placed on how globalization and the rapid spread of new technologies of information have generated new patterns of inclusion and exclusion.

rIcharD rottenburG and burkharD schnePel are

professors of social anthropology at the Institute for Social

Anthropology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.

shInGo shImaDa is a professor at the East Asia Institute,

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.

Childhood and MigrationFrom Experience to Agencyjacqueline knörr, eDitor

“i found this volume of great value, especially in providing

concrete examples of children’s creativity not only in the

process of social and cultural reproduction, but also in cultural

production. it will . . . be a useful read for policymakers in the

fields of education and children’s services at all government

levels.”

—International Migration and Integration

This volume emphasizes how children expe-rience and manage migration and the means through which they construct an identity for themselves. What role do cultural back-ground and strategies of integration play in the creation of identity and the conception of home, origin, and belonging? How do children express processes of cultural orientation and integration (music, media, fashion, and style), and what are the role of peer groups and social milieus? How do migrant children experience xenophobia and a lack of acceptance in a host society, and how do they counterbalance such experi-ences? The study’s approach is comparative and interdisciplinary.

jacquelIne knörr is an anthropologist and associate

professor at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropol-

ogy in Halle/Saale, Germany.

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african studies / gender studies

$40.00 paper 978-3-933127-45-7

2 0 0 3 210 pages

middle east studies / gender

studies

$42.00 paper 978-3-89942-690-8

2 0 07 310 pages

latin american studies / pol it ics

Local Knowledge and Gender in Ghanachristine müller

Women have proven to be central actors in the multiple channels of local-global networks, using these new social ties for the negotiation of old and new elements of knowledge, scientific knowledge, and development discourse. The inherent politicization of knowledge and the direct objective of transforming societal institu-tions are not only signs of resistance against global hegemony but also serve to redefine and defend local culture and local knowledge.

chrIstIne müller completed her

postdoctoral degree at the National

Center of Competence in Research

North-South, University of Berne,

Switzerland, and currently researches

virtual governance in Southern Africa

and Southeast Asia.

Lebanese in MotionGender and the Making of a Translocal Villageanja Peleikis

Focusing on the empirical case of the south Lebanese Shi’ite village of Zrariye and its migrant population in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, this book shows how villagers at home and abroad have produced a translocal village-in-the-making that emanates as a social field through practices and narratives. Travel and means of com-munication make it possible to keep in constant touch and renegotiate kinship and generational and gender relationships beyond local, regional, and nation-state boundaries.

anja PeleIkIs is a postdoctoral

research fellow at the Max Planck

Institute for Social Anthropology

in Halle/Saale, Germany.

Companies in Peace ProcessesA Guatemalan Case Studyulrike joras

This volume explores the role of the private business sector in sustaining violent conflict and negotiating peace during the civil war and peace processes in Guatemala. It describes and analyzes corporate positions during this period, developing a better understanding of the potential and pitfalls of integrating private business actors in conflict transforma-tion.

ulrIke joras works in the arena of

business and peace for Swisspeace in

Bern, Switzerland.

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sociology

$40.00 paper 978-3-89942-373-0

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sociology

$40.00 paper 978-3-89942-442-3

2 0 0 6 304 pages

european History / sociology

Historico-genetic Theory of CultureOn the Processual Logic of Cultural Changegünter Dux

This book focuses on the modern understanding of human life-forms as constructs following an evolutionary history. It maps the transgression of the virtual threshold between natural and cultural history and the development of sociocultural constructs over time. The book concentrates on the problem of determin-ing a processual logic in the development of societal structures and cognition and on the historico-genetic reconstruction of cognition.

Günter Dux teaches sociology and

social philosophy at the University

of Freiburg.

A Sociological Theory of ValueGeorg Simmel ’s Sociological Relationismnatàlia cantó milà

Natàlia Cantó Milà elabo-rates on Georg Simmel’s relational approach to a theory of value, applying its heuristic possibilities to modern sociology and a sociology of modernity. She focuses on a theory of value Simmel developed in The Philosophy of Money, deliver-ing an alternative reading of his book that views its theory of value as its main axial point. Simmel’s theory of value is shown to include an intrinsically sociological aspect since economic, moral, ethical, and aesthetic values result from human relations.

natàlIa cantó mIlà teaches

sociology and social policy at the

University of Leipzig.

Love After AuschwitzThe Second Generation in Germanykurt grünberg

This book addresses the personal and collective abysses that open through an examination of the legacy of the National Socialist extermination of Jews. The volume combines the experiences of survivors and their sons and daughters born after the Shoah with those of non-Jewish German Nazi perpetrators, supporters, bystanders, and their children. The study is aimed at gaining deeper insight into what Theodor W. Adorno called the “culture after Auschwitz.”

kurt GrünberG is a psychoanalyst,

licensed psychologist, and staff

research member at Sigmund-Freud-

Institute and a research director at the

Jewish Psychotherapeutic Counseling

Center in Frankfurt/Main.

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dance

$20.00 paper 978-3-89942-809-4

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dance

$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-1596-8

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dance

Dancing PostcolonialismThe National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaicasabine sörgel

This book presents the first in-depth critical and historical examination of the internationally renowned National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica (NDTC) within the context of postcolonial theater. Combining a postcolonial theoretical framework with performance studies and dance analysis, the work examines the interrelations between Jamaican modern dance theater aesthetics and the Caribbean’s complex cultural genealogy since 1492.

sabIne sörGel teaches the history

and theory of theater and dance at

Johannes Gutenberg–University Mainz.

Knowledge in MotionPerspectives of Artistic and Scientific Research in Dancesabine gehm,

Pirkko husemann, anD

katharina von Wilcke,

eDitors

What is body knowledge in motion and how can it be researched and conveyed? Renowned choreographers, dancers, theorists, and pedagogues describe the unique potential of dance as an archive and medium and its significance at the intersection of art and science. Contributors include Gabriele Brandstetter, Dieter Heitkamp, Royston Maldoom, and Meg Stuart.

sabIne Gehm is artistic director of

the festival Tanz Bremen.

PIrkko husemann is a theater

scholar and dramaturge in dance.

katharIna Von WIlcke is a

cultural manager and curator.

Emerging BodiesThe Performance of Worldmaking in Dance and Choreographygabriele klein anD

sanDra noeth, eDitors

This volume considers hybrid and disparate worlds related to dance and choreography. Authors inquire into the ways of producing dance worlds through artistic practice, discourse and media, choreographic form, and dance material. Essays reflect the topos of dance as something fleeting and ephemeral—an embodiment of the Other in modernity. They demonstrate the multitude of interrelated dance worlds, with more emerging every day.

GabrIele kleIn is professor of the

sociology of movement and dance at

the University of Hamburg.

sanDra noeth is head of drama-

turgy at Tanzquartier Wien.

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History / cultural studies

time–meaning–culture

$40.00 paper 978-3-8376-1747-4

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medic ine / gender studies

body cultures

Historicizing the Uses of the PastScandinavian Perspectives on History Culture, Historical Consciousness, and Didactics of History Related to World War II helle bjerg, clauDia lenz,

anD erik thorstensen, eDitors

This book presents new developments in Scandinavian memory cultures relating to World War II and the Holocaust by combining this focus with the perspective of history didactics. This theoretical framework of historical consciousness links individual and collective uses and re-uses of the past to the question of how history can and should be taught. It also offers examples of good practice in the field and its promotion of self-reflection and critical thinking.

helle bjerG is teacher, trainer, and researcher at

University College Capital, Copenhagen.

clauDIa lenz is research coordinator at the European

Wergeland Centre for Education on Human Rights,

Intercultural Dialogue, and Democratic Citizenship in Oslo.

erIk thorstensen is a pedagogical adviser at the Center

for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities in Oslo.

Between Self-Determination and Social TechnologyMedicine, Biopolitics, and the New Techniques of Procedural Managementkathrin braun, eDitor

This book examines how concepts such as self-determination, participation, ethics, and dialogue, developed by the feminist movement and directed against repression, heteronomy, and professional paternalism, have been integrated into new contexts and transformed into new social technologies. Traversing a variety of fields, from birthing, genetic counseling, living wills, and hospital ethics to population policies and the politics of biomedicine, this collection shows how medicine and medicine-related policies and practice constitute crucial arenas hosting such transformations. What emerges is procedural management as a new set of social techniques. With a preface by William Ray Arney, Evergreen State College.

kathrIn braun is professor of political science at the

University of Hanover, specializing in biopolitical modern

rationality, its transformations, and its re-instantiations in

the past and present.

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science / cultural studies

$45.00 paper 978-3-89942-518-5

2 0 07 366 pages

tecHnology / cultural studies

Internationalization of the Social SciencesAsia–Latin America–Middle East– Africa–Eurasiamichael kuhn anD Doris

WeiDemann, eDitors

Internationalization of the social sciences rests on the intersection of international scientific infrastructures, networks, and research agendas. It has also stimulated discussions concerning academic depen-dency and the need for the indigenization of theories and methods. This book traces phenomena that accompany the internation-alization of the social sciences in different parts of the world. Contributions from East Asia, India, Russia, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, South Africa, and Latin America offer manifold perspectives on the pathways and desiderata of internationalization, making the volume crucial for future debates.

mIchael kuhn is director of KnowWhy Global Research.

DorIs WeIDemann is a cultural psychologist and

professor at the University of Applied Sciences in

Zwickau, Germany.

Tensions and ConvergencesTechnological and Aesthetic Transformations of SocietyreinharD heil, anDreas kaminski,

marcus stiPPak, alexanDer unger,

anD marc ziegler, eDitors

This book presents the results of an interna-tional conference concerning the interaction between aesthetical and technological dimensions within the formation of con-temporary society. Contributors discuss the production of time and space, self and nature, and individual and society in the image of technology, and they focus on the productive tensions and convergences between aesthetic and technological concepts when imple-mented in everyday life. The volume contains, among other essays, texts on technologies of visualization, the aesthetics of warfare, and the design of technological lifeworlds.

reInharD heIl, anDreas kamInskI, marcus

stIPPak, alexanDer unGer, and marc zIeGler

are fellows at the postgraduate college Technisierung und

Gesellschaft, Technische Universität Darmstadt.

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neuroscience / etHics

The Diversification of HealthPolitics of Large-Scale Cooperation in Nutrition Sciencebart PenDers

Complex problems and ambitious goals are often thought to become easier by enlarging and diversifying the experts that handle them. As a result, these complex entities are fragmented into smaller ones dealt with by single laboratories. Bart Penders observed and joined teams of nutrition scientists to find out what happens to these problems and goals. He attended conferences and workshops and worked in their laboratories. He shows that scientists mobilize everything in their power to solve problems and reconstruct elements of the problem, such as our health. In the pro cess, the search for health has led to its diversification.

bart PenDers is an assistant professor in the Department

of Health, Ethics, and Society at the School for Public Health

and Primary Care, Maastricht University.

Implanted MindsThe Neuroethics of Intracerebral Stem Cell Transplantation and Deep Brain Stimulationheiner Fangerau, jörg m. Fegert,

anD thorsten traPP, eDitors

Intracerebral interventions raise particular ethical issues. For instance, attempts at replacing lost or altered brain cells with the help of stem cells or the therapeutic application of deep brain stimulation have morally relevant implications. If the brain is conceived as the carrier of an individual’s personality or of the self, then operations on the brain can be seen as intrusions upon one’s personality. This book addresses the historical, philosophical, social, and legal implications of these new developments in neuroscience and aims at resolving some of the dilemmas that go hand in hand with

“implanted minds.”

heIner FanGerau is director of the Institute for the

History, Philosophy, and Ethics of Medicine and jörG

m. FeGert is director of the Department for Child and

Adolescent Psychiatry at Ulm University.

thorsten traPP is senior researcher at the Institute

of Transplantation Diagnostics and Cell Therapeutics at

Düsseldorf University.

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Health Promotion and Prevention Programmes in PracticeHow Patients’ Health Practices are Rationalised, Reconceptualised, and Reorganisedthomas mathar anD

Yvonne j. F. m. jansen, eDitors

The shift to prevention and health promo-tion is an example of how policy makers aim to rationalize and organize both health systems and patients’ health practices. Applying perspectives from empirical science and technology studies, and rooted in qualitative research methods, this volume zooms into the micropolitics of prevention and health promotion, exploring how patients are framed as being “at risk,” how preventative regimes shape medical practices, and what its practical consequences are in patients’ everyday lives.

tom mathar lectures on health and social policy at HFH-

Hamburg, University of Applied Sciences.

YVonne j. F. m. jansen is a cultural anthropologist and

researcher at the Netherlands Organization for Applied

Scientific Research TNO Quality of Life.

Care in PracticeOn Tinkering in Clinics, Homes, and Farmsannemarie mol, ingunn moser,

anD jeannette Pols, eDitors

“an important contribution in the research of care in practice.

it moves beyond theories of care by choosing practices as

starting points to evaluate and improve theoretical insights.

this approach is able to present new and surprising insights

and for that it is valuable for every qualitative researcher in

care practices.”

—Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy

Rather than present care as a “warm” relation between human beings, contributors elevate the material world (usually cast as “cold”) to prominence. Technology is not a functional tool, easy to control; it is shifting, changing, surprising, and adaptable. In care practices all things are (and have to be) tinkered with persistently. Knowledge is fluid, too. Rather than a set of general rules, the knowledges relevant to care practices are as adaptable and in need of adaptation as the technolo-gies, bodies, people, and daily lives involved.

annemarIe mol is Socrates Professor for Social Theory,

Humanism, and Materialities at the University of Amsterdam.

InGunn moser is professor of sociology and dean of

the Department of Nursing at Diakonhjemmet University

College in Oslo.

jeannette Pols is senior researcher in medical ethics at

the University of Amsterdam.

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Images of Illegalized ImmigrationTowards a Critical Iconology of Politicschristine bischoFF,

Francesca Falk, anD

sYlvia kaFehsY, eDitors

Essays trace an iconography of illegalized immigration within political, ethical, and aesthetic discourse. They discuss the need to project new images and the danger of giving illegal persons individual faces. Illegalization is produced by law, yet naturalized through the everyday use of images. The production of law is also driven by mental and materialized images, and a critical iconology may expose such mechanisms.

chrIstIne bIschoFF and Franc-

esca Falk teach cultural studies at

the University of Basel.

sYlVIa kaFehsY is an art historian

and curator of contemporary art.

A New Thoughtfulness in Contemporary ChinaCritical Voices in Art and Aestheticsjörg huber anD

zhao chuan, eDitors

Globalization euphoria and enthusiasm for the West are declining in contemporary China. Many now question the radical upheaval of lifeworlds, the continued significance of traditions, and the paradoxes produced by the predominance of neoliberalism. These seventeen essays provide a vivid illustration of a “new thoughtfulness” that has infiltrated fields ranging from aesthetics and art to theater and photography.

jörG huber is professor of cultural

theory and aesthetics at the Zurich

University of the Arts.

zhao chuan is a writer, theater

worker, and art critic.

Art and SustainabilityConnecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexitysacha kagan

“a comprehensive and sophisticated

analysis of the relationship between

art and sustainability in the context

of complexity theory.”

—The Goose

Describing how modernity degenerated into a culture of unsustainability, to which the arts are contributing, Sacha Kagan fundamentally rethinks ways of knowing and seeing the world. We must learn not to be afraid of complexity, she argues, and reawaken a sensibility to pat-terns that connect. Surveying ecological art over the past forty years and discussing art and social change, Kagan assesses the potential role of art in a much-needed transformation process.

sacha kaGan is research associate

at Leuphana University Lueneburg

and founding coordinator of the

international network Cultura21.

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urban studies / art H istory

cityscapes—texts in cultural

urban studies

Candide—Journal for Architectural Knowledge, No. 2axel soWa anD

susanne schinDler,

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This peer-reviewed journal, published in English and German by the Department of Architecture Theory at RWTH Aachen University, fosters multiple ways to write about the discipline. Issue number 2 features essays on interindividual explanations of innovation in architecture; a socialist perspective on the XV Triennale di Milano; an analysis of Leon Battista Alberti’s technique of architectural collage; and a conversation with Bernardo Secchi.

axel soWa is chair of the Depart-

ment of Architecture Theory and

susanne schInDler is an assistant

professor at RWTH Aachen University.

Candide—Journal for Architectural Knowledge, No. 3axel soWa anD

susanne schinDler,

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Candide is dedicated to the culture of knowledge specific to architecture. In issue number 3, essays include Andrew J. Witt on machine epistemology in architecture; Ela Kael on Hiltonculuk and the postwar architecture of Istanbul; Oliver Schetter on the architecture of Mozambique; Amy Kulper on questioning the spatial imaginary of Georges Perec; and a short story by Jimenez Lai titled “On Types of Seductive Robustness.”

axel soWa is chair of the Depart-

ment of Architecture Theory and

susanne schInDler is an assistant

professor at RWTH Aachen University.

Creative Networks and the CityTowards a Cultural Political Economy of Aesthetic Productionbas van heur

This book contributes to the discourse on creative industries and knowledge-based economies by focusing on three aspects: urban spaces as key sites of capitalist restructuring; creative industries’ policies as state technologies aimed at economic exploitation; and the role of networks of aesthetic production in inflecting these tendencies. It ultimately merges the cultural and aesthetic dimensions of the creative industries.

bas Van heur is a postdoctoral

researcher at the Faculty of Arts and

Social Sciences at Maastricht Univer-

sity in the Netherlands.

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urban studies / antHropology

Urban HackingCultural Jamming Strategies in the Risky Spaces of Modernitygünther Friesinger,

johannes grenzFurthner, anD

thomas ballhausen, eDitors

Urban spaces have become battlefields, signifiers have been invaded, and new structures have been established: netculture has replaced counterculture in most parts of the world and draws attention to the everchanging environments of the modern city. How do we create culturally based resistance under the influence of capitalistic pressure and conservative politics? This collection attempts to address this question and its implications for different scientific and artistic fields.

Günther FrIesInGer lives in Vienna and Graz as a

philosopher, artist, writer, curator, and journalist.

johannes GrenzFurthner teaches art theory and

aesthetical practice at the University of Applied Sciences in

Graz, Austria.

thomas ballhausen is a lecturer at the University of

Vienna and head of the Studies Department at the Austrian

Film Archive.

Port Cities as Areas of TransitionEthnographic PerspectivesWaltrauD kokot, mijal

ganDelsman-trier, kathrin

WilDner, anD astriD Wonneberger,

eDitors

Global transformation processes have dra-matically altered life and work in and around port cities, the built environment, and the public imagery of urban waterfronts. Based on recent theories of city-port development, the ethnographic studies in this volume focus on local stakeholders’ perceptions and strategies in European and Latin American port cities. The volume covers a wide variety of urban fields, from traditional dockland communities, inland waterway sailors, and new forms of migration and exile to active agents of urban transformation.

WaltrauD kokot is professor of social anthropology

at Hamburg University.

mIjal GanDelsman-trIer lectures on social anthropol-

ogy in Bremen and Hamburg.

kathrIn WIlDner is lecturer in social anthropology

at Viadrina University and Hamburg University.

astrID WonneberGer is a lecturer in social anthropol-

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pHilosopHy

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Humanism in Intercultural PerspectiveExperiences and Expectationsjörn rüsen anD henner

laass, eDitors

This book weaves Chinese, Indian, African, Islamic, and Western traditions into an intercultural discussion about understanding the human world. It recognizes history, philosophy, religious, literary, and gender studies with an emphasis on the relationship between humanism and religion. Humanism is brought to life as a synthesis of transcultural values and a mutual and critical recogni-tion of cultural differences.

jörn rüsen is senior fellow at the

Institute for Advanced Study in the

Humanities in Essen.

henner laass is teacher of English

and history at the Hibernia School

in Herne.

Buddhist Approaches to Human RightsDissonances and Resonancescarmen meinert anD

hans-bernD zöllner,

eDitors

“[the] transdisciplinary, transcultural,

and transreligious approach is the

strong point of this book.”

—Internationales Asienforum

Demonstrations by monks in Tibet and Myanmar and the age-old conflict between a predominantly Buddhist population and Hindu minority in Sri Lanka link Buddhism and human rights. Essays explore this topic from the viewpoint of three major traditions: Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana Buddhism.

carmen meInert is a sinologist,

Tibetologist, and research fellow at the

Institute of Advanced Studies in the

Humanities (KWI), Essen.

hans-bernD zöllner teaches

East Asian Studies at the University of

Hamburg and the University of Passau.

Octavio PazHumanism and Critiqueoliver kozlarek,

eDitor

This volume identifies ways in which Octavio Paz’s essays can be read as substantial contributions to contemporary debates in the social sciences and philoso-phy. The aim is to present to a non-Spanish-speaking audience some of what Paz offers to ongoing debates. It also definitively proves that a critique of our contemporary modernity must go hand in hand with a nonexclusive intercultural understanding of humanism.

olIVer kozlarek teaches political

and social philosophy and social

theory at the Institute for Philosophi-

cal Research, Universidad Michoacana

de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Mexico.

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east as ian studies / pH ilosopHy

$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-1694-1

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pHilosopHy / polit ics

Traces of Humanism in ChinaTradition and Modernitycarmen meinert, eDitor

This volume opens discourses on humanistic traditions to counterparts within Chinese culture that also reflect a rich autochthonous tradition of humanism. Contributors explore Confucian and Daoist dimensions of humaneness in Chinese philosophy and history up to the first half of the twentieth century, when Chinese and Western concepts of humanism first merged. This book is geared toward a non-sinological audience as well as specialists in the field and contributes to a non-Eurocentric view of humanism history.

carmen meInert is a research

fellow at the Institute of Advanced

Studies in the Humanities in Essen and

teaches at the University of Bochum.

Humanism in East Asian Confucian Contextschun-chieh huang

Renowned Confucian scholar Chun-chieh Huang analyzes various East Asian contexts to identify the central pillars of the Confucian humanist spirit: a continuum between mind and body; harmony between oneself and others; the unity of heaven and humanity; and a profound historical consciousness. Scholars of religion, history, philosophy, and Asian studies will find this volume an indispensable guide to the rich tradition of East Asian Confucian humanism.

chun-chIeh huanG is Distinguished

Professor of History and dean of the

Institute for Advanced Studies in the

Humanities and Social Sciences at Na-

tional Taiwan University and a research

fellow at Academia Sinica, Taipei.

Political Responsibility for a Globalised WorldAfter Levinas’ Humanismernst WolFF

This book tackles the practice of responsibility within a globalized world and con-temporary means of action. Levina's exploration of the ethical is shown to be a way to seek intercultural political relevance through an engage-ment with postcoloniality and humanism. Yet Levinas fails to realize the ethical implications of the instru-mental mediation between ethical meaning and political practice. Drawing on Weber, Apel, and Ricoeur, Ernst Wolff proposes a theory of strategic co-responsibility for the uncertain global context of practice.

ernst WolFF teaches philosophy at

the University of Pretoria and is fellow

of the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut

in Essen.

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sociology

global studies

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i slamic studies / antHropology

global / local islam

$42.00 paper 978-3-933127-81-5

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i slamic studies / soutHeast as ian

studies

global / local islam

The Making of World SocietyPerspectives from Transnational Researchremus gabriel anghel,

eva gerharz, gilberto

rescher, anD monika

salzbrunn, eDitors

This book presents innova-tive contributions to trans-nationalization research and world society theory rooted in empirical studies from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe. Practicable methodologies complete theoretical inquiries and provide examples of applied research, which also might be used in teaching.

remus GabrIel anGhel is a Ph.D.

student in sociology, eVa Gerharz

teaches social anthropology and de-

velopment sociology, and GIlberto

rescher is a doctoral student at the

University of Bielefeld.

monIka salzbrunn teaches eth-

nology and sociology at EHESS Paris.

Bodies, Boundaries, and Spirit PossessionMoroccan Women and the Revision of Traditionmargaret rausch

“contributes importantly to the

conversations about contemporary

performances of religious and

gendered identities and will find use in

undergraduate and introductory courses

in anthropology, religious studies, and

middle east and north african studies.”

—MESA Buelletin

Moroccan society has been changing in accordance with Western models, and the role of Islam in sharing this burden is exemplified by folk-Islamic spirit possession practices. By adjusting their vocation to processes of commercialization and professionalization and the changing needs of their female clientele, traditional women seers have taken on the therapeutic task of helping women resolve inner and interpersonal conflicts.

marGaret rausch teaches at the

Freie Universität, Berlin.

Politics and Cultures of Islamization in Southeast AsiaMalaysia and Indonesia in the 1990sgeorg stauth

This book concerns cultural and political figures and institutions and ideas during a transitional period in Southeast Asia, Malaysia, and Indonesia. It also addresses the permutations of civilizing processes in Singapore and the city-state’s image. It centers on the way in which Islam was reconstructed as an intellectual and sociopolitical tradition in Southeast Asia in the 1990s and maps differ-ent patterns of modernity in a tropical region still bearing the signatures of a colonial past.

GeorG stauth teaches the sociol-

ogy of Islam and Islamic countries at

the University of Bielefeld.

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History / m iddle east studies

Jagiellonian Studies in History features works by leading Polish historians covering various time periods and miscellaneous aspects of Polish and world history. All monographs reflect the highest quality of content and competence, and all publica-tions are original works, the result of extensive and meticulous research in libraries and archives. The series’s editor in chief, Jan Jacek Bruski, is a noted Polish historian specializing in the history of twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europe and is based at the Jagiellonian University’s Institute of History.

Jews on Route to Palestine, 1934-1944Sketches From the History of Aliyah Bet—Clandestine Jewish Immigrationartur Patek

“this work contains a lot of crucial information enhancing

our knowledge of seemingly familiar facts. it is only after

we have read the book that we realize how frequently

our understanding of these matters was fragmentary and

incomplete.”

—michał Pułaski, professor emeritus, jagiellonian university

Aliyah Bet refers to the illegal immigration of Jews to Palestine during the period of the British Mandate for Palestine. It constituted one of the Zionist movement’s most success-ful efforts toward achieving a sovereign state of Israel. Its history is marked, on the one hand, by clandestine activities and spectacu-lar operations and, on the other hand, by dramatic events (catastrophic sinkings of sea liners carrying immigrants, the deportation of refugees). This book surveys these events, without which one cannot understand the nature of contemporary Israel.

artur Patek is professor of history at the Jagiellonian

University in Krakow. His books (in Polish) include Great

Britain’s Policy Toward the State of Israel During the First

Arab-Israeli War, May 1948–January 1949.

is a new English-language series published by the Jagiellonian University, Poland’s oldest and most renowned university.

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east european History

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international relations / american studies

Constitutional Developments of the Habsburg Empire in the Last Decades Before Its FallThe Materials of Polish-Hungarian Conference: Cracow, September 2007kazimierz baran, eDitor

“a noteworthy analytical presentation by istvan kajtara

eminent hungarian historian figure andorra czizmadii.”

—andrzej bryk, jagiellonian university

Published after the 2007 Polish-Hungarian Conference in Krakow, this volume exempli-fies the cooperation between Krakow and Pecs University legal historians as they traced the constitutional developments of the waning Austro-Hungarian empire. Articles identify Rechtsstaat tendencies within the Austro-Hungarian administra-tion and judiciary and church-state relationships. Also discussed is the liberalism of the Austro-Hungarian regime in regards to emigration; the grassroots initiative of the Poles in laying the foundations of Polonia restituta before the end of World War I; and the persistence of Hungarian serfdom in postwar Spisz and Orawa.

kazImIerz baran is head of the Department of General

History of State and Law at the Jagiellonian University.

The United States and the WorldFrom Imitation to ChallengeanDrzej mania anD Łukasz

WorDliczek, eDitors

In this rich, interdisciplinary collection debating America’s impact in the world, essays discuss integration in Pax Americana and other parts of the world; different and similar approaches to maintaining an international order; the issue of political continuity and change; the “export” of American values to the world; the separation of church and state; human rights; the idea of sovereignty; the separation of powers; modern federalism; various approaches to democratization; Americanism; defining the parameters of American studies and American exceptionalism; the uniqueness of contemporary American society; and patterns in foreign policy.

anDrzej manIa teaches at the Institute of Political Sci-

ence and International Relations, Jagiellonian University.

Łukasz WorDlIczek teaches at the Institute of

American Studies and the Polish Diaspora, Jagiellonian

University.

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polit ics / east european studies

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polit ics / american studies

global studies

Democracy, State, and SocietyEuropean Integration in Central and Eastern EuropemagDalena góra anD katarzYna

zielińska, eDitors

“all of the eighteen texts contained in this work provide an

interesting view on many aspects of the political and social

life of the newest members of the eu and also on their

interactions in the international arena.”

—Dariusz milczarek, university of Warsaw

This book descibes and assesses the changes and integration processes resulting from the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007. Locating similarities and differences within affected countries, the volume identifies recent alterations resulting from European integration and offers an account of Europeanization that transcends condition-ality mechanisms. The book concentrates on the most profound results from the point of view of theorizing on the impact of integra-tion processes: democratic consolidation in the region; collective identity construction; the functioning of civil society; and studies on foreign policy and international relations.

maGDalena Góra is assistant professor at the Institute of

European Studies, Jagiellonian University, and katarzYna

zIelIńska is assistant professor at the Institute of Sociol-

ogy and international programmes coordinator at the Centre

for European Studies, Jagiellonian University.

Obama’s AmericaChange and ContinuityanDrzej mania, eDitor

This book collects selected papers presented at an international conference organized by the Jagiellonian University in May 2010. The works thoroughly analyze the processes taking place during the first years of Barack Obama’s administration. The anthology initially focuses on U.S. foreign- policy issues relating to Africa, Japan, Iran, Germany, and Central and Eastern Europe. It then follows the political processes and institutions supervised by Vice President Joe Biden and the relationship between the American president and the Supreme Court. In conclusion, the volume covers such social issues as racial policy, popular movements, and Obama’s public image.

anDrzej manIa works at the Institute of Political Science

and International Relations at the Jagiellonian University. He

has published more than twenty works and is the editor of

the series Jagiellonian University Texts on American Studies

Momentum and the academic journal, Ad Americam: Journal

of American Studies.

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Judaic studies / l inguist ics

studia turcologica cracoviensia

$40.00 paper 978-83-233-3380-7

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Unknown Lutsk Karaim Letters in Hebrew Script (Nineteenth–Twentieth Centuries)A Critical EditionmichaŁ németh

“michał németh introduces new archival sources into the

history of everyday karaim language in the nineteenth and

early twentieth centuries and develops their language in

terms of the new information these sources bring to karaim

knowledge.”

—marek stachowski, jagiellonian university

The work recaptures the language spoken by Lutsk Karaims in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The volume reproduces eleven private letters and five open letters and is the first critical edition of this type of text written in this particular dialect. Linguistic descriptions of the texts identify the manuscripts’ grammar and are complemented by a chapter detailing the Slavonic structural influences exerted on the authors’ idiolects. A concise palaeographic description and content summary precedes each translation, and the work concludes with a glossary, several indexes, maps, and facsimiles of the manuscripts.

mIchaŁ németh is an assistant lecturer in Hungarian

philology at the Jagiellonian University.

Authors on AuthorsIn Selected Biographical-Novels- About-Writersrobert kusek

“an ambitious attempt to tackle the important and current

topic of theoretical, historical, and literary criticism. in

accordance with the promise made in the title, robert kusek

intriguingly discusses his selection of biographical novels and

classifies different variations, based on theoretical thought.”

—mirosława buchholtz, nicolaus copernicus university

Authors on Authors examines the biographical-novel-about-a-writer subgenre, which uses a real writer and his/her life story for imaginative exploration. The study identifies all the major examples of the genre written in English between 1990 and 2010 and discusses the approaches and methods used by contemporary authors in rewriting the lives of other authors. This study works dialectically across the borders of history, biography, literary criticism, philosophy, and textual analysis, focusing on four texts: Author, Author by David Lodge; The Master by Colm Tóibín; The Hours by Michael Cunningham; and The Master of Petersburg by J. M. Coetzee.

robert kusek is a lecturer in the Institute of English


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Writing LifeSuffering as a Poetic Strategy of Emily DickinsonjaDWiga smith anD anna kaPusta

“a novel approach that at the same time illuminates the

important problem of suffering by linking it with art.”

—beata szymańska, poet and author

Emily Dickinson’s texts confirm the idea that suffering occupies the principal position in the poet’s work. Her poetry reflects a painful literary quest for subjectivity as well as an act of self-transcendence, meaning that through her writing the poet obtained conscious control over her personal anguish. By using pain as a poetic strategy, Dickinson transformed her private biography into a literary text. In this way, she is a model for coping with suffering and using it for self-examination and self-development. The investigation of Dickinson’s poetic texts reveals three dimensions of suffering as poetic strategy: suffering as a theme; suffer-ing as a subversive force affecting language; and suffering as a form of poetic expression.

jaDWIGa smIth is a professor of English at Bridgewater

State University.

anna kaPusta is a social anthropologist and literary critic.

The “Image-Event” in the Early Post-9/11 NovelLiterary Representations of Terror After September 11, 2001eWa koWal

“the picture of empty space left after the towers collapsed has

become a museum of memory and a place for experiencing

the greatness and victory of human spirit, recalled repeatedly

in the book. it is in these fragments that ewa kowal finds

the literate memorial strengthening the memory of the

victims, becoming a part of the history in opposition to a sole

description of the events that happend.”

—ewa borkowska, university of silesia

How can literature respond to a monu-mental event whose memory is inseparable from its media coverage? How can writers represent what Jean Baudrillard called the “image-event,” and what form can they use to convey something so unspeakable simultaneously broadcast live across the globe? These questions are central to Ewa Kowal’s comparative study of thirteen post-9/11 novels. Focusing on audio-visual media, motifs of childhood, and magical thinking, she ranks each book according to its closeness to the terrorist attack and links the book’s distance to its degree of formal (un)conventionality.

eWa koWal teaches at the Institute of English Studies

at the Jagiellonian University.

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gerontology / east european studies

Developing Intercultural Competence Through EnglishFocus on Ukrainian and Polish Culturesanna niżegoroDceW,

Yakiv bYstrov, anD

marcin kleban, eDitors

“a valuable result on a joint intercultural project between

two universities from the neighboring countries of Poland

and ukraine. the volume distinguishes itself in three ways:

an unusual format combining the work of both scholars and

students; a focus on the intracultural approach; and practical

designation.”

—lucyna aleksandrowicz-Pędich, Warsaw school of social

sciences and humanities

This volume emphasizes an increasing awareness that teaching and learning English also serves to develop general inter-cultural competence. This volume’s choice of topics points to an interesting cultural difference: a Ukrainian inclination to focus on the characteristic and attractive aspects of their own culture, and a Polish inclination to concentrate on the problematic and difficult features of their culture.

anna nIżeGoroDceW is professor of English at the

Jagiellonian University.

YakIV bYstroV is head of the Department of English

Philology at the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National

University in the Ukraine.

marcIn kleban is an assistant professor at the Institute

for English Studies, Jagiellonian University.

Developing the “Sociology of Ageing”To Tackle the Challenge of Ageing Societies in Central and Eastern Europejolanta Perek-biaŁas anD

anDreas hoFF, eDitors

“this book collects the most contemporary issues relating

to the process of ageing in central and eastern european

societies. its aim is to call attention to the challenges of

this population and its importance to aspects of sociology.

these challenges not only require recognition and resolution

through the application of appropriate research approaches

but also the education of various actors (including policy

makers) for both diagnosing the phenomena and taking

action.”

—jolanta grotowska-leder, university of lodz

This volume covers multiple topics in ageing studies and outlines a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, meaning that although it is a publication containing many authors, it is a consistent study, tracing the development of the sociology of ageing as a scientific discipline in select Central and Eastern European countries.

jolanta Perek-bIaŁas teaches in the Institute of

Sociology at Jagiellonian University.

anDreas hoFF is professor of social gerontology at the

University of Applied Sciences in Germany and a research

affiliate at the Oxford Institute of Ageing.

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management

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management

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management

Chemical Management in Scientific and Educational Institutionsteresa siemieńska,

krzYsztoF szczePonek,

anDrzej m. turek, anD

leonarD m. PronieWicz

This study concerns the use, management, and disposal of chemical reagents according to Polish and EU law. It covers regulatory directives, occupational health and safety rules, fire regulations, the purchase and preparation of chemical substances, storage, handling, the use of chemicals in the workplace, and the recovery and disposal of chemical waste.

teresa sIemIeńska is a specialist,

krzYsztoF szczePonek is a se-

nior specialist, anDrzej m. turek is

an assistant professor, and leonarD

m. PronIeWIcz is a professor in the

Faculty of Chemistry at the Jagiel-

lonian University.

Costs, Organization, and Management of Hospitalsjan stęPnieWski anD

marek bugDol, eDitors

A successful health-care unit means meeting patients’ expectations, taking advantage of the latest organizational and technological solutions, and providing financial balance. Medical units must pursue modern methods of manage-ment, taking into account cost analysis, cost structure, and controlling and caring about income. This volume shows how to transpose organizational solutions to medical units from other economic fields.

jan stĘPnIeWskI and marek

buGDol are lecturers at the Faculty

of Management and Social Communi-

cation at the Jagiellonian University.

Strategic Directions of Tourism DevelopmentThe Cases of Poland and Slovakia–Scientific MonographmaŁgorzata

beDnarczYk, anDrej

malachovský, anD eWa

WszenDYbYŁ-skulska,

eDitors

This volume describes the implementation of tourism policy within each member country of the EU. It details regional approaches and confronts the complex monitoring processes of regional and national tourism products.

maŁGorzata beDnarczYk is

lecturer in the Faculty of Management

and Social Communication, Jagiel-

lonian University.

anDrej malachoVskÝ teaches

in the Department of Tourism and

Hospitality at the Matej Bel University.

eWa WszenDYbYŁ-skulska is

lecturer in management and social

communication, Jagiellonian University.

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Shakespeare in EuropeHistory and Memorymarta gibińska

anD agnieszka

romanoWska, eDitors

International scholars trace the changing concept and status of history in the reading and representation of Shakespearean plays. Essays consider the transposition of the plays’ time and place to the time and place of their reception within the context of historical aware-ness. Equally fascinating are studies reclaiming medieval and Renaissance perspec-tives. Memory and how it operates (or how we operate it) becomes indispensable to research on history’s literary and dramatic representation.

marta GIbIńska is a lecturer in

English philology and aGnIeszka

romanoWska is an assistant

professor of English at the Jagiellonian

University.

Eyes to Wonder, Tongue to PraiseVolume in Honour of Professor Marta Gibińskaagnieszka Pokojska

anD agnieszka

romanoWska, eDitors

These essays cover Shakespeare’s historical context; sources; theatrical, screen, and literary reception; and translations. “Eyes to wonder, tongue to praise” is a poetic phrase borrowed from Shakespeare, conveying a defining quality of the contributors to this volume and its recipient: the ability to translate a keen appre-ciation of literature into eloquent praise, combined with a generosity to share it with others.

aGnIeszka Pokojska is a lecturer

in the Faculty of English Philology and

aGnIeszka romanoWska is an

assistant professor of English at the


Genre Analysis of Online EncyclopediasThe Case of Wikipediaanna tereszkieWicz

“a valuable and innovative contribution

to modern genealogy research.”

—ewa Willim, Faculty of english Philology,

jagiellonian university

This is the first complete study of the online ency-clopedia genre. The book opens with a theoretical introduction to the concept of Web genres and provides a detailed overview of the content, form, and func-tionality of different types of encyclopedic websites. The second part concerns Wikipedia, featuring an in-depth discussion of the site’s discourse features. The book is enhanced by many illustrations reproducing the analyzed websites.

anna tereszkIeWIcz is a lecturer

at the Institute of English Studies at

the Jagiellonian University.

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l iterary crit ic ism / poetry

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l iterature / antHology

Violence in Early Modernist FictionThe Secret Agent, Tarr, and Women in Loveizabela curYŁŁo-klag

“this work taps into a deep layer of

communication and mutual conflict

as literary forms, the symbolism of

gestures and behaviors, reflecting

what irving goffman defined in his

sociological analysis as ‘presentation

of self.’ ”

—krystyna stamirowska, jagiellonian

university

Building on the anthro-pological insights of René Girard and on the premise that literature is a reflection of a cultural moment, Izabela Curyłło-Klag shows how early modernism registers symptoms of a crisis even the outbreak of World War I failed to resolve. Addressed in chronological order, the works of Conrad, Lewis, and Lawrence indicate the growing intensity of the epoch that produced them.

Izabela curYŁŁo-klaG teaches in

the Institute of English Studies at the


Aspects Yellowing DarklyEthics, Intuitions, and the European High Modernist Poetry of Suffering and PassagePeter mccormick

Peter McCormick highlights the conceptual and linguistic resources of the distinctive European high modernist poetry of suffering, demon-strating its fresh rearticula-tion of the morals and ethics underwriting European civilization. McCormick investigates forms of moral discourse, moral perception, moral motivation, and ethical emancipation in the poetry of Nobel Laureates T. S. Eliot, Paul Valéry, and Eugenio Montale.

Peter mccormIck is a member of

the Institut international de philoso-

phie in Paris and a former professor of

philosophy at the University of Ottawa.

Modern Literature of the United Arab Emiratesbarbara michalak-

Pikulska

“this volume develops a comprehensive,

contemporary literature of the united

arab emirates. the work’s composition

is clear and contains interesting

conclusions supported by insightful

research, resulting in an innovative

historical and literary study.”

—ewa machut-mendecka, Faculty of

oriental studies, university of Warsaw

This volume fills a yawning gap in the academic study of Emirate literature, bringing Arab and non-Arab readers closer to the exceptionally interesting—though only recently represented—pan-orama of Emirati literary life. This anthology also contains biographical information on featured authors and bibliographies of their work.

barbara mIchalak-PIkulska is

head of the Arabic Department at the

Institute of Oriental Studies, Jagiel-

lonian University.

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l iterary crit ic ism / m iddle east

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Genres RediscoveredStudies in Latin Miniature Epic, Love Elegy, and Epigram of the Romano-Barbaric Ageanna maria WasYl

Reading Dracontius’s epyllion, Maximianus’s elegy, and Luxorius’s epigram, this volume transforms common understandings of classical Roman poetry genres, emphasizing the courage of these poets in reusing and reinterpreting their literary heritage. The book proves that studies of Latin litera-ture and literature in general require a proper, diachronic approach unsettling accepted conceptions of “main” and

“marginal,” “relevant” and “negligible.”

anna marIa WasYl teaches at the

Institute of Classical Philology at the


Transcending TraditionsThurayya al-Baqsami— a Creative Compilation—Poetry, Prose, and Paintbarbara michalak-

Pikulska

“this book is an interesting, original, and

valuable contribution to the study of

arabic literature and culture.”

—ewa machut-mendecka, university of

Warsaw

Transcending Traditions systematically maps the Kuwaiti female artist Thurayya Al-Baqsami’s literary creativity and examines the significance of her artistic work.

barbara mIchalak-PIkulska is

head of the Arabic Department at the

Institute of Oriental Studies, the Jagiel-

lonian University. Her many books

include Modern Poetry and Prose of

Bahrain; Authority, Privacy, and Public

Order in Islam; and Intertextuality in

Modern Arabic Literature Since 1967.

Poland–ChinaArt and Cultural Heritagejoanna WasileWska,

eDitor

This book contains a col-lection of texts produced during the first conference between Polish and Chinese art historians in 2009. Essays synthesize different periods and phenomena throughout the history of Polish and Chinese art, addressing artis-tic contact between the two countries, especially from a Chinese point of view, and the affinities and common tendencies shared between modern and contemporary Chinese and Polish art. The volume also provides insight into recent developments in Polish research on Chinese art, a dynamically developing subject.

joanna WasIleWska is deputy

director and curator of the Asia

and Pacific Museum in Warsaw.

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polit ics / pH ilosopHy

$35.00 paper 978-83-233-1814-9

2 0 0 9 106 pages

management

$40.00 paper 978-83-233-2577-2

2 0 0 8 182 pages

gerontology / east european

studies

Moments of MutualityRearticulating Social Justice in France and the EUPeter mccormick

“important, original, and valuable.”

—czesław Porębski, jagiellonian

university

This volume reframes social injustice not as an absence of solidarity but as the failure to imagine and act on “mutuali-ties.” The book highlights the central elements of extreme child poverty through case studies of destitute Parisian street children, arguing the violations of social justice outlined by J. Rawls, A. Sen, R. Dworkin, and J. Habermas are insufficient for understanding such legally and morally intolerable situations. Nevertheless, each contributes to a progressive rearticulation of social justice.Peter mccormIck is a fellow of

the Royal Society of Canada and a

permanent member of the Institut

International de Philosophie in Paris.

The Analytic Hierarchy and Network ProcessesApplication in Solving Multicriteria Decision ProblemsWiktor aDamus, eDitor

This book reviews the AHP/ANP approach to decision problems and their applica-tion to economic, managerial, and organizational issues. It addresses theoretical and methodological aspects; the application of AHP in connection with other methods; the application of ANP in solving economic, organizational, social, and political problems; and other multicriteria methods. The variety of problems and solu-tions indicate these methods are developing rapidly and offer interdisciplinary research perspectives.

WIktor aDamus is a professor

at the Institute of Economics and

Management, Jagiellonian University.

The Ageing Societies of Central and Eastern EuropeSome Problems–Some Solutionsjolanta Perek-biaŁas

anD anDreas hoFF,

eDitors

This book explores how Central and Eastern European societies are handling populations ageing more rapidly than in Western Europe. The text focuses on the influence of demographic ageing on societal change; overcoming age discrimination; the effect of family change on intergenerational solidarity; combining the skills of the young and the old in the workplace; public policy; and the public pension system.

jolanta Perek-bIaŁas is an assis-

tant professor, Jagiellonian University.

anDreas hoFF is professor of social

gerontology, Hochschule Zittau-Görlitz,

Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften.

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ancient H istory

electrum

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l inguist ics / m iddle east studies

$45.00 paper 978-83-233-3184-1

2 0 1 1 240 pages / 43 color and 37 b&w maps

arcHaeology / american H istory

The Hasmoneans and Their StateA Study in History, Ideology, and the InstitutionseDWarD DąbroWa,

eDitor

Scholars have long disputed Hasmonean history, particularly the chronology and importance of events and the the identities of the actors involved. The aim of this study, therefore, is not to present a new reconstruction of Hasmonean history but to describe the state institutions they created. This issue usually remains on the fringe of scholarly dispute and to date has not been closely investigated. Nor has any attempt been made to synthetically present how the Hasmonean state once functioned in every aspect.

eDWarD DąbroWa is a professor of

history at the Jagiellonian University.

Studies on the Turkic WorldFestschrift in Honor of Stanisław Stachowskielżbieta mańczak-

WohlFelD anD barbara

PoDolak, eDitors

Stanisław Stachowski is a Polish linguist and specialist on Turkey and the Turkish language. He founded the Department of Hungarian Philology at the Jagiellonian University and has served twice as the director of its Institute of Oriental Philology.

elżbIeta mańczak-WohlFelD

is a professor at the Jagiellonian

University.

barbara PoDolak is a senior

lecturer at the Institute of Oriental

Studies, Jagiellonian University.

Defensive Architecture and the Depopulation of the Mesa Verde Region, Utah-Colorado, in the Thirteenth Century A.D.raDosŁaW Palonka

Scholars still stuggle to understand the migration of Pueblo people from the Mesa Verde region to the south and southeast at the end of the thirteenth century. This volume covers the social, political, and environmental factors driving the region’s depopulation. It presents evidence from remote archaeological sites, defen-sive buildings, settlement layouts; human remains; and rock art.

raDosŁaW Palonka is a

researcher and faculty member at the

Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian

University.

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relig ion / east european studies

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european History

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sociology / gender studies

The Image and the FigureOur Lady of Częstochowa in Polish Culture and Popular Religionanna nieDźWieDź

The image of Our Lady of Częstochowa is the most famous and venerated holy image in Poland. It is a kind of cultural icon, instantly recognizable and full of popular symbolic and mythological meanings. This book analyzes the beliefs, narratives, myths, and rituals surrounding the image, revealing that for its devotees, it is not merely material object and picture but a perceived, lived, and experienced image of a real person, the figure of Mary, queen and mother.

anna nIeDźWIeDź is an anthro-

pologist teaching at the Institute of

Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology,


Gaps in the Iron CurtainEconomic Relations Between Neutral and Socialist Countries in Cold War EuropegertruDe enDerle-

burcel, Piotr

Franaszek, Dieter

stieFel, anD alice

teichova, eDitors

This volume focuses on the role of the capitalist market economies of neutral countries in building East-West contacts during the Cold War.

GertruDe enDerle-burcel is a

historian at the Austrian State Archives

in Vienna.

PIotr Franaszek is a professor of

history at the Institute of History, the


DIeter steIFel is a professor of

social and economic history at the

University of Vienna.

alIce teIchoVa is professor emeri-

tus of the University of East Anglia.

Women in New MigrationsCurrent Debates in European SocietieskrYstYna slanY,

maria kontos, anD

maria liaPi, eDitors

This volume surveys research and debates concerning new female migrants in European countries. Despite globaliza-tion and the Europeanization of national migration and integration policies, varying social, economic, and politi-cal conditions at the national level remain a powerful basis of academic production.

krYstYna slanY is head of gender

studies at the Institute of Sociology,


marIa kontos is a senior research

fellow at the Institute for Social

Research, J. W. Goethe University.

marIa lIaPI is a sociologist

and equality expert and founding

member of the Centre for Research on

Women’s Issues, Athens.

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environmental studies

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law

$60.00 cloth 978-83-233-2945-9

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law

Transformation of the Natural Environment in Western Sørkapp Land (Spitsbergen) Since the 1980sWiesŁaW ziaja, eDitor

Western Sørkapp Land is a remote and diverse region, representative of the European Arctic. This book maps the transformation of the environment and land-scape based on research data collected by the Jagiellonian University scientific expedi-tions of 1980–1986 and 2008. Western Sørkapp Land has experienced dramatic natural changes such as glacial reces-sion, the emergence of new landforms, and Quaternary deposits, changes in the water drainage and network caused by global warming.

WIesŁaW zIaja is a professor

of geography at the Institute of

Geography and Spatial Management,


Studies in the Philosophy of Law, 4jerzY stelmach,

marta sonieWicka,

anD Wojciech zaŁuski,

eDitors

This is the fourth volume in the series Studies in the Philosophy of Law, the first volume of which was published in 2001. The previous two volumes had a monographic character, the last one being devoted to the economic analysis of law. This book concerns various issues in bioethics, law, and philosophy.

jerzY stelmach is a professor of

law at the University of Heidelberg.

marta sonIeWIcka is an assistant

professor in the Faculty of Law and

Administration at the Jagiellonian

University.

WojcIech zaŁuskI is an assistant



University.

Studies in the Philosophy of Law, 5jerzY stelmach,

bartosz brożek, anD

marta sonieWicka,

eDitors

This fifth volume reflects work completed during a 2007–2010 research project entitled “Biojurisprudence,” undertaken by the Department of the Philosophy of Law and Legal Ethics at the Jagiellonian University and sponsored by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

jerzY stelmach is a professor of

law at the University of Heidelberg.

bartosz brożek is a professor

of law in the Faculty of Law and


University.

marta sonIeWIcka is an assistant



University.

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law

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law

European Union Private International Labour LawanDrzej marian ŚWiątkoWski

“Fundamental not only for students and teachers but also for

legal practitioners, presenting basic notions and laws from a

theoretical standpoint and a set of proposals and practical

solutions to tackle the occurrence of norm conflicts and

remain operative in the face of such conflicts.”

—luis jimena quesada, university of valencia Faculty of law,

president of the european committee of social rights, council

of europe

In EU labor law matters (individual and collective), as well as social security law, unified regulations create identical ways to resolve labor law conflicts arising from cross-national work relations. To ensure legal stability, national regulations concern-ing international private labor law have been replaced by unified conflicts of law norms. Employees and employers of EU member states must apply these laws in work situations in which third parties are involved. This volume collects international private labor law regulations issued by EU institutions, enabling the application of foreign laws based on citizenship, residency, and location.

anDrzej marIan ŚWIątkoWskI graduated from the

Faculty of Law at the Jagiellonian University and studied at

Columbia Law School and the University of Pennsylvania.

The New Law SchoolReexamining Goals, Organization, and Methods for a Changing WorldDaniela ikaWa anD leah Wortham,

eDitors

“this collection is a unique contribution to understanding

issues confronting law schools in central and eastern europe

and in countries of the former soviet union as they seek to

ensure their programs meet the needs of twenty-first-century

lawyers.”

—barbara schatz, columbia law school

This collection is unusual in two ways: most contributors are faculty members at universi-ties within Central and Eastern Europe, and essays address structural issues as well as pedagogical ones (e.g., the disincentives for academics to invest time in developing new teaching methodologies and the problems posed by rigid government standards for higher education). It is especially useful to join these essays together in one book so readers can consider both problems and suggested solutions in a crosscultural context.

DanIela IkaWa is an assistant professor at the Institute

for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University.

leah Wortham is on the faculty of the Columbus School

of Law at the Catholic University of America. She is an editor

and coauthor of Learning from Practice: A Professional

Development Text for Legal Externs.

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Prepositional Network ModelsA Hermeneutical Case StudyanDrzej PaWelec

This text concerns the modeling of prepositional polysemy, known as “the story of over,” and the Polish counterpart, “the story of za(-),” a preposition and verbal prefix. The book explores the difference between cognitive and hermeneutical approaches to understanding the meaning of words, the representation of lexical senses (available out of context), the distinct meanings of words in com-munal use, and the question of the transformative power of words.

anDrzej PaWelec teaches

cognitive linguistics and translation at

the Institute of English Philology, the


Languages and Cultures in Research and EducationJubilee Volume Presented to Professor Ralf-Peter Ritter on His Seventieth Birthdaylászló kálmán nagY,

michaŁ németh, anD

szilárD tátrai, eDitors

This collection features papers presented at a conference held in Krakow in 2009. Essays consider historical linguistics lato sensu, reflect recent research on Hungarian language and literature, and explore Indo-European and Ugro-Finnic linguistics, the history of science, and Hungarian literature.

lászló kálmán naGY is a profes-

sor in Hungarian philology, mIchaŁ

németh is an assistant lecturer in

Hungarian philology, and szIlárD

tátraI is an assistant professor of

Hungarian philology at the Jagiel-

lonian University.

Young Linguists in DialogueThe First ConferenceeWa Willim, eDitor

Young Linguists in Dialogue contains selected papers on linguistics from a conference organized by the Jagiellonian University Student’s English Society in Krakow in 2008. The authors were all students of the Jagiellonian University and the University of Łódź. Papers address questions related to the theory of natural language syntax, language diachrony, theory of phonology, psycholinguistics, linguistic stylistics, transla-tion theory, and language methodology. This impres-sive variety of topics reflects these students’ wide-ranging research interests in the study of natural language.

eWa WIllIm is an associate professor

of linguistics at the Institute of English

Studies, the Jagiellonian University.

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$45.00 paper 978-83-233-2741-7

2 0 0 9 268 pages / 235 figures and CD

medic ine / statist ics

Dialogue in Foreign Language Educationmonika kusiak, eDitor

“an extremely valuable book discussing

issues that play a crucial role in

contemporary foreign-language

pedagogy. in an interesting way, it

presents the voices of its contributors.

i believe the book will be welcomed by

foreign-language teachers, academic

instructors, and teacher trainees and

students of foreign-language colleges.”

—hanna komorowska, institute of english

studies, university of Warsaw

This collection explores key topics in contemporary foreign-language education, including academic discourse, intercultural communication, the use of information technology, critical reading, the development of com-municative skills, and anxiety in foreign-language learning. Researchers discuss the inter-play among various factors influencing foreign-language learning and teaching.

monIka kusIak is a lecturer in


Learner’s Dictionary for Students and ProfessionalsEnglish for European Public HealthkatarzYna

czabanoWska, eDitor

“an extremely useful tool for public

health programs across europe.”

—ron akehurst, university of sheffield

A comprehensive guide to vocabulary learning for public health teachers and students, this book repre-sents a unique collaboration between public health specialists and language teachers to define public health terms and assist in professional development. Fields covered include epidemiology, environmental health, health promotion, health policy, health eco-nomics, management, health ethics and law, and research.

katarzYna czabanoWska is an

assistant professor in health sciences

at the Maastricht University.

Statistics by Prescriptionirena roterman-

konieczna

“i strongly support the distribution of

this book among all medical libraries,

as well as among all libraries of natural

science institutions”

—andrzej leś, university of Warsaw

This manual is a guide-like introduction to statistical techniques, particulary those used in medicine. The book’s exercises facilitate self-learning and testing and are based on the international software system SAS. A CD contains data on injuries and other health statistics across the decades.

Irena roterman-konIeczna

is chair of the Department of

Bioinformatics and Telemedicine at the

Jagiellonian University Medical College.

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Acting and Performance in Moving Image Culture ........................14

Active Audience ......................................... 6Aesthetics of Authenticity, The ..................... 2Aesthetics of Net Literature, The.................19Ageing Societies of Central and

Eastern Europe, The............................. 57Ages of Life, The........................................ 13Ambiguity in Star Wars and

Harry Potter .........................................3Analytic Hierarchy and

Network Processes, The ......................... 57Art and Sustainability ..............................41Aspects Yellowing Darkly .......................... 55Asymmetrical Concepts After

Reinhart Koselleck ............................... 31Authors on Authors ...................................50Balkan Memories ...................................... 2Between Self-Determination and

Social Technology .................................37Beyond the Screen .....................................19Black History–White History ................... 26Bodies, Boundaries, and

Spirit Possession ................................. 46Body at Stake, The.....................................16Buddhist Approaches to

Human Rights ................................... 44Camp Comforts ........................................28Candide–Journal for Architectural

Knowledge, No. 2 ................................42Candide–Journal for Architectural

Knowledge, No. 3 .................................42Care in Practice ....................................... 40Chemical Management in Scientific

and Educational Institutions ................ 53Childhood and Migration ......................... 33Chronotopes of the Uncanny ..................... 29Companies in Peace Processes.....................34Constitutional Developments of the

Habsburg Empire in the Last Decades Before Its Fall .........................48

Cop and the Sociologist, The .......................10Costs, Organization, and

Management of Hospitals .................... 53Couchsurfing Cosmopolitanisms .................10Creative Networks and the City ................42Cultural History in Europe ...................... 30Dance [and] Theory ..................................14Dancing Postcolonialism ...........................36Deconstructing Gender in Carnival .......... 30Defensive Architecture and the

Depopulation of the Mesa Verde Region, Utah-Colorado, in the Thirteenth Century A.D. ...................... 58

Democracy, State, and Society ................... 49Developing Intercultural

Competence Through English ................ 52Developing the “Sociology of Ageing” ......... 52Dialogue in Foreign

Language Education ...........................63Digital Tools in Media Studies .................. 18Dissonant Memories,

Fragmented Present .............................32Diversification of Health, The ....................39Does War Belong in Museums? ..................16Doing Anthropology in Wartime

and War Zones .................................... 31

Doing Identity in Luxembourg..................32Emerging Bodies ......................................36Emerging Diseases .................................... 12Environmental Uncertainty and

Local Knowledge ................................. 11European Union Private

International Labour Law ...................61European Visions...................................... 15Eyes to Wonder, Tongue to Praise ...............54Feminist Media ......................................... 7From Pathology to Public Sphere ................ 8Fusing Lab and Gallery ............................16Futures of Modernity ................................. 8Gaps in the Iron Curtain ..........................59Genre Analysis of

Online Encyclopedias ...........................54Genres Rediscovered .................................56Grinding California ...................................3Hasmoneans and Their State, The ............... 58Health Promotion and Prevention

Programmes in Practice ...................... 40Historicizing the Uses of the Past ...............37Historico-genetic Theory of Culture ............ 35Humanism in East Asian

Confucian Contexts .............................45Humanism in Intercultural

Perspective ......................................... 44Image and the Figure, The .........................59“Image-Event” in the Early

Post-9/11 Novel, The ............................ 51Images of Illegalized Immigration .............41Implanted Minds .....................................39Interface Cultures .....................................24Internationalization of the

Social Sciences......................................38Islam and the Politics of

Culture in Europe .................................1Jews on Route to

Palestine, 1934–1944 ............................47Knowledge in Motion ...............................36Lad Trouble ............................................. 21Languages and Cultures in

Research and Education .......................62Learner’s Dictionary for

Students and Professionals ...................63Lebanese in Motion ..................................34Lived Temporalities ................................. 20Local Knowledge and

Gender in Ghana ................................34Love After Auschwitz ............................... 35Love It or Loathe It .................................. 21Machines as Agency ..................................24Making and Unmaking of

Differences, The ................................... 33Making of World Society, The ................... 46Media, Culture, and Mediality .................25Mind and Matter .....................................25Mittelbau-Dora: American and

German Representations of a Nazi Concentration Camp .................. 29

Modern Literature of the United Arab Emirates ......................... 55

Moments of Mutuality.............................. 57Moment to Monument ............................ 20New Law School, The ................................61New Thoughtfulness in

Contemporary China, A .......................41

Not Berlin and Not Shanghai ...................24Obama’s America ..................................... 49Octavio Paz ............................................ 44Ornamenting the Cold Roast ..................... 4Paradoxes of Authenticity ..........................22Past and Present Energy Societies .............. 13Peripheral Memories .................................. 9Placing America ........................................ 4Poland–China ..........................................56Political Campaigning on the Web ............. 18Political Responsibility

for a Globalised World ..........................45Politics and Cultures of

Islamization in Southeast Asia ............ 46Politics of Imagination, The ...................... 26Popular History Now and Then .................. 9Port Cities as Areas of Transition ..............43Prayer in the City .......................................1Prepositional Network Models ..................62Pursuit of Meaning ..................................22Queer Art ................................................ 17Reading Moving Letters ...........................19Real Wars on Virtual Battlefields ...............23Reconciliation, Civil Society,

and the Politics of Memory .................... 7Represented Reporters ...............................23Rethinking Biomedicine and

Governance in Africa .......................... 12Rewind, Play, Fast Forward .....................22Rubble, Ruins, and Romanticism .............. 15Screening Nostalgia ..................................27Setting the Record Queer...........................28Shakespeare in Europe ..............................54Shaping a Humane World .........................10Sociological Theory of Value, A.................... 35Soundscapes of the Urban Past ................... 17Space (Re)Solutions ..................................25Staging the Past ...................................... 26Statistics by Prescription ...........................63Strategic Directions of

Tourism Development ......................... 53Studies in the Philosophy of Law, 4 .......... 60Studies in the Philosophy of Law, 5 ........... 60Studies on the Turkic World ....................... 58Tensions and Convergences .......................38Theater in Lebanon ...................................27Thick Space ............................................... 17Totalitarian Communication ....................23Traces of Humanism in China ..................45Transatlantic Cultural Exchange ................5Transatlantic Sixties, The ............................5Transcending Traditions ...........................56Transformation of the Natural

Environment in Western Sørkapp Land (Spitsbergen) Since the 1980s ...... 60

Translation ............................................... 6United States and the World, The ...............48Unknown Lutsk Karaim

Letters in Hebrew Script (Nineteenth-Twentieth Centuries) .......50

Urban Hacking ........................................43Urban Life–Worlds in Motion .................. 11Violence in Early Modernist Fiction .......... 55Women in New Migrations .......................59Writing Life ............................................. 51Young Linguists in Dialogue .....................62

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