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Räuber – Priester – Königskinder
(2021)
This is the first volume of the complete publication of the research carried out in the two undecorated shaft tombs KV 40 and KV 64 in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt. This volume presents all the inscribed ...
Literatur und Institutionen
(2023)
Angebliche Huren
(2023)
World Trade, Child Labour and Transnational Constitutionalism, The Case for a New Legal Humanism
(2024)
Is the current structure of international law still adequate to solve global problems such as child labour? This book argues for more coherence between human rights and trade law, analysing the world trade law compatibility ...
Körper als Archiv in Bewegung
(2016)
The history of dance as the history of the body: how choreographies sketch out new modes of writing the history of dance, and how they expand the archive of dance in the process.
Migrationsbedingt behindert?
(2016)
Until now, the category of `culture' functioned as a central category of difference and explanation for reduced ability of the support system to reach families at the intersections of migration and disability. The barriers ...
Changing Time - Shaping World
(2022)
A World of Changemakers - how can a hybrid arts lecture series concept in e-learning create attitudes and shape skills as a playful and critical thinking navigator in an uncertain world? To re-create meaning is an ...
Regime der Anerkennung
(2016)
What meaning does recognition have in the context of the rehabilitation of tyranny? This volume provides answers.
Killing and Being Killed
(2018)
What bodily experiences did fighters make through their lifetime and especially in violent conflicts? How were the bodies of fighters trained, nourished, and prepared for combat? How did they respond to wounds, torture and ...
Jahrbuch für Kulturpolitik 2015/16
(2016)
With the realisation of German unity, cultural policies have also changed - conceptually as well as instrumentally. It would be too short-sighted, however, if one were to frame this transformation as the direct result of ...
Haare hören – Strukturen wissen – Räume agieren
(2015)
What happens when the functional principle of the human ear is translated into the field of nanotechnology, a map depicting epistemological architecture is sketched as a lecture performance, or when researchers from over ...
Die Welt reparieren
(2016)
Across the world, more and more DIY initiatives are cropping up, in which a diversity of matters and problems are being collectively dealt with. In these collaborative contexts – located away from the market and the state ...
Lehrer in, Migration und Differenz -- Fragen der Zugehörigkeit bei Grundschullehrer innen der zweiten Einwanderungsgeneration in der Schweiz
(2017)
What does it mean to be a teacher with a "migrant background«? This study presents four ideal-typical orientation patterns when dealing with the issue of belonging.
Lean und agil im Büro -- Neue Organisationskonzepte in der digitalen Transformation und ihre Folgen für die Angestellten
(2018)
The office work is being completely reorganized in the current digital transformation. Central to this are concepts such as »lean production« and »agile methods«. The book shows the implications of this development for the ...
Organisation im soziotechnischen Gemenge
(2017)
How do media and technologies structure our daily working lives? An organisational-sociological study.
Konstruierte Gleichheiten
(2022)
Catherine Colomb’s VISION OF TIME: in Dialogue with Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf
(2022)
This monograph is the first substantial contribution to the study of the Swiss novelist Catherine Colomb’s dialogue with Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf as well as to time and memory studies. The framework and approach ...
Shifting Baselines of Europe
(2017)
This book opens the often narrow discourse on the future of Europe and criticises the false dichotomy between nationalism on the one hand and a neoliberal version of Europe on the other. Existing emancipatory projects from ...
Umstrittene Körperteile
(2016)
How did the Swiss organ donation crisis come about? Despite reforms and advertising campaigns, from the late '80s, Swiss transplant medicine began to lament an increasing mistrust in organ donation and falling donor numbers. ...
Deeply Superficial
(2015)
In place of the entanglement of person and work that so strongly marks the artistic work of Andy Warhol, and settles it in the usual Pop Art context, Mèlanie-Chantal Deiss locates it within the cultural context of America's ...
Psychische Erkrankungen in der Arbeitswelt
(2017)
Which work situations are emotionally challenging? How do organizations deal with mental disorders? And how is work made a subject of discussion in therapy? The authors analyze the cases of employees suffering from mental ...
Gewerkschaften im deutschen Einheitsprozess
(2017)
The role of the unions in the process of German unity has so far received little attention. From the beginning, they were among the forces that helped shape the social and economic transformation of East Germany. In the ...
Die Gesellschaft der Nachhaltigkeit -- Umrisse eines Forschungsprogramms
(2018)
Sustainability has become a leading principle of social change that combines different objectives – be it green capitalism based on ecological modernization or a socio-ecological transformation that could ring in a ...
Der Gebrauch der Jugendgewaltprävention
(2017)
In what ways do specialists follow crime policy programs within the context of the prevention of juvenile violence and what consequences does that have for social work and juveniles?
Kriegserfahrungen erzählen
(2017)
How were accounts of war told in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern era? The contributions to this volume pursue this question in an innovative way through the combination of historical and literary methodologies. With ...
Faithful Translators
(2013-12-18)
With Faithful Translators Jaime Goodrich offers the first in-depth examination of women’s devotional translations and of religious translations in general within early modern England. Placing female translators such as ...
Archäologische Untersuchungen
(2017)
How does time figure in archeology? This volume shows how the past can emerge as history and the reason why a part of human history was temporalized into a Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age.
Verworfene Frauenzimmer-- Geschlecht als Kategorie des Wissens vor dem Strafgericht
(2017)
How the construction of female sexuality in connection with criminal acts still (re)produces gender stereotypes in law and the judicial system even today.
Thauma(u)topoiesis
(2024)
Dinge sammeln, Wissen schaffen
(2017)
From how the mammoth came to the museum to how scientific facts emerged from the collected artifacts - a history of scientific collections.
Plato’s Gorgias: Speech, Soul and Politics
(2024)
In the Gorgias Plato offers a synthesis of what he thinks about the bitter conflict between philosophical and non-philosophical approaches to one’s responsibilities in private and public life. This book contributes to a ...
Praxishandbuch Online - Fundraising
(2015)
The days of donation boxes are numbered. An increasing number of clubs and associations, projects and foundations no longer wish to (exclusively) collect donations on the street or via post, but rather are looking to collect ...
Update!
(2020)
Auf dem Weg zur Philosophie
(2019)
Unzuverlässiges Erzählen
(2023)
Burgäschisee 5000-3000 v. Chr.
(2022)
Lake Burgäschi is a small lake on the Swiss Plateau, which has been inhabited since the Mesolithic, but is best known for its Neolithic lakeside settlements. Archaeological research has been conducted at Lake Burgäschi for ...
Theorizing Teaching
(2023)
This open access book seeks to create a forum for discussing key questions regarding theories on teaching: Which theories of teaching do we have? What are their attributes? What do they contain? How are they generated? How ...
Das Tier im Bild
(2023)
Christian Orthodox Migrants in Western Europe
(2023)
Christian Orthodox Migrants in Western Europe: Secularization and Modernity through the Lens of the Gift Paradigm explores a religious community that has been getting increasing scholarly attention. While most of the ...
Deportation limbo
(2023)
Deportation limbo traces the efforts of two Nordic welfare states, Denmark and Sweden, to address the so-called implementation gap in deportation enforcement. It offers an original, empirically grounded account of how ...
Diversité des familles et bien-être en Suisse
(2023)
A typical trajectory continues to dominate the life course in Switzerland: most people marry, have children, and adopt an unequal division of work between spouses. How can we understand this (relatively) weak diversity in ...
Créer la ville
(2022)
Our main thesis is that rituals can foster inclusion if we focus on their communality, their transformative aspect and their conviviality, which is necessary for them to be reproduced. To demonstrate this thesis, we analysed ...
Substantial Relations
(2021)
Substantial Relations examines global reproductive medicine in India, focusing on in vitro fertilization. Since the 1970s, India has played a central but shifting role in shaping global reproductive medicine—from a provider ...
Death is Served
(2023)
The American cultural imaginary is hungry for death, and thus representations of death are prominently repeated and serialized in US literature and media. Stella Castelli shows how American culture fetishizes death as part ...
Transdisciplinarity in Financial Communication
(2023)
This open access book identifies and analyses problems of text production in finance from three complementary perspectives: problem identification, problem analysis, and problem solution. By doing so, it explains why solving ...
Ontologische Narratologie
(2022)
Keramik jenseits von 'Kulturen'
(2023)
Mobility is fundamental to forms of social configurations. But what role did spatial mobility play in the past? Regarding prehistoric periods, such as the Neolithic, we still do know little about this. That also applies ...
Widerstand im Arbeitsprozess
(2022)
Multiperspektivität und dramatische Wirkung in der sophokleischen Tragödie
(2022)
Multiperspektivität ist, was das Drama von anderen Literaturgattungen unterscheidet. Dieses zentrale Merkmal hat in der Erforschung des antiken Dramas aber bis jetzt nicht die Aufmerksamkeit erhalten, die es verdient. Dies ...
Accelerating Human Evolution by Theosophical Initiation
(2022)
The main subjects of analysis in the present book are the stages of initiation in the grand scheme of Theosophical evolution. Mühlematter shows that the stages of initiation were the blueprint for Annie Besant’s pedagogy, ...
Unilateral Sanctions in International Law and the Enforcement of Human Rights
(2022)
Are unilateral economic sanctions legal under public international law? How do they relate to the existing international legal principles and norms? Can unilateral economic sanctions imposed to redress grave human rights ...
Un système « de milice » sélectif
(2022)
This book is an adaptation of a doctoral thesis that studies the representativeness of the members of the local parliaments of four major Swiss cities (Zurich, Lausanne, Lucerne and Lugano) from 1945 to 2016. For this ...
Goldgrund und Perspektive
(2023)
Deutsche und italienische Verwaltungssprache im digitalen Zeitalter
(2022)
Bürgernähe, Verständlichkeit, Transparenz und Digitalisierung sind Prinzipien, nach denen öffentliche Verwaltungen heute ihre Tätigkeiten auszurichten versuchen. Der Band untersucht Dokumente von Schweizer Behörden auf ...
The United States And South Asia From The Age Of Empire To Decolonization
(2022)
The contributions assembled in this volume present cutting-edge research that examines the network of Indo-American interconnections over a wider time frame. The case studies stretch into the early decades of the American ...
The Politics of Children’s Rights and Representation
(2023)
This open access edited volume investigates children and youth's deep entanglement in today's major global, national, and local transformations and processes: wherein they are not mere spectators and objects of transformations ...
Universal Singular
(2022)
Critical introduction to the planning and design of public space. The design of public spaces is a reflection of their time. In our globalised world of images and experiences, however, the striving for uniqueness tends ...
Ansichten zur Ansichtskarte
(2023)
Ökonomisches Scheitern
(2023)
Ploughshares and Swords
(2022)
India's nuclear program is often misunderstood as an inward-looking endeavor of secretive technocrats. In Ploughshares and Swords, Jayita Sarkar challenges this received wisdom, narrating a global story of India's nuclear ...
Identity, Power, and Prestige in Switzerland's Multilingual Education
(2023)
Switzerland is known for its multilingualism, yet not all languages are represented equally in society. The situation is exacerbated by the influx of heritage languages and English through migration and globalization ...
On the Significance of Religion for the SDGs
(2023)
This timely volume addresses the rising interest in the role of religion in global issues worldwide. The ambitious Agenda 2030 and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) serve as the framework for this exploration, ...
The Typological Diversity of Morphomes
(2023)
This book constitutes the first typologically oriented monograph on morphomes, which is the term given to systematic morphological identities, usually within inflectional paradigms, that do not map onto syntactic or semantic ...
Transitioning to Reduced Inequalities
(2023)
The world has never been richer than today. The distribution of our global wealth, however, is hugely biased. Since 1980, the gains were mainly captured by the rich: The top 1% obtained twice as much of the income growth ...
Inhabited Machines
(2022)
Around 1800, one of the most influential architectural concepts of the last 250 years emerged—that of built spaces as technical devices. Climate, morality, and comfort are the three main themes of this study, and each is ...
Computational Stylistics in Poetry, Prose, and Drama
(2022)
The contributions in this edited volume approach poetry, narrative, and drama from the perspective of Computational Stylistics. They exemplify methods of computational textual analysis and explore the possibility of ...
Rational Understanding
(2023)
This book develops a novel account of the connections between justification, understanding, and knowledge. It lays the foundation for a more systematic and interconnected treatment of these central notions in epistemology.
The ...
Withstanding Vulnerability throughout Adult Life
(2023)
This open access interdisciplinary book integrates the major findings and theoretical advances of a 12-year research program run by the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES research program hosted by the ...
Religious Environmental Activism
(2023)
This volume explores how religious and spiritual actors engage for environmental protection and fight against climate change. Climate change and sustainability are increasingly prominent topics among religious and spiritual ...
Kindesvertretung
(2022)
Schweizerdeutsch und Sprachbewusstsein
(2019)
The German Linguistic Studies Series is a comprehensive and outstanding forum in its field. It has borne the name of its subject in its title since the foundation of the series in the eighth decade of the last century.The ...
Stadt der Commonisten
(2013)
It's hard to miss: a new generation of do-it-yourself activists are using the post-Fordist city as a laboratory for social, political, environmental and aesthetic experimentation. Whether in the community garden or in the ...
Das konvivialistische Manifest
(2014)
Global phenomenons like climate change, poverty, terrorism, or financial crises suggest thinking about changed forms of coexistence and perception. Many movements, initiatives, and groups are currently searching for ...
Der Weltanschauungsroman 2. Ordnung
(2019)
Between the world wars, Robert Musil and Hermann Broch replied to an era of catastrophes, which they brought close to their bodies with their protagonists, who were entangled in ideological salvation hopes: a pathogenesis ...
Survey-Welten
(2019)
Die Open-Access-Studie nimmt eine plurale Perspektive auf Survey-Qualität ein und untersucht empirisch unterschiedliche Logiken der Survey-Produktion. Wie aufgezeigt wird, gehen die vier identifizierten Survey-Welten mit ...
Cohesion, Coherence and Temporal Reference from an Experimental Corpus Pragmatics Perspective
(2018)
This open access book provides new methodological and theoretical insights into temporal reference and its linguistic expression, from a cross-linguistic experimental corpus pragmatics approach. Verbal tenses, in general, ...
Bleiberecht in der Gastro-Küche
(2020)
Right to stay in the gastro-kitchen
Migration policy regulations and working conditions of refugees with precarious residence permit status
Asylum policy is labour market policy. Yet, the demarcation lines in migration ...
Die Praxis der bedingten Entlassung aus dem Strafvollzug
(2020)
The decision on conditional release from prison (Art. 86 – 89 SCC) is one of the most important decisions in the Swiss criminal justice system. At stake are both the freedom of the convicted person, who is to be given a ...
Shaping Natural History and Settler Society
(2019)
This book explores the life and work of Mary Elizabeth Barber, a British-born settler scientist who lived in the Cape during the nineteenth century. It provides a lens into a range of subjects within the history of knowledge ...
Do Exclusionary Rules Ensure a Fair Trial?
(2019)
This open access publication discusses exclusionary rules in different criminal justice systems. It is based on the findings of a research project in comparative law with a focus on the question of whether or not a fair ...
Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture
(2019)
Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture presents an overview of the digital turn in Ancient Jewish and Christian manuscripts visualisation, data mining and communication, edited by David Hamidović, Claire Clivaz and Sarah ...
Christus in natura
(2020)
This volume offers detailed studies into the Physiologus, a Greek manuscript probably written in Egypt in the 2nd century CE. The Physiologus was the first Christian text to sum up a general understanding of nature using ...
Digital Image Systems
(2020)
In Digital Image Systems, Claus Gunti examines the antagonizing reactions to digital technologies in photography. While Thomas Ruff, Andreas Gursky and Jörg Sasse have gradually adopted digital imaging tools in the early ...
City of Crisis
(2015)
The ongoing crisis in Europe has dramatic impact on the life in many Southern European cities: Unemployment, social deprivation, poverty, political instability, severe cuts in the welfare state budgets and a wide spread ...