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Politics in Publishing
(2024)
Non-Western perspective on the international history of intellectual property rights.
Politics in Publishing focuses on Japan's involvement in shaping international copyright law over a seventy-year period following ...
Futures for the Public Sector
(2025)
Thought-provoking analysis of how illiberalism, major crises and digital transformation are changing our politico-administrative systems.
What does the future hold for the public sector? A convergence of illiberalism, ...
Dialogen over België
(2020)
"What events, places and figures linger in the memory of eighteen prominent Belgians when they think of their country? French-speaking and Dutch-speaking academics sought an answer to this question for several years. They ...
Turkish German Muslims and Comedy Entertainment
(2020)
Comedy entertainment is a powerful arena for serious public engagement with questions of German national identity and Turkish German migration. The German majority society and its largest labour migrant community have been ...
Children’s Literature in Translation
(2020)
"For many of us, our earliest and most meaningful experiences with literature occur through the medium of a translated children’s book. This volume focuses on the complex interplay that happens between text and context ...
Strategic Imaginations
(2020)
What is the gender of political power ? What happens to the history of sovereignty when we reconsider it from a gender perspective ?
Political sovereignty has been a major theme in European thought from the very beginning ...
The Tacit Dimension
(2021)
"In architecture, tacit knowledge plays a substantial role in both the design process and its reception. The essays in this book explore the tacit dimension of architecture in its aesthetic, material, cultural, design-based, ...
European Literatures of Military Occupation
(2024)
Occupation literature: a new perspective on European identities
What does it mean to live under occupation? How does it shape the culture and identities of European nations? How does it affect the way we write and ...
Fake news in oorlogstijd
(2021)
During the First World War, the German occupier tried to split Belgium internally. This was done by pursuing a Flamenpolitik, a policy aimed at scaring the Flemish, or at least the Flemish movement, against Belgium. That ...
Textures of Power
(2025)
A multidisciplinary study of power in Central Africa.
Central Africa has long been a fertile ground for engendering new concepts and innovative research, exerting significant influence on African studies and beyond. ...
Chapter 8 Network Trust
(2021)
In this chapter we aim to move beyond the extensive focus on relational trust in the organizational literature by broadening the conceptualization of trust to include its inherent generalizability across a network. ...
Chapter 15 Sovereignty without sovereignty
(2021)
"This book brings recent insights about sovereignty and citizen participation in the Belgian Constitution to scholars in the fields of public law, history, and political theory.
Throughout the Western world, there are ...
Chapter 11 Pulling the curtain on the national sovereignty myth:
(2021)
"This book brings recent insights about sovereignty and citizen participation in the Belgian Constitution to scholars in the fields of public law, history, and political theory.
Throughout the Western world, there are ...
Chapter 3 Benjamin Constant and the limits of popular sovereignty
(2021)
"This book brings recent insights about sovereignty and citizen participation in the Belgian Constitution to scholars in the fields of public law, history, and political theory.
Throughout the Western world, there are ...
Chapter 4 Abbé Sieyès
(2021)
"This book brings recent insights about sovereignty and citizen participation in the Belgian Constitution to scholars in the fields of public law, history, and political theory.
Throughout the Western world, there are ...
Between Conventional and Experimental
(2024)
How conventional and experimental prototypes and series created an architecture for all.
Mass housing and prefabrication shaped global modernist architecture like no other aspect of industrialised construction. This ...
Homo Mimeticus II
(2024)
Second volume in the Homo Mimeticus mini-series, which advances the emerging transdisciplinary field of mimetic studies
After the linguistic and the affective turns, the new materialist and the performative turns, the ...
Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood
(2022)
Practices of community-building in a globalised context
Urban neighbourhoods have come to occupy the public imagination as a litmus test of migration, with some areas hailed as multicultural success stories while others ...
Plutarch and Rhetoric
(2024)
A fundamental reappraisal of Plutarch’s attitude towards rhetoric.
Plutarch was not only a skilled writer, but also lived during the Second Sophistic, a period of cultural renaissance. This book offers new insights ...
Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive
(2022)
The colonial past through objects of sound
The Berlin Sound Archive (Lautarchiv) consists of an extensive collection of sound recordings, compiled for scientific purposes in the first half of the 20th century. Recorded ...
Re-Imagining Class
(2024)
Unique cross-cultural and multimedial approach to class identity and precarity in literature, theatre, and film
Contemporary culture not merely reflects ongoing societal transformations, it shapes our understanding ...
Working Through Colonial Collections
(2022)
Reckoning with colonial legacies in Western museum collections
What are the possibilities and limits of engaging with colonialism in ethnological museums? This book addresses this question from within the Africa department ...
Francis Alÿs. The Nature of the Game
(2023)
The first multidisciplinary analysis of one of the most impactful and popular contemporary artworks of recent years.
In 1999, a short video of a solitary boy kicking an empty bottle up a hill in Mexico City became the ...
The Belgian Photonovel, 1954-1985
(2023)
The importance of the Belgian contribution to the history of the photonovel.
The Belgian photonovel is the missing link in the amazing history of the photonovel, a comics-inspired form of visual narrative that combines ...
Architectures of Resistance
(2024)
Spatial borders as sites of meaningful adjacencies and exchange.
Borders between countries, neighbourhoods, people, beliefs, and policies are proliferating and expanding despite what self-proclaimed progressive societies ...
Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation
(2022)
Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing' questions how the Black female body, specifically the Black maternal body, navigates interlocking structures that place a false narrative on her ...
Stilte in de klas
(2022)
Silence runs like a thread through the history of the school. In past centuries, countless teachers have urged children to be quiet. There have also been many publications in which educational authors have reflected on the ...
Demystifying Artificial Intelligence
(2024)
The book provides an overview of the different AI technologies, demystifying terms such as search, reasoning, learning, adapting, understanding, and interacting. It covers the two dominant paradigms in AI, both the ...
The Hybrid Practitioner
(2022)
The practice of architecture manifests in myriad forms and engagements. Overcoming false divides, this volume frames the fertile relationship between the cultural and scholarly production of academia and the process of ...
Forest Urbanisms
(2024)
How forest urbanism can address the contemporary socio-ecological crisis. A radical redefinition of how humanity occupies the earth — through forests, agriculture, and settlement — and rearticulates environmental stewardship ...
Sugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice
(2023)
Girls, gender and identity in comicsSugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice offers an innovative, wide-ranging and geographically diverse book-length treatment of girlhood in comics. The various contributing authors and artists ...
Islamophobia as a Form of Radicalisation
(2023)
Foundations and mechanisms of Islamophobia in the West.
Islamophobia as a Form of Radicalisation discusses the scope and fragmented boundaries of Islamophobia as a concept and a sociopolitical reality. The fifteen ...
Mobs and Microbes
(2023)
Market halls at the intersection of civic order and public health.
Markets and market halls have always been more than about trade and nourishment. A detailed look at the histories of marketplaces provides evidence of the ...
Financing Quality Education for All
(2019)
In OECD countries the average expenditure on primary and secondary education institutions is about 3.5% of GDP. The investment in education has large implications for economic development and the proper functioning of ...
Across Anthropology
(2020)
How can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In this book, twenty-one artists, anthropologists, and curators grapple with how anthropology has been formulated, thought, and practised ‘elsewhere’ and ‘otherwise’. They do ...
Japan’s Book Donation to the University of Louvain
(2022)
Companion to the exhibition “Japan’s Book Donation to the University of Louvain”, KU Leuven University Library, 28 October 2022 - 15 January 2023
With more than 3,000 titles in almost 14,000 volumes, the 1920s Japanese ...
The Elemental Analysis of Glass Beads
(2022)
Ancient glass beads as a window to the ancient world
Glass beads, both beautiful and portable, have been produced and traded globally for thousands of years. Modern archaeologists study these artifacts through sophisticated ...
Militant Jihadism
(2019)
"Jihadist militants keep being a global threat. Many observers suggest that a transformation is likely to happen in their organisation, operation, mobilisation, and recruitment strategies, particularly after the territorial ...
Participatiegolven
(2019)
Participatie’ werd, in de nasleep van 1968, een sleutelwoord in architectuur, stedenbouw en ruimtelijke ordening in Vlaanderen en Brussel. Sindsdien zijn processen van medezeggenschap, inspraak en coproductie min of meer ...
Chapter 47 Latin America
(2023)
Chapter 47: This chapter examines memory activism in Latin America, focusing on memory struggles on the cycle of political violence during the second half of the 20th century. First, the article describes the main features ...