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Von Ein- und Ausschlüssen in Europa
(2022)
In her ethnographic study, Marie-Therese Haj Ahmad turns to the interface of intra-European migration and homelessness. The focus is on questions of transnational social rights as well as social work practice in this field ...
Digitalität tanzen!
(2022)
Vitale Mystik
(2022)
Integrationsregime in der Arbeitswelt
(2022)
Marika Pierdicca's doctoral thesis provides an ethnography of migrant self-employment in northern Italy and highlights the link between an increasing neoliberalization of labor and notions of "integration." The study ...
Social Movements and the Politics of Debt
(2022)
It would have been hard to miss the pivotal role debt has played for contentious politics in the last decades. The North Atlantic Financial Crisis, Global Recession and European Debt Crisis - as well as the recent waves ...
Das Indernet
(2020)
Familial Feeling
(2021)
This open access book discusses British literature as part of a network of global entangled modernities and shared aesthetic concerns, departing from the retrospective model of a postcolonial “writing back” to the centre. ...
Beyond the Mirror
(2020)
Since the late 1980s visibility has become a currency of social recognition, and a political issue. It also brought forth a new discipline, visual culture studies, and a hotly contested debate unfolded between art history ...
Institutioneller Wandel und Steuerung von „Förderbedürftigkeit“ im Zuge inklusiver Bildung in Spanien 1960-2013
(2021)
Since the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN-CRPD), inclusive education is a recurring topic in international and national discourse. Nevertheless, implementation is interpreted and realized ...
In the Shadow of War and Empire
(2023)
In the Shadow of War and Empire offers a site-specific history of Ottoman and Turkish industrialisation through the lens of a mid-nineteenth-century cotton factory in the “Turkish Manchester,” the name chosen by the Ottomans ...
Antisemitismus und Recht
(2024)
Frictions
(2023)
Frictions is a collective invitation to embrace the space of difference that both connects and separates techno-scientific discourses from their actual implementations—or even, from their non-implementations. Through a ...
Chapter Introduction and Overview
(2023)
Drawing on perspectives from music psychology, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy, musicology, clinical psychology, and music education, Music and Mental Imagery provides a critical overview of cutting-edge research on the ...
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 ...
Widerspenstige Hände
(2022)
In literary texts of the early 20th century, the use of hands becomes a problem. The study traces the topicality of stubborn, idiosyncratic and dysfunctional hands and locates them in the media-, technology- and ...
Trauma als Wissensarchiv
(2022)
In the Brazilian religion Umbanda - which formed in the state of Rio de Janeiro at the beginning of the 20th century on the basis of African, indigenous and European religions - communication with spirit beings is central, ...
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 ...
Wagenscheins Pädagogik neu reflektiert
(2022)
The importance of Martin Wagenschein (1896-1988) for scientific didactics is undisputed. His ideas have been received, developed, tested and applied to new teaching contexts for over half a century. In particular, the ...
Kuratierte Öffentlichkeit
(2023)
Variants and Variance in Classical Textual Cultures
(2024)
How textual variations develop in different cultures what variants say about a culture’s understanding of text, and (collective) authorship what happens when variants generate their own strands of tradition how changes in ...
Muslim Mobilities
(2024)
A spatial analysis of Tajik migrants’ engagement in projects of reform Islamic life in Dubai, the book maps Gulf migration onto larger geographies of Muslim mobility, piety and belonging across places in Eurasia, the Gulf, ...
The Gait as Political Choreography
(2024)
This book explores the upright gait in the school context and the collective gait of adolescents as a political choreography in Germany and Japan that contributed to the consolidation of the nation-state. In shedding light ...
Forged in Genocide
(2024)
In the shadow of war, genocide and its aftermath, thousands of migrants would play a central role as auxiliaries in the German military and laborers in the Namibian economy. This is a history of colonial capitalism centered ...
Libraries on the Agenda
(2024)
Libraries on the Agenda shows how to engage in lobbying and advocating for libraries. The book analyzes political elements of power, policy making and human values. Political decision makers from local communities up to ...
Doing Diversity in Museums and Heritage
(2022)
The museum and heritage sector has been shaken by debates over how to address colonialism, migration, Islamophobia, LGBTI+ and multiple other forms of difference. This major multi-researcher ethnography of museums and ...
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 ...
Qualitätsmessung als Prisma
(2024)
Exiled in East Germany
(2024)
Recounting the life stories of Malawian and South African freedom fighters living in exile in East Germany during the Cold War, this study unfolds multiple entanglements between the “Second” and “Third” worlds from the ...
Die Phonetik von äh und ähm
(2021)
Doing psychiatry in postwar Europe
(2024)
This collective volume looks at European psychiatry in the second half of the twentieth century through a variety of practices that were experienced and routinised in the mental health field after World War II. Case studies ...
Abitur und Abituraufsätze zwischen 1882 und 1972
(2023)
The contributions in this volume present key findings from the Leibniz Association-funded project "Abiturprüfungspraxis und Abituraufsatz 1882 bis 1972". On the basis of an extensive corpus of German Abitur essays processed ...
Zaudern ums Gemeinwohl
(2024)
Problematisierung statt Optimierung?
(2023)
The first special issue of the journal „Debatte“ brings together contributions and replicas on adult education that put a change of perspective up for discussion: While optimisation is often used as a solution to problems ...
Imagined Economies - Real Fictions
(2020)
The way we conceptualise the economy and ourselves as homo economicus has profound consequences for our lives. The contributions to this anthology take debates about the financial crisis, about recent austerity measures ...
Elternschaft und Familie jenseits von Heteronormativität und Zweigeschlechtlichkeit
(2020)
Rainbow family, insemination family, multi-parent family: These terms try to understand the phenomenon that parenthood and family are realized in diverse constellations. They are caught between empirical diversity and ...
Cultural Techniques
(2020)
Addressing cultural techniques from different disciplinary perspectives, this volume elaborates upon a concept originally developed in media studies. In a series of case studies, it reconstructs the basic operations of ...
Developing Heritage – Developing Countries
(2020)
Seven Ethiopian heritage sites were among the first sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List – a stunning number for an African country at the time and the product of extended international technical assistance and tourism ...
Echoes of Reaganism in Hollywood Blockbuster Movies from the 1980s to the 2010s
(2021)
This book examines the reverberations of key components of Ronald Reagan’s ideology in selected Hollywood blockbuster movies. The aim of this analysis is to provide a clearer understanding of the intertwinement of cinematic ...
Ver-rückte Expertisen
(2020)
Beyond the Mirror
(2020)
Since the late 1980s visibility has become a currency of social recognition, and a political issue. It also brought forth a new discipline, visual culture studies, and a hotly contested debate unfolded between art history ...
Futures Past. Economic Forecasting in the 20th and 21st Century
(2020)
Few areas in economics are as controversial as economic forecasting. While the field has sparked great hopes for the prediction of economic trends and events throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, economic forecasts have ...
Atem / Breath
(2021)
Die ADHS der Sonderpädagogik
(2021)
The present study focuses on the question of how the discipline of special education producesknowledge on the subject of ADHD and thereby creates a specific reality of the phenomenon. Due to the observation that in schools ...
Pädophilie
(2021)
Model and Mathematics: From the 19th to the 21st Century
(2022)
This open access book collects the historical and medial perspectives of a systematic and epistemological analysis of the complicated, multifaceted relationship between model and mathematics, ranging from, for example, the ...
Grundbildung und Habitus
(2025)