Publications
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Contact Zones
(2021)
Since the mid-nineteenth century photography has played a central role in cultural encounters within and between migrant communities in the United States. Migrant histories have been mediated through the photographic image, ...
The Figure of Knowledge
(2020)
"It is a major challenge to write the history of post-WWII architectural theory without boiling it down to a few defining paradigms. An impressive anthologising effort during the 1990s charted architectural theory mostly ...
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, ...
Migration at Work
(2020)
"Migration and Labour Mobility
The willingness to migrate in search of employment is in itself insufficient to compel anyone to move. The dynamics of labour mobility are heavily influenced by the opportunities perceived ...
Arrival Cities
(2020)
Exile and migration played a critical role in the diffusion and development of modernism around the globe, yet have remained largely understudied phenomena within art historiography. Focusing on the intersections of exile, ...
Christian Masculinity
(2021)
"In the mid-nineteenth century, when the idea of religion as a private matter connected to the home and the female sphere won acceptance among the bourgeois elite, Christian religious practices began to be associated with ...
Protagonists of War
(2021)
Julián Romero, Sancho Dávila, Cristóbal de Mondragón, and Francisco de Valdés were prominent Spanish military commanders during the first decade of the Revolt in the Low Countries (1567–1577). Occupying key positions in ...
Theory into practice
(2021)
"Theory into Practice. Composition, Performance and the Listening Experience' is the second publication in the series 'Collected Writings of the Orpheus Institute'. The series comprises articles concerning the activities ...
Congoville
(2021)
One hundred years after the founding of the École Coloniale Supérieure in Antwerp, the adjacent Middelheim Museum invites Sandrine Colard, researcher and curator, to conceive an exhibition that probes silenced histories ...
A Dark Trace
(2021)
Sigmund Freud, in his search for the origins of the sense of guilt in individual life and culture, regularly speaks of “reading a dark trace”, thus referring to the Oedipus myth as a myth on the problem of human guilt. The ...
Martin Versfeld
(2021)
"Martin Versfeld (1909–1995) is one of South Africa’s greatest philosophers, appreciated by academics and activists, poets and the broader public. His masterful prose spans the tension between disquiet and joy. Detractor ...
Aristotle and the Ontology of St. Bonaventure
(2023)
Bonaventure’s metaphysical thought and
his interpretation of Aristotle
Contemporary scholarship on Bonaventure has characterized him as the Neo-platonic foil to the Aristotelianism of his day. The present book, however, ...
Logic of Experimentation
(2018)
"Beyond interpretation: a proposal for experimental performance practices
Logic of Experimentation offers several innovative and ground-breaking perspectives on music performance, music ontology, research methodologies ...
Beyond Provenance
(2018)
"Human intentionality in chemical patterns in Bronze Age metals
For the last 180 years, scientists have been attempting to determine the ‘provenance’ (geological source) of the copper used in Bronze Age artefacts. ...
Futures of the Contemporary
(2025)
Transdisciplinary approaches to the notions of “the contemporary” and “contemporaneity” Futures of the Contemporary explores different notions and manifestations of “the contemporary” in music, visual arts, art theory, and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mongameli Mabona
(2020)
Mongameli Anthony Mabona (1929) is a singular South African scholar with an exceptional life path. Yet, he is a wrongly forgotten figure today. British imperialism and apartheid shaped the world into which he was born and, ...
Spatial Boundaries, Abounding Spaces
(2021)
Colonialism advanced its project of territorial expansion by changing the very meaning of borders and space. The colonial project scripted a unipolar spatial discourse that saw the colonies as an extension of European ...
The Leopard, the Lion, and the Cock
(2023)
Thought-provoking reflection on culture, colonialism, and the remainders of empire in Belgium after 1960
The degree to which the late colonial era affected Europe has been long underappreciated, and only recently have ...
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 ...
Tot de bodem
(2023)
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 ...
Landscapes of Liberation
(2023)
The reception of liberation theology in
Andean America
Catholic mission from the mid-20th century onwards was complicated by geopolitical upheaval, church reform, and the emergent critique of the colonial power matrix ...
Newcomers Navigating the Welfare State
(2023)
The needs of newcomers and the provided social assistance.
The topic of social assistance for migrant newcomers often sparks heated public debate and remains a prominent concern on the policy agenda. Society has experienced ...
Contested Legacies
(2023)
New insights on the controversial and often-overlooked postwar large-scale housing estates.
In the light of the current housing and environmental crisis and increasing social inequalities, there is a growing sense of ...
Building Collaborative Governance in Times of Uncertainty
(2023)
Insights and recommendations for collaborative governance.
Democratic societies are being challenged to look for new ways of doing politics that involve different stakeholders, particularly citizens. This book looks at ...
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 ...
Silver Empowerment
(2023)
The strengths and opportunities of ageing and the ageing population.
Silver empowerment is a valuable paradigm to improve care and support systems for older persons. It aims to counteract the dominant image of ageing, ...
Comics of the New Europe
(2023)
Bringing together the work of an array of North American and European scholars, this collection highlights a previously unexamined area within global comics studies. It analyses comics from countries formerly behind the ...
Pietro Pomponazzi and the Renaissance Theory of the Elements
(2024)
First ever editions of texts on the elements from Pomponazzi’s lectures on De coelo, De sensu, Meteorologica and De generatione et corruptione.
In medieval and early modern natural philosophy, very few issues were as ...
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 ...
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 ...
Plotinus on Individuation
(2025)
New translation and first running commentary in English of Plotinus’s V. 7 [18].
No other Neoplatonic text has sparked as much debate as Ennead V. 7 [18] of Plotinus, ‘On the question of whether there are also Forms ...
Violence and Trauma in Contemporary Performance
(2025)
Performances dealing with histories of violence and trauma in contemporary societies.
In this book, scholars and artists from different fields such as performance studies, cultural and visual studies, psychology and ...
Integration Otherwise Inspiration Kit
(2025)
A practical guide with a fresh, bottom-up perspective on integration.
This Integration Otherwise Inspiration Kit invites us to look at integration from a perspective that moves beyond a polarised debate – one which ...
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, ...
The Sound of Architecture
(2025)
How sound and its atmospheres transform architecture
Acoustic atmospheres can be fleeting, elusive, or short-lived. Sometimes they are constant, but more often they change from one moment to the next, forming distinct ...
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. ...
Brussel in een België met vier gewesten?
(2025)
De toekomst van Brussel bij een volgende staatshervorming, bekeken vanuit het perspectief van de stad en de Brusselaars.
Bij eerdere staatshervormingen leken de scenario’s op afspraken van een scheidend echtpaar ...
Virtual Works – Actual Things
(2018)
"Beyond musical works: new perspectives on music ontology and performance
What are musical works? How are they constructed in our minds? Which material things allow us to speak about them in the first place? Does a specific ...
Powers of Divergence
(2018)
"Beyond resemblance: creative divergence in music performance
What does it mean to produce resemblance in the performance of written music? Starting from how this question is commonly answered by the practice of interpretation ...
Transpositions
(2018)
"New modes of epistemic relationships in artistic research
Research leads to new insights rupturing the existent fabric of knowledge. Situated in the still evolving field of artistic research, this book investigates a ...
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 ...
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 ...
Building a White Nation
(2023)
A unique study of South African propaganda photography during apartheid.
Throughout the apartheid era, South Africa maintained a wide-reaching propaganda apparatus. At its core was the information service that strongly ...
Alles verandert altijd - Herziene editie
(2024)
"Alles verandert altijd" is een onmisbaar instrument voor de literair vertaler in opleiding en de beginnende en gevorderde professional bij het vertalen in en uit het Nederlands. Het behandelt helder en bevattelijk de ...
Modern Etruscans
(2023)
New insights on the reception of Etruscan antiquity in the modernist period.
“L’Étrurie est à la mode”, French archaeologist Salomon Reinach bluntly stated in 1927. Since the beginning of the nineteenth century, Etruria ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Unfinished Histories
(2022)
Colonial memory and interdisciplinary memorialization across Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and Belgium
Belgian colonialism was short-lived but left significant traces that are still felt in the twenty-first century. This book ...
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 ...
Homo Mimeticus
(2022)
Genealogy of one of the most ancient and
influential concepts in western thought: Mimesis
Imitation is, perhaps more than ever, constitutive of human originality. Many things have changed since the emergence of an ...
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 ...
A Constellation of Courts
(2021)
This volume focuses on the various Habsburg courts and households of the two branches of the dynasty that arose following the division of the territories originally held by Charles V. The authors trace the connections ...