Publications
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Performing Hysteria
(2020)
"We seem to be living in hysterical times. A simple Google search reveals the sheer bottomless well of “hysterical” discussions on diverse topics such as the #metoo movement, Trumpianism, border wars, Brexit, transgender ...
Revival After the Great War
(2020)
In the months and years immediately following the First World War, the many (European) countries that had formed its battleground were confronted with daunting challenges. These challenges varied according to the countries' ...
Public Administration in Ethiopia
(2020)
"Building an effective, inclusive, and accountable public administration has become a major point of attention for policymakers and academics in Ethiopia who want to realise sustainable development. This first handbook on ...
Living with History, 1914-1964
(2021)
"Living with History focuses on a particular aspect of heritage preservation in the 20th century: destruction and post-war reconstruction in Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, and The Netherlands.
This book ...
The Global Horizon
(2021)
Although contemporary migration in and from Africa can be understood as a continuation of earlier forms of interregional and international migration, current processes of migration seem to have taken on a new quality. This ...
Leaving Spain
(2022)
Since the beginning of the economic crisis of 2008, Spain, like other southern European countries, has witnessed a mass departure of mostly young people looking for opportunities abroad. Leaving Spain is based on 58 ...
Handbook for Ethiopian Public Administration Program Accreditation
(2022)
Improving, assuring, and maintaining the quality and relevance of education and training in Public Administration has attracted increasing attention among PA scholars and practitioners worldwide.
The Handbook for Ethiopian ...
Europees burgerschap in de klas
(2022)
The impact of the EU on everyday life is huge, but not always visible. Educating young people to become informed and empowered EU citizens requires a strategy of active learning to prepare them for civic responsibility and ...
Plutarch’s Cosmological Ethics
(2022)
Plutarch of Chaeronea (c. 45-120 CE) is the most prolific and influential moral philosopher in the Platonic tradition. This book is a fundamental reappraisal of Plutarch’s ethical thought. It shows how Plutarch based his ...
Islamic Glass in the Making
(2022)
The ancient glass industry changed dramatically towards the end of the first millennium. The Roman glassmaking tradition of mineral soda glass was increasingly supplanted by the use of plant ash as the main fluxing agent ...
Watching, Waiting
(2023)
First study on empty places in photography and the Covid-19 pandemic.
In the aftermath of Covid-19, the subject of ‘empty places’ has gained renewed topicality and resonance. Watching, Waiting presents a collection of ...
Documenting Ancient Sagalassos; Sagalassos Arkeolojisini Belgelemek
(2023)
The methods, concepts and practices of KU Leuven’s Sagalassos Archaeological
Sagalassos speaks to the imagination in more ways than one. The authentic and natural beauty of the site no doubt plays a role in that. The ...
Muslim Marriage and Non-Marriage
(2023)
Perspectives and practices of couples in unconventional Muslim marriages.
Unconventional Muslim marriages have been topics of heated public debate. Around the globe, religious scholars, policy makers, political actors, ...
Collecting Asian Art
(2024)
Museum collections of Asian art in Central Europe.
Rather than centering on the well-known collections in Western European and North American museums, Collecting Asian Art turns to museum collections of Asian art in ...
The Legacy of Elise Hall
(2024)
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of Elise Hall, a pioneering musician in the history of the saxophone.
The saxophone is a globally popular instrument, often closely associated with renowned players ...
Ground Sea
(2024)
TWO-VOLUME SET
Viewing the Strait of Dover through the lens of photography theory.
Imagine a world in which each individual has a fundamental right to be reborn. This idle dream haunts Hilde Van Gelder’s associative ...
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 ...
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 ...
An Opaque Mirror for Trajan
(2024)
The first full in-depth analysis and interpretation of Plutarch’s Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata in its entirety as a literary piece of art.
Plutarch’s Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata (Sayings of Kings and ...
La Monarquía indiana de Carlos II en la encrujiada
(2024)
At the end of the 17th century, Spanish America was not yet in the throes of the crisis that would lead to the decadence of its Empire. This book unravels the causes and consequences of the political changes carried out ...
Marcel Broodthaers and Film
(2024)
Broodthaers' oeuvre and the history of experimental film.
Marcel Broodthaers, one of the key figures of the postwar avant-garde, has been recognized and extensively studied as a poet who became a visual artist in 1964. ...
Retranslating the Bible and the Qur’an
(2024)
Significant contribution to the retranslation studies of religious texts.
Despite the lively scholarly discourse on retranslation and its manifest value for uncovering dynamics of cultural change, interpretation, and ...
Architecture in Oceania (1840-1970)
(2025)
Para-colonial, colonial, and postcolonial entanglements in South Pacific architecture. Knowledge of colonial architecture in the South Pacific remains sparse, with often-overlooked connections to para-colonial settings and ...
Cold War Art Worlds
(2025)
Prague as a vital Cold War hub for South Asian artists. During the Cold War, the Central-European capital city Prague, along with other previously less noticed locations in the polarised post-war world, emerged as a key ...
Building for Belgium
(2025)
How Belgium's decentralised embassy building programme highlights the collaborative nature and diplomatic significance of embassy architecture. Embassy buildings are the most tangible evidence of a state’s diplomatic ...
Performance, Subjectivity, and Experimentation
(2025)
Performance in the fields of contemporary music, subjectivity and identity
Music reflects subjectivity and identity: that idea is now deeply ingrained in both musicology and popular media commentary. The study of music ...
Aberrant Nuptials
(2025)
More volumes on 'Deleuze and Artistic Research':
Machinic Assemblages of Desire
The Dark Precursor (Two-Volume Set)
Unique focus on the relation between artistic research and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze
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Moral Seascapes
(2024)
New framework for the aesthetic representation of the sea.
We are no strangers today to visual representations of human suffering at sea: the refugee crisis that continues to play out in the seascape between Europe ...
Behind Office Doors
(2026)
A transdisciplinary history of the 20th-century office, exploring how its spatial forms, technological systems and managerial ideologies were constructed, challenged and lived with. Throughout the twentieth century, office ...
Doing Ethnography
(2026)
Timely critique of the expanding institutional control over academic research and its impact on ethnographic practice. In recent decades, academic research has come under increasing institutional surveillance and control. ...
Ferenczi Dialogues
(2023)
Contemporary reading of Sándor Ferenczi’s trauma theory Ferenczi Dialogues presents the contribution of Sándor Ferenczi to a psychoanalytic theory of trauma and discusses the philosophical, political and clinical implications ...
The Art of Urbanization
(2025)
Forgotten chapter in early 20th-century European planning history, offering a fresh perspective on urbanism, grounded in a theory of urbanization The Art of Urbanization reexamines a forgotten tradition in Belgian and ...
Homo Mimeticus III
(2025)
New interdisciplinary essays on key topics in mimetic studies, including three contributions by internationally renowned philosopher Catherine Malabou This is the third volume of a trilogy on Homo Mimeticus, yet in no way ...
Women and Work through a Comparative Lens
(2025)
Urban Markets and Women’s Labor: Navigating Institutional Boundaries in Premodern Europe Women played a crucial role in medieval and early modern urban economies, yet their labor opportunities varied greatly depending on ...
Situatedness and Performativity
(2025)
Translation practices from the perspectives of identity performance, cultural mediation, historical reframing, and professional training Translating and interpreting are unpredictable social practices framed by historical, ...
Decentering Leuven University
(2026)
First longue durée transnational history of a university, surveying its cross-border ties and offering a new model for writing university history. Since its foundation in 1425, Leuven University has always been a transnational ...
Disability in the Arab World
(2025)
Interdisciplinary insights on disability in the MENA region According to the World Health Organization, around 16% of the world´s population lives with a disability, and it is estimated that approximately 80% of them reside ...
Living Politics in the City
(2026)
Public space and performativity from the perspective of architecture In recent decades, architecture has been seen as a field of practice that contributes greatly to the performativity of public space. In spite of the ...
Behind Office Doors
(2026)
A transdisciplinary history of the 20th-century office, exploring how its spatial forms, technological systems and managerial ideologies were constructed, challenged and lived with. Throughout the twentieth century, office ...
Cross-Cultural Heritage
(2025)
The diverging forms of material and immaterial missionary heritages and legacies.
For centuries, Christian missions have intervened in local religious communities, practices and ideas across the globe, generating ...
Student Notes from Latin Europe (1400–1750)
(2025)
The first comprehensive guide dedicated solely to research on Latin-European early modern student notes.
The many preserved collections of student notes from the early modern period – ranging from neatly maintained ...
Ibn Taymiyya's Thought
(2026)
A fresh reading of medieval thinker Ibn Taymiyya, offering pathbreaking insight into his lasting relevance in debates on Islam, authority, and religious thought. Ibn Taymiyya’s Thought: Corpus, Reception, and Legacy explores ...
Fossil Consumerism
(2026)
A groundbreaking perspective on energy history that reveals the early modern home, and not industry, as the first major driver of fossil-fuel adoption. This book explores how the homes of ordinary city dwellers sparked our ...
Thomas Aquinas and Hervaeus Natalis on Concepts and Intentional Objects
(2026)
Analysis of two key medieval reflections at the intersection of our mental representations and external reality Thought, in a sense, transforms the world. When we think of a particular thing - Charlie the dog, for example ...
Urban Eyes
(2026)
Exile through the camera's eye in New York When the National Socialists came to power, New York became a major city of arrival and a new base for German-speaking photographers. At this time, photography was undergoing a ...
Cartographies of Catastrophes
(2026)
Disaster mapping and reconstruction from the 19th century to the present, with European case studies illustrating diverse regional and cultural approaches. Cartographies of Catastrophes is an in-depth exploration of how ...
Tracheal Transplantation
(2019)
Defining the requirements for a successful transplantation of tracheal segments The trachea is one of the most fascinating organs in the human body. At first sight, it may appear to be a simple tube for air transport to ...
Characterisation of Fermented Grain-based Raw Materials and Foods
(2026)
The importance of plant-based food fermentation and the need for analytical methods. Food fermentation is a complex yet highly relevant topic in food science today and is very likely to remain so for years to come. It is ...
Nomadic Camera
(2026)
Multiperspective approach towards photography as a nomadic device and photographs as mobile objects of circulation. From its introduction in the early nineteenth century and through ongoing technical developments, photography ...
Of Goblins and Gods
(2026)
The historical and technological significance of cobalt and its compounds Cobalt: named after goblins, allotted to gods. Cobalt and its compounds have had a long and important part to play in history. Metallic cobalt is a ...
Minding Her Business
(2026)
The impact of women’s contributions to modern architecture and the built environment. Women have influenced the development of modern architecture and design through a wide variety of entrepreneurial activities. This book ...
Comics and the Global South
(2026)
Original comics scholarship offering methodologies developed from the histories, artistic traditions, and socio-political contexts of comics and visual cultures from the Global South. Comics, graphic novels and webtoons ...
Contentious Spaces
(2026)
The architectural heritage of socialist modernism and conservation in former Eastern Bloc countries. Contentious Spaces explores the heritage of state-socialist architecture and urbanism, examining the socio-political, ...
Performing Magnetism
(2026)
The cultural and scientific significance of animal magnetism as performance. The long nineteenth century bears the mark of Anton Mesmer. In a burgeoning media landscape, and in an emerging entertainment culture that fashioned ...
Citizenship in Nativist Times
(2026)
Presenting a novel multidimensional framework of citizenship confronting the urgent challenges of populism and nativism. Over the past two decades, debates about diversity, belonging, and feeling at home have intensified ...
Christian Democracy and the Fall of Communism
(2026)
The role of Christian Democracy in the collapse of the Communist Bloc Debates on the role of Christian Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe too often remain strongly tied to national historiographies. With the edited ...
Political Exile in the Global Twentieth Century
(2026)
Transnational perspectives on Christian Democrats in exile This book focuses on the political exile of Catholic Christian Democrats during the global twentieth century, from the end of the First World War to the end of the ...
Brusselse plaatsnamen
(2026)
The Open Handbook of Experience Sampling Methodology - Third edition
(2026)
Updated third edition covering every step of Experience Sampling Method research As obvious as it may sound, the essence of human experience — our thoughts, emotions, behaviours and social interactions — plays out in the ...