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Future T/Issues
(2024)
Future T/Issues discusses transplantation in speculative fiction and life writing and emphasizes the heterogenous voices that shape transplant practices. This book adds to the discussion of organ transplantation by focusing ...
Literarische Organotechnik
(2024)
Meme Marketing in Social Media
(2024)
Meme marketing has become a common media practice in the advertising industry. Many companies advertise on social media using memes to generate attention for their brands, products and services and to signal that they are ...
Being There, but How?
(2024)
In phenomenological tradition, presence has been understood as fundamental for human experience: I experience the world as my lifeworld because I am present in this world. Even more, I experience myself as »I« only in the ...
Neu (im) Land – erste Bäuer:innen in der Peripherie
(2024)
This publication presents research on the first peasants of the Linear Pottery group in Brandenburg, northern Germany. The region is of particular interest because it is situated in the absolute periphery of the Linear ...
Keeping Record
(2024)
The production and retention of written records was an important facet of pre-modern rulership and administration. While such documents’ contents have been well studied, much can still be learnt by examining these records ...
Creating an Empire of Informers
(2024)
In the year 672 BC, Esarhaddon, King of Assyria imposed a succession covenant (adê) on his subjects, the inhabitants of the Assyrian Empire. This covenant required the empire’s population to monitor one another, and ...
Affectedness at the Morphosyntax-Semantics Interface
(2024)
The book explores the semantic and morphosyntactic representation of affectedness in transitive predicates. It provides a first in-depth investigation of how the properties of undergoing change, functioning as a path to ...
Architectures of Colonialism
(2024)
The question of what heritage is and how we deal with it is not a neutral one. Recent events such as the Black Lives Matter movement and the toppling of monuments have made evident how much the colonial past is inscribed ...
Fantasy Aesthetics
(2024)
Fantasy novels are products of popular culture. They owe their popularity also to the visualization of medievalist artifacts on book covers and designs, illustrations, maps, and marketing: Castles on towering cliffs, ...
It's How You Flip It
(2024)
The cultural practices of hip-hop have been among people's favorite forms of popular culture for decades. Due to this popularity, rap, breaking, graffiti, beatboxing and other practices have entered the field of education. ...
Theatre in Handwriting
(2024)
In German spoken theatre, prompt books used to be written by multiple participants engaging in diverse manuscript practices which continually revise the unfixed literary text within its theatrical context. Based on examples ...
Control, Coercion, and Constraint
(2024)
The equality of all human beings before the divine is deeply rooted in religious thought. Yet religious discourse has also been used to explain, justify, and establish structures of strong asymmetrical dependency that may ...
Sprache und Vertrauen
(2024)
Politics of Pasts and Futures in (Post-)Imperial Contexts
(2024)
This volume brings together approaches that deal with the instrumentalization and lasting impacts of perspectives on empire and their place in time. The diachronic cut through all time periods from antiquity to modern times ...
Writing the Heavens
(2024)
In the Middle Ages and early modernity, celestial observation was frequently a subject for verbal rather than numerical and geometrical recording. These records can now be difficult to decode, since what they address is ...
Vivir bien
(2025)
Despite its transcendence since the dawn of humanity, the question of good living has been progressively marginalized in the reflection on the human being, often treated individually and privately, with little attention ...
Wann beginnt die Papierzeit?
(2024)
The Prosimetrum of the Íslendingasögur
(2024)
The chapters in this volume analyse the Íslendingasögur as prosimetrum – that is, they treat the combination of verse and prose as a salient generic feature of this body of sagas. Their innovative approaches will enable a ...
The Handle Core Concept
(2024)
This work deals with topics related to mobility, contacts and transmission of knowledge. The study of these topics regarding the past can promote an understanding of the social implications of migration, communication and ...
Craftful Minds
(2024)
The aim of the thesis was to provide a framework for the identification and analysis of individual craftspeople in bifacial flint production. Flint production flakes from replications of South Scandinavian Late Neolithic ...
Immobilie Kirche
(2025)
This conference volume places the church property at the centre of the interdisciplinary discourse on the transformation of sacred spaces. Sustainable conversion strategies for the future of our church buildings require ...
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 ...
Zitate der Aeneis in den Briefen des Hieronymus
(2022)
In his letters, the church scholar Jerome describes a deep inner rift between Virgil and the gospels, between Cicero and the apostles. This volume traces late ancient processes of cultural hybridization using methods from ...
Grundgesetz und Rassismus
(2022)
The term »racism« is currently experiencing a renaissance in Germany. In parts of academia, a broad understanding dominates, which also covers culturalised distinctions as well as institutional manifestations that are not ...
Etablierte Provisorien
(2022)
Using Leipzig as an example, Philipp Schäfer shows that the omnipresence of the provisional in the long summer of migration in 2015 was not the result of an abrupt crisis, but rather the result of longstanding disputes ...
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 ...
Der Wert der Preise
(2022)
This book presents the results of a research project at the University of Duisburg-...
DFG-funded research project at the University of Duisburg-
Essen. It invites the reader to follow the development of the German ...
Dokumentarische Schulforschung
(2023)
Documentary school research establishes a research direction in which the interrelationship of subject-related knowledge acquisition and methodological-methodological aspects is reflexively examined.
This volume is the ...
Ein regulatives Vertragsrecht für die Datenwirtschaft
(2022)
The Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Bayreuth
accepted the present work as a dissertation in March 2022.
Case law and literature are up to date as of October 2021.
For the printed version, the recently ...
Der Klang der Ungleichheit
(2022)
Primary school is a unique nucleus of social cohesion. It is here that the diversity of the population is represented together for the last time before they part ways with the transition to secondary school - especially ...
Heroism in Doctor Who 1963 – 2020
(2022)
This study of the heroic in Doctor Who offers a look at the underlying sociocultural
make-up of Great Britain through the course of more than half a century,
combining experiences of the day-to-day and grand national ...
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 ...