Publications
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Unlocking Luhmann; Luhmann in Glossario. I concetti fondamentali della teoria
(2021)
Luhmann's theory is fascinating and complex. It offers incomparably enlightening insights, references and research opportunities, but reveals its utility only after a quite high competence threshold. Using the reticular ...
Regulating Transitions from School to Work
(2021)
How are activation programs for the young unemployed implemented? How do street-level bureaucrats deal with competing rationalities and demands for action? Transition policies increasingly aim at promoting self-regulation ...
Recht und Diversität
(2020)
Bildungs- und Berufsberatung in der Migrationsgesellschaft
(2020)
Recognition counselling as a support service for persons with qualifications acquired abroad is becoming increasingly important to society and is the same time confronted with legal and social contradictions. This dissertation ...
Digital Methods in the Humanities
(2020)
Digital Humanities is a transformational endeavor that not only changes the perception, storage, and interpretation of information but also of research processes and questions. It also prompts new ways of interdisciplinary ...
Crisis civilizatoria
(2020)
Red Pilled - The Allure of Digital Hate
(2023)
Hate is being reinvented. Over the last two decades, online platforms have been used to repackage racist, sexist and xenophobic ideologies into new sociotechnical forms. Digital hate is ancient but novel, deploying the ...
Recordar para perdurar
(2023)
Im Zwischenraum der Dinge
(2023)
Mixing Methods
(2023)
The digital transformation is accompanied by two simultaneous processes: digital humanities challenging the humanities, their theories, methodologies and disciplinary identities, and pushing computer science to get involved ...
Verdeckungen
(2023)
Emotional Imprints of War
(2023)
Historical research can be enhanced by methods and resources from various disciplines, ranging from psychology to computer linguistics. With a creative and innovative perspective on »things we think we know«, Milan van ...
Vergleichendes Lesen
(2024)
Comparing and Change
(2024)
Comparisons affect various ways of perceiving and interpreting the world, characterized by distinct legitimization strategies and knowledge application routines by different actors. The contributors to this volume explore ...
Land Use - Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America I
(2024)
Socio-ecological conflicts about land use in Latin America are complex: they involve various actors and flare up due to the dynamics of colonization, spatial appropriation, and the commodification of land. This volume of ...
Die Taufe des Leviathan
(2021)
The Novel in the Spanish Silver Age
(2021)
What distinguishes an adventure novel from a historical novel? Can the same text belong to several genres? More to one than to another? Have some existing genres been overlooked? To answer these and similar questions, José ...
Global Contestations of Gender Rights
(2022)
Across the globe, a growing number of social movements, such as demonstrations in support of equal civil status or reproductive freedom and against sexualized violence, show that women's and gender rights are highly ...
Imagining Unequals, Imagining Equals
(2022)
Why did »equality« become prominent in European societies based on hierarchy during the Enlightenment? What does »equality« imply for societies, politics, or legal systems? The contributors to this volume draw on various ...
Archives, Access and Artificial Intelligence
(2022)
Digital archives are transforming the Humanities and the Sciences. Digitized collections of newspapers and books have pushed scholars to develop new, data-rich methods. Born-digital archives are now better preserved and ...
Refeudalización
(2019)
In contemporary societies we see a state of social inequality as in the old regime: the accumulation of wealth in 1% of the population, multimillionaires as presidents, the increase in luxury consumption, the emergence of ...
Biodiversity - Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America II
(2024)
Biodiversity should not be understood in biological terms only and as a thing apart from society, but rather as biocultural diversity present in the social world and in various cultures. Such a perspective might allow to ...
Faith in Development
(2024)
How has faith developed in the US and German societies across the last decades? In a three-wave longitudinal investigation of faith development, this study presents the changes of worldview and meaning-making that people ...
Cities of Entanglements
(2019)
How do people live together in cities shaped by inequality? This comparative ethnography of two African cities, Maputo and Johannesburg, presents a new narrative about social life in cities often described as sharply ...
Auf dem Weg zu einer Green Economy
(2019)
Green economy is the future – this volume illuminates options, challenges and factors of success, providing perspectives for politics and the economy.
Prototyping Society
(2019)
Prototypes migrate from the workshops to society. They are no longer considered deficient because of incomplete objects. Rather, it is through the design of the material provisional that the social day after tomorrow is ...
Geplante Obsoleszenz
(2019)
Time and again one reads that manufacturers deliberately design their products in such a way that they break prematurely. The victims: the customers. Many manufacturers, however, want to delay the wear. How do you go about ...