Publications
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The Notion of »holy« in Ancient Armenian Texts from the Fifth Century CE
(2022)
Religious studies have long discussed the comparative notion of »holy« beyond religious, cultural, and linguistic boundaries. In this book, Thomas Jurczyk conducts a diachronic comparison of the meaning and application of ...
Pierre Rosanvallon's Political Thought
(2018)
The work of Pierre Rosanvallon has increasingly found itself at the center of debates in democratic and political theory – although only few of his numerous monographs have thus far been translated from French. This ...
Crisis del multiculturalismo en América Latina
(2019)
Has the quality of life of indigenous peoples in Latin America improved after three decades in which legislation has been built that recognizes them? Statistical information and the increase in social conflict in indigenous ...
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 ...
Las fronteras del neoextractivismo en América Latina
(2019)
This book analyzes the progress of neoextractivism in Latin America through four fundamental nuclei: the first proposes the categories of neoextractivism and Consensus of Commodities as privileged windows to read the current ...
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 ...
Trazos de sangre y fuego
(2019)
In these times the processes of poverty and social inequality have increased, as well as the scenarios of violence and death that involve people, the planet and life itself. The destructive features of the late international ...
»Hope dies – Action begins«
(2019)
"Hope dies - action begins" - this is the motto of the new global environmental movement "Extinction Rebellion" (XR). XR wants to make us all aware of finally taking radical measures against the gigantic species extinction ...
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 ...
Practices of Comparing
(2020)
Practices of comparing shape how we perceive, organize, and change the world. Supposedly innocent, practices of comparing play a decisive role in forming categories, boundaries, and hierarchies; but they can also give an ...
Envisioning the World: Mapping and Making the Global
(2021)
The »global« is permanently made and remade by how it is envisioned in political projects, in language, and in literature. Through a range of case studies, this book shows how practices of referring to the world actually ...
Narratives and Comparisons
(2021)
As a powerful tool in the production of knowledge, comparing plays a crucial part in the sciences and the humanities. This volume explores the relationship between comparing and narrating in epistemic practices and clarifies ...
Recht und Diversität
(2020)
Frei, fair und lebendig
(2019)
This book should give you courage. It unites meaningful thinking with a new way of acting. The goal: a free, fair and lively society. But the familiar has become deeply engraved in our minds, in our everyday lives, in the ...
Pospopulares
(2021)
Leitmotifs in Life Stories
(2024)
Faith Development Interviews offer great insight into people's ways of (non-)religious meaning-making, and of looking at their life and relationships. Ramona Bullik portrays nine longitudinal case studies in a mixed-methods ...
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 ...
Desprecios que matan
(2024)
The Notion of »holy« in Ancient Armenian Texts from the Fifth Century CE
(2022)
Religious studies have long discussed the comparative notion of »holy« beyond religious, cultural, and linguistic boundaries. In this book, Thomas Jurczyk conducts a diachronic comparison of the meaning and application of ...
Verdeckungen
(2023)
Kritische Kreativität
(2019)
Creativity - once the core demand of (artistic) social critique - today seems to be no more than an omnipresent social imperative. Their emancipatory potential became playful in favor of strategic exploitation by politics ...
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 ...
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 ...
Der Weltanschauungsroman 2. Ordnung
(2019)
Between the world wars, Robert Musil and Hermann Broch replied to an era of catastrophes, which they brought close to their bodies with their protagonists, who were entangled in ideological salvation hopes: a pathogenesis ...
Annäherungen an das Unaussprechliche
(2020)
Community and individual experiences in the fields of art and religion are often experienced and described as "inexpressible", as immediate and at the same time, as fluctuating and fleeting. They exceed the order of space ...
Crisis civilizatoria
(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 ...
Portraits of Automated Facial Recognition
(2019)
Automated facial recognition algorithms are increasingly intervening in society. This book offers a unique analysis of these algorithms from a critical visual culture studies perspective. The first part of this study ...
Staat, Sicherheit und Gewalt in Kamerun
(2019)
The process of state building in Cameroon developed violently despite international observation and the UN mandated fiduciary situation. The central issue was the conflict over the transfer of the monopoly on violence and ...
Wagner – Weimar – Eisenach
(2020)
Significantly, the ’Big Bang’ in reception history of Richard Wagner’s work took place in a place that was torn between the province and the residence, tradition and progress, idea and realization: in the Grand Duchy of ...
Epistemologien des Umgebens
(2019)
The rise of the term "environment" to describe the present marks the influence that reflection on environmental relations and the possibility of engineering artificial environments have gained since the mid-nineteenth ...
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 ...
Im Zwischenraum der Dinge
(2023)
Recordar para perdurar
(2023)
Vernetzte Islamfeindlichkeit
(2019)
With the slogan of "Islamization" different social currents mobilize their followers. It also serves the fight against liberal democracies with their social pluralism. In the intra-societal cultural struggle, apocalyptic ...
Normativität und Wertneutralität
(2019)
A part of sociology always wants to distance itself from any interference in the practice, and another part to influence society. In the first case, sociology sees itself as a science that looks at society from the outside. ...
Kulturpolitik in Thüringen
(2019)
A comprehensive analysis of the ways, networks and structures of cultural politics on state level which shows that cultural politics currently experience a crisis concerning their purpose and structure that is inherent in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Politics of Affective Societies
(2019)
Many claim that political deliberation has become exceedingly affective, and hence, destabilizing. The authors of this book revisit that assumption. While recognizing that significant changes are occurring, these authors ...
Are We Comparing Yet?
(2019)
Debates about the possibility of an open culture – or indeed about the possibility of an open debate about the openness of culture – often turn on questions of standards. But since no benchmark can be absolute, judgement ...
Geographical Research in the Digital Humanities
(2024)
The richness of social and cultural theory in the humanities offers countless opportunities for using theory-informed concepts in data-based analysis workflows. The contributors to this volume thus encourage further research ...
Die Säkularisierung des Exodus
(2019)
The cultural philosophical analysis of the secularization of the exodus contrasts despotic and emancipatory aspects of psychoanalytic, literary and political adaptations of the biblical myth.
Die Fabrikation von Kreativität
(2019)
How is creativity created in fashion? Judith Nyfeler examines the actors involved along with their specific organizational methods (routines, technologies, projects, cooperations) and linguistic expressions (narratives, ...
Gewaltige Liebe
(2019)
How do young women experience violence in their first own relationships? What role do experiences of violence play in the family of origin and how do they shape one's own relationship conceptions? In the European context, ...
Communicative AI in (Inter-)Action
(2024)
So far, human-machine encounters have primarily been tested and monitored in controlled laboratory settings. However, the first robots that are used in care, service and education are already being sold commercially. The ...
Resignificar la vida
(2025)
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 ...
