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Urban Terrorism in Contemporary Europe
(2024)
This open access book sheds light on collective practices of remembering, imagining and anticipating in relation to recent acts of urban terrorism in Europe. Analysing a range of personal and collective responses to urban ...
Chapter A Virus in the Forest
(2024)
Rural Disease Knowledge examines the ways in which knowledge of rural spaces and environments, on the one hand, and infectious diseases, on the other, have become inter-constituted since the late nineteenth century. With ...
Failure of the State
(2025)
This Open Access book explores an issue that has received little attention in human rights research: organised criminal groups (OCGs) as perpetrators of human rights violations, especially disappearances. It takes an ...
The Arabic Fable
(2025)
Memory and the Language of Contention
(2025)
How does language shape the memory of activism? And how do memories, of hope or of repression, inflect the language used by social movements in the present day? This edited volume, featuring international scholars across ...
This Is the Song That Never Ends
(2025)
The appearance of the audiovisual series as a dominant genre on the broadcast entertainment scene was preceded by the millennia-long evolution of episodic narration. The book begins with an inquiry into the history and ...
Histories of Sensibilities
(2024)
Histories of Sensibilities: Visions of Gender, Race, and Emotions in the Global Enlightenment explores the historical and plural character of sensibility in the Global Enlightenment. From Tahiti to New Orleans to the Mariana ...
Rethinking the Republic of Letters
(2025)
This book offers a revisionist look at the historiography of the Republic of Letters and the community of learning in early modern Europe. It suggests a new approach, conceptualising the learned world as a web of imagined ...
Modeling the Possible
(2025)
Models are used to explore possibilities across all scientific fields. Climate models simulate the potential future climatic conditions under various emissions scenarios, macroeconomic models investigate the implications ...
Equality's Guardians
(2025)
Equality’s Guardians: How Courts Conceptualize Equal Protection and Non-discrimination Guarantees offers an unparalleled comparative analysis of constitutional equality case law from apex courts across 18 jurisdictions ...
Start-up Wolf
(2024)
Transnational entrepreneurs with technological know-how have been promoted by the Chinese state and academic literature as a central force for regional development of industrial competitiveness. But what motivates them, ...
Knowledge from a Human Point of View
(2020)
This open access book – as the title suggests – explores some of the historical roots and epistemological ramifications of perspectivism. Perspectivism has recently emerged in philosophy of science as an interesting new ...
Interdisciplinary Insights for Digital Touch Communication
(2020)
Communication is increasingly moving beyond ‘ways of seeing’ to ‘ways of feeling’. This Open Access book provides social design insights and implications for HCI research and design exploring digitally mediated touch ...
Planar Maps, Random Walks and Circle Packing
(2020)
This open access book focuses on the interplay between random walks on planar maps and Koebe’s circle packing theorem. Further topics covered include electric networks, the He–Schramm theorem on infinite circle packings, ...
De la literatura latinoamericana a la literatura (latinoamericana) mundial Condiciones materiales, procesos y actores
(2019)
What is World Literature? To answer this question, this book asks another one: How is it produced, that is, what are the material conditions, processes, and actors, which enable Latin-American Literature to circulate ...
World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality Beyond, Against, Post, Otherwise
(2019)
In view of the current crisis of globalization, this book aims to interrogate one of its key concepts in the past decades: World Literature. In a historical moment where the established focus on transnational identities, ...
Forensic Genetics in the Governance of Crime
(2020)
This open access book uses a critical sociological perspective to explore contemporary ways of reformulating the governance of crime through genetics. Through the lens of scientific knowledge and genetic technology, Machado ...
Successful Public Policy
(2019)
In Australia and New Zealand, many public projects, programs and services perform well. But these cases are consistently underexposed and understudied. We cannot properly ‘see’—let alone recognise and explain—variations ...
Iberian world empires and the globalization of europe 1415–1668
(2019)
This open access book analyses Iberian expansion by using knowledge accumulated in recent years to test some of the most important theories regarding Europe’s economic development. Adopting a comparative perspective, it ...
Il Fantasma dell’Io. La massa e l’inconscio mimetico: The Phantom of the Ego: Modernism and the Mimetic Unconscious
(2018)
A ghost roams the modern world: "the ghost of the ego" With this sentence, Friedrich Nietzsche offers a diagnosis of the modern self that finds the royal road to the unconscious in mass imitation. In the footsteps of ...
Variants of Rhetorical Ventriloquism
(2018)
This book-length study is concerned with the various - vicarious and delegative - devices pertaining to rhetorical ventriloquism (sermocinatio, ethopoeia, prosopopoeia, etc.) - including their technical, conceptual, and ...
Women, Consumption, and the Circulation of Ideas in South-Eastern Europe, 17th - 19th Centuries
(2017)
Women, fashion, consumption, luxury, and education are the main subjects of our researchers. The contributors of this volume accompanied women and objects in their travels across Modern Europe and offered thorough and ...
Chapter Reading together
(2017)
Every region of India is and has been multilingual, with speakers of
different languages and speakers of multiple languages. But literary
‘multilingual locals’ are often more fragmented than we think. While
multilingualism ...
Chapter 3 Autophony: Listening to your Eyes Move
(2017)
I observed many instances of self-percussion during my fieldwork researching how listening
to sounds is learned, taught and practiced in a Melbourne medical school and it’s connected
teaching hospital. The students were ...
Muuttuvat suomalaiset äänimaisemat
(2017)
Muuttuvat suomalaiset äänimaisemat (Transforming Finnish Soundscapes, eds Heikki Uimonen, Meri Kytö & Kaisa Ruohonen) is a collection of research essays and texts that study the sonic environment and how it is experienced. ...
The Art of Neighbouring. Making Relations Across China's Borders
(2017)
'Rising China' - the nation, the notion, and the buzzword - sparks dreams and triggers fears. Borders that were closed during the Cold War era have again become zones of contact and exchange. At the same time, security ...
Chapter 1 Examining the illusion of accountability
(2009)
Do EU citizens have real opportunities to hold decision-makers accountable, or does the current institutional set-up in the Union merely create an illusion of accountability? That is the central question of this volume. ...
Blood, Land and Power
(2021)
The analysis of land management, lineage and family through the case study of early modern Spanish nobility from sixteenth to early nineteenth century is a major issue in recent historiography. It aims to shed light on how ...
The Summa Halensis
(2020)
The Summa Halensis (1236-45) was collaboratively authored by the founding members of the Franciscan school at Paris and represents not only the first official statement of Franciscan thought but also a defining text for ...
Barren Women
(2020)
Barren Women is the first scholarly book to explore the ramifications of being infertile in the medieval Arab-Islamic world. Through an examination of legal texts, medical treatises, and works of religious preaching, Sara ...
The Data Shake
(2021)
This open access book represents one of the key milestones of PoliVisu, an H2020 research and innovation project funded by the European Commission under the call “Policy-development in the age of big data: data-driven ...
At the Heart of an Empire
(2020)
This study is devoted to the Neo-Assyrian royal household as it emerges from the available cuneiform sources. It addresses the functions as well as the conditions of life and work of the royal household personnel. It ...
New Business Models for the Reuse of Secondary Resources from WEEEs
(2021)
This open access book summarizes research being pursued within the FENIX project, funded by the EU community under the H2020 programme, the goal of which is to design a new product service paradigm able to promote innovative ...
Chapter 11 Yoga and Physical Culture
(2015)
India is the second largest country in the world with regard to population, the world’s largest democracy and by far the largest country in South Asia, and one of the most diverse and pluralistic nations in the world in ...
The Future European Energy System
(2021)
This open access book analyzes the transition toward a low-carbon energy system in Europe under the aspects of flexibility and technological progress. By covering the main energy sectors – including the industry, residential, ...
Comment s’écrit l’autre?
(2020)
Two people who do not speak the same language meet. One writes the name of the other: a fugitive, timeless and banal scene. Only a modest written record remains. Thanks to it, however, we can, centuries later, re-experience ...
World Editors
(2020)
The existence of World Literature depends on specific processes, institutions, and actors involved in the global circulation of literary works. Looking at Latin American 20th and 21st century literatures, this book analyzes ...
Fabellae
(2018)
Chapter What melos for Troy? Blending of Lyric Genres in the First Stasimon of Euripides’ Trojan Women
(2018)
This volume locates ancient tragic drama within a larger map of Greek lyric activity, stressing that Athenian tragedy was a vital participant in a wider song-and-performance culture. The collected essays examine the density ...