OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2024)Women were active in landscape architecture in Scandinavia throughout the twentieth century, yet little is known about their contribution. This volume presents new knowledge about women’s contributions to the cities and ...
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(2024)This book explores the upright gait in the school context and the collective gait of adolescents as a political choreography in Germany and Japan that contributed to the consolidation of the nation-state. In shedding light ...
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(2024)A spatial analysis of Tajik migrants’ engagement in projects of reform Islamic life in Dubai, the book maps Gulf migration onto larger geographies of Muslim mobility, piety and belonging across places in Eurasia, the Gulf, ...
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(2024)Ethnicity as Desire provides an in-depth study of the political and ideological meanings of gay pornography shaped over the last 40 years. Focusing on the analysis of ethnic representation, it offers innovative research ...
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(2024)This book provides an accessible overview of cultural memory studies, a field substantially shaped by Ann Rigney. In more than 60 chapters, leading and emerging scholars present key concepts for the study of cultural memory. ...
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(2024)This book uses the New Hollywood as a case study for affective and discursive transformations of white masculinity between the 1950s and the 1970s. It identifies a subject position of countercultural whiteness that emerged ...
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(2024)Based on an extensive ethnography of news practices and perceptions among a broad range of youth in Sweden, this book discusses how the digitisation of news has shaped young people’s understanding of what news is, and how ...
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(2024)The book explores the representation of the human body in Chilean author Lina Meruane's "Trilogy of Sickness" (Rotten Fruit, Blood in the Eye and Nervous System). The interdisciplinary, narratological and hermeneutic ...
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(2024)This is the first English monograph on Patriarch Sylvester of the Church of Antioch (1724–1766), based on extensive Greek, Arabic and Romanian sources, many unknown before. Sylvester faced various challenges stemming from ...
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(2024)This volume addresses definitions, forms, and motifs of the resistance against National Socialist. Its explorations focus on individual choices to resist politically organized struggles and defiance deserters and queer ...
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(2024)Many African countries are home to extraordinary architecture that is virtually unknown. There are interpretations of Art Deco, International Style, Brutalism as well as of African vernacular architecture. Climate-responsive ...
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(2024)This volume brings together chapters on the conspicuous rise of idyllic genre parameters in the various literatures, illustrated media, and visual arts of the long nineteenth century. The theory behind the resurgence of ...
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(2024)This volume takes advantage of recent developments within Medieval Studies and explore the entangled pasts and presents of the Nordic medieval period and colonialism. Through a diverse range of interdisciplinary approaches ...
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(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 ...
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(2024)Machiavelli is considered to have been an "admirer" of Dante, but his Asino is also read as satire on Dante. So what is the position of the Commedia in Machiavelli’s poetry? This volume provides a nuanced answer that ...
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(2024)Is it really necessary to explain what is new in literary history by breaking with established genre traditions? Do norm-breaking innovations in literature and the normative structure of a literary genre necessarily form ...
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(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 ...
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(2024)The concept of elite slavery describes the practice of abducting and then spending years training and disciplining children, who were then placed in high-level positions, sometimes amassing huge wealth. These features can ...
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(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 ...
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(2024)Parchment or paper? The choice between these two writing materials was available to people in Italy from 1100, to those north of the Alps from the thirteenth century. If we take them by their word, they preferred the ...
