OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
Now showing items 16221-16240 of 49677
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(2024)Across four decades, John Witte, Jr. has advanced the study of law and religion by retrieving religious sources of law, renewing timeless teachings of religion for today, and reengaging with the difficult issues confronting ...
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(2024)Dreams within dreams remind us of the treacherous nature of reality. This first comparative study on the subject reveals the diversity of dream-within-a-dream structures. Works of literature, film, TV series and comics ...
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(2024)The present volume brings together contributions which explore artworks – including literature, visual arts, film and performances – as dynamic sites of worlding. It puts emphasis on the processes of creating or doing ...
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(2024)Tanja Petrović draws on interviews with dozens of veterans of the Yugoslav People’s Army to show how their experiences in the military provided a framework for bringing the key political ideas of collectivity, solidarity, ...
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(2024)Jacob Blanc offers a new interpretation of the legendary Prestes Column rebellion, in which a band of rebel officers and soldiers marched 15,000 miles through the vast interior regions of Brazil between 1924 and 1927.
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(2024)The contributors to Made in Asia/America explore the historical entanglements of video games, Asia, and America, showing how examining games offer new ways of imagining empire, race, and coalition.
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(2022)Aum Shinrikyō’s sarin attack on the Tokyo subway in March 1995 left an indelible mark on Japanese society. This book is the first comprehensive study of the competing memories of Aum Shinrikyō’s religious terrorism. ...
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(2024)What was it like to be a woman in service in early modern England? More fundamentally, who were these women? Where did they come from? In what kinds of households did they work and what were they hired to do? How did their ...
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(2022)Towards a Vigilant Society sheds light on the emergence of a new society of vigilance, in particular the actions of anti-migrant groups around Dover and Calais. Based on field research on both sides of the channel, it ...
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(2022)Feminist Transformations is a history of women’s activism against domestic violence in divided Berlin between 1968 and 2002. Situating domestic violence activism within a broader history of feminism in post-war Germany, ...
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(2023)This book is about Alevi media and the ways in which it has generated a particular form of citizenship that I call transversal citizenship. Alevis have been struggling for the right of recognition and equal citizenship in ...
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(2023)This monograph describes the political communication practices of the authorities in the Dutch Golden Age. It is an in-depth study of early modern ‘state communication’: the manner in which government sought to inform its ...
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(2024)This book argues that Plato’s Republic must be understood as developing out of a 5th Century sophistic debate. In Part One the author presents a new analysis of the sophists and their extant texts addressing the important ...
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(2024)Eine Heirat ist meist ein besonderer Grund zum Feiern. Doch wie wird dieser emotional und rechtlich bedeutungsvolle Schritt heute zelebriert? Was wird durch die Praxis des Heiratens für das Paar und die Gesellschaft ...
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(2022)Die Medienwissenschaft operiert häufig mit gleichermaßen überstrapazierten wie langlebigen Analogiekonstruktionen. Verführt durch das Kopplungspotenzial von Analogien verschenkt sie damit Teile ihres genuin theoretischen ...
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(2022)Seit der Kolonisierung der Karibik erschien in Frankreich eine Vielzahl an Zombie-Texten - von Kinderliteratur bis zum Zombie-Ballett. Besonders nach der Haitianischen Revolution 1791-1804 wurde mit der Figur des Zombies ...
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(2021)Das Datum ist ein Ready-made der Zeiterfahrung. Es ist gegenüber den kalendarisch fixierten Katastrophen unschuldig und gibt doch Anlass: zu Erinnerung und Wiederholung; zu Erzählung und Ereignis. Das Buch untersucht das ...
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(2024)Das Geheime ist ein Ort mannigfaltiger Beziehungen. An diesem Ort begegnen sich nicht nur Menschen, sondern zeigen sich auch ihre Verstrickungen in Macht-, Begehrens- und Wissensfelder. Lotte Warnsholdt legt einen Schwerpunkt ...
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(2024)Despite frequent protests and abounding discussions about the subject, climate action measures to counter human-made climate change have so far remained largely ineffective. By identifying profound climate-cultural ...
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(2024)In Europa und den USA des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts revoltierten mehrere Bewegungen für einen »starken Liberalismus«: in England die Leveller, in den USA Unabhängigkeitskämpfer um Tom Paine und in Frankreich der Cercle ...
