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Oliver Leistert
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Isabell Schrickel
(eds.)
Thinking the Problematic
Genealogies and Explorations between Philosophy and the Sciences
This book explores central scenes of »the problematic« and contextualizes it within the history of power and knowledge.
Sandra Kurfürst
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Stefanie Wehner
(eds.)
Southeast Asian Transformations
Urban and Rural Developments in the 21st Century
Southeast Asia from multiple perspectives: covering the most important trajectories of development in the new millennium.
Contested Solidarity
Practices of Refugee Support between Humanitarian Help and Political Activism
This ethnographic account of the German »welcome culture« sheds light on the contested practices, imaginaries, interests and politics of refugee solidarity.
Beyond the Mirror
Seeing in Art History and Visual Culture Studies
The first study to reveal and compare the concepts of vision that underwrite the scholarly act of seeing in art history and visual culture studies.
Transgressive Truths and Flattering Lies
The Poetics and Ethics of Anglophone Arab Representations
This study discusses Anglophone Arab works in which the notion of cross-cultural translation gets radically displaced by strategic relational dissonance.
Segregation, Inequality, and Urban Development
Forced Evictions and Criminalisation Practices in Present-Day South Africa
This book unearths an institutionalized regime of inequality in urban development and city improvement projects in South Africa, which facilitate the enlargement of inequality, excluding the majority of society from the design-focused, creative, fashionable, and liveable cities.
Curating Contemporary Music Festivals
A New Perspective on Music's Mediation
What does it mean to curate contemporary music festivals, and how can the concept be used to re-imagine the very premise of contemporary music itself?
Strange Blood
The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th Century Medicine and Beyond
A unique story of 19th century medical knowledge, ambition, and controversy – of crossing boundaries and challenging taboos.
Socializing Development
Transnational Social Movement Advocacy and the Human Rights Accountability of Multilateral Development Banks
Against the backdrop of global power shifts, this book reveals increasing challenges of social movements to push for human rights accountability of Multilateral Development Banks.
Refugee Routes
Telling, Looking, Protesting, Redressing
Drawing on historical and contemporary examples of refugee routes, this book shows that invisibility can be countered by looking, silence by telling, extirpation by surviving, inequity by redressing, and uprooting by re-rooting.