Publications
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The Art of Symbolic Resistance
(2013)
Against the background of the Ürümchi riots (July 2009), this book provides a longitudinal study of contemporary Uyghur identities and Uyghur-Han relations. Previous studies considered China’s Uyghurs from the perspective ...
International Standardization and Trade Regulation
(2024)
As tariffs have fallen dramatically over the past decades, behind-the-border measures—such as technical barriers to trade (TBT) and sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures—have become increasingly important for international ...
Plotinus on Beauty
(2022)
Although Plotinus’ two treatises on beauty could be taken to reflect an evolution in his thought, a careful examination shows that he consistently argues for a conception of beauty as the illuminated unity in multiplicity ...
War and Law in the Islamic World
(2015)
Armed conflict, today, has diverged from war as it was known in generations past, and from this, has tested the means by which conflicts and violence are regulated. Written with an eye to a region plagued by such conflicts, ...
Weil ich ich bin
(2024)
Selbstachtung heißt, Verantwortung für sich selbst zu übernehmen. Doch obwohl sie elementar für ein gelingendes Leben und unsere moralische Praxis ist, sind wir nicht zur Selbstachtung verpflichtet. Gegenüber anderen ...
Armenia through the Lens of Time
(2023)
The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. From pilgrimage sites in the far west of Europe to the Persian court; from mystic visions to a gruesome ...
The Tapuia of Northeastern Brazil in Dutch Sources (1628–1648)
(2023)
This book presents the transcriptions and annotated translations of fifteen key historical documents concerning the Tapuia indigenous people written just before and during the Dutch occupation of northeastern Brazil. The ...
Reducing Emissions of Short-Lived Climate Pollutants
(2023)
Short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs), including methane, black carbon, hydrofluorocarbons, and tropospheric ozone, have become part of climate policy debates. Discussion has revolved around the potential of their mitigation ...
Religion and Conflict Attribution
(2014)
Religion in a pluralistic society can play a dual role with regard to conflict. It can promote either violence or peace. Religion and Conflict Attribution examines the causes of interreligious conflict as perceived by ...
Chapter 3 Visible Prowess?: Reading Men’s Head and Face Wounds in Early Medieval Europe to 1000 CE
(2015)
The spectacle of the wounded body figured prominently in the Middle Ages, from images of Christ’s wounds on the cross, to the ripped and torn bodies of tortured saints who miraculously heal through divine intervention, to ...