Publications
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Navigating the News
(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 ...
Yahwism under the Achaemenid Empire
(2024)
This book is dedicated to the study of the touchpoints between Yahwistic communities throughout the Achaemenid empire and the Iranian attributes of the empire that ruled over them for about two centuries. Its approach is ...
Lager als Architektur
(2024)
Since 1945, camps as a form of temporary mass housing have been either ignored or discussed only in the margins of architectural history. In this book, Antje Senarclens de Grancy examines for the first time the camps built ...
Educational Secularization within Europe and Beyond
(2024)
Secularization as a political and ideological project has been part of transforming and giving new life to religion, not least through reforms in the education system and in public enlightenment efforts. The volume provides ...
Recognitions
(2024)
The volume explores the interpretive potential of the polysemic idea of recognition as it intersects with phenomena of transcodification, transmediality, and transculturality. Focusing on translation, adaptation, ...
Luxus-Praktiken in der Literatur der Aufklärung
(2024)
Modern human identity has been shaped by consumer practices. Contemporary discourses about consumption between addiction and self-determination have their origins in the eighteenth-century luxury debate. This volume is the ...
Die Sprache des erlittenen Krieges (1914–1938)
(2024)
This book focuses on poems by French frontline soldiers that address the sufferings of war. They bear witness, bring charges, and function as a medium for coping with traumatic experiences. Some of the texts examined pertain ...
Genealogical Manuscripts in Cross-Cultural Perspective
(2024)
Writing one’s genealogy by hand is a common practice across cultures, both past and present. This volume explores how lineages were expressed in handwritten form within different social, cultural, and religious contexts ...
Imágenes de la vejez
(2024)
Age studies add the perspective of aging to the issues of inclusion and diversity, which intersect with other axes (gender, race, class, functional diversity, etc.). This volume delves into the scenic, literary and audiovisual ...
A Show of Hands
(2024)
In contrast to the divide between conception and execution advocated by Anglo-American artists in the second half of the 1960s, this book reappraises conceptual art by examining it from the perspective of craft. Furthermore, ...