Publications
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Cross-Cultural Heritage
(2025)
The diverging forms of material and immaterial missionary heritages and legacies.
For centuries, Christian missions have intervened in local religious communities, practices and ideas across the globe, generating ...
Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood
(2022)
Practices of community-building in a globalised context
Urban neighbourhoods have come to occupy the public imagination as a litmus test of migration, with some areas hailed as multicultural success stories while others ...
Integration Otherwise Inspiration Kit
(2025)
A practical guide with a fresh, bottom-up perspective on integration.
This Integration Otherwise Inspiration Kit invites us to look at integration from a perspective that moves beyond a polarised debate – one which ...
Dies irae
(2021)
The requiem (or the death mass) is one of the oldest and longest surviving genres in Western music history. For hundreds of years it only existed in its original Gregorian guise, but from about 1450 many great composers ...
The Legacy of Elise Hall
(2024)
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of Elise Hall, a pioneering musician in the history of the saxophone.
The saxophone is a globally popular instrument, often closely associated with renowned players ...
The Global Horizon
(2021)
Although contemporary migration in and from Africa can be understood as a continuation of earlier forms of interregional and international migration, current processes of migration seem to have taken on a new quality. This ...
Pietro Pomponazzi and the Renaissance Theory of the Elements
(2024)
First ever editions of texts on the elements from Pomponazzi’s lectures on De coelo, De sensu, Meteorologica and De generatione et corruptione.
In medieval and early modern natural philosophy, very few issues were as ...
Comics of the New Europe
(2023)
Bringing together the work of an array of North American and European scholars, this collection highlights a previously unexamined area within global comics studies. It analyses comics from countries formerly behind the ...
Violence and Trauma in Contemporary Performance
(2025)
Performances dealing with histories of violence and trauma in contemporary societies.
In this book, scholars and artists from different fields such as performance studies, cultural and visual studies, psychology and ...
Children’s Literature in Translation
(2020)
"For many of us, our earliest and most meaningful experiences with literature occur through the medium of a translated children’s book. This volume focuses on the complex interplay that happens between text and context ...
Evolving as a Digital Scholar
(2021)
"What does it take to become a digitally agile scholar? This manual explains how academics can comfortably navigate the digital world of today and tomorrow. It foregrounds three key domains of digital agility: getting ...
The Tacit Dimension
(2021)
"In architecture, tacit knowledge plays a substantial role in both the design process and its reception. The essays in this book explore the tacit dimension of architecture in its aesthetic, material, cultural, design-based, ...
Ubiquity
(2021)
From its invention to the internet age, photography has been considered universal, pervasive, and omnipresent. This anthology of essays posits how the question of when photography came to be everywhere shapes our understanding ...
Transpositions
(2018)
"New modes of epistemic relationships in artistic research
Research leads to new insights rupturing the existent fabric of knowledge. Situated in the still evolving field of artistic research, this book investigates a ...
Powers of Divergence
(2018)
"Beyond resemblance: creative divergence in music performance
What does it mean to produce resemblance in the performance of written music? Starting from how this question is commonly answered by the practice of interpretation ...
Plutarch’s Cosmological Ethics
(2022)
Plutarch of Chaeronea (c. 45-120 CE) is the most prolific and influential moral philosopher in the Platonic tradition. This book is a fundamental reappraisal of Plutarch’s ethical thought. It shows how Plutarch based his ...
The Figure of Knowledge
(2020)
"It is a major challenge to write the history of post-WWII architectural theory without boiling it down to a few defining paradigms. An impressive anthologising effort during the 1990s charted architectural theory mostly ...
Epicureanism and Scientific Debates. Epicurean Tradition and its Ancient Reception
(2024)
New perspectives on Epicureanism in the fields of Epistemology and Ethics.
Epicurean philosophy is a philosophy of knowledge, nature and pleasure. The second part of a two-volume set, this edited collection examines ...
Dialogen over België
(2020)
"What events, places and figures linger in the memory of eighteen prominent Belgians when they think of their country? French-speaking and Dutch-speaking academics sought an answer to this question for several years. They ...
Martin Versfeld
(2021)
"Martin Versfeld (1909–1995) is one of South Africa’s greatest philosophers, appreciated by academics and activists, poets and the broader public. His masterful prose spans the tension between disquiet and joy. Detractor ...
Newcomers Navigating the Welfare State
(2023)
The needs of newcomers and the provided social assistance.
The topic of social assistance for migrant newcomers often sparks heated public debate and remains a prominent concern on the policy agenda. Society has experienced ...
Unfinished Histories
(2022)
Colonial memory and interdisciplinary memorialization across Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and Belgium
Belgian colonialism was short-lived but left significant traces that are still felt in the twenty-first century. This book ...
Logic of Experimentation
(2018)
"Beyond interpretation: a proposal for experimental performance practices
Logic of Experimentation offers several innovative and ground-breaking perspectives on music performance, music ontology, research methodologies ...
Fake news in oorlogstijd
(2021)
During the First World War, the German occupier tried to split Belgium internally. This was done by pursuing a Flamenpolitik, a policy aimed at scaring the Flemish, or at least the Flemish movement, against Belgium. That ...
Living with History, 1914-1964
(2021)
"Living with History focuses on a particular aspect of heritage preservation in the 20th century: destruction and post-war reconstruction in Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, and The Netherlands.
This book ...
Predicting the Past
(2021)
Drawing from the social theories of Niklas Luhmann and Mary Douglas, Predicting the Past advocates a reflexive understanding of the paradoxical institutional dynamic of American literary history as a professional discipline ...
A Small Nation in the Turmoil of the Second World War
(2009-08-05)
This monograph presents an in-depth analysis of Belgium’s monetary and financial history during the Second World War. Exploring Belgium’s financial and business links with Germany, France, The Netherlands, Great Britain, ...
A Dark Trace
(2021)
Sigmund Freud, in his search for the origins of the sense of guilt in individual life and culture, regularly speaks of “reading a dark trace”, thus referring to the Oedipus myth as a myth on the problem of human guilt. The ...
Silver Empowerment
(2023)
The strengths and opportunities of ageing and the ageing population.
Silver empowerment is a valuable paradigm to improve care and support systems for older persons. It aims to counteract the dominant image of ageing, ...
Re-Imagining Class
(2024)
Unique cross-cultural and multimedial approach to class identity and precarity in literature, theatre, and film
Contemporary culture not merely reflects ongoing societal transformations, it shapes our understanding ...
Strategic Imaginations
(2020)
What is the gender of political power ? What happens to the history of sovereignty when we reconsider it from a gender perspective ?
Political sovereignty has been a major theme in European thought from the very beginning ...
Homo Mimeticus
(2022)
Genealogy of one of the most ancient and
influential concepts in western thought: Mimesis
Imitation is, perhaps more than ever, constitutive of human originality. Many things have changed since the emergence of an ...
Muslim Marriage and Non-Marriage
(2023)
Perspectives and practices of couples in unconventional Muslim marriages.
Unconventional Muslim marriages have been topics of heated public debate. Around the globe, religious scholars, policy makers, political actors, ...
An Opaque Mirror for Trajan
(2024)
The first full in-depth analysis and interpretation of Plutarch’s Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata in its entirety as a literary piece of art.
Plutarch’s Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata (Sayings of Kings and ...
Leaving Spain
(2022)
Since the beginning of the economic crisis of 2008, Spain, like other southern European countries, has witnessed a mass departure of mostly young people looking for opportunities abroad. Leaving Spain is based on 58 ...
Building a White Nation
(2023)
A unique study of South African propaganda photography during apartheid.
Throughout the apartheid era, South Africa maintained a wide-reaching propaganda apparatus. At its core was the information service that strongly ...
Mapping Landscapes in Transformation
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Ground Sea
(2024)
TWO-VOLUME SET
Viewing the Strait of Dover through the lens of photography theory.
Imagine a world in which each individual has a fundamental right to be reborn. This idle dream haunts Hilde Van Gelder’s associative ...
The Belgian Photonovel, 1954-1985
(2023)
The importance of the Belgian contribution to the history of the photonovel.
The Belgian photonovel is the missing link in the amazing history of the photonovel, a comics-inspired form of visual narrative that combines ...
Handbook for Ethiopian Public Administration Program Accreditation
(2022)
Improving, assuring, and maintaining the quality and relevance of education and training in Public Administration has attracted increasing attention among PA scholars and practitioners worldwide.
The Handbook for Ethiopian ...
Moral Seascapes
(2024)
New framework for the aesthetic representation of the sea.
We are no strangers today to visual representations of human suffering at sea: the refugee crisis that continues to play out in the seascape between Europe ...
Student Notes from Latin Europe (1400–1750)
(2025)
The first comprehensive guide dedicated solely to research on Latin-European early modern student notes.
The many preserved collections of student notes from the early modern period – ranging from neatly maintained ...
Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive
(2022)
The colonial past through objects of sound
The Berlin Sound Archive (Lautarchiv) consists of an extensive collection of sound recordings, compiled for scientific purposes in the first half of the 20th century. Recorded ...
Modern Etruscans
(2023)
New insights on the reception of Etruscan antiquity in the modernist period.
“L’Étrurie est à la mode”, French archaeologist Salomon Reinach bluntly stated in 1927. Since the beginning of the nineteenth century, Etruria ...