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    • Planetary Hinterlands

    Publication Type: eBook

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    • Gupta, Pamila; Nuttall, Sarah; Peeren, Esther; Stuit, Hanneke

    Abstract: This open access book considers the concept of the hinterland as a crucial tool for understanding the global and planetary present as a time defined by the lasting legacies of colonialism, increasing labor precarity under late capitalist regimes, and l...

    Language Practices Among Children and Youth in Indonesia

    Publication Type: eBook

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    • Kushartanti, Bernadette; Djenar, Dwi Noverini

    Abstract: This open access book presents studies of language use in Indonesia, focusing on children and youth. It reports on developments in the use of language for narrative production and within the realm of popular culture and traditional cultural practices i...

    Turkish Drama Serials

    Publication Type: eBook

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    Abstract: The extraordinary global success of Turkish drama serials is a significant development in contemporary popular culture. This book presents comparative audience data from three different regions to explore its ramifications across the Global South. We l...

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    Gender in Japanese Popular Culture

    Publication Type: eBook

    Authors:
    • Salenius, Sirpa

    Abstract: This open-access essay collection brings together a range of viewpoints on gender from a diverse group of international scholars based in Finland, Belgium, Japan, Singapore, and Australia. The focus is, in particular, on gender performativity and non-b...

    Death is Served

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    Abstract: The American cultural imaginary is hungry for death, and thus representations of death are prominently repeated and serialized in US literature and media. Stella Castelli shows how American culture fetishizes death as part of a repetition compulsion wh...

    Arab Berlin

    Publication Type: eBook

    Authors:
    • Badr, Hanan; Samour, Nahed

    Abstract: Berlin is increasingly emerging as a hub of Arab intellectual life in Europe. In this first study of Arab culture to zoom in on the thriving metropolis, the contributors shed light on the dynamics of transformation with Arabs as agents, subjects, and o...

    Von der Szene in die Forschung

    Publication Type: eBook

    Authors:
    • Vomberg, Elfi Katharina

    Abstract: When fans become researchers, crossing boundaries is part of it. Citizen science makes it possible to change sides and perspectives, which can lead to productive exchanges of knowledge and experience in scholarship and society. This volume discusses th...

    Leben machen

    Publication Type: eBook

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    Abstract: Synthetic biology attempts to redesign entire species and intervenes in the human germline with CRISPR. Martin Müller problematizes the technologies and discourses of this Promethean biology and situates them in a critical genealogy of zoëpolitics, in ...

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    Gurus and Media

    Publication Type: eBook

    Authors:
    • Copeman, Jacob; Longkumer, Arkotong; Duggal, Koonal

    Abstract: Gurus and Media is the first book dedicated to media and mediation in domains of public guruship and devotion. Illuminating the mediatisation of guruship and the guru-isation of media, it bridges the gap between scholarship on gurus and the disciplines...

    Flusslandschaften

    Publication Type: eBook

    Authors:
    • Hülsen-Esch, Andrea

    Abstract: Rivers have always been a formative component of spaces. They serve as natural borders, mold the character of a landscape, shape how entire regions look, and often mark politically contested border areas. At the same time, river landscapes constitute s...

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