We spend more and more of our everyday lives in what Marc Augé calls non-places – homogenous, but bland places of transit.
Building on concepts from Science & Technology Studies, Simon David Hirsbrunner investigates practices and infrastructures of computer modeling and science
Over the last 70 years, Japanese Studies scholarship has gone through several dominant paradigms, from ‘demystifying the Japanese’, to analysis of Japanese economic strength, to discussion of global interest in Japanese popular culture.
Building on work in feminist studies, queer studies and critical race theory, this volume challenges the universality of propositions about human nature, by questioning the boundaries between predominant neurotypes and ‘others’, including dyslexics, autistics and ADHDers.
This major new book tackles key questions on Europe in the context of shifting parameters of East and West.
The Erotics of History challenges long-standing notions of sexuality as stable and context-free—as something that individuals discover about themselves.
The word 'heritage' is nowadays mainly used in the term pair 'cultural heritage'.
This collection critiques the rhetoric of ‘smart cities’.
The engagement of Indigenous Australians in economic activity is a matter of long-standing public concern and debate.
Le travail social est un domaine de recherche relativement récent (années 60) qui produit des recherches fondamentales tournées vers l’application.