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Der Louvre – die Mutter aller Museen – spiegelt seit seiner Eröffnung inmitten der Frz. Revolution die Geschichte des Museums als Ort der Selbstsymbolisierung der Demokratie.

Neue Medien - neue Formen der Rezeption? Der Sammelband stellt diese Frage nach der Veränderung von Rezipientenrollen nach der Einführung neuer Medientechniken.

The trade-routes connecting Europe and East Asia have fascinated scholars, traders, and adventurers throughout the centuries. Although its modern incarnation may lack the romantic aura of the fabled »Silk Road«, the recent and rapid growth of private trade and commodity exchange has contributed significantly to a revival of the Silk-Road-trade. This takes the form of long-distance petty trade across the newly established borders of states that were formerly part of the Soviet Union as well as into other neighboring countries – including Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and China – but also India, Korea, Thailand, and Malaysia. A far-flung network of trading connections has been established and, at the time of the fieldwork, thousands of petty traders were carrying their goods with them in trucks, buses, and planes, traveling once more along the routes of the old Silk Road, largely unrecognized by governments and unnoticed by foreign economic advisors. The traders, however, transport patterns of consumerism, lifestyles, knowledge, beliefs, political visions, and so on with their material goods, and in this way transsocietation along the trading networks transforms local societies.
Like the old »Silk Road,« the modern version is an agglomeration of different routes with different starting points, running through Central Asia and connecting Asia and Europe; manifest evidence of the continuity in trading patterns on the Eurasian continent.

Alleviative Objects approaches Caribbean art through the analysis of intersectional entanglements and offers important insight into inter-racial conflicts that shape the global field of contemporary art today.

An insightful, engaged, and critical inquiry into how migrant women experience and manage their most intimate relationships despite – or against – illegality.

Design ist demokratisch. In seiner ästhetisch-politischen Dimension eröffnet sich das Wechselspiel zur Demokratie.

Der Versuch, den südsudanesischen Bürgerkrieg durch die analytische Betrachtung seiner unterschiedlichen Konfliktlandschaften greifbar zu machen.

Global civility instead of colonial domination: this study provides a striking new perspective on both travel and travel-writing in the long eighteenth century.

Research methodology for understanding poly-contextual formation of local social-space in contemporary urban China.

Die Buchtheorie der Theoriebücher – das Phantasma des »absoluten Buchs« als Lektüreprogramm zwischen Arabeske (Schlegel) und Ornament (Luhmann).