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How can we understand the intensifying interactions of science and society? It is the interdisciplinary field called science studies that provides us with a rich inventory of analytical approaches. They help us explore science as a practice, a subsystem, a culture, and an institution. Their joint observation: Science today is part and parcel of what has come to be known as 'knowledge society'. More than ever, knowledge production and consumption are in need of incessant monitoring and sophisticated reflection.
Nine exemplary studies that inquire into, or are themselves examples of the dynamics of scientific knowledge, are included here: They cover issues as diverse as eugenics, climate research, and the role of historiography, and make use of different tools such as evolutionary reasoning, metaphor, and bibliometrics. Finally, they ponder the need for science to go public (PUS) as well as for society to regulate knowledge and to restructure universities as building blocks of our science system. Their joint message: Science studies can and should assume an active role in observing, reflecting, and communicating the intricate encounters of science and society today.

The role of private companies in violent conflicts has gained increasingly more attention in recent years. Although the private sector is often associated with sustaining conflicts, companies are also assumed to be self-interested as well as able to support the prevention, settlement and transformation of violent conflicts.
This book explores the role of the private business sector during the civil war and the peace process in Guatemala. It examines and analyses the corporate positions during this period, aiming to add to a better understanding on the potentials and limits of integrating private business actors in conflict transformation.

There has recently been an astonishing revival of the German Heimat film. This volume describes a vivid film history of this genre from the early Luis Trenker films to Fatih Akin's current works.

Stability is central to all discussions of order or security, and as such – contested. How do we think order and how can we re-think it?

Space, America, Narrative Theory, Novels. This book unites these paradigms in critical readings of four major contemporary American authors: Jonathan Franzen, Toni Morrison, Luis Alberto Urrea, and Sherman Alexie.

Considering current political developments, Friedrich Meinecke's insights on questions of truth, ethics, state power, and propaganda are especially relevant for historical research today.

This award-winning study illuminates the historical, theological, and philosophical contexts of posthumanist promises.

The extended new edition of the key text for understanding the mechanism of power and illusion, from Baroque architecture to special effects cinema, from anamorphosis to casinos and theme parks – and certainly inside American presidential politics.