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Contents
All English-language publications,
including many in Open Access, 03 Highlights
can be found at 07 New Imprint: mdwPress
08 Imprint: Bielefeld University Press
www.transcript-publishing.com 10 Sociology
13 Political Science
14 Cultural Studies
(for print books, payments in US dollars 16 Media Studies
are possible) 18 Geography and History
20 Cultural Anthropology and Religious Studies
22 Art and Visual Studies
24 Cultural Management and Museum
25 Dance Theory
26 Architecture
27 Selected Backlist
Highlights 3
BLACKPRINT
EUROPE
ON POLITICAL
REPRESENTATIONS
OF BLACK EUROPEANS
Black communities have been making major contributions Natasha A. Kelly, Olive Vassell (eds.)
to Europe’s social and cultural life and landscapes for cen- Mapping Black Europe
turies. However, their achievements largely remain unrecog- Monuments, Markers, Memories
nized by the dominant societies. For the first time in Euro-
pean history, leading Black scholars and activists examine
this issue – with first-hand knowledge of the eight European
capitals in which they live. Highlighting existing monuments,
memorials, and urban markers they discuss collective nar-
ratives, outline community action, and introduce people and
places relevant to Black European history, which continues
to be obscured today.
Natasha A. Kelly (PhD) has a research focus on visual communica- June 2021, ca. 220 p.,
tion, colonialism and feminism. The author, artist, curator and lecturer pb., ill., ca. 30,00 € (GER/AT)*,
has taught at universities in Germany and Austria. ISBN 978-3-8376-5413-4, PG (GER) 1558
Olive Vassell heads the Digital Media program at the University of
the District of Columbia in Washington, D.C. Her research interests
include the role of the media in defining Black Europeans. Working
in both the UK and the US, she has been an award-winning journalist
for more than 25 years. E-Book: ca. 29,99 € (GER/AT)*
Target audiences: History, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Literature,
Black European Studies, Africana Studies, Sociology, Media Studies,
Communication Studies, Cultural Geography, Urban Planning
4 Highlights
WHAT WE SEE
IS WHEN WE SEE
ENLIGHTENING PERSPECTIVES
FROM THE HISTORY
OF ARCHITECTURE
Kurt Walter Forster Time is of the essence in human affairs. In the 18th century,
Times of Experience, Ways of Beholding geology discovered its unfathomable depths and the scienc-
How Time Got Away With Art es sought to place every organism on a timeline. Just as the
earth acquired a history, architecture and art found ways
of locating themselves in a perspective that vanishes in the
anthropocene, urging fresh inquiry into artistic perception.
Whether we consider the city a heap of materials, or the Eif-
fel Tower a metallurgical monument comparable to Richard
Wagner’s lengthy operas, the ways we behold things and
experience them always bears the imprint of (father) time.
June 2021, ca. 300 p., Kurt Walter Forster is a visiting professor at
pb., ill., ca. 32,00 € (GER/AT)*, the Yale School of Architecture (since 2005),
ISBN 978-3-8376-5484-4, PG (GER) 1584 and at Princeton University. He is an honorary
fellow of the Royal Institute of British Archi-
tects, Accademico di San Luca, recipient of
the Meret Oppenheim prize and of an archi-
tecture award from the American Academy of
E-Book: ca. 31,99 € (GER/AT)* Arts and Letters.
Target audiences: Geology, Architecture, Aesthetics,
Psychology of Experience
Highlights 5
URBAN HERITAGE
NEW PERSPECTIVES
ON CITIES AROUND
THE WORLD
What is the heritage of our cities? Which are the monuments, Gerhard Vinken
places, and spaces in which it accumulates, and by which Zones of Tradition – Places of Identity
practices is it formed, handed down, appropriated? Gerhard Cities and Their Heritage
Vinken takes the readers to twelve cities on three continents
and analyses the diverse and contradictory heritage forma-
tions that have had a lasting impact on urban life. The vitality
of urban heritage, as these vivid and in-depth case studies
show, lies in the dynamic and often conflictual processes of
social interpretation. The book familiarizes the reader with
important questions and theories in urban research and
heritage studies.
Gerhard Vinken, born in 1961, holds the chair of heritage studies April 2021, ca. 290 p.,
(Denkmalpflege) at the University of Bamberg. His research focuses pb., ill., ca. 29,00 € (GER/AT)*,
on urban studies and built heritage, heritage politics, and interna- ISBN 978-3-8376-5446-2, PG (GER) 1725
tional heritage cultures. He is a founding member of the Center for
Heritage Studies and Technologies (KDWT) in Bamberg.
E-Book: Open Access
Target audiences: Heritage Studies, Urban Studies, Cultural Studies,
Architecture, Art History
6 Highlights
CONSUMPTION,
COMMUNICATION,
SOCIETY
NEW APPROACH
TO THE AESTHETIC TURN
OF CONSUMERISM
Ernst Mohr With a novel quality theory of consumption which treats
The Production of Consumer Society opulence and self-restraint symmetrically, Ernst Mohr
Cultural-Economic Principles of Distinction shows how social distance and proximity are communi-
cated by consumption and produced by communication.
He positions fringe styles with those of the mainstream
in an overall stylistic system of society and analyses their
encounters. The approach casts fresh light on the cultur-
al and social evolution as well as the business models of
the consumer industry. It provides a coherent interdisci-
plinary access to the aesthetic turn of society that has so
far been treated with contradictory paradigms.
April 2021, ca. 370 p., Ernst Mohr is professor emeritus of Econom-
pb., ill., ca. 40,00 € (GER/AT)*, ics at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
ISBN 978-3-8376-5703-6, PG (GER) 1729 His research interests concern the interrela-
tion between culture and consumption, ad-
dressing, among others, stylistic innovation,
aesthetics and the economy, and taste as a
driver of the consumer industry.
E-Book: Open Access
German edition:
Ernst Mohr
Die Produktion der Konsumgesellschaft
Eine kulturökonomische Grundlegung der feinen Unterschiede
Target audiences: Economics, Cultural Studies, Sociology, January 2020, 370 p., pb., ill., 39,99 € (GER/AT),
Interdisciplinary Studies ISBN 978-3-8376-4909-3, PG (GER) 1729, E-Book: Open Access
mdwPress 7
NEW IMPRINT
mdwPress is the open access academic publisher of the
mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. The
university press makes the research diversity at mdw more
visible and accessible. mdwPress is a publicly funded infra-
structure that contributes to global technical, economic and
ethical transformation processes of scholarly communica-
tion. An academic board of distinguished internal and exter-
nal researchers assures academic freedom and high quality.
mdwPress is open to all academic publication formats,
including printed editions. Inter- and transdisciplinarity is
welcomed.
Managers are Therese Kaufmann, Michael Staudinger, and
Nora Schmidt.
Music is a resource for societal transformation processes. Marko Kölbl, Fritz Trümpi (eds.)
This book provides recent insights into how individuals and Music and Democracy
groups use(d) music to achieve social, cultural and political Participatory Approaches
participation and bring about social change. The contrib-
utors present outstanding perspectives on the topic: from
the promise and myth of democratization through music
technology; to the use of music in imposing political ideas;
up to music’s impact on governmental representation and
socio-political realities. The volume further features ap-
proaches in the fields of gender, migration, disability, and
digitalization.
Marko Kölbl (PhD) is an ethnomusicologist and senior scientist at June 2021, ca. 250 p.,
the Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology at pb., col. ill., ca. 37,00 € (GER/AT)*,
mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He is spe- ISBN 978-3-8376-5657-2, PG (GER) 1591
cialized in music and dance of minorities and migrant communities
with an interest in intersectional, queer-feminist, and postcolonial
perspectives.
Fritz Trümpi (Dr. phil.) is a musicologist and assistant professor at
the Department of Musicology and Performance Studies at mdw –
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. His research focuses
on the history of music industries and musicians’ organisations,
music & politics, and music culture(s) of the late Habsburg Empire
and its successor states.
Target audiences: Music History, Ethnomusicology, Popular Music
Studies, Music Sociology, Cultural Studies, Disability Studies,
Gender Studies
8 Bielefeld University Press – www.bielefeld-university-press.org
OPEN OPEN
ACCESS ACCESS
Claudio Baraldi, Giancarlo Corsi, Elena Esposito Lise Jaillant (ed.)
Unlocking Luhmann Archives, Access and Artificial Intelligence
A Keyword Introduction to Systems Theory Working with Born-Digital and Digitised Archival Collections
Luhmann’s theory is fascinating and complex. It offers incomparably Digital archives are transforming the Humanities and the Sciences.
enlightening insights, references and research opportunities, but Digitised collections of newspapers and books have pushed scholars
reveals its utility only after a quite high competence threshold. Using to develop new, data-rich methods. Born-digital archives are now bet-
the reticular form of the glossary, this book makes the theory accessible ter preserved and managed thanks to the development of open-
while maintaining its complexity. Without being obstructed by knowl- access and commercial software. Digital Humanities have moved
edge gaps or by references to concepts presented elsewhere, readers from the fringe to the centre of academia. Yet, the path from the
inside and outside sociology get the required support to explore appraisal of records to their analysis is far from smooth. This book
sociological systems theory and to engage with it. Luhmann himself, explores crossovers between various disciplines to improve the dis-
in his introduction, praises the form of the glossary to cope with the coverability, accessibility, and use of born-digital archives and other
challenges of the theoretical description of our highly complex society. cultural assets.
Claudio Baraldi’s research concerns communication systems and so- Lise Jaillant has a background in publishing history and digital
cial interactions related to facilitation of children and young people’s humanities. She is an expert on issues of Open Access and privacy
participation, interlinguistic and intercultural mediation, and conflict with a focus on archives of digital information. Her work has been
management. Giancarlo Corsi’s main research interests are theory of recognised by a British Academy Rising Star award. She is currently
social systems, public opinion and communication media, education, leading the AURA network (Archives in the UK/Republic of Ireland
career and social inclusion. Elena Esposito published many works and AI).
on the theory of social systems, media theory, memory theory, and
sociology of financial markets. Target audiences: Digital Humanities, Social Sciences, History,
Archaeology, Heritage Studies, Literary Studies, Museum Studies,
Target audiences: Sociology, Philosophy, Media Studies, Media Studies, Sociology of Culture, Archival Theory and Practice
Communication Studies, Literary Studies
May 2021, ca. 330 p.,
April 2021, ca. 300 p., pb., ill., ca. 45,00 € (GER/AT)*,
pb., ca. 40,00 € (GER/AT)*, ISBN 978-3-8376-5584-1, PG (GER) 1510
ISBN 978-3-8376-5674-9, PG (GER) 1722
E-Book/E-PUB: Open Access
E-Book: Open Access
www.bielefeld-university-press.org – Bielefeld University Press 9
OPEN OPEN OPEN
ACCESS ACCESS ACCESS
Pablo Alabarces Klaus Meschkat Jeffrey Gould
Pospopulares La crisis de los regímenes progresistas Entre el bosque y los árboles
Las culturas populares después y el legado del socialismo de Estado Utopías Menores en El Salvador,
de la hibridación Nicaragua y Uruguay
Los regímenes progresistas se encuentran
Pospopulares: Las culturas populares en una profunda crisis. Quien no se contenta Este libro presenta casos de experimentos
después de la hibridación es un balance con denunciar las previsibles maquinacio- sociales en El Salvador, Nicaragua, y Uru-
profundo de los debates que, desde hace nes del »imperialismo«, debe buscar las guay. En estos espacios, donde florecía la
treinta años, organizaron los estudios sobre razones internas del fracaso del proclamado comunicación horizontal y multi-clasista,
las culturas populares latinoamericanas. »socialismo del siglo XXI«. ¿Por qué tales el concepto de utopías menores de Jay
A la vez, propone nuevas perspectivas en regímenes, que deben su aparición y sus Winter es apropiado. Este ensayo toma ins-
tiempos de crisis de la categoría: la pregun- éxitos iniciales en gran medida a la moviliza- piración de esa obra importante de Winter,
ta central es ¿qué significa hoy lo popular? ción de las masas, no han podido mantener rastreando lo que él llama las »visiones de
La relación entre las culturas populares y la el apoyo activo de una mayoría de la pobla- transformación parcial«, que coexistían tem-
cultura de masas ha cambiado radicalmente ción? La respuesta se busca aquí recurrien- poralmente con las grandes narrativas de
en este siglo, de un modo que los textos clá- do al historial de la izquierda latinoamerica- transformación social, pero después perdie-
sicos no podían prever. La cultura de masas na. El objetivo es mostrar cómo el concepto ron su lugar propio en el record histórico.
se ha transformado en el gran organizador organizativo de Lenin ha llegado a América Trabajadores agrícolas en Chinandega, mini-
y jerarquizador cultural; pero las culturas Latina, comenzando con las intervenciones fundistas en Morazán, y obreros fabriles en
populares siguen señalando en América La- de la Internacional Comunista. Se examina Montevideo, en medio de graves crisis so-
tina un exceso, algo que persiste fuera de lo si este legado también ha influido en los ciales-económicas y políticas conquistaron
mediático. Y lo que permanece inalterable, protagonistas del »progresismo« y de qué espacios para defenderse, pero también de
aunque con ropajes siempre renovados, es manera. La reflexión en la parte principal crear nuevas relaciones sociales y una expe-
la desigualdad material y simbólica. Aunque se basa en el papel central de Hugo Chávez riencia de trabajo colectiva y libertadora.
cada vez cuesta más hablar de el pueblo, lo y su relación ambivalente con la herencia Jeffrey Gould es el distinguished professor
que permanece es la jerarquización, la dis- histórica de la izquierda. y el James H. Rudy Professor of History en la
criminación, la subalternidad – de clase, de Klaus Meschkat es profesor emérito en Universidad de Indiana. Desde 1995 –2008,
etnia, de raza, de género-, la invisibilización, Sociología de la Universidad de Hannover fue director del Centro de Estudios Lati-
el silencio. Todos los espacios donde, terca- (1975 –2000). Cursó el doctorado en la noaméricanos y del Caribe. Es co-fundador
mente, habla lo popular. Universidad Libre de Berlin y ha sido profe- del Center for Documentary Research and
Pablo Alabarces (Buenos Aires, 1961) es sor visitante en las universidades de Nueva Practice.
PhD en Sociología (University of Brighton, York, Medellín, Concepción y Cali.
Inglaterra). Es profesor titular de Cultura Target audiences: Estudios Culturales,
Popular en la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales Target audiences: Historia, Sociología, Las Estudios en Latinoamérica, Sociología
de la Universidad de Buenos Aires e Investi- Ciencias Políticas, Estudios en Latinoamérica
gador Superior del CONICET. March 2021, ca. 130 p.,
March 2021, ca. 120 p., kart., ca. 15,00 € (GER/AT)*,
Target audiences: Estudios Culturales, kart., ca. 15,00 € (GER/AT)*, ISBN 978-3-8376-5640-4, PG (GER) 1558
Estudios en Latinoamérica, Sociología, ISBN 978-3-8376-5641-1, PG (GER) 1728
Estudios Literarios
March 2021, ca. 160 p.,
kart., ca. 15,00 € (GER/AT)*, E-Book: Open Access
ISBN 978-3-8376-5642-8, PG (GER) 1510 E-Book: Open Access
E-Book: Open Access
10 Sociology of Migration
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ACCESS
Hans Karl Peterlini, Jasmin Donlic (eds.) Flaminia Bartolini
Jahrbuch Migration und Gesellschaft / Intimacy in Illegality
Yearbook Migration and Society 2020/2021 Experiences, Struggles and Negotiations of Migrant Women
»Beyond Borders«
How do migrant women living in illegality build intimate relationships?
Migration is not a state of emergency, but a basic existential experi- How do they experience, resist or take advantage of the tight link be-
ence of humanity. It shapes contemporary societies by challenging tween intimacy and migration status created by the German migration
established orders, creating transnational spaces beyond national legislation?
hegemonies, creating new economies, influencing urban and commu- Drawing on rich biographical accounts and ethnographic methods,
nal ways of life, making inequality and precariousness visible locally the book offers an insightful and sensitive look at a mostly unknown
and globally. Migration research as a social science does not narrow aspect of life in illegality. Adopting a critical feminist perspective,
the focus to ›the migrants‹, but investigates the conditions for living Flaminia Bartolini shows how intimacy should be understood in its
together and shaping life between ethnicization and pluralization, dis- intrinsic power dimension and looks critically at the German migration
crimination and empowerment, division and participation. regime and on its effects on migrants’ lives.
The Yearbook Migration and Society repeatedly turns the prism of
narrative anew. The 2020/2021 edition focuses on the topic »Beyond Flaminia Bartolini (Dr. phil.), born in 1984, received a PhD in sociol-
Borders«. ogy from the Goethe University in Frankfurt. Parallel to her academic
activities, she has been working for several years in organizations in
Hans Karl Peterlini (Dr.) comes from Italy/South Tyrol and is a pro- the field of migration and women’s empowerment. Her research inter-
fessor of general education and intercultural education in Klagenfurt. est focuses on critical migration studies, gender, feminist issues and
Since 2020 he has held the Unesco Chair »Global Citizenship Educa- methodology, and research ethics.
tion – Culture of Diversity and Peace«.
Jasmin Donlic (Dr.) is a post-doctoral assistant at the department Target audiences: Sociology, Migration Studies, Gender and Women’s
of general education and diversity education and the department of Studies, Ethnology, Political Science, Qualitative Social Sciences
educational science and educational research at the University of
Klagenfurt. January 2021, 230 p.,
pb., ca. 44,00 € (GER/AT)*,
Target audiences: Educational Science, Border Studies, Peace Studies, ISBN 978-3-8376-5602-2, PG (GER) 1729
School Research, Inclusion Research, Migration Research, Gender
Studies, Pedagogy
April 2021, ca. 180 p.,
pb., ca. 30,00 € (GER/AT)*, E-Book: ca. 43,99 € (GER/AT)*
ISBN 978-3-8376-5591-9, PG (GER) 1729
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A C C ES S
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Dorothee Brantz, Avi Sharma (eds.)
Urban Resilience in a Global Context
Actors, Narratives, and Temporalities
October 2020, 224 p.,
Sandra Kurfürst, Stefanie Wehner (eds.) Sandra Kurfürst pb., 30,00 € (GER/AT)*,
Southeast Asian Transformations Dancing Youth ISBN 978-3-8376-5018-1, PG (GER) 1725
Urban and Rural Developments Hip Hop and Gender
in the 21st Century in Late Socialist Vietnam
Southeast Asia is one of the most dynamic Breaking, popping, locking, waacking, and
regions in the world. This volume offers a hip hop dance are practiced widely in con- E-Book: Open Access
timely approach to Southeast Asian Studies, temporary Vietnam. Considering the dance
covering recent transitions in the realms of practices in the larger context of post-social-
urbanism, rural development, politics, and ist transformation, urban restructuring, and
media. While most of the contributions deal changing gender relations, Sandra Kurfürst
with the era of post-independence, some examines youth’s aspirations and desires
tackle the colonial period and the resulting embodied in dance. Drawing on a rich and
developments. The volume also includes diverse range of qualitative data, including
insights from Southern India. interviews, sensory and digital ethnography,
As a tribute to the interdisciplinary project it shows how dancers confront social and
of Southeast Asian Studies, this book brings gender norms while following their passion.
together authors from disciplines as diverse As a contribution to area and global studies,
as area studies, sociology, history, geogra- the book illuminates the translocal spa-
phy, and journalism. tialities of hip hop, produced through the
Sandra Kurfürst is a junior professor at circulation of objects and the movement of
the institute of South- and Southeast Asian bodies.
studies at the University of Cologne. Sandra Kurfürst is a junior professor at Benjamin Heim Shepard, Mark J. Noonan
Stefanie Wehner (PhD) is a member of the institute of South- and Southeast Asian Brooklyn Tides
administrative staff at the University of studies at the University of Cologne. The Fall and Rise of a Global Borough
Passau, responsible for quality assurance February 2018, 284 p.,
and sustainability. Target audiences: Sociology, Social and Cul- pb., col. ill., 29,99 € (GER/AT)*,
tural Anthropology, Southeast Asian Studies, ISBN 978-3-8376-3867-7, PG (GER) 1725
Target audiences: Area Studies, Urban Stud- Urban Studies, Practitioners of Hip Hop.
ies, Sociology, Geography, History
June 2021, ca. 310 p.,
July 2020, 294 p., pb., ill., ca. 39,00 € (GER/AT)*,
pb., ill., 40,00 € (GER/AT)*, ISBN 978-3-8376-5634-3, PG (GER) 1729 E-Book: 26,99 € (GER/AT)*
ISBN 978-3-8376-5171-3, PG (GER) 1725
E-Book: ca. 38,99 € (GER/AT)*
E-Book: Open Access12 Cultural Sociology
Laura Voss Felix Lösing Robert Mitchell (ed.)
More Than Machines? A ›Crisis of Whiteness‹ Ballet and Taiji in Practice
The Attribution of (In)Animacy in the ›Heart of Darkness‹ A Comparative Autoethnography
to Robot Technology Racism and the Congo Reform Movement of Movement Systems
We know that robots are just machines. Why The British and American Congo Reform Starting from the unmistakable contrast
then do we often talk about them as if they Movement (ca. 1890-1913) has been of two socially developed »movement
were alive? praised extensively for its ›heroic‹ confronta- systems«, the aesthetic performing art of
Laura Voss explores this fascinating phe- tion of colonial atrocities in the Congo Free classical ballet vis-à-vis the internal martial
nomenon, providing a rich insight into prac- State. Its commitment to white supremacy art of taijiquan (aka tai chi), Robert Mitchell
tices of animacy (and inanimacy) attribution and colonial domination, however, continues plunges into the depths of what it means to
to robot technology: from science-fiction to to be overlooked, denied, or trivialised. practise these two ways of moving, identi-
robotics R&D, from science communication This historical-sociological study argues that fying commonalities and differences. This
to media discourse, and from the theoretical racism was the ideological cornerstone and sociological study focuses especially on
perspectives of STS to the cognitive scienc- formed the main agenda of this first major what these practices entail for the settings
es. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, human rights campaign of the 20th century. in which they are taught. Drawing on the
and backed by a wealth of empirical mate- Through a thorough analysis of contem- author’s experience as a professional ballet
rial, Laura Voss shows how scientists, engi- porary sources, Felix Lösing unmasks the dancer, the study has been over thirty years
neers, journalists – and everyone else – colonial and racist formation of the modern in the making, utilising (auto-)ethnographic
can face the challenge of robot technology human rights discourse and investigates the methods to approach its subject matter from
appearing »a little bit alive« with a reflexive ›historical work‹ of racism at a crossroads diverse angles.
and yet pragmatic stance. between imperial power and ›white crisis‹. Robert Mitchell, born in 1977, works as a
Laura Voss is a science manager at Felix Lösing (Dr. phil.), born 1983, teaches research assistant at the institute of sociol-
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. at the Leuphana University Lüneburg. The ogy at the Johannes Gutenberg University in
With a background in organizational, occu- sociologist studied at the Hamburg Univer- Mainz. After a brief career in classical bal-
pational, and neuro-cognitive psychology, sity for Economics and Political Science, the let, he studied sociology and linguistics in
she previously worked both as a science and University of Hamburg and the University Mainz, completing his doctorate in sociology
technology studies researcher and science of Essex, Colchester. He did his doctorate at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Olden-
manager for international robotics R&D at the University of Hamburg. His research burg. His research focuses on the sociology
consortiums at the Technische Universität focuses on history and theory of racism and of the body, practice theories, especially
München. colonialism. ethnomethodology, and (auto-)ethnograpy.
Target audiences: Sociology, Science and Target audiences: Historical Sociology, Politi- Target audiences: Sociology, Sport Science,
Technology Studies, Robotics, Artificial cal Sociology, Whiteness Studies, Postcolonial (Auto-)Ethnography, Dance Studies, Martial
Intelligence, Robo-Ethics, AI Ethics, Science Studies, British Imperial and Colonial History, Arts Studies, Dance or Martial Arts Practi-
Communication, Cognitive Science, Psycho- United States Imperial History, History tioners
logy, Anthropology, Philosophy as well as a
broader public December 2020, ca. 500 p., April 2021, ca. 450 p.,
pb., ill., 48,00 € (GER/AT)*, pb., ill., ca. 35,00 € (GER/AT)*,
March 2021, ca. 240 p., ISBN 978-3-8376-5498-1, PG (GER) 1728 ISBN 978-3-8376-5631-2, PG (GER) 1586
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ISBN 978-3-8376-5560-5, PG (GER) 1724
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E-Book: ca. 39,99 € (GER/AT)*Political Science 13
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Sandra Holtgreve, Karlson Preuss, Minna Kanerva Bernd Hirschberger
Mathias Albert (eds.) The New Meatways and Sustainability External Communication in Social
Envisioning the World: Discourses and Social Practices Media During Asymmetric Conflicts
Mapping and Making the Global A Theoretical Model and Empirical Case
Social practice theories help to challenge Study of the Conflict in Israel and Palestine
The »global« is permanently made and the often hidden paradigms, worldviews,
remade by how it is envisioned in political and values at the basis of many unsustain- Social media increasingly shapes the way in
projects, in language, and in literature. able practices. Discourses and their bound- which we perceive conflicts and conflict par-
Through a range of case studies, this book aries define what is seen as possible, as well ties abroad. Conflict parties, therefore, have
shows how practices of referring to the as the range of issues and their solutions. started using social media strategically to
world actually constitute the global in its By exploring the connections between influence public opinion abroad. This book
many facets. It aims to provide a sense in practices and discourses, Minna Kanerva explores the phenomenon by examining, (1)
readers of how the global is not something develops a conceptual approach enabling which strategies of external communication
»out there«, but that it is embedded in a purposive change in unsustainable social conflict parties use during asymmetric con-
wide range of the seemingly »everyday«. The practices. Radical transformation towards flicts and (2) what shapes the selection of
contributions appeal to a readership from a new meatways is arguably necessary, yet these communication strategies. In a com-
background in Sociology, History, Political complex psychological, ideological, and prehensive case study of the conflict in Isra-
Science, Literary Studies, and Social Work. power-related mechanisms currently inhibit el and Palestine, Bernd Hirschberger shows
Sandra Holtgreve, born in 1989, and change. that the selection of strategies of external
Karlson Preuss, born in 1988, are both doc- Minna Kanerva (PhD) is a senior researcher communication is shaped by the (asymmet-
toral researchers at Bielefeld University and at the Sustainability Research Center (artec) ric) conflict structure.
part of the Research Training Group »World at the University of Bremen in Germany. Her Bernd Hirschberger works as a human
Politics«. Mathias Albert, born in 1967, is research focuses on sustainability trans- rights advisor for the German Commission
a professor of political science at Bielefeld formation, linking social practices with dis- for Justice and Peace. Before starting a
University and Speaker of the Research courses, and the sociology of meat. career as practitioner, he graduated with a
Training Group »World Politics«. PhD degree from the University of Munich,
Target audiences: Political Science, Sustain- examining external communication during
Target audiences: Sociology, Political ability Research, Sociology, as well as Climate asymmetric conflict in social media.
Science, International Relations, Literary Activists and Animal Activists
Studies, History, Social Work Target audiences: Peace and Conflict Stud-
January 2021, ca. 350 p., ies, Communication Studies, Media Studies,
March 2021, ca. 280 p., pb., col. ill., ca. 40,00 € (GER/AT)*, Cognition Psychology, International Relations,
pb., ca. 39,50 € (GER/AT)*, ISBN 978-3-8376-5433-2, PG (GER) 1733 Political Science
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Anna Brus, Michi Knecht, Shahram Khosravi (ed.)
Juliana Ribeiro da Silva Bevilacqua, Martin Zillinger (eds.) Waiting – A Project in Conversation
The Post/Colonial Museum
Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften, Heft 1/2021 Waiting is an inescapable part of life in modern societies. We all wait,
albeit differently and for different reasons. What does it mean to
The African museum landscape is changing. A new generation of wait for a long period of time? How do people narrate their waiting?
scholars and curators is setting international standards for the reap- Waiting is about the senses. If you do not sense it, there is no wait-
praisal and revision of colonial collections, the conception of curato- ing. We sense waiting in the form of boredom, despair, anxiety and
rial spaces, and the integration of new groups of actors. In the face of restlessness, but also anticipation and hope. Prolonged waiting is
the ghostly survival of colonial epistemologies in archives, displays, like insomnia – a state of wakefulness, a kind of mood, an emotional
and architectures, it is a matter of breaking up institutional encrus- state. But it is also about politics; affecting and affected by gender,
tations and infrastructures, inventing new museum practices, and citizenship, class, and race.
bringing archives to life. Scholars and museum experts predominantly Blending text and images, ethnography, philosophy, poetry, art, and
working in Africa and South America discuss the post/colonial history fiction, this book is a collection of works by scholars, visual artists,
of museums, their political-economic entanglements, the significance writers, architects, curators, whose works deal with different forms of
of diasporic objects, as well as the prospects for restitution and its waiting, in a broad geographical range and with attention to key as-
consequences. The contributions to this issue of ZfK are all presented pects such as history, power, class, and coloniality.
in English.
Based on the works of Waverly Duck and Anne Rawls, the debate sec- Shahram Khosravi is a professor of social anthropology at Stockholm
tion is devoted to forms of everyday racism and the way interaction University. His research interests include anthropology of Iran and the
orders of race are institutionalized. Middle East, migration, forced displacement, and border studies.
Target audiences: Anthropology, Museum Studies, Art History, History, Target audiences: Visual Studies, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Art
African Studies, Cultural Studies, Latin American Studies
January 2021, 190 p.,
May 2021, ca. 180 p., pb., col. ill., ca. 28,00 € (GER/AT)*,
pb., 14,99 € (GER/AT)*, ISBN 978-3-8376-5458-5, PG (GER) 1753
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Christian Wille, Astrid M. Fellner, Gabriel N. Gee, Caroline Wiedmer (eds.) David Frohnapfel
Eva Nossem (eds.) Maritime Poetics Alleviative Objects
Bordertextures From Coast to Hinterland Intersectional Entanglement
A Complexity Approach and Progressive Racism in Caribbean Art
to Cultural Border Studies In the past fifty years, port cities around the
world have experienced considerable chang- The global field of contemporary art is
Borders are much more than territorial mark- es to their morphologies and their identities. shaped by inter-racial conflicts. Alleviative
ers on a map. In recent years, borders have The increasing intensification of global Objects approaches Caribbean art through
gained more and more scholarly attention, networks and logistics, and the resulting intersectional entanglements and combines
and the field of border studies has become pressure on human societies and earthly decolonial epistemologies with critical
increasingly diversified when it comes to environments have been characteristic of whiteness studies and affect theory in order
different trends and analytical approaches. the rise of a »planetary age«. This volume to rethink ›Euro- and U.S.-centric‹ perspec-
This edited collection reflects these latest argues that contemporary artistic practices tives on art, race, and class.
developments and proposes an understand- and critical poetics trace an alternate con- David Frohnapfel shows how progressive
ing of borders as effects and generators of struction of the imaginaries and aspirations racism in the discourse on Haitian art re-
complex formations. The contributors dis- of our present societies at the crossroads of centers Whiteness by performing benign,
cuss such bordertextures from various theo- sea and land – taking into account complex innocent, and heroic identifications with the
retical and conceptual viewpoints, support- pasts and interconnected histories, transna- artist group Atis Rezistans . While the study
ed by empirical examples. By introducing the tional flux, as well as material and immate- turns critically towards Whiteness, it also
concept of bordertextures and the approach rial borders. turns away from it and towards the compel-
of bordertexturing, this edited collection Gabriel N. Gee (a PhD) teaches contempo- ling contributions of Haitian curators and
opens up new and fine-tuned perspectives rary art history and theory at Franklin Uni- artists to the decentralization of contempo-
on borders and borderlands. versity. He is co-founder of the TETI group, rary art.
Christian Wille (Dr.) is a senior researcher for Textures and Experiences of Trans-Indus- David Frohnapfel studied art history, com-
at the University of Luxembourg and head of triality. Caroline Wiedmer (PhD) teaches parative literature, and religious studies at
the cross-border network UniGR-Center for comparative literature, film studies, and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich
Border Studies. Astrid M. Fellner (Prof. Dr.), cultural studies at Franklin University. and at the Universidad de la Habana in
holds the chair of North American literary Havana. He works on contemporary art and
and cultural studies and is the project leader Target audiences: Art History, Aesthetics, His- visual culture from the Caribbean region and
of the UniGR-Center for Border Studies at tory, Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Heritage defended his dissertation at Freie Universi-
Saarland University. Eva Nossem is the sci- Studies, Museum Studies tät Berlin in 2017. His research focuses on
entific coordinator of the UniGR-Center for decolonial theory, critical race theory, criti-
Border Studies at Saarland University. February 2021, ca. 250 p., cal whiteness studies, and affect theory.
pb., ca. 40,00 € (GER/AT)*,
Target audiences: Border Studies, Soci ology, ISBN 978-3-8376-5023-5, PG (GER) 1510 Target audiences: Global Art History,
Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Anthro- Cultural Studies, Critical Race Theory,
pology Critical Whiteness Studies, Caribbean Studies,
Haitian Studies, Cultural Anthropology,
April 2021, ca. 350 p., Museum Studies
pb., ca. 40,00 € (GER/AT)*, E-Book: Open Access
ISBN 978-3-8376-3895-0, PG (GER) 1510 December 2020, 318 p.,
pb., ill., 42,00 € (GER/AT)*,
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Anna Dahlgren, Karin Hansson, Marcus Burkhardt, Daniela van Geenen, Carolin Gerlitz, Sam Hind,
Amanda Wasielewski, Ramón Reichert (eds.) Timo Kaerlein, Danny Lämmerhirt, Axel Volmar (eds.)
Digital Culture & Society (DCS) Interrogating Datafication
Vol. 7, Issue 1/2021 – The Politics of Metadata Towards a Praxeology of Data
The design and use of metadata is always culturally, socially, and What constitutes a data practice and how do contemporary digital
ideologically inflected. The actors, whether these are institutions (mu- media technologies reconfigure our understanding of practices
seums, archives, libraries, corporate image suppliers) or individuals in general? Autonomously acting media, distributed digital infra-
(image producers, social media agents, researchers), as well as their structures, and sensor-based media environments challenge the
agendas and interests, affect the character of metadata. There is a conditions of accounting for data practices both theoretically and em-
politics of metadata. pirically. Which forms of cooperation are constituted in and by data
This issue of Digital Culture & Society addresses the ideological and practices? And how are human and nonhuman agencies distributed
political aspects of metadata practices within image collections from and interrelated in data-saturated environments?
an interdisciplinary perspective. The overall aim is to consider the im- The volume collects theoretical, empirical, and historiographical con-
plications, tensions, and challenges involved in the creation of meta- tributions from a range of international scholars to shed light on the
data in terms of content, structure, searchability, and diversity. current shift from media to data practices.
Target audiences: Digital Humanities, Art History, The editors are researchers at the DFG Collaborative Research Centre
Computer Science, Heritage Studies 1187 »Media of Cooperation« at the University of Siegen.
June 2021, ca. 200 p., Target audiences: Media Studies, Communication Studies, Sociology,
pb., 29,99 € (GER/AT)*, Science and Technology Studies, History
ISBN 978-3-8376-5387-8, PG (GER) 3744
February 2021, ca. 300 p.,
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Beat Suter, René Bauer, Mela Kocher (eds.) Olga Moskatova (ed.) Rahel Sixta Schmitz
Narrative Mechanics Images on the Move The Supernatural Media Virus
Strategies and Meanings Materiality – Networks – Formats Virus Anxiety in Gothic Fiction Since 1990
in Games and Real Life
In contemporary society, digital images Since the 1990s, the virus and the network
What do stories in games have in common have become increasingly mobile. They are metaphors have become increasingly pop-
with political narratives? networked, shared on social media, and cir- ular, finding application in a broad range of
This book identifies narrative strategies as culated across small and portable screens. everyday discourses, academic disciplines,
mechanisms for meaning and manipulation Accordingly, the discourses of spreadability and fiction genres.
in games and real life. It shows that the nar- and circulation have come to supersede In this book, Rahel Sixta Schmitz defines
rative mechanics so clearly identifiable in the focus on production, indexicality, and and discusses a trope recurring in Gothic
games are increasingly used (and abused) manipulability, which had dominated early fiction: the supernatural media virus. This
in politics and social life. They have »many conceptions of digital photography and film. trope comprises the confluence of the vi-
faces«, displays and interfaces. They occur However, the mobility of images is neither rus, the network, and a deep, underlying
as texts, recipes, stories, dramas in three technologically nor conceptually limited to media anxiety. This study shows how Gothic
acts, movies, videos, tweets, journeys of the realm of the digital. The edited volume narratives such as House of Leaves or The
heroes, but also as rewardinga stories in re-examines the historical, aesthetical, and Ring feature the supernatural media virus to
games and as narratives in society – such as theoretical relevance of image mobility. The negotiate as well as actively shape imagina-
a career from rags to riches, the concept of contributors provide a materialist account tions of the network society and the dangers
modernity or market economy. Below their of images on the move – ranging from wired of a globalized, technologized world.
surface, however, narrative mechanics are photography to postcards to streaming Rahel Sixta Schmitz , born in 1991, earned
a particular type of motivational design – of media. her doctorate in cultural studies at the Jus-
game mechanics. Olga Moskatova (Dr. phil.) is an assistant tus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany in
Beat Suter (PhD), born in 1962, works as professor for media studies at Friedrich- 2020. Her research focuses on Gothic fiction
lecturer and researcher in game design at Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. across all narrative media, especially Gothic
the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and Her fields of research include theory and in the late twentieth and twenty-first century.
manages GameLab and Game Archive. René aesthetics of visual media, materiality of
Bauer, born in 1972, works as lecturer, media, and philosophy of relations. Target audiences: Literary Studies, Media
researcher, and head of master education Studies, Cultural Studies, Gothic Studies, Hor-
in game design at the Zurich University of Target audiences: Media Studies, Digital ror Studies, Film Studies, Television Studies
the Arts (ZHdK). Mela Kocher (PhD), born Media Studies, Visual Studies, History of
in 1972, works as senior researcher in game Photography, Film Studies May 2021, ca. 290 p.,
design at the Zurich University of the Arts pb., col. ill., ca. 44,00 € (GER/AT)*,
(ZHdK). April 2021, ca. 330 p., ISBN 978-3-8376-5559-9, PG (GER) 1562
pb., col. ill., ca. 45,00 € (GER/AT)*,
Target audiences: Game Studies, Media ISBN 978-3-8376-5246-8, PG (GER) 1744
Studies, Culture Studies
June 2021, ca. 220 p., E-Book: ca. 43,99 € (GER/AT)*
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Friederike Landau, Lucas Pohl, Nikolai Roskamm (eds.) Marion Ernwein, Franklin Ginn, James Palmer (eds.)
[Un]Grounding The Work That Plants Do
Post-Foundational Geographies Life, Labour and the Future of Vegetal Economies
Post-foundationalism departs from the assumption that there is no Whether driven by developments in plant science, bio-philosophy, or
ground, necessity, or objective rationale for human political existence broader societal dynamics, plants have to respond to a litany of envi-
or action. The edited volume puts contemporary debates arising from ronmental, social, and economic challenges. This collection explores
the »spatial turn« in cultural and social sciences in a dialogue with the ›work‹ that plants do in contemporary capitalism, examining how
post-foundational theories of space and place to devise post-foun- vegetal life is enrolled in processes of value creation, social reproduc-
dationalism as radical approach to urban studies. This approach tion, and capital accumulation. Bringing together insights from geog-
enables us to think about space not only as socially produced, but raphy, anthropology, and the environmental humanities, the contrib-
also as crucially marked by conflict, radical negativity, and absence. utors contend that attention to the diverse capacities and agencies of
The contributors undertake a (re-)reading of key spatial and/or plants can both enrich understandings of capitalist economies, and
post-foundational theorists to introduce their respective understand- also catalyze new forms of resistance to their logics.
ings of politics and space, and offer examples of post-foundationalist
empirical analyses of urban protests, spatial occupation, and social Marion Ernwein is a lecturer in environmental geography at the Open
movements. University. She researches the changing place of plants in contempo-
rary urbanism. Franklin Ginn is a senior lecturer in cultural geography
Friederike Landau (Dr.), born in 1989, is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bristol. James Palmer is a lecturer in environmen-
at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. She works on modes tal governance at the School of Geographical Sciences, University of
of political agency and (self-)organization in the field of arts and cul- Bristol.
ture. Lucas Pohl (Dr.), born in 1989, is a postdoctoral researcher at
the Geography Department of the Humboldt University Berlin. Target audiences: Geography, Anthropology, Environmental Humanities,
Nikolai Roskamm (Dr.), born in 1967, is a professor for planning Environmental History, Politics, Sociology, Science Studies as well as
theory, history of urban planning, and urban design at the University Environmental Campaigners and Plant-Based Practitioners
of Applied Sciences, Erfurt.
March 2021, ca. 210 p.,
Target audiences: Geography, Urban Studies, Political Science, hardcover, ill., ca. 38,00 € (GER/AT)*,
Philosophy, Sociology, Urban Planning ISBN 978-3-8376-5534-6, PG (GER) 1662
April 2021, ca. 300 p.,
pb., ca. 50,00 € (GER/AT)*,
ISBN 978-3-8376-5073-0, PG (GER) 1662
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E-Book: ca. 49,99 € (GER/AT)*Cultural Geography and Global History 19
Ute Dieckmann (ed.) Benedikt M. Orlowski Sascha R. Klement
Mapping the Unmappable? Rivalling Disaster Experiences Representations of Global Civility
Cartographic Explorations The Case of the Seismo-Volcanic Crisis English Travellers in the Ottoman Empire
with Indigenous Peoples in Africa of El Hierro, Canary Islands and the South Pacific, 1636–1863
How can we map differing perceptions of the People experience disasters very differently. Perhaps unexpectedly, English travel writing
living environment? Mapping the Unmappa- Conflicts about a »correct« interpretation during the long eighteenth century reveals
ble? explores the potential of cartography to of the risks might arise. The side-by-side of a discourse of global civility. By bringing
communicate the relations of Africa’s indige- different truths lead to people seeing mis- together representations of the then already
nous peoples with other human and non-hu- management and disinformation. The vol- familiar Ottoman Empire and the largely
man actors within their environments. These canic crisis of El Hierro shows how rivalling unknown South Pacific, Sascha Klement
relations transcend Western dichotomies interpretations amongst affected islanders, adopts a uniquely global perspective and
such as culture-nature, human-animal, nat- the media, sciences, and disaster response demonstrates how cross-cultural encounters
ural-supernatural. institutions cause great social tensions and were framed by Enlightenment philosophy,
The volume brings two strands of research – scepticism towards scientific information. global interconnections, and even-handed
cartography and »relational« anthropology – Thus, to fully understand disaster risk, the exchanges across cultural divides. In so
into a closer dialogue. It provides case stud- focus must shift to the rifts between es- doing, this book shows that both travel
ies in Africa as well as lessons to be learned tablished convictions and the individuals’ and travel-writing from the seventeenth to
from other continents (e.g. North America, creativity to overcome them, taking into ac- the nineteenth centuries were much more
Asia and Australia). The contributors create count their embeddedness in various fields complex and multi-layered than reductive
a deepened understanding of indigenous of practice, each with their own rationales Eurocentric histories often suggest.
ontologies for a further decolonization of and ruptures. Sascha R. Klement studied English and
maps, and thus advance current debates in Benedikt M. Orlowski, born in 1979, works comparative Literature at the Universities
the social sciences. as a research associate at the Department of Kent at Canterbury and Exeter. His re-
Ute Dieckmann (PhD) is an anthropologist for Urban Research and Statistics in Nürn- search interests include eighteenth-century
with more than two decades of research berg. His research focus is on human geo- literature and philosophy, travel writing, the
experience (ethnographic, archival, oral graphy, particularly the geography of risk Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, as well as
history and livelihoods enquiry) in Namibia. and cross-disciplinary approaches to volca- political activism and social change. He lives
She worked both in academia and for Na- nic risk, and risk and the media. in Cairo, Egypt.
mibian and international non-governmental
organisations. Target audiences: Geography, Disaster Risk Target audiences: Literary Studies,
Reduction (DRR), Disaster Sociology, Media Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Studies, History
Target audiences: Anthropology, Environmen- Studies
tal Studies, Sociology, Geography, Cartogra- April 2021, ca. 260 p.,
phy February 2021, ca. 310 p., pb., ca. 45,00 € (GER/AT)*,
pb., col. ill., ca. 60,00 € (GER/AT)*, ISBN 978-3-8376-5583-4, PG (GER) 1558
April 2021, ca. 330 p., ISBN 978-3-8376-5512-4, PG (GER) 1662
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Nina Käsehage (ed.) Larissa Fleischmann
Religious Fundamentalism in the Age of Pandemic Contested Solidarity
Practices of Refugee Support
The multidisciplinary anthology Religious Fundamentalism in the Age between Humanitarian Help and Political Activism
of Pandemic provides deep insights concerning the current impact of
Covid-19 on various religious groups and believers around the world. In the summer of 2015, an extraordinary number of German residents
Based on contributions of well-known scholars in the field of religious felt an urge to provide help to refugees. Doing good, however, is not
fundamentalism, the contributors offer about a window into the ori- as simple and straightforward as it might appear. Practices of solidar-
gins of religious fundamentalism and the development of these move- ity are intertwined with questions of power. They are situated, relative
ments as well as the creation of the category itself. Further recom- and contested, unfolding in an ambivalent space between humanitar-
mendations regarding specific (fundamentalist) religious groups and ianism and political activism. This ethnographic account of the Ger-
actors and their possible development within Buddhism, Christianity, man »welcome culture« provides insights into the contested practices,
Islam and Judaism round up the discussion about the rise of Religious imaginaries, interests and politics of refugee solidarity. Drawing on
Fundamentalism in the Age of Pandemic . works from critical migration studies to social anthropology, Larissa
Fleischmann develops an empirically grounded understanding of soli-
Nina Käsehage, born in 1978, is an historian and religious scholar. darity in migration societies.
Since 2017, she is a senior lecturer at the Department for Religious
Studies and Intercultural Theology (Faculty of Theology) at the Univer- Larissa Fleischmann, born in 1989, works as a postdoctoral
sity of Rostock. In 2018, she received her Ph.D. for her basic research researcher in human geography at the Martin Luther University
about the contemporary Salafist and Jihadist milieu in Germany from Halle-Wittenberg. She received her PhD from the University of Kon-
the Department of Religious Studies (Faculty of Philosophy) at the stanz, where she was a member of the Centre of Excellence »Cultural
Georg-August-University of Göttingen. Her main research interests are Foundations of Social Integration« and the working group in Social
islamic radicalization, new religious movements, qualitative religious and Cultural Anthropology from 2014 to 2018.
research, religious fundamentalism, psychology and sociology of
religion. Target audiences: Social and Cultural Anthropology, Critical Migration
Studies, Sociology, Human Geography, Social Work and Public Adminis-
Target audiences: Buddhist Studies, Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies, tration
Law, Philosophy, Political Sciences, Psychology, Religious Studies,
Sociology, Theology November 2020, 274 p.,
pb., 40,00 € (GER/AT)*,
January 2021, ca. 250 p., ISBN 978-3-8376-5437-0, PG (GER) 1729
pb., col. ill., ca. 35,00 € (GER/AT)*,
ISBN 978-3-8376-5485-1, PG (GER) 1541
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