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This study examines how transnational identity is lived and experienced at the Polish-German border, and how the COVID-19 pandemic border closure in spring 2020 affected it. Through 32 qualitative interviews with people living and working across this border, the...
When walking through Istanbul, one almost inevitably encounters informal waste pickers who clean up the city with their large, heavily loaded hand trucks. Many of them are male undocumented recycling workers from Afghanistan and Pakistan. This book analyzes their living...
Using an-ecdotal personal narratives and observations, this book proposes a general theory of harmage common to all its manifestations and presents educational strategies for building hope through fostering empathy and inclusion. The generic term ‘harmage’...
Enhanced Cooperation Revisited offers a detailed and thought-provoking examination of one of the EU’s most discussed yet rarely applied tools for differentiated integration. Situated between supranational ambition and national sovereignty, enhanced cooperation...
Debates about digitalization and democracy have always been controversial and range from optimistic views to sceptic or even dystopian perspectives. The former emphasize the potential of the internet to drive innovation in society and to enhance democracy. In contrast,...
Recent events have shown how uncivil communication by political elites on social media can spread through networked publics and contribute to real-world disruption. To explain the upstream dynamics of these processes, this book introduces the Spiral of Political...
This book uncovers the untold story behind one of the most significant episodes in the history of German-Israeli relations, revealing how Chancellor Helmut Kohl orchestrated Germany's approval and financing of the first Dolphin-class submarines for Israel. A process...
Amid the growing significance of artificial intelligence (AI) in education and its increasing societal and economic impact on the contemporary workforce, this book examines the delivery of an AI additional qualification implemented through an adaptive learning system...
This book sheds light on innovative approaches in teacher education, emphasizing the importance of embracing diversity, fostering international perspectives and promoting self-reflection. The contributions converge around these three central themes, exploring the...
This volume emerges from the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Terrorism and Extremism Studies (ICITES), organized by the University of Vienna in cooperation with the University of Indonesia. It brings together selected contributions from scholars,...
This book examined the factors that influence young people to engage in juvenile violence and delinquency. Drawing primarily on Robert Agnew's General Strain Theory (GST), the study investigated how experiences of strain contribute to delinquent and violent behaviour...
This research explores how performances, particularly songs, dance, cultural games and other participatory art forms can be harnessed as tools for cultural memory reconstruction, and social transformation in conflict-affected communities, particularly amongst children....
This book examines ecological practice through an approach that challenges dominant anthropocentric and ecocentric perspectives in environmental political theory. The work argues that different mainstream approaches tend to objectify the ecological by treating it as a...
This book explores Armenia’s evolving relationship with the European Union, focusing on the intersection of Europeanization, domestic reform, and the ongoing challenges of regional geopolitics. The study combines qualitative and quantitative research and engages...
In late 2019, the Corona virus caused a worldwide outbreak of the infections disease COVID-19. Lockdowns, quarantine and mandatory masks were only some of the drastic consequences on the everyday life of societies. This volume contains essays examining various aspects...
Justice, Recognition, and Institutions: A Dialogue with Axel Honneth invites readers to rethink the foundations of democratic life through one of the most influential social theories of our time. Featuring a previously unpublished piece by Axel Honneth, the book brings...
This book examines the determinants of immigration policy for workers in low-skilled jobs (LILSO) in democratic states. It moves beyond conventional economic explanations of migration policy and explores the complex interplay of political, historical, institutional, and...
This study investigates the perception and production of request strategies in American English and German. It is a modified replication of Blum-Kulka's (1987) study on indirectness and politeness in requests. In this book, data was collected from speakers of American...
Corruption and anti-corruption have long been central public concerns in China, yet the organizational mechanisms through which corruption and anti-corruption operate remain poorly understood. This book takes bribery-offering by unit as its analytical entry point and...
The research project is based on the question of what happens with the sovereign rights over the maritime zone of the Island States, which will probably lose their status as a state in the near future, because the territory will disappear.The author focuses on the...
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