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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2025Queer as folklore
The hidden queer history of myths and monsters
by Sacha Coward
A celebration of queer history like you've never seen it before. Queer as folklore travels across centuries and continents to reveal the unsung heroes and villains of storytelling, magic and fantasy. Featuring images from archives, galleries and museums around the world, each chapter investigates the queer history of different mythic and folkloric characters, both old and new. Leaving no headstone unturned, Sacha Coward takes you on a wild ride through the night from ancient Greece to the main stage of RuPaul's Drag Race, visiting cross-dressing pirates, radical fairies and the graves of the 'queerly departed' along the way. Queer communities have often sought refuge in the shadows and created safe spaces in underworlds. But these forgotten narratives tell stories of resilience that deserve to be heard. Join any Pride march and you will see a glorious display of papier-mâché unicorn heads, drag queens in mermaid tails and more fairy wings than you can shake a trident at. These are not just accessories: they are queer symbols with historic roots. To truly understand who queer people are today, we must confront the twisted tales of the past.
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November 2023Pride
This damn superiority
by Ulla Steuernagel
Lucifer and Icarus are the best-known figures in the ancestral gallery of the arrogant. Pride, the original sin, or hubris, also known as class conceit, arrogance, vanity, haughtiness and narcissism, is widespread in many facets. We find celebrities from the past and present, fiction and reality, in this Cabinet of Sinners.
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April 2022Pride & Pretty
Einen Tod musst du sterben
by Chris Kaspar, Moon Notes
In "Pride & Pretty" von Chris Kaspar dreht sich alles um Macht, Rache und die dunklen Geheimnisse der Elite am Graham College. Im Zentrum der Geschichte steht Lynn, die Neue am College, die sich mit einer Reihe von Lügen bei den Pretty Pennies, der reichsten und beliebtesten Clique der Schule, einschleust. Ihr Ziel ist klar: Rache. Doch ihre Pläne werden kompliziert, als sie auf Bacon trifft, einen Außenseiter, der ihr wahres Ich kennt. Um ihr Geheimnis zu wahren, geht Lynn einen gefährlichen Pakt mit ihm ein, der schnell außer Kontrolle gerät. Als die Situation eskaliert, steht plötzlich mehr auf dem Spiel als nur Lynns Rachepläne. Chris Kaspars "Pride & Pretty" entführt die Leser in eine Welt, in der Mobbing zum Alltag gehört und der Schritt zum Mord erschreckend klein scheint. Die Geschichte bietet atemlose Spannung und ist ein Thriller mit Suchtfaktor, der aktuelle Themen wie Identität und die psychologischen Folgen von Mobbing aufgreift. Fesselnder Jugendthriller mit Sogwirkung von Chris Kaspar, der Autorin des erfolgreichen Debüts "Watched - Du sollst nicht lügen". Packende Handlung rund um Rache, Geheimnisse und die gefährlichen Dynamiken innerhalb der Elite am Graham College. Atemberaubende Spannung und unvorhersehbare Wendungen halten Leser bis zur letzten Seite gefesselt. Tiefgründige Charaktere mit komplexen Hintergründen und Motivationen, die für eine emotionale und mitreißende Leseerfahrung sorgen. Behandelt aktuelle und wichtige Themen wie Mobbing, Identität und die Konsequenzen von Lügen und Täuschung. Einzigartiger Schreibstil mit Einblendungen von Chatverläufen und Beiträgen aus der Gossip App "The London Eye", der für zusätzliche Dynamik und eine moderne Erzählweise sorgt. Perfekt für Fans von "Gossip Girl", "Pretty Little Liars" und "One of Us Is Lying" – eine Geschichte, die in die dunklen Abgründe der High Society eintaucht. Von Lesern und Kritikern gleichermaßen gelobt für seine nervenaufreibende Handlung und die geschickte Vermischung von Thriller- und Dramaelementen. Ein Muss für alle, die nach einem Jugendthriller suchen, der sowohl unterhält als auch zum Nachdenken anregt. Enthält eine Triggerwarnung und behandelt ernste Themen sensibel und mit der nötigen Ernsthaftigkeit, was eine reflektierte Auseinandersetzung mit den Inhalten ermöglicht.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2023Border images, border narratives
The political aesthetics of boundaries and crossings
by Johan Schimanski, Jopi Nyman
This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of images and narratives in different borderscapes. Written by experienced scholars in the field, Border images, border narratives provides fresh insight into how borders, borderscapes, and migration are imagined and narrated in public and private spheres. Offering new ways to approach the political aesthetics of the border and its ambiguities, this volume makes a valuable contribution to the methodological renewal of border studies and presents ways of discussing cultural representations of borders and related processes. Influenced by the thinking of philosopher Jacques Rancière, this timely volume argues that narrated and mediated images of borders and borderscapes are central to the political process, as they contribute to the public negotiation of borders and address issues such as the in/visiblity of migrants and the formation of alternative borderscapes. The contributions analyse narratives and images in literary texts, political and popular imagery, surveillance data, border art, and documentaries, as well as problems related to borderland identities, migration, and trauma. The case studies provide a highly comparative range of geographical contexts ranging from Northern Europe and Britain, via Mediterranean and Mexican-USA borderlands, to Chinese borderlands from the perspectives of critical theory, literary studies, social anthropology, media studies, and political geography.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2026Border enclaves
Melilla and the making of Europe’s southern periphery
by Laia Soto Bermant
Border enclaves examines the Spanish enclave of Melilla as a prism for understanding Europe's contemporary dislocations. Based on over a decade of ethnographic research, it explores how borders are enforced, contested and inhabited in a city suspended between Africa and Europe, colonial legacies and modern regimes. Through a polyphonic narrative following smugglers, migrants, teachers and politicians, it reveals how everyday practices and symbolic performances shape life in the enclave. Selective visibility-who is seen or erased-structures authority and exclusion. Situating Melilla within broader processes like Spain's colonial history and Europe's border restructuring, the book argues that its fragmented sovereignties and external dependencies make it a paradigmatic site for grasping Europe's precarious margins. It calls for an ethnographic lens attuned to dislocation as both lived experience and analytic tool.
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2025Among Neighbours
The strangest relationship of our lives
by Bernd Imgrund
There are many things in life that we are (more or less) free to choose: our circle of friends, our workplace, our place of residence. However, we have to take some communities as they come: We cannot choose our family or our neighbours, for example. Why this does not only lead to the much-vaunted idyllic sense of belonging and what tensions forced social relationships can cause: This is the subject of this fascinating collection of essays by Bernd Imgrund. It sheds light on a piece of social history that we all know from our own experience: who hasn't had an argument with their immediate neighbour or made fun of the residents of the neighbouring district? But it is by no means only negative aspects that characterise neighbourly relations. Pride in one's neighbourhood, help within a village community: the many advantages of a social community, its importance and its representation in art and literature have also found their way into this book.
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July 2010Auf der Suche nach dem Wunderbaren
Die Lehre des großen Meisters G. I. Gurdjieff
by Ouspensky, Peter D. / Übersetzt von Keyserling, Arnold; Übersetzt von March, Louise
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2021Border images, border narratives
by Johan Schimanski, Jopi Nyman, Sarah Green, Hastings Donnan
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