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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2023

        Border 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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        December 2025

        To Cage a Wild Bird

        Verlier dein Leben. Oder dein Herz

        by Fast, Brooke

        Aus dem Englischen von Bettina Ain

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2026

        Border 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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        White Bird - Wie ein Vogel (Graphic Novel)

        Von der Erfolgsautorin von Wunder

        by R. J. Palacio

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2025

        Beyond the antislavery haven

        Slavery in early Canadian print culture, 1789–1889

        by Ellie Bird

        This book challenges the idealised narrative of Canada as an antislavery haven for self-liberated people to explore Canada's complicated relationship with slavery. Examining advertisements, abolitionist texts and narratives about slavery in Canadian newspapers and the texts that were printed alongside them, it shows how Canadian readers and enslavers developed an image of themselves as belonging to an antislavery community even while recognising their own complicity in slavery. The book explores narratives that depict the lives of Black settlers in Canada and how slave narratives circulated in Canada. Canada's relationship with slavery is far more complicated than seeing it as either an antislavery haven or a slaveholding space. Canada was connected to Britain, France, the Caribbean and the United States and this was central to how Canadians and Canadian readers fashioned their self-image in relation to slavery.

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        February 2023

        Allergisch

        Ein einfühlsames Comicbuch über Allergien - Erlebe Maggies ermutigende Geschichte über die Suche nach dem perfekten Haustier und den Umgang mit Veränderungen

        by Megan Wagner Lloyd, Michelle Mee Nutter, Cornelia Röser

        HATSCHI! Endlich soll Maggie einen Hund bekommen, aber plötzlich juckt es überall. Ihre Augen schwellen an und sie kann nicht aufhören zu niesen. Maggie ist allergisch. Und es gibt nur eine Sache, die gegen den Juckreiz hilft: Sie muss sich komplett von Tieren fernhalten. Dabei liebt Maggie nichts mehr als Tiere! Doch wegen ihrer Allergie darf nicht einmal das Klassen-Meerschweinchen bleiben. Wenn Maggie wenigstens ein Haustier finden würde, das bei ihr keinen Juckreiz auslöst. Eins ohne Fell und Federn … Eine warmherzige Geschichte über Allergien und geplatzte Träume, aber auch über Familie, Freundschaft und darüber, den eigenen Platz im Leben zu finden. Für Kinder mit und ohne Allergie Egal, ob Pollen, Erdnüsse, Hausstaub oder Tierhaare: fast ein Drittel aller Deutschen reagiert irgendwann allergisch auf etwas. Megan Wagner Lloyd stützt sich auf ihre eigenen Erfahrungen und erzählt in diesem Comicbuch Maggies Geschichte. Kinder können mit diesem Buch auf einfühlsame und unterhaltsame Art und Weise lernen, was es heißt, Allergien zu haben und wie man damit umgehen kann. Eine ermutigende Graphic Novel mit hohem Identifikationspotential für Kinder ab 8 Jahren!

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2025

        Conquest and resistance in West Africa

        The Jeandet Affair and the illusion of colonial justice

        by Ruth Ginio

        This book is an enthralling account of a legal scandal, which erupted in colonial Senegal in 1890 and reached the French metropolitan press and the parliament. The murder of a colonial administrator, Abel Jeandet, by one of his soldiers led to the brutal and illegal executions without trial of the killer and two local dignitaries. The volume follows the fascinating story of Ndiereby Ba, the widow of one of the dignitaries, who with the help of powerful métis men in the capital Saint Louis sued the French administrators who had supervised the executions for the murder of her husband. Through this captivating tale the book articulates the French expansion into West Africa, the resistance to colonial rule both violent and non-violent, and the lack of interest on the part of French politicians in the brutal conquest of a territory they know nothing about.

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        January 1989

        Die Geheimnisse der guten Erde

        Hoffnungsvolle Auswege aus der ökologischen Krise

        by Tompkins, Peter; Bird, Christopher / Übersetzt von Würmli, Marcus

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