Author's Corner

In haar boek Adellijk en artistiek toont Wendy Wiertz hoe amateurkunsten voor vrouwen een krachtig instrument waren om de eigen identiteit vorm te geven, om een plaats in een sociaal-cultureel netwerk te verwerven en om tastbare herinneringen na te laten.

In Ferenczi Dialogues, the authors Raluca Soreanu, Jakob Staberg, and Jenny Willner present the contribution of Sándor Ferenczi to a psychoanalytic theory of trauma and discuss the philosophical, political and clinical implications of Ferenczi’s thinking.

'Sugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice' offers an innovative, wide-ranging and geographically diverse book-length treatment of girlhood in comics.

In 'Anarchy of the Body', art historian KuroDalaiJee sheds light on vital pieces of postwar Japanese avant-garde history by contextualizing the social, cultural, and political trajectories of artists across Japan in the 1960s.

Het huidige debat is sterk polariserend: landbouw versus ecologie, vermarkting versus subsistentie, schaalvergroting versus familiebedrijven, comparatieve voordelen en specialisatie versus diversiteit, enzovoort. Met het boek 'Tot de bodem' wil editor Maïka De Keyzer de klassieke tegenstellingen doorbreken.

In zijn boek 'Stilte in de klas' verkent Pieter Verstraete aan de hand van niet eerder ontgonnen archiefmateriaal de geschiedenis van de pedagogische betekenis van stilte.

Sarah Hegenbart traces the path from Wagner’s introduction of the Gesamtkunstwerk in Bayreuth to Schlingensief’s attempt to charge the idea of the total artwork with new meaning by transposing it to the West African country Burkina Faso.

Unfinished Histories explores how the imperial past has lived on in Belgium, but also in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi.

In het volume Giuseppe Verdi: Ernani in de reeks Operatheek toont Annelies Andries hoe esthetische idealen botsten met de praktische vereisten van een operaproductie.

The Diamond Open Access publication Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing emerges from the project Women Picturing Revolution. The editors and co-funders of the project, Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago, explain more about the project and the book in this blog post.

Me-Linh Riemann, author of Leaving Spain, and Pedro Moura, author of Visualising Small Traumas share their experiences on writing their first academic book.

In his book Homo Mimeticus Nidesh Lawtoo proposes a new theory of one of the most influential concepts in western thought (mimesis) to confront some of the hypermimetic challenges of the present and future.