Author’s corner

15th April, 2024 in Author’s corner

In Urban Culture and the Modern City editors Ágnes Györke and Tamás Juhász expand the scope of literary urban studies by focusing on Budapest and Hungarian small towns

8th April, 2024 in Author’s corner

In his book ‘Corporate Governance from Startup to Scale-up’ Luc Sterckx provides firsthand advice on how early-stage companies can be governed in an efficient and workable manner, regardless of their limited financial resources.

8th February, 2024 in Author’s corner

This anthology edited by Paul Nnodim and Austin Okigbo weaves interdisciplinary perspectives into the discourse on African relational ethics in dialogue with Western normative ideals.

24th January, 2024 in Author’s corner

‘Beyond the Translator’s Invisibility’ demonstrates the value of understanding the visibilities of translators and translation in the plural and adds much-needed nuance to one of translation studies’ most pervasive, polarizing, and imprecise concepts…

16th January, 2024 in Author’s corner

‘Collecting Asian Art: Cultural Politics and Transregional Networks in Twentieth-Century Central Europe’ examines museum collections of Asian art in the region of Central Europe, rather than the well-known collections of Western European and North Am…

20th December, 2023 in Author’s corner

In ‘Newcomers Navigating the Welfare State’ the authors explore the policies and practices related to social assistance and labour market activation for newcomers and the factors that influence individuals’ access to their rights. Q&A with editor Pet…

11th December, 2023 in Author’s corner

Auteur en dramaturg Willem Bruls gidst de lezer door dit bijzonder jeugdwerk uit 1863 van de Franse componist Georges Bizet.

25th October, 2023 in Author’s corner

In the aftermath of Covid-19, the theme of ‘empty places’ has taken on a new relevance topicality and resonance. “It seemed that everyone was suddenly capturing emptiness through photography,” clarify editors Sandra Križić Roban and Ana Šverko.

2nd June, 2023 in 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 l…

28th February, 2023 in Author’s corner

Sándor Ferenczi was one of the very few who early on appreciated Freud’s notion of life and death drives in Beyond the Pleasure Principle – and he took things further from there. In Ferenczi Dialogues, the authors Raluca Soreanu, Jakob Staberg, and J…

13th February, 2023 in Author’s corner

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.

13th February, 2023 in Author’s corner

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