Author’s corner

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.

21st December, 2022 in Author’s corner

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 edito…

2nd December, 2022 in Author’s corner

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.

29th November, 2022 in Author’s corner

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.

22nd November, 2022 in Author’s corner

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

22nd November, 2022 in Author’s corner

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

15th November, 2022 in Author’s corner

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.

15th November, 2022 in Author’s corner

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

15th November, 2022 in Author’s corner

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…

8th November, 2022 in Author’s corner

‘Who Owns Africa?’ addresses the role of foreign actors in Africa and their competing interests in exploiting the resources of Africa and its people.