This volume reflects on what legibility entails in today s machinic world. It asks what makes cultural expressions from literary texts films artworks and museum exhibits to archives laws and algorithms il legible to whom or what and with what consequences. Legi... Lees meer.

Introducing us to urban professional women in Africa a group often overlooked this book looks specifically at the women who have taken advantage of recent opportunities to become journalists in Tanzania.... Lees meer.

Trading Places turns on its head the usual scholarly consensus that early Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism run parallel. These two great traditions argue Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner intersected and ultimately traded places during the first four centuries of the C... Lees meer.

Few would disagree that neighborhood and place are important dimensions of reentry from prison but we have a less clear sense of why or how they matter and we rarely get a view of the lived social-interactional dynamics between people returning from incarceration and r... Lees meer.

Sonic Interventions makes a compelling case for the importance of sound in theorizing literature subjectivity and culture. Sound is usually understood as our second sense and as our belief in a visually dominated culture prevails remains of secondary interest. West... Lees meer.

It may not be what you think it is. Unless you think it might be an imagined series of brief conversations between Jesus and the Apostle Paul-historical fiction that takes place on Mount Sinai and within Ancient Israels tabernacle conversations that ultimately answer... Lees meer.