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Disassembled Images

allan Sekula and Contemporary Art

2019 || Paperback || Alexander Streitberger e.a. || Leuven University Press

“Disassembled” Images takes as a point of departure Allan Sekula’s productive approach of disassembling elements in order to reassemble them in alternative constellations. Some of the most pressing issues of our time, such as human labor in a globalized economy or the claim for radical democracy, are recurrent themes in Sekula’s oeuvre and are investigated by a wide range of experts in this book. Addressing a variety of artworks, both by Sekula and other artists, the collected essays ...

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Militant Jihadism

Today and Tomorrow

2019 || Paperback || Serafettin Pektas e.a. || Leuven University Press

Jihadist militants keep being a global threat. Many observers suggest that a transformation is likely to happen in their organisation, operation, mobilisation, and recruitment strategies, particularly after the territorial decline of the “Caliphate” of the “Islamic State.” This volume explores different aspects of the future trajectories of militant jihadism and the prospective transformation of this movement in and around Europe. The authors analyse the changing jihadist landscape a...

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Protagonists of War

Spanish Army Commanders and the Revolt in the Low Countries

2021 || Paperback || Raymond Fagel || Leuven University Press

Julián Romero, Sancho Dávila, Cristóbal de Mondragón, and Francisco de Valdés were prominent Spanish military commanders during the first decade of the Revolt in the Low Countries (1567–1577). Occupying key positions in this conflict, they featured as central characters in various war narratives and episodical descriptions of the events they were involved in, ranging from chronicles, poems, theatre plays, engravings, and songs to news pamphlets. To this day, they still figure as protag...

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Translation Policies in Legal and Institutional Settings

2021 || Paperback || Marie Bourguignon e.a. || Leuven University Press

This edited volume documents the state of the art in research on translation policies in both legal and institutional settings. Offering case studies of past and present translation policies from all over the world, it allows for a compelling comparison of attitudes towards translation in varying contexts.

It highlights the virtues of integrating different types of expertise in the study of translation policy: theoretical and applied, historical and modern, legal, institutional, and political...

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Visualising Small Traumas

Contemporary Portuguese Comics at the Intersection of Everyday Trauma

2022 || Paperback || Pedro Moura || Leuven University Press

Portugal's vibrant comics scene originated as early as the 19th century, bringing forth brilliant individual artists, but has remained mostly unknown beyond Portugal’s borders to this day. Now a new generation employs this medium to put into question hegemonic views on the economy, politics, and society. Following the experience of the financial crisis of the past decades and its impact on social policies, access to and rules of public discourse, and civil strife, comics have questioned wha...

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Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood

Perspectives on Community-Building, Identity and Belonging

2022 || Paperback || Britta C. Jung || Leuven University Press

Urban neighbourhoods have come to occupy the public imagination as a litmus test of migration, with some areas hailed as multicultural success stories while others are framed as ghettos. In an attempt to break down this dichotomy, Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood filters these debates through the lenses of geography, anthropology, and literary and cultural studies. By establishing the interdisciplinary concept of the 'transnational neighbourhood', it presents these localities – whe...

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Mobs and Microbes

Global Perspectives on Market Halls, Civic Order and Public Health

2023 || Paperback || Leila Marie Farah e.a. || Leuven University Press

Markets and market halls have always been more than about trade and nourishment. A detailed look at the histories of marketplaces provides evidence of the public health concerns they faced, as well as the social commotion, mobilization and, at times, unrest they hosted. This edited volume reappraises the market hall, examining both its architectural and its social and political significance.

Focusing on how these buildings embodied transformations in architecture and urbanism from the mid-nin...

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Sugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice

Comics Picturing Girlhood

2022 || Paperback || Dona Pursall e.a. || Leuven University Press

Sugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice offers an innovative, wide-ranging and geographically diverse book-length treatment of girlhood in comics. The various contributing authors and artists provide novel insights into established themes within comic studies, children’s comics, graphic medicine and comics by and about refugees and marginalised ethnic or cultural groups. The book enriches traditional historical, narratological and aesthetic approaches to studying girlhood in comics with practice-...

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Two-Dimensional Sonata Form / Druk 2

Form and Cycle in Single-Movement Instrumental Works by Liszt, Strauss, Schoenberg and Zemlinsky

2024 || Paperback || Steven Vande Moortele || Leuven University Press

Two-Dimensional Sonata Form is the first book dedicated to the combination of the movements of a multimovement sonata cycle with an overarching single-movement form that is itself organized as a sonata form. Drawing on a variety of historical and recent approaches to musical form (e.g., Marxian and Schoenbergian Formenlehre, Caplin’s theory of formal functions, and Hepokoski and Darcy’s Sonata Theory), it begins by developing an original theoretical framework for the analysis of this type...

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Unfolding Time

studies in temporality in twentieth-century music

2011 || Paperback || Darla Crispin e.a. || Leuven University Press

Questions concerning music and its inextricably intertwined and complex interface with time continue to fascinate musicians and scholars.

For performers, the primary perception of music is arguably the way in which it unfolds in ‘real time’; while for composers a work appears ‘whole and entire’, with the presence of the score having the potential to compress, and even eliminate, the perception of time as ‘passing’.

The paradoxical relationship between these two perspectives, and the sub...