Acknowledgements

This book is the outcome of a workshop held at Zeppelin University in the early Autumn of 2018. The workshop itself as well as the subsequent project of collecting and connecting together the chapters has demanded efforts from a large number of people, whom we would like to acknowledge here: Yannis Stavarakakis for his valuable support throughout, Hazel Goodes for her patient editorial guidance, Elise Bilger for her adept editorial assistance, Martin Beckford for his masterly copy editing, Ute Lucarelli for her help in securing funding, the Heinrich Böll Foundation Baden-Wuerttemberg and Zeppelin University for their financial backing of the workshop, Claire Perrot-Minot for her tremendous organisational skills, and Alexander Ruser for his continuous advice and encouragement. We are particularly grateful, of course, to the authors themselves who bore our numerous requests and suggestions with great patience and affability and also to the participants of the workshop who have not contributed to the book but supported the project with their contributions to the fruitful discussions.

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