“…In Demand, Adrian Slywotzky provides a radically new way to think about demand, with a big idea and a host of practical applications--not just for people in business but also for social activists, government leaders, non-profit managers, and other would-be innovators. …”

“…In dealing with the work of two contemporary literary authors, Herta Müller and Ilma Rakusa, she develops the affect-poetological program of writing in contradiction, which for the first time combines literary methods with approaches of social-scientifically based research on belonging and is aimed at an interdisciplinary, open-minded readership. Marion Acker shows that belonging is a multifaceted challenge that is taken up again and again in the writing of the two authors and has the potential…”