Chapter 1 Contested Transparencies: An Introduction

Chapter 2 Transparency’s Trap: Problems of an Unquestioned Norm

Chapter 3 The Fly on a Pane of Glass: Paradoxes of Transparency

Chapter 4 Literature, Transparency, Ideology: Functions of Literature in Negotiating Transparency

Chapter 5 Communication Among Strangers: Concepts of the Public Sphere in American Newspapers of the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Chapter 7 Intelligence, Mistrust and Transparency: A Case Study of the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution

Chapter 8 The ‘Traube Affair’: Transparency as a Legitimation and Action Strategy Between Security, Surveillance and Privacy

Chapter 9 Promises of Transparency, Promises of Participation: On the Ambivalent Rhetoric of the Occupy-Movement

Chapter 10 The Dual Nature of Transparency: Corporatization and Democratization of Global Production Networks

Chapter 11 The Role of Transparency in Urban Planning Processes