Cultural Studies

An accessible account of the role of the modern university in the creation of economics During the late nineteenth century concerns about interna...

How do artists, communities, and art connect with one another? How might multiple feminist views be used to interpret art? Art, Feminism, and Commu...

Drawing on the event of Queen Elizabeth IIs death in 2022 as a central case study, this book explores the way we navigate the relationship between ...

Pokémon is one of the most amazing pop culture phenomena of our epoch, with deep metaphysical roots and profound philosophical implications. Pokémo...

This is a biography of Cardinal John Tong of Hong Kong, which charts his experiences through the Second World War, his time as a seminarian in Maca...

The Pet Shop Boys came of age at a time of deep socio-political tension. From the rise of sexual politics and awareness to Thatcherite neoliberalis...

Visual Typologies from the Early Modern to the Contemporary investigates the pictorial representation of types from the sixteenth to the twenty- fi...

It is widely known that at least in current societies - culture depends on money. Less attention has been given to the contrary fact: money also d...

This book reviews photographic portrayals of contemporary Italian migrants living in the area between Lausanne and Geneva in Switzerland (Arc Léman...

This book is about the parlance of political economic ideas with scientific practices in the Duchy of Milan, from the late eighteenth-century Habsb...

This book discusses the development of the rural tourism industry in the Himalayan region, specifically in the region of Himachal Pradesh (HP), fro...

This edited volume offers a systematic exploration of the relations between Western and Eastern scientists during the Cold War from the Eastern Eur...

This book looks at television comedy, drawn from across the UK and Ireland, and ranging chronologically from the 1980s to the 2020s. It explores de...

This book uncovers how during the origins of modernity in the nineteenth century the senses were mobilised to sell more, both through the popularis...

This monograph identifies and investigates the other-conscious ethics in black avant-garde poetry since the 1980s. Drawing on a long tradition in t...

This open access book defines the cinematic Gothic as an aesthetics of memory and exile. Guided by three intersecting concepts memory, travelling,...

This book focuses on the relationships between underground urban music cultures in Los Angeles and specific urban imaginaries related to music prac...

This book addresses the multiple repercussions of South Africas democratic transition beginning in 1994 by examining a number of themes with local,...

'Veganism is not just a diet. Not just an opinion, nor a trend. It is a 21st-century revolution which began 20 centuries ago.' From the activist, s...

Traditional food studies textbooks tend to emphasize theoretical concepts and text-based approaches. Yet food is sensory, tactile, and experiential...

This important new book examines contemporary art while foregrounding the key role feminism has played in enabling current modes of artmaking, spec...

Returning to the map of the island of utopia, this book provides a contemporary, inventive, addition to the long history of legal fictions and juri...