Cultural Studies

Since the 1980s, music videos have been everywhere, and today almost all of the most-viewed clips on YouTube are music videos. However, in academia...

Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture offers an historical overview of the civilizations of the ancient Near East spanning ten thousand years of...

Departing from the scholarly treatment of addiction as a form of rhetoric or discursive formation, Wasted: Performing Addiction in America focuses ...

Cultural Heritage and the Future brings together an international group of scholars and experts to consider the relationship between cultural herit...

Millions of tourists visit Washington, D.C., every year, but for some the experience is about much more than sightseeing. Lauren R. Kerby's lively,...

In South Asia goddesses are conceptualized and worshipped in a fascinatingrange of forms from cosmic beings to bacterial manifestations, from huma...

The Routledge Companion to Photography and Visual Culture is a seminal reference source for the ever-changing field of photography. Comprising an i...

First published in 1997, this study aims, first, to enlarge upon the understanding of race and ethnicity through a culturalist-comparative frame of...

Change is now a dominant feature of early childhood systems around the globe and many countries are currently facing significant economic, social a...

Issues of race permeate virtually every corner of policy creation and implementation in the United States, yet theoretically driven research on int...

This title was first published in 2003. Hong Kong is a society of contrasts and paradoxes. The city has a contrasting and yet fluid intermingling o...

The Architectural Imagination at the Digital Turn asks what it means to speak of a digital turn in architecture. It examines how architects at the ...

Title first published in 2003. 'Weber is probably the only person in his generation who is equally at home in and directly informed about contempor...

Slavoj Zizek is one of the most provocative and important thinkers writing in contemporary philosophy. This book is an engaged debate with Zizek. I...

Debates about gender are everywhere. Is it an inner identity, a biological fact, or an oppressive system? Should we respect it or resist it?What Ev...

This book looks at the migration and work experiences of six women who have migrated to Australia from China; Zimbabwe; South Korea; the United Kin...

Pathology & Technology is the first comprehensive look at technopathologies. Since the days of the telegraph, electric communication technologi...

George Abraham Griersons Linguistic Survey of India is one of the most complete sources on South Asian languages. This book is the first detailed e...

This study constructs a framework of narratology for art history and rewrites the development of twentieth-century Chinese art from a narratologica...

The ambit of Buddhist studies reflects not only the spiritual and philosophical domain of Buddhism but also a symbiotic relationship between the mo...

This work investigates the material culture of public temperatures in New York City. Numbers like temperature, while ubiquitous and indispensable t...

Affect, Architecture, and Practice builds on and contributes to work in theories of affect that have risen within diverse disciplines, including ge...

Responding to security scholars puzzling dearth of attention to children and childhoods, the contributors to this volume reveal the ways in which t...

Night is a foundational element of human and animal life on earth, but its interaction with the social world has undergone significant transformati...