Cultural Studies

This book offers a conceptual interrogation of how capital navigates its cybernetic environment. Taking an immanent perspective, the book develops ...

This book offers a conceptual interrogation of how capital navigates its cybernetic environment. Taking an immanent perspective, the book develops ...

Sonic Encounters with Blanchot is the first book to explore the relationship of sound and music with the work of Maurice Blanchot. The volume bring...

This book argues narrative, people and place are inseparable and pursues the consequences of this insight through the design of narrative environme...

Water control and management have been fundamental to the building of human civilisation. In Europe, the regulation of major rivers, the digging of...

In this definitive history of a unique tradition, Tyler D. Parry untangles the convoluted history of the broomstick wedding. Popularly associated w...

The Mongol period (1206-1368) marked a major turning point of exchange culturally, politically, and artistically across Eurasia.The wide-ranging ...

This collection explores the cultural fascination with social media forms of self-portraiture, selfies, with a specific interest in online self-ima...

This book examines discourses of rights and practices of resistance in post-conflict societies, exploring the interaction between the international...

There is often a moment in time that acts as a rallying point around a particular issue. 2015 was one of those moments for women, peace and securit...

Since 1959, the government of the Caribbean island of Cuba, 90 miles away from the United States of America, has defied its powerful neighbor. The ...

Those who knew the famous philosopher Bertrand Russell at the turn of the century referred to him as 'the Day of Judgement'. This acclaimed selecti...

How do musical practices move? Though technology increasingly plays a great part in establishing different degrees of spatial proximity, music maki...

This book was first published in 2003: Developing a reading of some of Beauvoir's and Sartre's most influential writings in philosophy, Max Deutsch...

This book investigates the pictorial figurations, aesthetic styles and visual tactics through which visual art and popular culture attempt to appea...

Three Cultural Ecologies reverses common conceptions of modern architecture. It reveals how selected works of two modern architects, Le Corbusier a...

Made in Korea: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contempora...

In artworks from a mosaic by Marc Chagall to schoolchildren's paintings, in writings from Susan Fenimore Cooper to Annie Dillard, and in diverse pr...

Desafios, diferencias y deformaciones de la ciudadania: mutantes y monstruos en la produccion cultural latinoamericana reciente se inserta dentro d...

Freedom is commonly recognized as the struggle for basic liberties, societies based upon open dialogue, human rights and democracy. The idea of fre...

How was the post-modernist project contested, subverted and assimilated in India? This book offers a personal account and an intellectual history o...

Originally published in 2003, The Light Inside is a ground-breaking study of an Afro-Cuban secret society, its sacred arts, and their role in moder...

From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past is a collection of essays that both analyses the historical and cultural medieval an...

If the political and social benchmarks of sustainability and sustainable development are to be met, ignoring the role of the humanities and social,...