Cultural Studies

This book brings together literary critics, political historians, historians of literature, cinema and theatre and cultural sociologists, to elucid...

This book presents new empirical studies of social difference in the Nordic welfare states, in order to advance novel theoretical perspectives on t...

The way people encounter ideas of Hinduism online is often shaped by global discourses of religion, pervasive Orientalism and (post)colonial schola...

This book examines the societal dynamics of memory politics in Russia. Since Vladimir Putin became president, the Russian central government has in...

News media, film, and the music industry have become powerful sources of misrepresentation of Black male life in the social imagination of white so...

The book marks the circulation of the term promiscuous feminist methodology and registers its salience for educational researchers who risk blunder...

This volume offers an in-depth investigation of the role of new media in the political, social and cultural life in the region of Europe-Asia. By f...

The tragedy of European civilization is a protracted historical event spanning the twentieth century and in many ways is ongoing. During this time ...

How do people communicate their romantic feelings? Gift giving is one way. Giving and receiving of gifts is a characteristic of intimate relationsh...

Storytelling has proliferated today, from TED Talks and Humans of New York to a plethora of story-coaching agencies and consultants. These narrativ...

Edwardian Culture: Beyond the Garden Party is the first truly interdisciplinary collection of essays dealing with culture in Britain c.1895-1914. B...

This edited collection explores the deeper contexts and consequences surrounding the murder of Matthew Shepard. This young gay man was brutally bea...

Made in the Low Countries: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology o...

Toward a Chican@ Hip Hop Anti-Colonialism makes visible the anti-colonial, alterNative politics in hip hop texts created by Chican@s and Xican@s (i...

Critical Theory and Social Transformation provides an exploration of the major themes in critical social theory of recent years. Delanty argues tha...

Anthropological Explorations in Queer Theory offers a wide ranging fusion of queer theory with anthropological theory, shifting away from the discu...

Artistic Lives examines cultural production as a non-standard, self-directed, and frequently unpaid activity, which is susceptible to developments ...

This book aims to add to existing knowledge of how eighteenth-century ideas of human nature and rights, of universal progress, peace, and wealth we...

Queer in Europe takes stock of the intellectual and social status and treatment of queer in the New Europe of the twenty-first century, addressing ...

Two of the key theoretical shifts over the past two decades of critical work have been the 'visual turn' and the 'material turn'. This book argues ...

This new edition of An Introduction to Materials and Chemistry, the first in the updated Science for Conservators series, provides conservators and...

In recent years the body has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, social sciences and humanities. Transgressive Bodies offer...

In public debates, communication campaigns and public policies, it is increasingly common to attribute to consumers and their agency an ability to ...

This book brings into focus the technologically augmented nature of global online communities, advancing research methods that reveal the imprint o...