Cultural Studies

Commemorative practices are revised and rebuilt based on the spirit of the time in which they are re/created. Historians sometimes imagine that com...

In You are Not a Gadget digital guru and virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier reveals how the internet is deadening personal interaction, stifling ...

Materials carried the meaning of early modern art. Transformed and crafted from the matter of nature, art objects were the physical embodiment of b...

Chronicling the traditions of Chinese life and culture, The Art of Chinese Living is a visual cornucopia and an epic cultural immersion into everyt...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. You are what you eat. Never is this tr...

What sorts of things do we think about when we're driving or being driven in a car? Drivetime seeks to answer this question by drawing upon a r...

After a decade of chasing stories around the globe, intrepid travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest followed the magnetic pull home--only to disco...

People outside and within colleges and universities often view these institutions as fair and reasonable, far removed from the inequalities that af...

This book examines a cycle of postfeminist films that adopt the conventions of romance. In light of their tremendous gains in the political and pro...

Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History suggests a unique approach to the inner life and its ordinary pains. Francis OGorman charts the emergence...

When United Airlines workers reported a UFO at O'Hare Airport in November 2006, it was met with the typical denials and hush-up that usually accomp...

This book is a collection of Native American Recipes from tribes across North America. Some of the recipes provide new and different ways to prepar...

Re-inventing/Re-presenting Identities in a Global World is a collection of twelve selected essays which address the concepts of cultural identity f...

The volume Gardens of Madeira - Gardens of the World. Contemporary Approaches displays present tendencies in calling upon the idea of gardens, bein...

The Future of Difference theorises contemporary regimes of power as engaged primarily in the violent production of difference. In this moment, the ...

Dr. Nicos Rossides spent seven unforgettable years in Japan from the late 1970s, when the country began to emerge as a major player on the world st...

As the world has been reshaped since the 1970s by economic globalisation, neoliberalism, and financialisation, writers and artists have addressed t...

What discourses are produced about the Middle East by those from the outside? Between the Middle East and the Americas takes a transnational cultur...