Cultural Studies

This volume is a collection of contributions presented at the 4th YOCOCU Youth in Conservation of Cultural Heritage Conference, held in Agsu, Azerb...

The ever-growing interest in the analysis of materiality has found its expression in many studies of objects and objecthood, of things and thingnes...

Translation and Cultural Identity: Selected Essays on Translation and Cross-Cultural Communication tackles the complexity of the concepts mentioned...

The ad image has become the focus of ad research, and to a certain extent this is justified. To understand how the ad image is received, the tradit...

When the police shoot or choke civilians in supposed fear and dread of the people they are meant to be protecting and as a consequence deny them th...

In The People of Vietnam: Their Voices and Lived Experiences, a study is presented on Vietnamese migration to the Czech Republic, its modi operandi...

Greece and Greek mean different things to different people. The historian, of course, will inform us that all Western civilisation has Greece for i...

This handbook explores essential philosophical questions about the experience of difference and the other in African societies. The contributions g...

Two pervading factors in any life-world that are discussed, but never explicated are time and concrete action. No doubt, social theory (as well as ...

Humans have always depended upon natural ecosystems to supply a range of services useful for their survival and well-being. However, with widesprea...

While organisations have become central for thinking and structuring contemporary social action, existing perspectives on what they are and how to ...

Stereotypes result in deceptive generalizations about groups and are held in a manner that renders them as derogatory. As such, this volume advocat...

For the last two decades, the world has been constantly facing challenges having completely new qualities: the growing tension between West and Eas...

This yearbook deals with discourse within and across different cultures.

This book investigates the praise poetry genre of the Dagombas of northern Ghana. The art of drumming, performed by court figures known as drummers...