Cultural Studies

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...

The author, an advocate of all things local, takes this chance to disseminate for an environment more favorable to the development of local culture...

In the 1940s Australian officials searched the displaced persons camps of war-ravaged Europe to select able-bodied, fair and hardworking Lithuanian...

Chiang Mai (literally, new city) suffered badly in the 1997 Asian financial crisis as the Northern Thai real estate bubble collapsed along with the...

Diasporic Identities and Empire: Cultural Contentions and Literary Landscapes explores traditional theories on hybridity, generated in consideratio...

Queer Exoticism: Examining the Queer Exotic Within joins the growing bibliography of queer postcolonial and queer race studies. The authors assembl...

This collection of articles devoted to Europe was born from the urgent need to present the specificity of European culture, both its unity and dive...

Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Literature and Culture is a collection of a dozen essays by Caribbean scholars living in the Caribbean and aroun...

In its updated second edition, this book tells the story of how the automobile transformed American life and how automotive design and technology h...

Why societys expectation of economic growth is no longer realisticEconomic growth--and the hope of better things to comeis the religion of the mode...

This volume focuses on the transferral of a televised format from the country in which it was originally produced into a wholly different cultural ...

Sketching and carving both visualize and memorize a given image, but within Nowau culture the manner in which this is achieved in a canoe prowboard...