Cultural Studies

This book offers a nuanced reflection on the meaning of making and artisan agency, demonstrating how copper-smithing produces not only objects, but...

Legendary record producer-turned-brain scientist explains why you fall in love with music.'Extraordinary insights about music, emotion and the brai...

This book examines the transformation of untouchability into a political idea in India during the first half of the twentieth century. At its heart...

A beneficiary of the pioneering incorporation of sound and synchronicity into cinema, the Hollywood musical became the most popular film genre in A...

Understanding contemporary global politics by connecting them to the meditations of a classical Greek philosopher may seem farfetched and counterin...

Arthur Asa Berger, author of an array of texts in communication, popular culture, and social theory, is back with the second edition of his popular...

The Body in French Queer Thought from Wittig to Preciado: Queer Permeability identifies a common concern in French queer works for the materiality ...

'A history that makes perfect sense when the sky is falling down.' - The Sunday TimesBeneath the psychedelic utopianism of the sixties lay a dark s...

Miss Dior is a wartime story of freedom and fascism, beauty and betrayal and 'a gripping story' (Antonia Fraser).*The New Look, a new Apple TV dra...

Food bankswarehouses that collect and systematize surplus foodhave expanded into one of the largest mechanisms to redistribute food waste. From the...

For better or worse, Rorty has shaped the trajectory of academic philosophy. A decade after his passing, his legacy is ever present, especially in ...

This volume pays tribute to the work of Professor Kate Marsh (1974-2019), an outstanding scholar whose research covered an extraordinarily wide ran...

This book updates the Oedipus complex for a contemporary audience in the light of social and cultural changes and explores its implications for psy...

This book updates the Oedipus complex for a contemporary audience in the light of social and cultural changes and explores its implications for psy...

She was young, a determined fighter against Nazism in Germany; she was an independent socialist, a tireless writer against hatred and war; and she ...

Ours is a post-political society that cannot imagine radical change; a one dimensional society in which politics is reduced to economic concerns. P...

Since the birth of modernity, Western thought has been at war with clichés. The association of philosophical and cultural integrity with originalit...

This book uses Norbert Elias and John L. Scotsons The Established and The Outsiders to map selected established-outsiders figurations in Poland aft...