Cultural Studies

The discovery of the New World offered European civilisation the chance to generate a process of circulation of its own cultural values the spirit...

This collection covers a wide range of topics, from a moving study of Bizet's Carmen to an entertainingly caustic exploration of the hierarchies of...

Contemporary American landscape is wrought with ongoing processes and phenomena of technicization observable at the intersections of multiple layer...

Norm-Struggles explores and challenges normativity in general and heteronormativity in particular. A common trait in all chapters is the focus on c...

Hot Topics, Public Culture, Museums engages the highly problematic and increasingly important issue of museums, science centres, their roles in con...

Both fictional and non-fictional accounts of the Arctic have long been a major source of powerful images of the region, and have thus had a crucial...

This collection draws together recent work by new and emerging scholars which examines the representation of alienation and resistance in texts and...

Recent literary expressions of the immigrant experience reveal the postmodern narrative obsession with the immigrant as cultural and political outl...

This book looks at language in unexpected places. Drawing on a diversity of materials and contexts, including farewell addresses to British workers...

As early as 1910 Americans recognized that cars were easy to steal and, once stolen, hard to find, especially since cars looked much alike. Model s...

Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an inaccessible past. That...

The Good Body: Normalizing Visions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, 18361867 examines literary and cultural representations o...

Cultural Production in Virtual and Imagined Worlds foregrounds how the two important fields of visual culture and Internet culture interact. This c...

The Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman. Digital ''''second life'''', genetically...

While much has been written about Irish cultures apparent obsession with the past and with representing childhood, few critics have explored in det...

Why is Cinco de Mayo - a holiday commemorating a Mexican victory over the French at Puebla in 1862 - so widely celebrated in California and across ...

Why is Cinco de Mayo - a holiday commemorating a Mexican victory over the French at Puebla in 1862 - so widely celebrated in California and across ...

It is time for a new book about bog bodies: the number of known bodies is growing. Lindow Man, the famous 'Pete Marsh' discovered in Cheshire in th...

Imagination and the Public Sphere is an interdisciplinary collection which explores the politics of identities and the equally challenging politics...

In the years since the 9/11 attacks, approximately four million Americans have turned eighteen each year and more than fifty million children have ...

The catalyst for much of classical pragmatist political thought was the great waves of migration to the United States in the early twentieth centur...

Human culture depends on human minds for its creation, meaning and exchange. But minds also depend on culture for their contents and processes. Pas...

The all-embracing, whaddya got? nature of rebellion in Fifties America included pop music's unlikely challenge to entrenched notions of masculinity...

The all-embracing, whaddya got? nature of rebellion in Fifties America included pop music's unlikely challenge to entrenched notions of masculinity...

A spellbinding travel book, exploring the psychology of walking, pilgrimage, solitude and escape.'An extraordinary, dreamlike journey through West ...

With fascinating essays on artists from Louis Armstrong to Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud to Franz Kafka and Beatrix Potter to Marcel Proust, Cultu...

In some respects, the contrasts of Christmas are what make it the most delightful time of the year. It is a time of generosity, kindness and pea...

If I had to choose just one book that I want everybody of any age to read at this moment in time, this would be it Brian Eno ...

Albania and Europe in a Political Regard is a multidisciplinary work which aims to develop different points of view in the field of social sciences...

This book reproduces the texts of four lectures, followed by discussions, and two interviews with Lise Gauvin published in Introduction à une poéti...