Cultural Studies

This volume features a collection of papers from the second annual Intercultural Horizons conference held in October 2012 in New York City (USA). T...

This book covers intangible cultural heritage (ICH) governance through an Asia-Pacific context, making reference to the historical development of t...

This volume explores the cultural, literary, theatrical, and political changes in Irish society from 1980. The so-called Celtic Tiger brought about...

Who am I? The answer to this question is one of the most important issues a human being has to address in life. This is a question about possessing...

Reveries of Home considers understandings of home in the world today and the means by which feelings of homeliness are secured. In particular, the ...

As Claude Levi-Strauss wrote in his book, La pensee sauvage (Paris,1960): biographical and anecdotal history ... is low-powered history, which is ...

The concept of culture industry leads a double life. On the one hand, it appears as transparent, being used widely and freely in reference to a bra...

Politics of Interculturality fulfills the need for a thorough and critical evaluation of the notion of interculturality. Taking institutional and e...

Older women have never been so visible, or so problematised, in popular media culture as now; but what kinds of representations are being offered, ...

This book involves a conscious attempt to bridge progressive academic scholarship with activist groups and communities in Ireland and beyond. Takin...

In todays world, people speak more than 6000 languages and identify with thousands of cultural groups and a large variety of different religions. D...

The book is concerned with one of the most important issues in Persian culture, that is to say a broadly conceived idea of sacrifice and martyrdom....

The contributors to this book have explored various aspects of urban imagination, so intimately related to a peculiar social environment. They are ...

This book, by an international group of scholars, focuses on a number of sociolinguistic issues, some of them complex and controversial, linked to ...

This book explores the different trends and the various changes in the representational history of femmes fatales within twentieth century American...

Body and Time is an innovative and concise survey of penetrating essays, conceptualizing the body as a physiological system embedded in a social ne...

This volume questions the idea that the nation-state is the only available form of community, and challenges its hegemonic control over forms of so...

The twelve essays in this book - by scholars from the U.S., France, Germany, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic - offer new transnational persp...

This book explores scholarly challenges within the fields of Anglophone language, literature, and culture. The section focusing on language details...

In this collection, Hungarian literature is read together with canonical works of the Western literary tradition. The book studies the distinction ...

Greek Cypriots, Turkish Cypriots, Maronites, Latins, and Armenians have been the primary historical communities that make up the multicultural land...

The Taliban are synonymous with the war in Afghanistan. Doughty, uncompromising fighters, they plant IEDs, deploy suicide bombers and wage guerrill...

The term multiculturalism has been widely quoted to explain and study transnational networks and cultural changes on a global scale. This book focu...

The Spanish-speaking island of Puerto Rico (also known as Borinquen) has had a complex linguistic landscape since 1898, due to the United States'' ...

It used to be widely accepted amongst anthropologists that when they conducted fieldwork with foreign cultures they experienced something called cu...

This book has been compiled following the quality and reception of papers presented at the Moving Forward Postgraduate Conference, held at the Univ...

Literary and cultural studies in the later twentieth century were very much shaped by debates about modernism and postmodernism as labels for succe...

Writing New Worlds analyses the different ways in which travel literature constituted a fundamental pillar in the production of knowledge in the mo...

This volume explores the convergences and divergences of American Studies today, and, more specifically, investigates how this discipline might be ...

In recent years, society has focused more and more attention on the period between active working age and old age (or the Third Age). This book rep...

Expressions of Indigenous and Local Knowledge in Africa and its Diaspora provides critical discourses on Africa and the various configurations of i...

Intercultural Dialogue: In Search of Harmony in Diversity offers a philosophical analysis of the issues surrounding cultural diversity and dialogic...

Using interaction as a fundamental springboard, Addressing Methodological Challenges in Interpreting Studies Research showcases the major breakthro...