Cultural Studies

This study takes an analytical approach to the world of role-playing games, providing a theoretical framework for understanding their psychologi...

In the American world, the presence of African culture is sometimes fully embodied and sometimes leaves only a trace. Africa in the American Imagin...

Over the course of his distinguished interdisciplinary career, Giles Gunn has sustained his focus on the continuing threats to our collective sense...

Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It wa...

Winner of the Caughey Western History PrizeWinner of the Robert G. Athearn AwardWinner of the Lawrence W. Levine AwardWinner of the TCU Texas Book ...

The book explores how we understand global conflicts as they relate to the European refugee crisis , and draws on a range of empirical fieldwork c...

Nationalism has reasserted itself today as the political force of our times, remaking European politics wherever one looks. Britain is no exception...

Available again in paperback, this study offers a rigorous critical re-reading of fictions of humanity, history, technology and postmodern culture....

We all know who The Girl is. She holds The Hero's hand as he runs through the Pyramids, chasing robots. Or she nags him, or foils him, plays the ...

The Rushdie affair, September 11 2001 and 7/7 pushed British Muslims into the forefront of increasingly fraught debate about multiculturalism. Ster...

In South Africa, The Siyazama Project enables rural, traditional craftswomen from KwaZulu-Natal to express their concerns about AIDS and all of its...

In this new history of music in Zimbabwe, Mhoze Chikowero deftly uses African sources to interrogate the copious colonial archive, reading it as a ...

Novelty fair examines mid-nineteenth-century people, things and places generally understood to be discrete and unrelated: urban fairs and the Great...

Materializing Magic Power paints a broad picture of the dynamics of popular religion in Taiwan. The first book to explore contemporary Chinese popu...

This book is the definitive study of imperial Chinese local gazetteers, one of the most important sources for premodern Chinese studies. Methodolog...

Presenting the history of the cellular phone from its beginnings in the 1940s to the present, this book explains the fundamental concepts involved ...

From the tenor of contemporary discussions, it would be easy to conclude that the idea of marriage between two people of the same sex is a uniquely...

This fascinating text introduces readers to postcolonial theory using the context of British media culture in ethnic minority communities to explai...

Melbourne, founded in 1835 among marshes and beside a sluggish stream, grew from wetlands into a world-class modern city. Drawing on a wide range o...

While people used to conceal the fact that they were gay or lesbian to protect themselves from stigma and discrimination, it is now commonplace for...

Although the position of Saudi women within society draws media attention throughout the world, young Saudi men remain part of a silent mass, their...

From the twins Osugi and Peeco to longstanding icon Miwa Akihiro, Claire Maree traces the figure of the Japanese queerqueen, showing how a diversit...

Many observers of Kenya's complicated history raise cause for concern, offering critiques of practices such as the use of public office for private...

Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace He writes about things so clearly they come to feel l...

I mean who cares about opinions, gossip, whatever, when bodies are so vulnerable, in search only of love and breath. Brilliant young writer Ellena ...

As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. In ...

The second edition of this extensive work is the definitive source on issues pertaining to the full range of topics in the important area of food a...

In the late 1990s Angels in America, Tony Kushner's epic play about homosexuality and AIDS in the Reagan era, toured the country, inspiring protest...