Cultural Studies

Cosmopolitanism: Uses of the Idea offers an illuminating and dynamic account of an often confusing and widespread concept. Bringing together both h...

In Theoretical Times, Steve Redhead describes the post-crash economic, environmental, political and cultural condition we live in today. As the ris...

How do young African Americans approach their faith in God when continued violence and police brutality batters the news each day? In The Spiritual...

Evangelicalism appeared as a new pattern of Christian devotion at a moment in history when the foundations of Anglo-American society were shifting....

The demise of the monarchy and the bodily absence of a King caused a representational crisis in the early republic, forcing the American people to ...

END OF MILLENNIUM This final volume in Manuel Castells trilogy studies the key defining processes taking place in the last decade of the twentieth ...

Arguably the most prolific and most widely read philosopher of our time, Slavoj Žižek has made indelible interventions into many disciplines of the...

This book is a collection of essays on the Mexican transition to democracy that offers reflections on different aspects of civic culture, the polit...

As social and symbolic animals - animals with language and systems of signs - humans are informed by two different kinds of heritage, one biologica...

There have not been many studies conducted focusing on womenas issues in this region specifically. The essays by various contributors in this book ...

Chris Hedges on the most taboo topics in America, with David Talbot.Chris Hedges has been telling truth to (and against) power since his earliest d...

Hidden at the margins of Burmese Buddhism and culture, the cults of the weikzaweikza in relation to the Vipassana insight meditation movement and c...

Although the British consider themselves a nation of dog lovers, what we have come to know as the modern dog came into existence only after a profo...

Revisionary Narratives examines the historical and formal evolutions of Moroccan womens auto/biography in the last four decades, particularly its c...

Materials carried the meaning of early modern art. Transformed and crafted from the matter of nature, art objects were the physical embodiment of b...

Can the university solve the social and political crisis in America?Higher education occupies a difficult place in twenty-first-century American cu...

Virginity is of concern here, that is its utter messiness. At once valuable and detrimental, normative and deviant, undesirable and enviable. Virgi...

The explosion of interest in the gothic in recent years has coincided with a number of seismic political changes that have reshaped the world as we...

Becoming Bourgeois traces the fortunes of three French families in the municipality of Vannes, in BrittanyGalles, Jollivet, and Le Ridantwho rose t...

Since the mid-1970s, Lebanon has been at the center of the worldwide rise in sectarian extremism. Its cultural output has both mediated and resiste...

This collection of interviews is a diamond, remarkable in the way that it assembles so many of the major strains of Glissants thought, and stunning...

Speak the Culture: Italy offers a rich and engaging insight into the events, people and movements that have shaped Italy and the Italians. A guideb...

There is a growing belief worldwide that things have gone terribly wrong. We are plagued by corruption, violence, greed and self-interest. And we k...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In Earth, a planetary scientist and a l...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. This book is about a strange objectstr...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Speed. Bump. Speed. Traffic considers t...

Starting from a series of questions about the nature of our speaking to God, the author draws our attention to what we mean by culture, and how we ...

Cuba is a land of contradictions that is easy to enjoy but difficult for first-time visitors to decipher. The largest island in the Caribbean, it i...

Challenging cliches of Japanism as a feminine taste, Bachelor Japanists argues that Japanese aesthetics were central to contests over the meanings ...