Cultural Studies

Providing a multifaceted view of modern Finland, this book describes its history, culture, language, geography, natural history and the mythology o...

East and West have long stood as towering edifices dividing history and the world into separate spheres. In fact, the two poles have not only share...

The Indian Ocean World was an idea borne out by researchers in economic history and trade in the 1980s in response to the compartmentalization of s...

Africa and Beyond: Arts and Sustainable Development is a massive undertaking by thoughtful theorists and practitioners in the creative/cultural ind...

This volume will be of interest to everyone seeking to understand the relationship between war as an historical narrative and its representation in...

The present book is a social and cultural study of a mid-sized Nigerian city. The author strives to indicate the structure of the everyday, in a co...

Although they entered the world as pure science fiction, robots are now very much a fact of everyday life. Whether a space-age cyborg, a chess-play...

The concept of the public intellectual has a rich and colorful history. It began in the early twentieth century, when the new mass media catapulted...

Written with clarity and thoroughly argued, Wyness confirms his place as one of the key authors within contemporary social science writing on child...

Written with clarity and thoroughly argued, Wyness confirms his place as one of the key authors within contemporary social science writing on child...

In Transmitted Wounds, Amit Pinchevski explores the ways media technology and logic shape the social life of trauma both clinically and culturally....

In the late 1970s, New York City was bankrupt, dirty and dangerous. Born on these grimy streets, graffiti rapidly made its mark. Here, twelve legen...

Throughout American history, ingestion (eating) has functioned as a metaphor for interpreting and imagining this society and its political systems....

Throughout American history, ingestion (eating) has functioned as a metaphor for interpreting and imagining this society and its political systems....

Stephen Eric Bronner revisits the modernist project's groundbreaking innovations, itsexperimental imagination, and its utopian politics. Reading th...

This book examines the various psychosocial and sexual ordeals of African American people living with HIV or AIDS (PLWH/PLWAs) as depicted in Afric...

This wonderful photographic record of the last year at the site of the New Covent Garden Flower Market, occupied since the 1960s before it moved to...

The book sheds light on the transformation of childhood in Singapore, over our many milestones. It is a collection of lectures by distinguished aut...

The Haitian Revolution (17911804) reshaped the debates about slavery and freedom throughout the Atlantic world, accelerated the abolitionist moveme...

Commemorative practices are revised and rebuilt based on the spirit of the time in which they are re/created. Historians sometimes imagine that com...

In You are Not a Gadget digital guru and virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier reveals how the internet is deadening personal interaction, stifling ...

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

The mysterious beauty of Punu masks and the artistic culture of Gabon are presented in a detailed and engaging book accompanied by numerous full-co...

Chronicling the traditions of Chinese life and culture, The Art of Chinese Living is a visual cornucopia and an epic cultural immersion into everyt...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. You are what you eat. Never is this tr...

What sorts of things do we think about when we're driving or being driven in a car? Drivetime seeks to answer this question by drawing upon a r...

People outside and within colleges and universities often view these institutions as fair and reasonable, far removed from the inequalities that af...

This book examines a cycle of postfeminist films that adopt the conventions of romance. In light of their tremendous gains in the political and pro...

Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History suggests a unique approach to the inner life and its ordinary pains. Francis OGorman charts the emergence...

This book is a collection of Native American Recipes from tribes across North America. Some of the recipes provide new and different ways to prepar...