Cultural Studies

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...

Re-inventing/Re-presenting Identities in a Global World is a collection of twelve selected essays which address the concepts of cultural identity f...

The volume Gardens of Madeira - Gardens of the World. Contemporary Approaches displays present tendencies in calling upon the idea of gardens, bein...

The Future of Difference theorises contemporary regimes of power as engaged primarily in the violent production of difference. In this moment, the ...

Dr. Nicos Rossides spent seven unforgettable years in Japan from the late 1970s, when the country began to emerge as a major player on the world st...

Under the threat of climate change, corruption, inequality and injustice, Americans may feel they are living in a dystopian novel come to life. ...

As the world has been reshaped since the 1970s by economic globalisation, neoliberalism, and financialisation, writers and artists have addressed t...

The author, an advocate of all things local, takes this chance to disseminate for an environment more favorable to the development of local culture...

In the 1940s Australian officials searched the displaced persons camps of war-ravaged Europe to select able-bodied, fair and hardworking Lithuanian...

Chiang Mai (literally, new city) suffered badly in the 1997 Asian financial crisis as the Northern Thai real estate bubble collapsed along with the...

Diasporic Identities and Empire: Cultural Contentions and Literary Landscapes explores traditional theories on hybridity, generated in consideratio...