Cultural Studies

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...

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...