Cultural Studies

Even though the Irish child sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church have appeared steadily in the media, many children remain in peril. In The Ch...

The Arab Spring uprisings were not about gender; these were uprisings demanding rights for all. Yet, they presented a rare opportunity for women to...

WINNER OF THE 2022 FRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY BOOK AWARD The profound emotion felt around the world upon seeing images of Notre-Dame in flames opens ...

Discover the culinary heart of Northern Portugal through the stories, food, and history of Bolhão. Bolhão Markets century-old walls are crumbling ...

Heritage as Community Research explores the nature of contemporary heritage research involving university and community partners. Putting forward a...

First published in 1967, Guy Debord's stinging revolutionary critique ofcontemporary society, The Society of the Spectacle has since acquired acult...

Since the 19th century, dolls have served as toys but also as objects of obsession, love, and lust. That century witnessed the emergence of the t...

Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories posits that the Crescent City and the surrounding Louisiana bayous were a logical setting for the literary ...

Outside the Revolution; Everything is aimed at an audience of those interested in the music and culture of Cuba, but who wish to expand their under...

This volume features a collection of papers from the second annual Intercultural Horizons conference held in October 2012 in New York City (USA). T...

This book covers intangible cultural heritage (ICH) governance through an Asia-Pacific context, making reference to the historical development of t...

This volume explores the cultural, literary, theatrical, and political changes in Irish society from 1980. The so-called Celtic Tiger brought about...

Who am I? The answer to this question is one of the most important issues a human being has to address in life. This is a question about possessing...

Reveries of Home considers understandings of home in the world today and the means by which feelings of homeliness are secured. In particular, the ...

As Claude Levi-Strauss wrote in his book, La pensee sauvage (Paris,1960): biographical and anecdotal history ... is low-powered history, which is ...

The concept of culture industry leads a double life. On the one hand, it appears as transparent, being used widely and freely in reference to a bra...

Politics of Interculturality fulfills the need for a thorough and critical evaluation of the notion of interculturality. Taking institutional and e...

Older women have never been so visible, or so problematised, in popular media culture as now; but what kinds of representations are being offered, ...

This book involves a conscious attempt to bridge progressive academic scholarship with activist groups and communities in Ireland and beyond. Takin...