Cultural Studies

WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON'S DEBUT FOOD BOOK AWARD'A tender and beautifully written tour-de-force on love, grief, hope and cake. If this is ...

This refreshing work offers a distinctly agrarian reframing of spiritual practices to address todays most pressing social and ecological concerns. ...

When the Bloomsbury critics Roger Fry and Clive Bell introduced an aesthetically conservative English public to recent Parisian avant-garde paintin...

The Anthropocene and the Undead describes how our experience of an increasingly erratic environment and the idea of the undead are more closely lin...

Literature, like food, is, in Terry Eagletons words, endlessly interpretable, and food, like literature, looks like an object but is actually a rel...

'A compassionate, wide-ranging study.' Terry Eagleton, The Guardian Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history ...

Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Architektur der unmittelbaren Nachkriegszeit als Gegenstand medialer Repräsentation. Dabei bewegt es sich im Span...

This book provides the first modern, in-depth analysis of Percy Bysshe Shelleys engagement with the phenomenon of death. It argues that, for Shelle...

«This is a splendidly lucid and readable book, a distinctive and a distinguished contribution to Nordic Studies.» (Colin Roth, Centre for Nordic St...

An examination of neoliberal ideologys ascendance in 1990s and 2000s British politics and society through its effect on state-supported performance...

An examination of neoliberal ideologys ascendance in 1990s and 2000s British politics and society through its effect on state-supported performance...

This book develops a theoretical approach to social stratification and applies it to the development of the official system of state honours in Bri...

Explains why audiences dislike certain media and what happens when they do The study and discussion of media is replete with talk of fans, loves, s...

Cold War Children's Television: Philadelphia as a Case Study examines a culturally significant phenomenon of the Cold Warthe locally produced hoste...

Das weitere Erstarken rechter Parteien und die Corona-Pandemie haben zu politischen und wirtschaftlichen Konflikten in Frankreich geführt. Doch was...

This book examines how the persistent and deepening casualization and precarity of acting work, coupled with market pressures, has affected the way...

For over half a century, Stanley Milgram's classic and controversial obedience experiments have been a touchstone in the social and behavioral scie...

Inside Australian Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values offers a critical intervention in the continuing effects of colonization in Australia a...

In eighteenth-century Greek culture, Iosipos Moisiodax (c.1725-1800) was a controversial figure, whose daring pronouncements in favor of cultural c...

Written amidst the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, this edited volume draws on the expertise of social scientists and humanities scholars to understand ...

What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? That is the question at the core of this book, which traces so...

This book reconstructs and extends sociological approaches to the understanding of food consumption. It identifies new ways to approach the explana...