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Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror examines the communication battles of the Bush and Blair political administrations (an...

This book examines, through an interdisciplinary lens, the relationship between political dissent and processes of designing.In the past twenty yea...

Modern Art in Cold War Beirut: Drawing Alliances examines the entangled histories of modern art and international politics during the decades of th...

Presenting a radically different picture of Egon Schiele’s work, this study documents (in one-to-one comparisons) the extent of the artist’s visual...

For the European Union of the 21st century, the search for sustainable prosperity and stability includes the challenge of reconciling democratic id...

Virtually all pertinent issues that the world faces today – such as nuclear proliferation, climate change, the spread of infectious disease and eco...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics is a volume of critical essays, provocations, and interventions on the most important questions fac...

Societies today are in a period of dynamic change, highly fluid and contested in moving from traditional to liberal and from local to global, as we...

Far from being the preserve of a few elite thinkers, critique increasingly dominates public life in modernity, leading to a cacophony of accusation...

In an increasing number of countries around the world, populist leaders, political parties and movements have gained prominence and influence, eith...

In the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008, governments around the developed world coordinated policy moves to stimulate eco...

Pop art was essential to the Americanization of global art in the 1960s, yet it engendered resistance and adaptation abroad in equal measure, espec...

This book examines the disruptive nature of Trump news – both the news his administration makes and the coverage of it – related to dominant paradi...

The intersection of virtual and physical spaces at the heart of contemporary political protests is a pivotal element in new practices of activism. ...

This book provides an alternative perspective on how social interest-groups form and interact to affect interventions. It combines historic, sociol...

From the emergence of digital protest as part of the Zapatista rebellion, to the use of disturbance tactics against governments and commercial inst...

How we understand, protect, and discharge our rights and responsibilities as citizens in a democratic society committed to the principle of politic...

The 2016 elections called into question the accuracy of public opinion polling while tapping into new streams of public opinion more widely. The th...

Studies of election campaigns have shown an increased employment of websites, weblog tools, email, and social media by political campaigners, as we...

Responding to Heidegger’s stark warnings concerning the essence of technology, this book demonstrates art’s capacity to emancipate the life-world f...

The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century brings together a wide range of geographical, cultural, historical, and con...

This Handbook is the first major work to comprehensively map state-of-the-art scholarship on electoral debates in comparative perspective. Leading ...

First published in 1999, this study will examine the nature of the difficulties in the UK, Belgium and Ireland and the accompanying need for parlia...

This book examines democracy and governance from the unconventional and largely under researched vantage point of information. It looks at the excl...

Thanks to the rise of neoliberalism over the past several decades, we live in an era of rampant anxiety, insecurity, and inequality. While neoliber...

In the context of both the financial crisis and the crisis of European migration politics, the notion of solidarity has gained renewed prominence a...

This book empirically tests, compares, and explains the effects of British and American legacy conservative press and far-right websites, on accord...

Popular Culture, Social Media, and the Politics of Identity advances a novel methodological approach – pop culture as political object – to capture...

This book examines the seismic impact of Brexit on the British political system, assessing its likely long-term effect in terms of a significantly ...

This book brings together a diverse, international array of contributors to explore the topics of news “quality” in the online age and the relation...

This fourth volume in Christian Fuchs’s Media, Communication and Society book series outlines the theoretical foundations of digital fascism and pr...

"We recommend it to you, highly. This is an important book and it is one that I think that everyone should be reading.”—Lou Dobbs“Details the immed...

For over a century, voting has been a surprisingly common political activity in China. Voting as a Rite examines China’s experiments with elections...

This volume investigates the practice and challenges of journalism addressing globalized risk from various world regions.With chapters written by m...

This book is a critical, transdisciplinary examination of a broad range of philosophical ideas, theoretical concepts, and artistic projects of comm...

This book offers an alternative approach to developing media literacy pedagogies for marginalized communities and people in postcolonial countries,...

Social media are now widely used for political protests, campaigns, and communication in developed and developing nations, but available research h...

In the heyday of American labor, the influence of local unions extended far beyond the workplace. Unions were embedded in tight-knit communities, t...

Zhang’s book focuses on the analysis of the sociohistorical context, linguistic patterns of discursive construction, and media representations of t...