Society & Culture: General

Canadian Literature and Medicine breaks new ground by formulating a series of frameworks with which to read and interpret a national literature der...

This book takes the technological revolution and industrial changes as the background. The timeline uses the timeline to explain the path of change...

'Thoughtful, witty, occasionally comic, often effortlessly profound - not a conventional journalistic memoir.' Sunday Times'If you value the perspe...

Performing Organizational Paradoxes takes a constitutive, process approach to organizational paradoxes. It underscores the performative nature of p...

This book examines the relations between Western religion, secularism, and modern theater and performance. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi posits that the on...

Journalismus als eine der zentralen Quellen, die die Sichtweise auf die Welt prägen berichtet über die abstrakte Größe des Auslands. So entstammt...

This book provides a review of current research in fake news and presents six new empirical research studies examining its impact.Fake news has gar...

What explains the popularity and widespread appeal of numerous post-Yugoslav feminist and LGBTQ+ festivals in the last decade? This book argues tha...

This edited volume showcases research on vulnerable victimizations, or more specifically, on individuals and/or populations that, due to their stat...

Performing Contemporary Childhoods: Being and Becoming a Viral Child examines the changing nature of contemporary childhoods by exploring how child...

In Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self, Les Roberts extends his earlier work on spatial anthropology to consider questions of time, spaciousnes...

This book offers insights into social media practices and challenges in developing nations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Covering different aspects...

This book explores the unparalleled adversities and strain that the COVID-19 pandemic caused on the social and economic lives of people. The book a...

Through an indigenous and new materialist thinking approach, this book discusses various examples in Africa where colonial public art, statues, sig...

This book tackles the infodemicthe rapid, widespread diffusion of false, misleading, or inaccurate information about the disease and its ramificati...

This book examines Chinas fertility transition over the past seven decades and explores the socioeconomic impacts of the two-child policy.The first...

The book offers an analytical and empirical account of the specificities of political entertainment in post-authoritarian democracies.Centered arou...

This book presents the first large overview of late Soviet religiosity across several confessions and Soviet republics, from the 1960s to the 1980s...

With industrial systems becoming ever more mechanized and reliant on advanced technology, the complexity of equipment, especially in risky industri...

This book explores the roles of civil society organisations (CSOs) when engaging in public diplomacy activities and their impact on community devel...

This book presents my concept of poetic thinking in the context of debates around the anthropological question, that is what is being human?, build...

The Greek philosopher, Socrates, posed a guardian model that would protect his Athenian world, the custodes (watchmen), yet mused who would guard t...

The Routledge Handbook of Descriptive Rhetorical Studies and World Languages offers a useful collection of papers that presents rhetorical analysis...

This book focuses on small-scale mobilisation and everyday social movements that take the form of grassroots resistance and solidarity initiatives....

This volume addresses questions at the intersections of cinematic form and the African city. It examines the contribution of cinema and audiovisual...

Several of the key concepts of biopolitics have come under scrutiny since the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic. This volume brings into discussion how...

This book features the empirical work of internationally known scholars, providing an in-depth examination of the overlap between online and offlin...

This book addresses important issues of ageing and spirituality and reflects on the impact of culture on both constructs. The papers are contempora...

This volume offers comprehensive examination of predatory practices in scholarly publishing, and highlights emergent issues around predatory journa...

This book engages with the concept queer battle fatigue, which is the everyday exhaustion that LGBTQIA+ people and communities often experience fro...

Women and COVID-19: A Clinical and Applied Sociological Focus on Family, Work and Community focuses on womens lived experiences amid the pandemic, ...

First published in 1951, Man into Wolf attempts to suggest the possibility of historical, or rather prehistorical, evolutionist derivation of all c...

This book describes the lifecycle of media in the context of the media ecology, presenting a general theoretical framework and a series of methodol...

The book focuses on international cultural relations dealing with cultural heritage in terms of heritage diplomacy. The contributors discuss the po...

Traveling Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Traveling as an Embodied Practice explores the central role the body has in and for traveling a...

This book examines the con artist film as a genre, exploring its main features while also addressing variations within it.The volume explores three...

Xie and Chao present a collection of research on mobile communication in Asian communities and countries such as Bangladesh, China, India, Japan, a...

This study constructs a framework of narratology for art history and rewrites the development of twentieth-century Chinese art from a narratologica...

As an installment of Routledges Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Electronic Media Research Series, Political Communication, Culture, and Socie...

This book provides a comprehensive survey of Quran translation in Indonesia the most populous Muslim-majority country in the world with a highly d...

Heralded as the father of Indian Creative Dance, and Indias cultural ambassador, Uday Shankar (19001977) was a dancer and choreographer who created...

This book is a theoretical work on data journalism production that drills down the models, narratives, and ethics.From idea to concept and then to ...

Word-of-Mouth in Contemporary Hollywood provides a unique insight into the potential for online communication to enable audiences to exert a greate...

As the first volume of a two-volume set on new media users in China, this book approaches the subject from a macro level by regarding users as cons...

Upon its initial release in 1977, many critics regarded Star Wars as a childish retort to the mature American cinema of the seventies. Though full...

This book examines the discourse around the intricate economic, political, and ideological struggles underlying Canadian fuel extractivism. Focusin...

This book explains deliberative constitution-making with a special focus on the connections between participation, representation and legitimacy an...

As the second volume of a two-volume set on new media users in China, this book approaches the subject from a micro level. examining the mediatized...