Society & Culture: General

This edited collection offers evocative ways into a range of fascinating worlds of popular music, from the Ecuadorian indie scene to Chinese rock. ...

This book traces developments in design education in India and shows the continuing impact of the Bauhaus School of design education, which formed ...

This book examines the complexities of womens lives in Africa and the transnational spaces of Europe and North America through the literary works o...

This book takes an interdisciplinary and diverse critical look at the work of comic artist Ilan Manouach, situating it within the avant-garde movem...

This book is about the soul of the city, embodied in its spaces and people. It traces dynamics in inner city neighbourhoods of South Africas post-a...

The COVID-19 pandemic represents a critical juncture in the development of the welfare state affirming its importance for its citizens economic, he...

Traditionally, popular music has long been said to intrinsically contest, resist, and defy the powers that be. This new book challenges this long-s...

Diese theoretische Arbeit gründet auf der Beobachtung, dass einzelne Funktionssysteme der Gesellschaft wie Politik, Wirtschaft oder Erziehung nicht...

This book delves into the fascinating and often overlooked history of Walt Disney's influence in Australia, tracing the cultural impact of iconic c...

Promiscuous Infrastructures brings together more than twenty contributorsart and social practitioners, researchers, and educatorswho have been rese...

This short critical introduction to Pierre Bourdieus thought has been comprehensively brought up to date for the third edition. Where Bourdieus own...

This short critical introduction to Pierre Bourdieus thought has been comprehensively brought up to date for the third edition. Where Bourdieus own...

This book reports the outcomes of a research project which involved developing and implementing a research-informed curriculum for low-attaining fu...

This book centralizes the importance of using culturally relevant models within health promoting schools (HPS) to promote the participation of Blac...

This volume is a theoretically informed comparative analysis of the telecommunications and information policy-making process in two major developin...

Difficult Empathy takes up the question of empathy as fundamentally a rhetorical concern, focusing on the ways we encounter and understand one anot...

Islamic schools are growing exponentially in the West to meet the demands of Muslim learners and their parents. Today, there are hundreds of Islami...

This book is based on China's poverty alleviation work and combines social work expertise with anti-poverty research to provide a blueprint as a re...

This companion to Lacans Seminar VI guides readers through an examination of desire, fantasy, dream interpretation, death, object a, and the signif...

This book argues that a major part of the Chinese governments road map, formulated in 2017, to modernise China comprehensively by 2049 is the proce...

This is the first scholarly attempt to write a history of cyber literary criticism in China. The author uses the Internet as the departure point, l...

Defining the Chief Executive via flash powder and selfie sticks Lincolns somber portraits. Lyndon Johnsons swearing in. George W. Bushs reaction to...

Defending Their Own in the Cold: The Cultural Turns of U.S. Puerto Ricans explores U.S. Puerto Rican culture in past and recent contexts. The book ...

Different Engines investigates the emergence of technologies in Latin America to create images, sounds, video games, and physical interactions. The...

This book explores how both elite and non-elite actors frame societal threats such as the refugee crisis and COVID-19 using both digital and tradit...

TikTok has drawn attention from all over the world. Even if you have never used it before, you would still be familiar with its name. Many people h...

Digital Storytelling and Ethics: Collaborative Creation and Facilitation provides a method for analyzing digital storytelling practices that focuse...

This book analyses credit crisis issues in China from the aspect of individuals, enterprises, and government through investigations of six Chinese ...

This book presents a new childhood studies research program; namely Childhood Prism Research and offers unique childhood research contributions to ...

Judaism in the twenty-first century has seen the rise of the messianic Third Temple movement, as religious activists based in Israel have worked to...

This book examines the relationship between the newly independent Indian state and its New Cinema movement. It looks at state formative practices a...

This book explores stage conjuring during its golden age, from about 1860 to 1910. This study provides close readings highlighting four paradigmati...

This volume examines international engagement with Korean popular culture in East Asian online spaces, and how Asian identities are formed and perc...

This volume explores how the Cultural Cold War played out in Africa and Asia in the context of decolonization. Both the United States and the Sovie...