Society & Culture: General

Monsters show us our deepest fears and anxieties, our discomfort with difference, and our simultaneous repulsion with and fascination for the other...

Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah invites 36 writers, artists, scholars, and activists to offer accessible reflections on 36 questions to he...

Well into the new millennium, the analog cassette tape continues to claw its way back from obsolescence. New cassette labels emerge from hipster en...

Well into the new millennium, the analog cassette tape continues to claw its way back from obsolescence. New cassette labels emerge from hipster en...

This series epitomizes the 2017 Consumer Culture Theory (CCT) conference themes of hyper-reality and cultural hybridization. The partnership of the...

While 'space' and 'place' appear as key concepts in the study of culture, their complexity and mutability require ever-new frameworks when approach...

This special issue is part two of a two-part edited collection on interrupting the legal person, and what this means. Should we think of the legal ...

This special issue is part one of a two-part edited collection on interrupting the legal person, and what this means. Should we think of the legal ...

The world of James Bond is complex and ever growing. The British secret agent started off life as a semi-fictional, part-biographical character in ...

This multi-disciplinary edited collection explores the textual analysis of heavy metal lyrics written in languages other than English, including Yi...

Amid growing digital activism to address gender-based violence, institutional racism, and homophobia in U.S. society, Unruly Souls explores the int...

Amid growing digital activism to address gender-based violence, institutional racism, and homophobia in U.S. society, Unruly Souls explores the int...

This book demonstrates that theory in literary and cultural studies has moved beyond overarching master theories towards a greater awareness of par...

Winner of the 2020 Stand-Out Graduate Research Award Winner of the August 2020 Fonds de recherche du Québec Société et culture (FRQSC) Prix Relèv...

Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volum...

The complex and ever-evolving relationship between the public sector and civil society at large is high on the policy and political agenda for the ...

A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture explores the cultural and creative lives of the largely young undocumente...

A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture explores the cultural and creative lives of the largely young undocumente...

A number of recent studies have responded to neoliberal understandings of entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation in the cultural and creative ...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. As digital technologies have become ever more ingrained in soci...

Understanding Authenticity in Chinese Cultural Heritage explores the construction of authenticity and its consequences in relation to Chinese cultu...

This book focuses on a rising generation of female storytellers, analysing their innovation in interdisciplinary collaboration, and their creation ...

One of my earliest memories is of a Persian rug at my childhood home in Abu Dhabi I loved looking at it for hours, projecting myself into its maze...

This book offers a relevant contribution to the studies of streaming media and transmediality with an original approach of cultural sustainability ...

This book is to reflect on the achievements and challenges of current poverty-alleviation practices for children in China, in order to understand a...

This book focuses on how to provide social work services for elderly people living in poverty. Divided into eight chapters, the book first outlines...

In Extravagance and Misery: The Emotional Regime of Market Societies, Alan Thomas, Alfred Archer, and Bart Engelen investigate the extensive and gr...

This book explores the use of street art tourism in eight cities: Barcelona, Paris, Porto, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Montevideo, Bogota and Buenos Air...

This book reports on research findings and practical lessons featuring advances in the areas of digital and interaction design, graphic design and ...

This book comprehensively applies social gender theory, life course theory, and spatiotemporal sociology theory to explore social work actions for ...

This encyclopedia volume comprehensively reflects the basic knowledge and the latest research results in the field of psychology. In this reference...

Cybersecurity incidents are often attributed to human error. The discipline of human factors recognises the importance of identifying organisationa...

When health authorities quarantined guests aboard the Diamond Princesson February 5, 2020, the cruise ship abruptly shifted from a dream vacation v...

Chapter 12 is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Conversations around diversity, equity, and inclusion in science communication are i...

When health authorities quarantined guests aboard the Diamond Princesson February 5, 2020, the cruise ship abruptly shifted from a dream vacation v...

As China's economic development continues to improve in overall quality as well as regional integration and coordination, this book gives an overvi...

This book explores the relationship between the human constant (Jen) of the four large-scale civilizational societiesChina, the USA, Japan, and Ind...

The book offers a lively and detailed analysis of the ideological subtext of Hindi Horror cinema. It unearths its codes and conventions, its relati...

This book offers a cross-cultural and inter-religious understanding of the ways social transformation in Asia is related to Asian spiritualities. B...

The goal of this book is to show the role of TikTok as a tool for political purposes. To this end, the authors analyse the messages posted on this ...

This Handbook explores the ways in which religion among the African people has been applied in situations of conflict and violence to contribute to...

Thinking Heritage Through China explores major themes in international heritage through the lens of heritage practice in China.China is a dynamic p...