Society & Culture: General

Social democrats in the Western world look back on a century where growth and expansion of centre-left values seemed, during certain periods of tim...

Social media and digital technologies have become significant forces in the sport industry. From athletes and fans interacting via social media and...

In The Preparation of the Novel, a collection of lectures delivered at a defining moment in Roland Barthes's career (and completed just weeks befor...

Using culture as an entry point, and informed by the work of contemporary social theorists, the essays in this volume identify and challenge sites ...

Intergenerational Locative Play: Augmenting Family examines the social, spatial and physical impact of the hybrid reality game (HRG) Pokémon Go on ...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and is freely available to read online. This book combines economic studies of innovation systems ...

Leading philosophers Alice Crary and Lori Gruen offer a searing and desperately needed response to systems of thought and action that are failing a...

This edited collection examines the important and multi-varied role that art plays in today's diverse society. Art is linked to the worldviews and ...

The intrepid team of researchers who brought you Custard, Culverts and Cake: Academics on Life in The Archers return with a hard-hitting exposé on ...

This collection is a unique exploration of the heritage and legacy of the Canterbury Sound: a signature style emerging in the 1960s that draws upon...

In an era of intensified information warfare, ranging from global disinformation campaigns to individual attention hacks, what are the compelling t...

In an era of intensified information warfare, ranging from global disinformation campaigns to individual attention hacks, what are the compelling t...

In Joyful Infographics: A Friendly, Human Approach to Data, one of the leading graphic designers of recent times shows how a judicious use of humor...

In this revised edition, Linda Wagner-Martin offers a compelling study of African American writer Toni Morrisons work, beginning with The Bluest Ey...

This book is rooted in the authors experience as an interviewer and researcher in the Mauthausen Survivors Documentation Project the biggest Europ...

What is terrorism? Can anyone be radicalized? How can we respond to terrorist acts? The Psychology of Terrorism seeks to explain why some acts of v...

The second volume of Ethics for a Digital Age contains a selection of research presented at the fifth and sixth Annual International Symposia on Di...

Eye-catching headlines such as Sixty people charged in child-porn crackdown explode in the media with alarming frequency, giving the impression tha...

Neoliberalism is most commonly associated with free trade, the minimal state, and competitive individualism. But in this latest stage of capitalism...

From the late nineteenth- to the mid-twentieth century, changing technologies and growing transregional ties provided unprecedented opportunities f...

This book articulates Jotería Communication Studies as a subdiscipline and as a praxis for resisting multiple forms of oppression by focusing on ho...

The rights of pregnant workers as well as (the lack of) paid maternity leave have increasingly become topics of a major policy debate in the United...

Bridging histories of technology, media studies, and aesthetics, Electrographic Architecture forges a critical narrative of the ways in which illum...