Cultural studies

This volume explores concepts and theories of food literacy to understand the interdisciplinary paradigms, perspectives, and emerging discourses in and beyond formal educational contexts in the Global South, specifically South Asia.

The book describes the collection of the Museum Engines and Mechanisms of the University of Palermo, Italy, one of the most important and heterogeneous collections of engines and mechanisms in Europe, the first one in Italy to be awarded as Mechanical Engineering Heritage Collection by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of graffiti culture in China, particularly through the example of graffiti in the Furong Tunnel at Xiamen University.

Women's lives in India have evolved significantly in the past few decades, particularly in the realms of health, education, economic security, and social standing - including media representation.

Manifesting the zeitgeist of our post-pandemic world, Apple TV's Severance probes the margins of work-life balance, the medicalization of normal human emotions, and the turbulence of disinformation, resistance, and reclamation.

Cultural Policy: Perspectives on the Island of Ireland draws together a wide range of academic perspectives and disciplines that relate to cultural policy in the context of the island of Ireland (Ireland and Northern Ireland).

This book presents an extensive study of women's involvement in agricultural activities at the family level in rural Bangladesh, with a particular emphasis on their participation in decision-making.

This book explores the interwoven nature of place, Catholicism and violence in Caracas' barrios.

Drawing on extensive research from a 14-month ethnographic study, this book delves into the intricate lives of married women in a rural Sinhala village in Sri Lanka.

This book addresses the phenomenon of rumors about the occult in contemporary Ghanaian politics.

This book presents theoretical insights into key aspects of Chinese brand cross-cultural communication, such as psychological distance, implicit context, brand narrative and influence of bridge crowds.

Manifesting the zeitgeist of our post-pandemic world, Apple TV's Severance probes the margins of work-life balance, the medicalization of normal human emotions, and the turbulence of disinformation, resistance, and reclamation.

Based on Soviet narratology, this book offers a genealogy of spatial, user-centric story design and its current applications, situating spatial story design as medium sui generis that evolved as a counternarrative to agonal games on the one hand, and in distinction to linear narrative such as classical novels and cinema on the other hand.

In the humanities, the term 'diaspora' recently emerged as a promising and powerful heuristic concept.

The book describes the collection of the Museum Engines and Mechanisms of the University of Palermo, Italy, one of the most important and heterogeneous collections of engines and mechanisms in Europe, the first one in Italy to be awarded as Mechanical Engineering Heritage Collection by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

This book consists of well-chosen legal terms in ancient China, in an effort to delineate the panorama of rule-of-law evolution in China.

Tackling globalization is a great challenge - it is both extremely beneficial and essentially problematic.

Heritage is everywhere, and an understanding of our past is increasingly critical to the understanding of our contemporary cultural context and place in global society.

Presenting the latest technological developments in arts and culture, this volume demonstrates the advantages of a union between art and science.

A Journey Through Cultures addresses one of the hottest topics in contemporary HCI: cultural diversity amongst users.

This book presents a comprehensive forensic analysis of an oil painting depicting a Madonna and Child in a tondo format, previously thought to be a Victorian copy.

This book offers an in-depth look at the development, social significance, and role of graffiti in China's local culture.

This book describes how distinctive socio-political commitments and cultural practices developed upon the internet in the later 20th and early 21st century and considers what lies ahead in those terms.

This lively and revealing study explores a sociologically invisible but important social relationship: girls' friendships.

This book seeks to break new ground, both empirically and conceptually, in examining changing understandings of the physical human body from a variety of anthropological perspectives.

This volume explores current methodological developments in the interpretation of the Bible from an African perspective.

The global rise of streaming and social media platforms, and the influence of tech giants in increasingly more sectors of the economy including the media industry, have disrupted the status quo of the global media competitive landscape.

This book addresses the health status of both mothers and children, highlighting acute malnutrition through anthropometric indices such as weight-for-height, weight-for-age, height-for-age, and BMI.

This book deals with the planned conservation of modern architecture and proposes a comparative discussion between eight research programs recently completed in Italy and Brazil as part of the "e;Keeping It Modern"e; program by means of which the Getty Foundation supported the drafting of conservation management planning for major architectural masterpieces of the twentieth-century worldwide, between 2014 and 2020.

Theological Hermeneutics and Daly's verification process offers an original overview of Mary Daly's inputs to the theological hermeneutics from the feminist perspective.