Cultural studies

Steampunk is more than a fandom, a literary genre, or an aesthetic.

The book presents a range of articles and discussions that offer critical insights into the development of contemporary Chinese art, both within China and internationally.

This book examines Harold Laski's relationship to Marxism.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Youth Culture provides a comprehensive and fully up-to-date overview of key themes and debates relating to the academic study of popular music and youth culture.

A feminist literary theorist, specialist in Rembrandt, and a scholar with a knack for reading Old Testament stories, Mieke Bal weaves a tapestry of signs and meanings that enrich our senses.

This cross-disciplinary book engages with the provocation, "e;Is lesbian identity obsolete?

This book explains how the brightest thinkers judge the ways we decide, argue, solve problems, and tell right from wrong.

By the late 1960s, in a Europe divided by the Cold War and challenged by global revolution in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, thousands of young people threw themselves into activism to change both the world and themselves.

Capitalism in the western world is currently facing a crisis of legitimacy in the face of growing inequality.

Taboo looks at the ethnographer and sexuality in anthropological fieldwork and considers the many roles that sexuality plays in the anthropological production of knowledge and texts.

Memory Matters juxtaposes in tripartite structure texts by a child of German bystanders (Wolf), an Austrian-Jewish child-survivor (Kluger), a daughter of Jewish emigres (Honigmann), a daughter of an officer involved in the German resistance (Bruhns), a granddaughter of a baptized Polish Jew (Maron), and a granddaughter of German refuges from East Prussia (Duckers).

Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Quebec explores strategies for reading space and conflict in Canadian and Quebecois literature and cultural performances, positing questions such as: how do these texts and performances produce and contest spatial practices?

Postmodernism and Popular Culture brings together eleven recent essays by Angela McRobbie in a collection which deals with the issues which have dominated cultural studies over the last ten years.

A systematic and original study of feminist issues, The Sceptical Feminist fights a battle on two fronts: against the view that little or nothing is wrong with women's position, and at the same time against much current feminist dogma.

This book explores the complexity of the Syrian question and its effects on the foreign policies of Russia, Iran, and Turkey.

This is an unusual book in that it is an important contribution to social psychology and also an absorbing story of four strange years in a German prison camp of World War I.

Fandom is generally viewed as an integral part of everyday life which impacts upon how we form emotional bonds with ourselves and others in a modern, mediated world.

This book investigates the transnational dimensions of European cultural memory and how it contributes to the construction of new non-, supra, and post-national, but also national, memory narratives.

This Handbook brings together an international cast of experts to explore the social nature and context of creativity studies, focusing on methodology as a key component in advancing the social study of creativity.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book offers a critical study of Frank Herbert's Dune (1965), the world's bestselling science fiction novel.

How did early modern people imagine their bodies?

Why would Rene Descartes, the father of modern rationalist philosophy, choose "e;meditations"e;-a term and genre associated with religious discourse and practice-for the title of his magnum opus that lays the metaphysical foundations for his reform of all knowledge, including mathematics and sciences?

This book analyzes personal experiences of language through the voices of Mexican immigrant women, in relation to the racialization discourses that frame the social life of Mexican immigrant communities in the United States.

Since media is omnipresent in our lives, it is crucial to understand the complex means and dimensions of media in history, and how we have arrived at the current digital culture.

Recht und Krieg in der popularen Kultur werden in diesem Band kritisch diskutiert.

Mind and Body in Early China critiques Orientalist accounts of early China as the radical, "e;holistic"e; other.

The Settler Colonial Present explores the ways in which settler colonialism as a specific mode of domination informs the global present.

Shanghai Street Style marks the inaugural volume in an exciting new street style series from Intellect.

This book addresses how digitalization has influenced the institutions, practitioners and audiences of diplomacy.

This book is about the human mental capacities that are mostly veiled in the use of language yet can be revealed through music activities.

This book discusses two related themes concerning the role and processes of mass communication in society.

Critical Service Learning Toolkit offers a strengths-based, interdisciplinary approach to promoting social competence while enhancing emotional and academic skill development.

Jodorowsky's memoirs of his experiences with Master Takata and the group of wisewomen--magiciennes--who influenced his spiritual growth *; Reveals Jodorowsky turning the same unsparing spiritual vision seen in El Topo to his own spiritual quest *; Shows how the author's spiritual insight and progress was catalyzed repeatedly by wisewoman shamans and healers In 1970, John Lennon introduced to the world Alejandro Jodorowsky and the movie, El Topo, that he wrote, starred in, and directed.

This timely and powerful autoethnography traces the spread of and responses to Covid-19: from the uncertainty surrounding its outbreak, to its devastating and continued aftermath.

This is a book about cities or, more precisely, about the physical form of cities.

This book examines a dramatic rise of nonviolent youth movements on the eve of national elections in Eastern Europe.

A ground-breaking collection applying Crenshaw's concept of intersectionality to the black diasporic experience in Britain.

A Cultural History of Shopping was a Library Journal Best in Reference selection for 2022.

This book, bringing together a multi-voiced dialogue between academic scholars and professionals from diverse fields, shares a comprehensive and heterogeneous look at the interdisciplinarity of Galician Studies while examining  a chronologically broad range of subjects from the 1800s to the present.

In der Zeit der napoleonischen Kriege vollzog sich in ganz Europa ein grundlegender gesellschaftlicher und politischer Wandel.

As early modern Europe launched its multiple projects of global empire, it simultaneously embarked on an ambitious program of describing and picturing the world.

This book, written in an accessible style, is an exhaustive survey of the philosophy of tragedy from antiquity to the present.

This volume showcases cutting-edge research in the linguistic and discursive study of masculinities, comprising the first significant edited collection on language and masculinities since Johnson and Meinhof's 1997 volume.

What images come to mind when you read the word 'intoxication'?

This bold, pioneering book explores rites of passage in America by sifting through the accounts of influential thinkers who experienced them.