Cultural studies

Exploring writing of working-class Dublin after Sean O'Casey, this book breaks new ground in Irish Studies, unearthing submerged narratives of class in Irish life.

The politics of multiculturalism faces challenges in Western democratic states.

This book innovatively re-envisions the possibilities of sexuality education.

This is the first comprehensive text on social psychological approaches to communication, providing an excellent introduction to theoretical perspectives, special topics, and applied areas and practice in communication.

Irish culture is obsessed with the past, and this book asks why and how.

An international trade emerged between 1870-1895 that incorporated the circulation of books among countries worldwide.

The rise of the Arab world and China are part of the same story, once trading partners via the Silk Road.

A timely intervention into debates on the representation of feminist and feminine identities in contemporary visual culture.

This collection looks at the growing rapprochement between contemporary theory and early modern English literary-cultural studies.

This book is about the new politics of leisure and pleasure - the values, practices, struggles and contradictions that now characterize the social worlds of rambling, drinking, tourism, sex, watching TV, gambling, using the internet, reading, comedy, sport, popular music and censorship.

A wide-ranging study that examines the tendency in 20th-century English fiction to treat grief as an occasion for social critique, unconventional readings of works by Ford, Lessing, and Winterson demonstrate how narrative experimentation in this period responds to socio-historic conditions like post-imperial melancholy, nuclear fear and homophobia.

Throughout the world, governments and intergovernmental organizations, such as the International Organization for Migration are developing new approaches aimed at renewing migration policy-making.

By investigating women lifewriters' complex quest to distinguish themselves both within and from institutions and communities, this volume uses Kant's concept of unsociable sociability to formulate a divided sense of self at the heart of women's lifewriting, offering a provocative response to the notion of the relational female subject.

A collection of original essays from leading scholars in the field exploring the contemporary debates, concerns and controversies ongoing in Spanish film industry, culture and scholarship.

This book analyzes how the European environmental movement has influenced the problem definitions and solution strategies of European policy issues, examining biodiversity, GMOs, Trans-European Transport Networks, and climate change.

Taking a fresh approach to Byron, this book argues that he should be understood as a poet whose major works develop a carefully reasoned philosophy.

Contributing to the growth in plagiarism studies, this timely new book highlights the impact of the allegation of plagiarism on the working lives of some of the major writers of the period, and considers plagiarism in relation to the emergence of literary copyright and the aesthetic of originality.

This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field reveals the major contribution of puritan women to the intellectual culture of the early modern period.

This is the only contemporary critical study to discuss the nature of comedy with exclusive reference to novels.

Surveying four-hundred years of British history, Walker examines how the memory - the icon - of Queen Elizabeth has been used as a marker for Englishness in disputes political and social, in art, literature and popular culture.

Eskom is a South African company that has developed from a state utility under apartheid into a competitive state-owned enterprise.

This volume offers a comprehensive treatment of the development of Keynes's economic ideas in the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money , using archival material, the historical record of the economics of Keynes's time and place and the scholarship available on Keynes's biography and philosophy.

Through a wide-ranging study of labour in the cultural industries, this book critically evaluates how various sociological traditions - including critical theory, governmentality and liberal-democratic approaches - have sought to theorize the creative cultural worker, in art, music, media and design-based occupations.

The book provides a thorough analysis of strategy formulation at country and company level in Arab countries and corporations.

In the eighteenth century 'virtue' was a word to conjure with.

A must-read for scholars of visuality, gender and sexuality.

This is an original study of the sociological imagination in regard to visual culture.

This book considers the key sectors of China's health care system after its entrance into the WTO, including the pharmaceutical industry, health insurance services, and hospitals in terms of policies, legal framework and market potential.

The essays in this volume read the Shakespeare films of the 1990s as key instruments with which western culture confronts the anxieties attendant upon the transition from one century to another.

This study investigates contestations over spatiality in one culturally composite nation, Australia, where contemporary theatre stages competing cultural and political agendas through space and place.

Television had, until recently, a social and cultural purpose.

Taking a wide-ranging intertextual approach, Richard Hillman sets Early Modern English play-texts against political and cultural discourses concerning France, as these informed contemporary English consciousness.

Critical reflections by established academics on the crisis of multiculturalism that occurred in Great Britain, Netherlands and Canada.

Security, Citizenship and Human Rights examines counter-terrorism, immigration, citizenship, human rights, 'equalities' and the shifting discourses of 'shared values' and human rights in contemporary Britain.

Ethno-nationalism presents a multitude of challenges to the structure of the international political system and to the internal governance of states.

What is social visibility?

These essays trace the femme fatale across literature, visual culture and cinema, exploring the ways in which fatal femininity has been imagined in different cultural contexts and historical epochs, and moving from mythical women such as Eve, Medusa and the Sirens via historical figures such as Mata Hari to fatal women in contemporary cinema.

Following the spirit of Benjamin's Arcades Project, this book acts as a kaleidoscope of change in the 21st century, tracing its different reflections in the international contemporary while seeking to understand individual/collective reactions to change through a series of creative methodologies.

Each chapter of this book presents a different marginalized community and explores how it appropriates theatre for its own needs, which are often at odds with those of the powerful sponsoring organisations.

This book considers the transformative impact of global trade and production networks on local economies, work and labour organization, and various forms and meanings of 'community'.

This book contributes to the theoretical and policy debate on the existence of a European public sphere.

Belinda Smaill proposes an original approach to documentary studies, examining how emotions such as pleasure, hope, pain, empathy, nostalgia or disgust are integral both to the representation of selfhood in documentary, and to the way documentaries circulate in the public sphere.

Analyzing the development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Asian developing countries, the book is based on a survey of key literature and data on SMEs with the focus on; recent development, export performance, main constraints, competitiveness, innovation and technology transfer, and female entrepreneurs.

As technology changes, so too have its applications and our uses and experiences with them have changed as well.

Women on the Edge re-envisions women's cinema as contemporary political practices by exploring the works of twelve filmmakers.

This major new contribution to the study of consumption examines how dominant groups express and display their sense of superiority through material and aesthetic attributes, demonstrating that differences from one society to another, and across historical periods, challenge current understandings of elite distinction.

This book explores an innovative study of women who undergo cosmetic study and the doctors who carry it out.

This book explores the dimensions and characteristics of social vulnerability in Western Europe.

The first sustained examination of the depiction of American suburbia in gothic and horror films, television and literature from 1948 to the present day.

Over the past decade, there has been a huge increase in ordinary people's access to video production technology.