Cultural studies

This study is an exploration of US Cuban theatrical performances written and staged primarily between 1980 and 2000.

This book examines three years of Beyonce's career as a pop mega star using critical race, feminist and performance studies methodologies.

Real Deceptions develops a new theory of realism through close consideration of myriad contemporary art, media, and cultural practices.

The volume addresses the pertinent need to examine childhood trauma revolving around themes of war, sexual abuse, and disability.

The last ten years have witnessed a renewed interest in H.

India as colourful and vibrant, a land as diverse as its people.

This volume brings together research on the forms, genres, media and histories of refugee migration.

Africa's Media Image in the 21st Century is the first book in over twenty years to examine the international media's coverage of sub-Saharan Africa.

This book examines the different means through which Spain has revisited its ex-colony - the Philippines - since 2000.

Mapping Chinese Rangoon is both an intimate exploration of the Sino-Burmese, people of Chinese descent who identify with and choose to remain in Burma/Myanmar, and an illumination of twenty-first-century Burma during its emergence from decades of military-imposed isolation.

Fallen Monuments and Contested Memorials examines how the modification, destruction, or absence of monuments and memorials can be viewed as performative acts that challenge prescribed, embodied narratives in the public realm.

Prison Segregation: The Limits of Law explores the use of segregation in English prisons by examining how law is used and experienced, and how human rights are upheld.

This fifth edition of the first true textbook on the death penalty engages the reader with a full account of the arguments and issues surrounding capital punishment.

Quinoa rose to global stardom pitched as an unparalleled sustainable development opportunity that heralded a bright future for rural communities devastated by decades of rural-urban migration, civil war, and state neglect.

How do young people participate in democratic societies?

Terrorism has become an everyday reality in most contemporary societies.

The book examines some of the most important forms of normativity and the relation between facts and values in the context of criminological investigation.

The Routledge Handbook on Victims' Issues in Criminal Justice is a comprehensive and authoritative handbook on current issues, with a distinctive emphasis on the delivery of suitable and effective services.

Museums and Social Responsibility examines inherent contradictions within and effecting museum practice in order to outline a museological theory of how museums are important cultural practices in themselves and how museums shape the socio-cultural dynamics of modern societies, especially our attitudes and understandings of about human agency and creative potential.

As the country grows increasingly diverse and complicated, Americans seek, and occasionally find, a common thread to unite them.

Ripped, torn and cut offers a collection of original essays exploring the motivations behind - and the politics within - the multitude of fanzines that emerged in the wake of British punk from 1976.

This workbook provides a revolutionary new 3-step tracing technique that beginning artists can use to quickly learn to draw manga characters just like a pro!

This volume provides a definitive assessment of the historiography of the life sciences and medicine in Latin America.

Read the definitive biography of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, whose music and career illuminate the legacy of 1960s counterculture.

In an ever-growing field of study, this is a major contribution to one of the key areas in cultural studies and cultural theory - the spaces, practices and mythologies of our everyday culture.

Conservation of Time-based Media Art is the first book to take stock of the current practices and conceptual frameworks that define the emerging field of time-based media conservation, which focuses on contemporary artworks that contain video, audio, film, slides or software components.

This book offers a new perspective on sociological studies of the consumer society, introducing neglected normative questions relating to the good life and human flourishing - subjects more commonly discussed in fields of moral, political, and social philosophy.

This reference contains more than 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on utopian thought and experimentation that span the centuries from ancient times to the present.

Heteronormativity and Psychoanalysis proposes a critical reading of the Freudian and Lacanian texts that paved the way for a heteronormative bias in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis.

The Cyberspace Handbook is a comprehensive guide to all aspects of new media, information technologies and the internet.

In the beginning was the night.

Feminist theories of social work have been criticised in recent years for treating women as a uniform category and displaying insufficient sensitivity to the complex ways in which other social divisions (those of race, age, disability, etc.

"e;A revelation for digital researchers and a provocation for migration scholars.

Between 1966 and 1976, American artist Nancy Spero completed some of her most aggressively political work.

This comprehensive and discriminating account of Tolkien's work has been revised and expanded, to take account both of recent developments in scholarship, and of the recent films directed by Peter Jackson.

This book explores cinema and film theory through classical Indian theories.

The author exposes the many masks of shame and examines the way it paralyzes us, individually and collectively.

Containing new thinking and original surveys, Media & Cultural Theory brings together leading international scholars to address key issues and debates within media and cultural studies.

This illuminating and provocative book is the first anthology devoted to Twentieth Century Native American and First Nation art.

The official prayer book for Orthodox Jews in the UK, with supporting commentary by Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.

During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the fertile islands of Zanzibar and Pemba became of central importance to East Africa's growing contact with the international economy as the ruling dynasty encouraged trade in cloves, slaves and ivory.

The Politics of Prison Crowding investigates recent transformations in Italy's penal system to make the key analytical observation that conditions of overcrowding have become the 'new normal' under which the modern prison system continues to operate and deliver punishment.

This volume explores how governments, policymakers and newsrooms have responded to the algorithmic distribution of the news.

The eighteenth-century salon played an important role in shaping literary culture, while both creating and sustaining transnational intellectual networks.

The emergence of new media today in South Asia has signalled an event, the meaning of which remains obscure but whose reality is rapidly evolving along gradients of intensity and experience.