Cultural studies

Since the late 1990s, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been hailed as a potentially revolutionary feature of the planning and management of Western cities.

This book draws examples from food security issues in Bangladesh.

The middlebrow is a dominant cultural force in the twenty-first century.

At a moment when superheroes dominate pop culture, Gary Bettinson takes us back to the first comic book blockbuster.

As the world's most popular beverage, tea has fascinated us, awakened us, motivated us, and calmed us for well over two thousand years.

Winner of the American Sociological Association's Distinguished Book Award in 2012, Chandra Mukerji offers with this remarkable new book an explanation of the birth and subsequent proliferation of the many strands in the braid of modernity.

Intergenerational Locative Play: Augmenting Family examines the social, spatial and physical impact of the hybrid reality game (HRG) Pokemon Go on the relationship between parents and their children.

This book will fill an important gap in the knowledge of Middle Eastern cities by reconstructing the historical process of Sanandaj's formation and development until the rise of modernization in Iran.

Insubordinate Costume: Inspiring Performance presents a comprehensive study of historical and contemporary examples of scenographic costume - the type of costume that creates an almost complete stage environment by itself, simultaneously acting as costume, set and performance.

Die Veranstaltungswirtschaft hat sich nach dem Lockdown auf den Weg zu einem „New Normal“ begeben, in dem Live- und digitale Kommunikation eng verbunden sind.

Christian Heurich (1842-1945) was not only Washington D.

Representations of multiracial Americans, especially those with one black and one white parent, appear everywhere in contemporary culture, from reality shows to presidential politics.

This book develops the concept of feminist technoecologies as a theoretical and methodological tool for examining the co-constitutive relation between technology and ecology, which have typically been considered as distinct objects of studies.

Juxtaposes the global discourse on ICT-D with in-depth case studies on the pattern of access and use of telecentres to draw implications for the possible development trajectories induced by the provision of ICTs in rural hinterlands of India.

This book engages with the socio-cultural imaginings of Gandhi in literature, history, visual and popular culture.

This is the first critical study to offer a sustained analysis of the theme of cancer in contemporary poetry.

First published in 1987, this book presents contributions from international authorities reviewing major themes in variant sexuality.

This research monograph provides a comparative analysis of juvenile court outcomes, exploring the influence of contextual factors on juvenile punishment across systems and communities.

Representations of Joan of Arc have been used in the United States for the past two hundred years, appearing in advertising, cartoons, popular song, art, criticism, and propaganda.

This book develops principles of proper sentence justification, presents results of comparative empirical study on sentence justifications in the post-communist countries and provides practical measures to improve the current situation.

This book focuses on the spaces and practices of caring for horses, explored in a series of case studies set across the equine lifespan.

This edited book highlights the identities and practices of ethnically diverse families and schools in contexts where multicultural policies are not always a priority.

Why do women in contemporary western societies experience contradiction between their autonomous and maternal selves?

This reference work incorporates the insights and expertise of leading liturgists and scholars of liturgy at work today, comprising 200 entries on important topics in the field, from vestments and offertories to ordination and divine unction.

Welchen Beitrag leisten populäre Fernsehbilder zur symbolischen Grenzziehung zwischen Mehrheitsbevölkerung und marginalisierten Gesellschaftsgruppen?

This book investigates the September 11, 2001 attacks as a case study of cultural trauma, as well as how the use of widely-distributed, easily-accessible forms of popular culture can similarly focalize evaluation of other moments of acute and profoundly troubling historical change.

How a form of play becomes a sport: players, agents, referees, leagues, tournaments, sponsorships, and spectators, and the culture of professional computer game play.

A fascinating look at how America's favorite sport has both reflected and shaped social, economic, and

An innovative history of British youth culture during the 1970s and 1980s, charting the full spectrum of punk''s cultural development.

An Introduction to Cyberpsychology provides a comprehensive introduction to this rapidly growing discipline.

This book demonstrates, in contrast to statistics that show declining consumption of physical formats, that there has not been a mass shift towards purely digital media.

Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context examines modern Taiwanese culture through the prism of global cultural interactions.

Archaeology - the study of human cultures through the analysis and interpretation of artefacts and material remains - continues to captivate and engage people on a local and global level.

Led Zeppelin, who bestrode the world of rock like a colossus, have continually grown in popularity and influence since their official winding up in 1980.

A collection of articles on topics and individuals within the history of heterodox economic thought, approached from a heterodox perspective.

This book explores how the rise of widely available digital technology impacts the way music is produced, distributed, promoted, and consumed, with a specific focus on the changing relationship between artists and audiences.

As narrow, nationalist views of patriotic allegiance have become widespread and are routinely invoked to justify everything from flag-waving triumphalism to xenophobic bigotry, the concept of a nonnationalist patriotism has vanished from public conversation.

An easy-to-follow, yet comprehensive beginner's guide to drawing .

Status and Sacredness provides a new theory of status and sacral relationships and a provocative reinterpretation of the Indian caste system and Hinduism.

This book explores the relationship between (post)truth and subjectivity by focusing on social media as a site of digital subjectification.

This book will sketch the dynamics of infrastructure in video games, focusing on the relationship between game rules, fictional world, and player interaction.

How did educated and cultivated men in early modern France and Britain perceive and value their own and women's cognitive capacities, and how did women in their circles challenge those perceptions, if only by revaluing the kinds of intelligence attributed to them?

This textbook goes beyond introductory sensory perception by incorporating supplementary electronic materials to demonstrate the parallels between both hearing and seeing.

This book analyzes the Artists' House, a cultural center in Tehran, to place Iran's social and cultural transformation in a local-global context.

This book critically examines the term 'religion' (shukyo) as a social category within the sociological context of contemporary Japan.

This is a biography of Cardinal John Tong of Hong Kong, which charts his experiences through the Second World War, his time as a seminarian in Macau, and his studies in Rome during the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), which represented a pivotal moment in modern Catholic Church history.

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