Cultural studies

This book presents a study of digital works—primarily built using Chinese characters or Japanese kanji—to identify the affordances of sinographs.

In an era defined by profound political, economic, and cultural upheaval-termed the "e;polycrisis"e;-this book tackles one of the most pressing ethical-political issues of our time: the stalemate in collective action aimed at promoting solidarity and common goods.

This book provides a quantitative characterisation of the distribution of archaeological evidence at the La Primavera locality in Argentina, shedding light on ancient Patagonian societies by taking a multidimensional landscape-based approach.

Die sich neu formierende und sich dabei stark ausdifferenzierende Designwissenschaft hat das Potential, eine „revolutionäre“ Disziplin zu sein: Gespeist unter anderem vom Material Turn und vom Design Turn behandelt sie ein Feld, das künstlerische Einsichten mit Nutzenerfahrungen, Alltagswissen und Funktionszwecken verbindet.

This book brings together an exceptional group of renowned scholars in philosophy and sociology, offering deep and insightful engagements with Jürgen Habermas’s thought.

This book examines the role of American churches, particularly the United Methodist Church (UMC), in perpetuating a mindset of segregation and normalizing whiteness.

This book offers an original and innovative study of how the intersection of the Doppelganger and the Gothic reveals repressed aspects of our singular and collective past, while also serving as a lens to investigate ourselves and our historical moment.

This book offers new perspectives on the practices and production of contemporary literary sports journalism, considering the form within theoretical frameworks related to critical studies in sports media, sports journalism, creative writing, and literary studies.

Irony is a pervasive quality of human life, though its creative, comic potential is often overlooked.

This edited volume examines news as both a commodity and a public good within the ongoing crisis of news media business models, and the ways forward for supporting journalism in an age of digital platform dominance.

This book contributes to metaphor and comics scholarship by bringing together established theories of metaphor and of depiction and applying the result to the analysis of narrative drawing.

Framing Addiction uncovers how mainstream American media have shaped public understanding of drug epidemics through narratives deeply influenced by race, class, and power.

This Handbook showcases representations of parenthood in twenty-first-century popular culture, critically assessing how these representations shape, respond to, and redefine notions of families, as well as popular culture genres.

Die sich neu formierende und sich dabei stark ausdifferenzierende Designwissenschaft hat das Potential, eine „revolutionäre“ Disziplin zu sein: Gespeist unter anderem vom Material Turn und vom Design Turn behandelt sie ein Feld, das künstlerische Einsichten mit Nutzenerfahrungen, Alltagswissen und Funktionszwecken verbindet.

This book offers new perspectives on the practices and production of contemporary literary sports journalism, considering the form within theoretical frameworks related to critical studies in sports media, sports journalism, creative writing, and literary studies.

This book offers a comprehensive corpus and analysis of all the Formosan ‘Shooting the Sun’ myths.

This book addresses the timely research field of Afropean identity politics and provides a first account of the lived experience of Afroczechs and Africans in Czechia.

An excellent work that presents the research history of Mao Zedong!

This book focuses on the global goal of inclusivity and sustainability in heritage as defined by the United Nations and UNESCO.

This book explores the interplay between a people, their physical environment, the means of mobility that connect the two, and how these elements combine in the creation of cognitive and cultural landscapes.

This book offers a comprehensive corpus and analysis of all the Formosan ‘Shooting the Sun’ myths.

This book undertakes a critical examination of monuments, heritage, and memory, analysing their intersections with colonial histories, gender dynamics, and class structures.

This book aims to provide nuanced understanding of the British Empire with reference to history, literature, and migration studies.

Split across two sections on key theory and key issues, this introductory textbook encourages students to think critically about culture and society by engaging with the main theoretical debates which distinguish sociology’s contribution to cultural studies from the approach of other disciplines.

This book examines questions surrounding body adornments and its link to identity in archaeology, looking at theoretical and interpretive frameworks that are relevant to the study of different categories of personal ornaments.

This book focuses on how youth work and music is measured and valued.

This Handbook showcases representations of parenthood in twenty-first-century popular culture, critically assessing how these representations shape, respond to, and redefine notions of families, as well as popular culture genres.

Taking the contested and contestable meaning of “comics” as its starting point, Comics is… brings together ten comics scholars from different disciplines and with different approaches to what some of us call comics, to debate and discuss the foundations of Comics Studies in a provocative and thought-provoking way.

This book examines the emergence of a new normal that has structured the lived experiences of individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic through a close reading of graphic medical texts from both digital and print sources.

What if humanity’s past isn’t really past?

This book challenges the image-centred orthodoxy in photography studies, shifting attention to the tactile, sonic and material interactions that unfold in darkrooms, commercial labs and manufacturing sites through which photographs emerge.

This book integrates research from behavioral and social sciences to advance the use of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) with Black Americans who have experienced structural racism.

This book reports on the latest advancements of non-destructive testing and structural techniques as applied on a wide range of cultural heritage applications.

This book focuses on the global goal of inclusivity and sustainability in heritage as defined by the United Nations and UNESCO.

This book collects contributions that discuss the spread of AI, AI-GEN, and XR tools in the fields of cultural heritage and innovative design and their relationships with representation disciplines.

This book explores Kierkegaardian concepts within pop culture.

This book focuses on its developments and variations of performances of manaschï, the epic poet of Manas.

This book aims to provide nuanced understanding of the British Empire with reference to history, literature, and migration studies.

What if humanity’s past isn’t really past?

This book explores Kierkegaardian concepts within pop culture.

This book provides a technical and critical examination of the cultural system within a shifting social and economic landscape.

This book aims to explore the multiple ways in which Portuguese colonialism in former “Portuguese Asia” has been imagined.

This book offers an original and innovative study of how the intersection of the Doppelganger and the Gothic reveals repressed aspects of our singular and collective past, while also serving as a lens to investigate ourselves and our historical moment.

Irony is a pervasive quality of human life, though its creative, comic potential is often overlooked.

This book examines how Chinese thinkers and writers drew on foreign literature between 1918 and 1958 in order to construct China's independent cultural identity.

This book brings together an exceptional group of renowned scholars in philosophy and sociology, offering deep and insightful engagements with Jürgen Habermas’s thought.

This book considers the ramifications of the term 'cultural democracy' from a variety of perspectives.

This book examines questions surrounding body adornments and its link to identity in archaeology, looking at theoretical and interpretive frameworks that are relevant to the study of different categories of personal ornaments.

This book focuses on how youth work and music is measured and valued.

This book examines drone warfare – primarily understood now as an issue of technology, military strategy, and law – through popular cultural forms: fiction, film, drama, theater, art, performance, and dance.