Cultural studies

Transnationalism and American Serial Fiction explores the vibrant tradition of serial fiction published in U.

When Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center was first published in 1984, it was welcomed and praised by feminist thinkers who wanted a new vision.

Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque explores the profound impact that visual digital technologies are having on the practice and theory of law.

The Cambridge Companion to Constant is a convenient and accessible guide to Constant and the most up-to-date scholarship on him.

This book is about social phenomena that directly acknowledge the structures and ideologies emerging after September 11, 2001.

Dance Matters Too: Markets, Memories, Identities is a rich intellectual contribution to the growing field of dance studies in India.

This study describes the diverse experiences and political opinions of the colonial Anglican clergy during the American Revolution.

Test Yourself: Developmental Psychology provides essential learning and practice through assessment for your psychology students.

Philosophies of Difference engages with the concept of difference in relation to a number of fundamental philosophical and political problems.

Digital entertainment, from video games to simulation rides, is now a central feature of popular culture.

This book is the first English-language study of the social, intellectual and institutional history of sociology and the social sciences in Hungary.

In today's thoroughly mass-mediated world, audiences and publics are, of course, composed of the same people.

In this accessible introduction to communication activism, organizer Karen Jeffreys and sociologist Charlotte Ryan draw on more than two decades of ongoing collaboration, using the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless (RICH) as a case study.

The most integral part of Christian worship is the Holy Mass, where the church comes together to enjoin as one in the Sacrament of Christ's Body and Blood.

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT AND PHILOSOPHY Is George Michael s crush on his cousin unnatural?

Explores how radio broadcasting and the emerging audio culture transformed the dynamics of French politics during the tumultuous interwar decades.

Visions of Belonging explores how beloved and still-remembered family stories-A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, I Remember Mama, Gentleman's Agreement, Death of a Salesman, Marty, and A Raisin in the Sun-entered the popular imagination and shaped collective dreams in the postwar years and into the 1950s.

Pyne traces the impact of fire in Australia, from its influence on vegetation to its use by Aborigines and European settlers.

This book presents a new approach to film analysis.

This book explores the complex relationship between societies, architecture, and urbanism of market halls, traditional souqs, bazaars, and speciality street markets in the Middle East and North Africa.

This volume is a bold attempt to address a comprehensive range of themes and issues relating to contemporary Kenya.

Resistance and Identity in Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture: Voices of the Marginalized is a compendium of reflections on literary texts, politics of literature and culture.

Key to our culture is that we can disseminate information, and then maintain and access it over time.

Hanged by the Nigerian government on November 10, 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa became a martyr for the Ogoni people and human rights activists, and a symbol of modern Africans' struggle against military dictatorship, corporate power, and environmental exploitation.

Bowler traces ideas about progress using evolutionary biology to throw light on parallel changes in the understanding of social development.

This study brings to light the original concept of the imaginary that emerges from Merleau Ponty's thought.

Colour permeates contemporary visual and material culture and affects our senses beyond the superficial encounter by infiltrating our perceptions and memories and becoming deeply rooted in thought processes that categorise and divide along culturally constructed lines.

This book presents a new approach to the understanding of non-normative sexuality and gender transgressive modes in South Asia and South Asian diaspora.

Third of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world''s leading historians.

This book tells the fascinating, millennia-long story of peoples around the world who have claimed an Israelite identity and history.

This short collection of essays engages with queer lives and activism in 1970s Poland, illustrating discourses about queerness and a trajectory of the struggle for rights which clearly sets itself apart, and differs from a Western-based narrative of liberation.

The third edition of this classic text helps readers consider the myriad ways gendered attitudes and practices influence communication in our personal and professional interactions.

"e;Secrets of Strict Observance"e; delves into the veiled world of Freemasonry, offering a rare glimpse into the rituals and historical significance of this enigmatic fraternity.

This insightful book explores the intense and ultimately fleeting moment in 1980s America when the future looked Japanese.

First published in 1991, The Achilles Heel Reader brings together key articles from Achilles Heel, the path-breaking and influential magazine of men's sexual politics.

The fascinating and insightful biography of one of the most intriguing, thoughtful and controversial figures of the 19th century.

The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love is a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary reference work essential for students and researchers interested in the field of love, romance and popular romance fiction.

The Routledge Companion to Media and Race serves as a comprehensive guide for scholars, students, and media professionals who seek to understand the key debates about the impact of media messages on racial attitudes and understanding.

This book provides a rich and nuanced examination of children learning to read and write a second language in primary schools in Kenya, taught by teachers who themselves have often learned English as a second or third language.

Congregational music can be an act of praise, a vehicle for theology, an action of embodied community, as well as a means to a divine encounter.

The term 'jar' refers to any man-made shape with the capacity to enclose something.

This book features the latest research on translation by a dozen leading scholars of translation studies in China.

A bicentennial celebration of brilliant thinkers from The University of Manchester's history.

Anthropology revolves round answers to problems about the nature, development and unity of mankind; problems that are both philosophical and scientific.

We've outsourced too much of our thinking.

This is the first authoritative reference work to map the multifaceted and vibrant site of citizen media research and practice, incorporating insights from across a wide range of scholarly areas.