Cultural studies

This book examines how general education in Chinese universities cultivates cultural confidence among college students, addressing the evolving landscape of Chinese higher education.

The long-awaited follow-up to Garland-Thomson's field-defining book Freakery, Freak Inheritance illuminates the convergence of the freak show era with the eugenics era, explicating the cultural work of the freak show as a compelling range of performances of cultural and social Others that emerge as eugenic targets from the late 19th century into the 20th century and beyond.

When America began to emerge as a world power at the end of the nineteenth century, Italy was a young nation, recently unified.

When America began to emerge as a world power at the end of the nineteenth century, Italy was a young nation, recently unified.

The Romantic period witnessed decisive interest in how feeling might align with forms of artistic expression.

The long-awaited follow-up to Garland-Thomson's field-defining book Freakery, Freak Inheritance illuminates the convergence of the freak show era with the eugenics era, explicating the cultural work of the freak show as a compelling range of performances of cultural and social Others that emerge as eugenic targets from the late 19th century into the 20th century and beyond.

This book explains how Food Policy Councils solve critical food systems problems by creating just and resilient ways of producing, harvesting, manufacturing, distributing, and consuming food and managing food waste, using methods that encourage civic engagement and strengthen democratic processes.

Does good democratic government require intelligent, moral, and productive citizens?

Night Sweats: Cyberfeminist Practices intervenes in this moment of rapid biotechnological development and international political turmoil with thought-provoking, creative, and justice-oriented essays on art and life: opting out of the sludge and consent theatre presented by standard “terms and conditions”; creating plant-assisted reproductive technologies (pARTs) such as indecision trees; practicing compassionate inquiry; and becoming a cyborg-elder.

Claude Buffier: Common Sense, Metaphysics, and Sociability ventures into the largely unexplored territory of his philosophical contributions to early modern thought, unlocking the complexity of his ideas while situating him within the broader context of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophy.

The Environment in Sustainable American Studies offers a multifaceted exploration of the environment within American Studies, featuring contributions that scrutinize the intricate relationship between culture, power, and the environment.

A vibrant introduction to theatre that engages with stories, conditions and experiences of migration.

Centered on streaming media platforms, this book explores how digital technologies have fundamentally transformed the way we understand entertainment and the tightening nexus between technology, culture, and capitalism.

Claude Buffier: Common Sense, Metaphysics, and Sociability ventures into the largely unexplored territory of his philosophical contributions to early modern thought, unlocking the complexity of his ideas while situating him within the broader context of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophy.

The concept of bliss, in its connotations of beatitude and salvation, may seem of little relevance to so-called secular modernity.

Figuring Death in Classical Athens puts art and literature in conversation to explore how ancient Athenians grappled with the uncertainties of death.

Dhobis of Delhi: An Urban Ethnography from the Margins, 1974-2023 is a saga covering more than four decades of interactions with an 'untouchable' caste--the Dhobis (washermen and washerwomen), who are among Delhi's oldest inhabitants.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.

This book provides an accessible introduction to critical disability studies, which helps students question existing notions of disability and interrogate how these have become embedded in our social and cultural understanding of disability.

Activist and curator Marco Baravalle shows how artists across the Global South and North are building alter-institutions - autonomous, collective infrastructures that challenge both state and market control.

Funny Moves: Dance Humor Politics explores the intersection of dance and humor and the political stakes that bodies incur when they dare to be both aestheticized and funny.

Human beings are time travelers.

Funny Moves: Dance Humor Politics explores the intersection of dance and humor and the political stakes that bodies incur when they dare to be both aestheticized and funny.

Many of the new trends in the philosophy of mind are little over a generation old.

Human beings are time travelers.

For more than a decade, cancel culture has contributed to the stifling of public debate and the ruin of private lives.

Geschichtswissenschaftliche Forschung, Rechtsprechung, Politik, Kunst und Unterhaltung – in verschiedenen sozialen Kontexten wird Historisches für ganz unterschiedliche Zwecke verwendet.

This new third edition of Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint offers a fascinating portrayal of Santa Muerte, a skeleton saint whose cult has become the fastest growing new religious movement worldwide over the past two decades.

In 1880s Britain, philosophers developed what would become a half-century obsession with time.

This book provides an accessible introduction to critical disability studies, which helps students question existing notions of disability and interrogate how these have become embedded in our social and cultural understanding of disability.

This book is the fourth book in the Contemporary  Gulf state  series, and seeks to define the era of contemporary history in the Arab Gulf region.

This book is the fourth book in the Contemporary  Gulf state  series, and seeks to define the era of contemporary history in the Arab Gulf region.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.

This book offers a comprehensive, in-depth study of literary translation in Macao, examining how translation mediates and reconstructs the cultural identities of Macao and the Macanese.

This book offers a comprehensive, in-depth study of literary translation in Macao, examining how translation mediates and reconstructs the cultural identities of Macao and the Macanese.

The fiercest battles over gender today aren't just about identity or womanhood-but about punishment, fear, and control.

A collection of ancient and whimsical folklore tales from the Shetland Isles.

This book explores how public history, a field developing globally, is gaining attention in Japan and being incorporated into existing Japanese academic studies and practices.

This book explores how public history, a field developing globally, is gaining attention in Japan and being incorporated into existing Japanese academic studies and practices.

Readers are OBSESSED with SCANDAL'Who doesn't love a good celebrity WAG story.

Appearing beside Text introduces how the negative space between print can appear as another type of text.

Appearing beside Text introduces how the negative space between print can appear as another type of text.

En Infancia y cine en la larga Transicion espanola, Sarah Thomas analiza al nino cinematografico en esta compleja coyuntura historica de un pais que tiene a su espalda decadas de gobierno autoritario y ante si un futuro incierto, examinando peliculas de distintos generos y de cuatro directores clave de la Transicion: Carlos Saura, Antonio Mercero, Victor Erice y Jaime de Arminan

Being Dope is a book that will challenge what you think you know about rap and rappers.

With 100 kid-tested recipes, Rebel Girls' dessert cookbook empowers beginner bakers and young Rebel chefs-in-training to take charge in the kitchen.

This book examines the transnational dynamics that shape Latina affect narrative from the 1990s through the twenty-first century.

Is there a Latin American thought?

Despite his short life, Friedrich von Hardenberg (otherwise known as Novalis, 1772-1801) was one of the most original and polymathic figures of the early Romantic movement in Germany.

Despite his short life, Friedrich von Hardenberg (otherwise known as Novalis, 1772-1801) was one of the most original and polymathic figures of the early Romantic movement in Germany.

Is there a Latin American thought?