Cultural studies

Drawing on some recent developments in the blue humanities, this book addresses water as a material, political and cultural phenomenon across a variety of spatial and temporal contexts.

The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron and millions of tourists ever since in its spell.

This book explores the impacts of digitization and sector internationalization on national drama production and their consequences for industry, audiences, and domestic storytelling.

Queer Women's Fandoms: Across Screens, Borders, and Desires brings together new research that rethinks what queer women's fandoms are and why they matter now.

This is the Pandora's Box of self-help books.

Refractive Realisms positions the township as a lens through which to engage the South African canon, endeavouring to provide a reorientation towards a black creative archive and surfacing under-represented forms of literary and cultural expression.

The Road From Coorain is the beautifully written narrative of Jill Ker Conway's journey from girlhood on an isolated sheep-farm in the grasslands of Australia to her departure for America (and eventually the presidency of Smith College).

This book investigates the concept of brand authenticity within narrative media, focusing on how audience expectations and reactions shape perceptions of brand endings and plot developments.

A timely and gripping investigation of illegal drugs in the UK.

Building on recent scholarship that challenges the supposed historical isolation of Eastern European art from the colonial matrix of power, this book responds to the sometimes uncritical application of established Western postcolonial and decolonial theories to the region's visual production.

One of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of culture’s value Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human.

'The most entertaining book of the year' Sunday Times _____________________________________________________Diana touched your elbow, your arm, covered your hand with hers.

In recent years, Peru has transformed from a war-torn country to a global high-end culinary destination.

Refractive Realisms positions the township as a lens through which to engage the South African canon, endeavouring to provide a reorientation towards a black creative archive and surfacing under-represented forms of literary and cultural expression.

In recent years, Peru has transformed from a war-torn country to a global high-end culinary destination.

This book investigates the concept of brand authenticity within narrative media, focusing on how audience expectations and reactions shape perceptions of brand endings and plot developments.

In popular memory the repeal of US Prohibition in 1933 signaled alcohol's decisive triumph in a decades-long culture war.

In popular memory the repeal of US Prohibition in 1933 signaled alcohol's decisive triumph in a decades-long culture war.

This book explores why stories of Latin American violence are commonplace.

The Routledge Handbook on the Sociology and History of Cinema and Television in Latin America explores the historical and sociological dimensions of Latin American cinema and television from the 1960s and 1970s onward, decentering the New Latin American Cinema (NLAC) without diminishing its significance.

California's Napa Valley is one of the world's premier wine regions today, but this has not always been true.

*Winner of the 2022 Cherasco International Prize*'Thoroughly engrossing' Michael Pollan, The Atlantic'Wonderful, energising' Kathryn Hughes, The GuardianCoffee is one of the most valuable commodities in the history of the global economy and the world's most popular drug.

Find out what's going on any day of the year, anywhere across the globe!

Find out what's going on any day of the year, anywhere across the globe!

The Great Irish Famine of 1845-51 was both one of the most lethal famines in modern history and a watershed in the development of modern Ireland.

Terry Eagleton is the foremost Marxist cultural theorist of our time.

Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump:Images from Literature and Visual Arts treats literature, film, television series, and comic books dealing with utopian and dystopian worlds reflecting on or anticipating our current age.

This book provides justification, a framework and examples for an emergent alternative approach to planning and community development.

Witty, savage and poignant NIGELLA LAWSON'Humane and deeply, darkly humorous' MARINA KEMP, author of UNWILDING'Gorgeous, mesmerising' CLAIRE POWELL, author of ALL INSink your teeth into a slice of family drama with this deliciously funny novel about sisterhood, secrets and the things you can't stomach.

Contemporary Music in Indonesia: New Voices from the Archipelago provides insights into the evolution of Indonesian contemporary music in the 2000s.

Crisis and decline in the working class were frequent themes in American popular culture during the 1970s.

This book, with its focus on the dancing body, is the first of its kind within the larger context of dance in India.

This book argues that of today's 'core' social scientific disciplines, it is sociology that has inherited the capacious ambitions of the Scottish Enlightenment.

This book presents original research, insight and analysis on innovative methods, theories, topics and issues at the end of life and in death's aftermath.

The present book makes an attempt to examine the nature and function of tribal literary genres, which are mostly in the oral form.

Gender diversity knows no borders.

Gender diversity knows no borders.

This anthology hosts a collection of essays examining the role of comics as portals for historical and academic content, while keeping the approach on an international market versus the American one.

New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies.

Following the more theoretical first installment of New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies devoted to Definitions, Theory, and Accented Practices, the second volume of New Perspectives deals with practicing cultural studies by offering articles that are valuable for both scholars of Italian studies and students interested in a cultural studies approach.

Following the more theoretical first installment of New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies devoted to Definitions, Theory, and Accented Practices, the second volume of New Perspectives deals with practicing cultural studies by offering articles that are valuable for both scholars of Italian studies and students interested in a cultural studies approach.

This anthology hosts a collection of essays examining the role of comics as portals for historical and academic content, while keeping the approach on an international market versus the American one.

Since Aristotle's famous declaration that the speculative sciences originated with the emergence of a leisure class, it has been accepted as a truism that intellectual activity requires political stability and leisure in order to flourish.

New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies.

Since Aristotle's famous declaration that the speculative sciences originated with the emergence of a leisure class, it has been accepted as a truism that intellectual activity requires political stability and leisure in order to flourish.

The present book makes an attempt to examine the nature and function of tribal literary genres, which are mostly in the oral form.

Theological Discourses on Social Media will examine ten different social media platforms across three overarching parts.

Theological Discourses on Social Media will examine ten different social media platforms across three overarching parts.

The Historical Dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy, Third Edition, centers on Descartes' philosophy (considered broadly to include his science and mathematics) in the context of 17th-century thought, with attention being paid to its reception.