Cultural and media studies

'The Ganges: Cultural, Economic, and Environmental Importance' is a geographical, cultural, economic, and environmental interpretation of the Ganga River.

This book offers the first comparative discussion of variation in selected areas of structure in the dialects of Kurdish.

This book tackles the disconnect between social perceptions and expert knowledge regarding trade policy decisions.

Tradition in Creative Writing: Finding Inspiration Through Your Roots encourages writers to rediscover sources of creativity in the everyday, showing students how to see your writing as connected to your life.

Shortlisted for the Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize 2022, The Tramp in British Literature, 1850-1950 offers a unique account of the emergence of a new conception of homelessness in the mid-nineteenth century.

This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic analysis of the sport of boxing as depicted in British film.

This book explores the significance of professional writers and their role in developing British storytelling in the 1920s and 1930s, and their influence on the poetics of today's transmedia storytelling.

This book examines the ethics of virtual reality (VR) technologies.

This edited volume informs readers about changing norms and meanings of borders and underlines recent scenarios that shape these borders.

The Theory of Love: Ideals, Limits, Futures explores stories about love that recuperate a vision of intimate life as a resource for creating bonds beyond heterosexual coupledom.

Contemporary Judaism is transforming, especially in America, from a community experience to more of a do-it-yourself religion focused on the individual self.

Women have always been inextricably linked to food, especially in its production and preparation.

This contribution to the global history of ideas uses biographical profiles of 18th-century contemporaries to find what Salafist and Sufi Islam, Evangelical Protestant and Jansenist Catholic Christianity, and Hasidic Judaism have in common.

This book analyzes the social and contextual causes of suicide, the existential and philosophical reasons for committing suicide, and the prevention strategies that modern fictional literature places at our disposal.

This volume is the first book-length account of Yves Montand's controversial tour of the Soviet Union at the turn of the years 1956/57.

This book analyzes the phenomenon of xenophobia across African countries.

This book proposes another unique basis for the origins of religion from disturbances in brain function.

This ground-breaking new book provides a unique, in-depth analysis of the BBC Asian Network, the BBC's national ethnic-specific digital radio station in the UK.

This book consists of ten essays that examine the ways in which language has been used to evoke what Lawrence L.

This is a rare piece of empirical research, which reveals the workings of a spiritual order, its leadership, as well as their approaches, methods and tools.

Shakespeare's Storytelling: An Introduction to Genre, Character, and Technique is a textbook focused on specific storytelling techniques and genres that Shakespeare invented or refined.

Raphael Sassower examines the concept of hypocrisy for its strategic potential as a means of personal protection and social cohesion.

This book offers a comparative study of historical television genres in Europe, with a special focus on Germany and Great Britain and their way of narrating twentieth century European history.

This book explores the tension between analogue and digital as part of an evolving research programme and focuses on the sequencing of methods within it.

Why is epistemic fallibilism a viable topic for Christian thought and cultural engagement today?

 This book develops a nuanced decolonial critique that calls for the decolonization of media and communication studies in Africa and the Global South.

This book considers what is at stake for professionals whose work increasingly involves communicating in linguistically and culturally diverse contexts, and argues for the need to better understand the crucial role of languages and cultures in the modern workplace.

This edited book brings together case studies from different contexts which all explore how a rapidly evolving digital landscape is impacting translation and intercultural communication.

This book focuses on the theme of the transgression of life and death boundaries through its representation in Japanese contemporary visual media, more specifically in the manga Fullmetal Alchemist, the animated film Journey to Agartha, and the computer game Shadow of the Colossus.

This book explores the potential of social media as a space for teaching and bringing about sustainable peace.

Sociology addresses challenging social issues and seeks new ways to understand them.

This volume helps us to understand that the current political disorders in Catalonia have deep cultural roots.

This book investigates young children's everyday digital practices, embodied digital play, and digital media products - such as mobile applications, digital games, and software tools.

This book explains how cultural heritage can be a tool for enhancing urban agriculture and improving landscape and life quality.

Zweifellos hat kaum ein Denker die abendländische Philosophie und Geistesgeschichte so maßgebend geprägt wie Immanuel Kant.

In a sweeping synthesis of new research in a number of different disciplines, this book argues that we humans are not who we think we are.

This book studies tabloid journalism newspapers within the broader context of press freedom in Africa.

This book focuses on teaching African American literature through experiential praxis.

This book explores the Romanian Orthodox Church's arguments on national identity to legitimize its own place in a post-communist Romania.

What skills do journalists exhibit in sensationalising, exaggerating and otherwise 'tabloiding' the truth, while usually stopping short of stating unambiguous falsehoods?

This book explores the comedy and legacy of women working as performers on the music-hall stage from 1880-1920, and examines the significance of their previously overlooked contributions to British comic traditions.

The book explores how Churchill was portrayed in the UK press during the Second World War, comparing his depictions in Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish, and provincial English newspapers.

Through an anthropological analysis, this book uncovers life stories and testimonies that relate the processes of separation as a result of the constructed political borders of nation states newly founded on the inherited territories of the Ottoman Empire.

This book offers a novel approach to sustainable development through the theory and practice of communication in global food networks, focusing specifically on organic food and fair trade movements.

This edited collection invites the reader to enter the diverse worlds of Australia's migrant and minority communities through the latest research on the contemporary printed press, spanning the mid-nineteenth century to our current day.

This Palgrave Pivot examines how prominent thinkers throughout history, from ancient Greece to sixteenth-century France, have perceived tyrants and tyranny.

This book offers readers a comprehensive introduction to the economy of attention from the perspective of the basic motive of the pursuit of attention: self-esteem.

This book traces the principal roots of the concept of post-truth to uncover how it came by its present meaning.

This book examines and compares the religious experience of an African group with a European one.

This Palgrave Pivot offers a history of and proof against claims of "e;buying power"e; and the impact this myth has had on understanding media, race, class and economics in the United States.