Cultural and media studies

As human and machine agency become increasingly intermingled and digital media is overlaid onto the urban landscape, The machinic city argues that performance art can help us to understand contemporary urban living.

Transcultural things examines four sets of artefacts from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: maps pointing to Poland-Lithuania's roots in the supposedly 'Oriental' land of Sarmatia, portrayals of fashions that purport to trace Polish culture back to a distant and revered past, Ottomanesque costumes worn by Polish ambassadors and carpets labelled as Polish despite their foreign provenance.

En el vertiginoso escenario contemporáneo de la información y la comunicación, se erige este compendio titulado Informar, comunicar y entretener hoy.

The mediated Arctic analyses the multiple relations between geography and cultural production that have long shaped - and are currently transforming - the circumpolar world.

Global Indigeneity is a term that reflects shared recognition of sovereignty among Indigenous peoples.

This book chronicles the Kyoto/Kansai 1980s hardcore punk scene through the album Don't Be Swindle by S.

Esta es la primera guía que reúne el conocimiento necesario para planificar, redactar, editar, publicar y comercializar un libro con éxito, realizada por un editor profesional y adaptada al sector editorial actual.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of feminist international relations in South Asia.

Supporting the theory that there is no singular 'Bible', and the idea that biblical literacy is demonstrated in a multitude of ways beyond confessional interpretations of biblical texts, the contributors of this volume explore how multiple 'Bibles' coexist simultaneously in popular cultures.

La survenance de l’épidémie du coronavirus et les mesures prises pour la contenir au Sénégal ont créé une situation inédite : couvre-feu, réductions du temps de travail, mesures de sauvegarde, lavage systématique des mains,  distanciation physique et sociale, port de masque, fermeture des mosquées et des églises, confinement partiel pendant plusieurs semaines… Le cours de la vie personnelle, professionnelle et sociale a été profondément bouleversé, d’une manière tout à fait singulière et inattendue.

Alle Medien werben um die Zeit ihrer Nutzer.

Trolling began long before the internet.

Biologically speaking, there is no such thing as race.

A cultural and political history of Tamilnadu through its most colourful personalities.

Happiness is an everyday term in our lives, and most of us strive to be happy.

This book argues for the critical potential of locating the girl as the subject-position and voice of legal critique.

Cultural, social and economic production is always medially constituted, since it is formed through processing, storage and transmission of certain data or materials.

Un libro esencial para entender los desafíos actuales del abastecimiento a nivel mundial.

Shortlisted for the 2025 Wolfson History PrizeLonglisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Non-fictionA Times Best History Book of the Year 2024'Every page glittering with insight.

This book explores the complex histories and heritage of the Banda Islands in Indonesia.

Explore the enduring influence of the Western - the quintessential American film genre - and its essential role in US and world culture.

Unlike any other territorial species, humans have evolved to become agrarians.

As our nation has experienced a renewal of reckoning with the reality of slavery in our past and the continued struggle for equality and liberation in the present, many previously untold stories have come to light.

Building on Frederic Lemieux's previous work exploring how Western state surveillance and intelligence activities have drastically adapted to new domestic and global challenges, this second edition expands on additional dimensions of intelligence and surveillance activities conducted in modern societies.

The author is the current president of Jews for Jesus, a ministry dedicated to reaching Jews with the Gospel.

Perry Payne, Erfolgsautor, freier Journalist und Moderator bei SofaTalk24 präsentiert die besten Schreibtechniken, gibt wichtige Ratschläge zum Buchmarketing und nennt Anregungen und konkrete Hilfe zum besseren Schreiben, Nachbearbeiten und Veröffentlichen.

Vom Neujahrstag bis zu Silvester: Die Traditionen im Alpenraum rund ums JahrBrauchtum und Rituale haben etwas Beruhigendes an sich: Sie strukturieren den Alltag und sind oft so in Fleisch und Blut übergegangen, dass sie ganz ohne Nachdenken ausgeführt werden.

The cinema of Iran is celebrated both locally and internationally, yet elements of this diverse field remain comparatively understudied.

Pierre Bourdieu was one of the most influential social thinkers of the past half-century, known for both his theoretical and methodological contributions and his wide-ranging empirical investigations into colonial power in Algeria, the educational system in France, the forms of state power, and the history of artistic and scientific fields-among many other topics.

This book investigates the experiences of women in Zimbabwe facing COVID-19 and gender-based violence, arguing that the insights from this extremely tough period could be used as a springboard for positive legal, cultural and policy changes.

The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music Volume 1 provides an overview of media, industry, and technology and its relationship to popular music.

This book provides an innovative and policy-oriented analysis of gender stereotypes in advertising regulation from a socio-legal perspective.

This book critiques the victim paradigm that occupies a central place in today's world.

This Handbook illustrates the many ways that progressive rock and metal music forge striking engagements with literary texts and themes.

This book explores how the Covid-19 pandemic triggered profound changes in the practice and consumption of digital journalism.

This book brings together a range of arts and development scholars and practitioners to explore the unique ways in which arts-based research methods can make a unique positive contribution to effective global development practice.

This fully updated fourth edition provides students and researchers with the tools they need to perform critically engaged, theoretically informed research using methods that include interviewing, focus groups, historical research, oral histories, textual analysis, ethnography and participant observation, and digital ethnography and netnography.

Una obra lúcida y vigorosa cuya lectura no dejará a nadie indiferente.

This book examines how compression can be understood not only as a digital process enacted through computing, but as a wider economic and political phenomenon that impacts on the ecology of waste, diversity and social inclusivity.

A must-read collection featuring the best in sports journalism Editor Jane McManus has curated an essential anthology showcasing incredible feats and diverse perspectives across the world of sports.