Cultural and media studies

Proposes an original framework for comparative media research, and uses it to provide fascinating insights into television under communist rule.

Shows how Joyce''s narrative styles and his protagonists'' perceptions are shaped by visual technologies, including dioramas, stereoscopes, mutoscopes and film.

The first volume to explore the role of race and empire in political theory debates over global justice.

This book focuses on the material practice of ancient literacy through a contextual examination of Roman writing equipment.

Renowned scholars explore and discuss Nietzsche''s desire to challenge the very conception of philosophy, and his methods of doing so.

This book is the first collection in twenty years in English to address the whole of Bergson''s philosophy.

This is a novel, transnational exploration of the major Chinese intellectual debates on radicalism in history, culture, and politics after 1989.

This book traces how early Americans imagined what a ''nation'' meant during the first fifty years of the country''s existence.

An interdisciplinary approach to the foundations of moral agency, focusing on different forms and roles of fellow feeling.

Using extensive research, this book argues that successful African leaders consolidate their rule by developing strategic rural coalitions.

The first holistic study of Roman literature and literary culture under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96–138).

A major illustrated collection offering a fresh interdisciplinary reading of Chinese women''s periodicals and history in the long twentieth century.

This volume looks at the effects of interaction and the nature of identity construction in a frontier or contact zone through the analysis of material culture, especially in mortuary settings.

This lively and erudite cultural history examines how Scottish identity was experienced and represented in novel ways.

How do immigration and refugee laws work ''in action'' in Russia?

Examines the influence of Islam, as a religion, a practice, and a tradition, on Egypt''s visual and literary modernity.

While dominant narratives emphasize war''s destructive effects, this book demonstrates how war can open up unexpected opportunities for women''s political mobilization.

Kessler-Mata argues for a constitutive theory of tribal sovereignty based on the interconnected relationships between tribes and non-federal governments.

Comprehensive account of Melissus of Samos and his contribution to the philosophy of monism in early Greek thinking.

Aimed at political sciences students and teachers, Ferreras presents the new idea of ''economic bicameralism'' to redefine firms as political entities.

Global Gifts considers the role that the circulation of material culture played in the establishment of early modern global diplomacy.

Investigates the idea of the human within Brontë sisters'' work, offering new insight on their writing and cultural contexts.

Pressures emanating from China''s scale, regulatory politics, and need to feed itself has led to its decade''s long food safety crisis.

Leading scholars of political thought demonstrate how the history of political ideas makes sense of environmental politics and climate change.

Offers a more complex and nuanced understanding of the Russian justice system than stereotypes and preconceptions lead us to believe.

Tsui reveals the peculiarities of the Guomindang''s revolutionary enterprise, resituating Nationalist China in the moment of global radical right ascendancy.

Cutting-edge scholarship on post-war Arab intellectual history that challenges conventional thinking about authoritarianism, religion and revolution in the modern Middle East.

Shows that Homer was a philosophic thinker who played a crucial role in the thought of Plato, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche.

Argues that Peirce wrote philosophy as a scientist, expanded empiricism, and conceived of science as responsible for its own philosophy.

An in-depth introduction to Merleau-Ponty''s greatest work that foregrounds his theory of our projectively embodied being in the world.

Demonstrates the importance of music in ancient Roman political culture and social relations.

Eve Tignol investigates the impact of collective grief on Muslim community formation in north India from 1857 to the 1940s.

The author argues that Doric architecture originated in a disruptive shift in urbanism, land use, and colonization in Archaic Greece.

Was macht einen Film groß?

Was macht einen Film groß?

Wild and strange stories have been told about the female body since antiquity.

This book promotes a novel and nuanced understanding of how the practices of comparative literature have engaged with the politics of nation-building in postcolonial Southeast Asia.

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This book promotes a novel and nuanced understanding of how the practices of comparative literature have engaged with the politics of nation-building in postcolonial Southeast Asia.

Dass die Welt verletzt, womöglich niemals mehr repariert werden kann, und dass die Menschen verletzlich sind, auch arg verletzend sein können – all dies ist in den Kulturen des POP und des Populären eingehend zur Sprache gebracht worden.

Dass die Welt verletzt, womöglich niemals mehr repariert werden kann, und dass die Menschen verletzlich sind, auch arg verletzend sein können – all dies ist in den Kulturen des POP und des Populären eingehend zur Sprache gebracht worden.

Spielen in der Schule?

Spielen in der Schule?

In den Bänden dieser Reihe werden erstmalig detailliert die wichtigsten Strömungen und Themen der ungemein fruchtbaren Periode der Soziologie der Zwischenkriegszeit im deutschen Sprachraum in theoretischer, empirischer und institutioneller Hinsicht dargelegt und die eingehende Erörterung Spezieller Soziologien durch die Bezugnahme auf Nachbardisziplinen vertieft.