Cultural and media studies

This topical book provides unprecedented analysis of football's place in post-war and post-reunification Germany.

As Eurasia and the adjacent territories become more important to the world, there is increasing interest from international powers, accompanied by attempts to give institutional form to traditional economic and security links within the region.

Bringing together a body of related research which has recently developed in Critical Discourse Analysis, this book is the first to address the role of perspective in socio-political discourse.

The Formation of Chinese Art Cinema: 1990-2003 examines the development of Chinese art film in the People's Republic of China from 1990, when the first Sixth Generation film Mama was released, to 2003, when authorities acknowledged the legitimacy of underground filmmakers.

How did America become a nation obsessed with race?

Men and women experience the city differently: in relation to housing assets, use of transport, relative mobility, spheres of employment and a host of domestic and caring responsibilities.

A groundbreaking study of the foundations of nationalism, exposing its antiquity, strong links with ethnicity and roots in human nature.

This volume provides a graduate-level introduction to communication science, including theory and scholarship for masters and PhD students as well as practicing scholars.

The Anishinabek Nation's legal traditions are deeply embedded in many aspects of customary life.

What is a medium?

The steady rise of Clint Eastwood s career parallels a pressing desire in American society over the past five decades for a figure and story of purpose, meaning, and redemption.

This book describes the contrast between the strong economic growth and democratization that have occurred in Africa and its stalling political progress.

Few topics in 20th century history generate as much interest as the Spanish Civil War.

In the 1990s, the Personal Computer (or PC) was on the rise in homes, and with it came new genres of play.

How human communities interpret what they perceive in the sky is vital in fulfilling humankind's most basic need to comprehend the universe it inhabits, both from a modern scientific perspective and from countless other cultural standpoints, extending right back to early prehistory.

Gender equity can't happen without racial equity.

This book explores the challenges facing women from their mid-forties as they attempt to build/maintain careers in the screen industries.

American Indian Education/indigenous education is still faltering today and is not producing significant differences in results where school practices follow those for the dominant culture.

Development has too often failed to deliver on its promises to poor nations.

The idea that development projects in poor countries are most effective when they harness the agency of women is a well known theme.

This book considers in unprecedented detail one of the most confounding questions in American racial practice: when to speak about people in racial terms.

The street protests that erupted in Tunisia in December 2010 and spread quickly throughout the Middle East surprised not only the entrenched dictators of the region but also international observers who collectively had taken for granted the durability of Middle Eastern authoritarianism.

God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination is a unique exploration of the relationship between the ancient Romans' visual and literary cultures and their imagination.

Museums of the Arabian Peninsula offers new insights into the history and development of museums within the region.

El padrino de Jackson Heights hace mucho más que arreglos de viajes desde su diminuta agencia escondida en un rincón del sector de Queens conocido como la Pequeña Colombia de Nueva York.

This book offers a fresh analysis of Before Sunrise that reframes its romance within the contexts of transnational culture and cinema.

Before conclusions about Spanish in the United States can be drawn, individual communities must be studied in their own contexts.

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Selena Daly's work is the first comprehensive study of Futurism during the First World War period.

This book reframes the Lacanian object a voice as a horrific register of alterity.

Auf Basis einer umfassenden Schulstudie analysiert Ruth Festl langfristige Erklärungsmuster eines Täterverhaltens im Kontext von Cybermobbing.

How is hate shaping our society?

An insider's account of the Postville case, this book gauges the raid's human, social, and economic impact, based on interaction with the main participants and interviews with local citizens and arrestees in the US and Guatemala.

What does it mean to be a white settler on land taken from peoples who have lived there since time immemorial?

This edited collection illuminates the weaknesses and strengths of crime reporting across a wide range of countries, with a focus on democratic countries in which the police bear some accountability to citizens.

Why do white supremacist politics in America remain so powerful?

Change management is not just affected globally by environmental and social conditions, including political and technological changes, but also through convergence, which helps conceptualize change over the past decades.

A bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story.

Marxist Ideology and Soviet Criminal Law (1980) is about differences between theory and practice in the Soviet Union.

At the turn of the century, America is both retrenching and expanding, becoming more restrictive and more expansive, more utilitarian and, more value- and religion-oriented.

What is masculinity?