Cultural and media studies

This book explores Edith Stein's phenomenology of the state.

This book explores the relationship between the sciences of representation and the strategy of landscape valorisation.

Writing Politics is a methods book designed to instruct on politically focused literary inquiry.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, also known as Industry 4.

This book examines many of the laws in the Torah governing sexual relations and the often implicit motivations underlying them.

Are Donald Trump's irrationality, cruelty, and bombast symptoms of his personality?

Witnessing Whiteness invites readers to consider what it means to be white, describes and critiques strategies used to avoid race issues, and identifies the detrimental effect of avoiding race on cross-race collaborations.

Questions concerning the quality of media performance and the effectiveness of media policymaking often revolve around the extent to which the media system fulfills the values inherent in diversity and localism principles.

This book combines autoethnographic reflections, poetry, and photography with the aim to bridge the gap between creative practice and scholarly research.

In The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism, Arthur Kroker explores the future of the 21st century in the language of technological destiny.

Based on a Romanian case study, this book sheds light on the supply and demand of news and information in the current digital era, dominated by unprecedented dramatic changes.

Encyclopaedia of Asia: Land, Culture and People is a unique attempt in the sense that for the first time the editors have attempted to provide readers with most contemporary information-base about these very important countries, forming the said region, called Asia.

'Superb' Sunday Times'Revolutionary' Alice Roberts'Hugely important' Jim Al-Khalili_______________A radical retelling of the history of science that foregrounds the scientists erased from history In this major retelling of the history of science from 1450 to the present day, James Poskett explodes the myth that science began in Europe.

This book traces the emergence of the modern Chinese press from its origins in the western Christian missionary press in the late nineteenth century.

This is the third volume of the series Reinventing Social Emancipation: Towards New Manifestoes.

Examines the practice and purposes of presenting the small-scale in literature, material culture and theories of cognition.

In the first five months of the Great War, one million men volunteered to fight.

This book explores the appropriation of Shakespeare by youth culture and the expropriation of youth culture in the manufacture and marketing of 'Shakespeare'.

Migrant Labor and Border Securities in Pop Culture explores the conditions for migrant domestic, agricultural, and factory workers as that of continual crisis and examines how the borderlands are a workshop of neoliberalism.

This book explores diverse communities living in Central Asia and the Caucasus, who are generally gathered under the umbrella term of 'Gypsies', their multidimensional identities, self-appellations and labels given to them by surrounding populations, researcher and policy-makers.

Video is a part of everyday life, comparable to driving a car or taking a shower.

It's now over twenty years since punk pogo-ed its way into our consciousness.

In Vanishing Vienna historian Frances Tanzer traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German annexation through the early 1960s.

Each contribution to this book discusses key issues arising from the portrayal of men and the formation of masculine identities in a range of representative and landmark texts, fictional and non-fictional, drawn from different historical periods and from various countries in the Hispanophone Americas.

In einer Zeit voller Umbrüche, politischer Instabilität und sozialer Spannungen erhebt der Prophet Habakuk seine Stimme – und ringt in einem aufrüttelnden Dialog mit Gott um Antworten.

Since South Korea achieved partial democracy in 1987, the country has moved away from authoritarian political control.

Do you want to cast a spell on a suitor, banish a ghost, cure a toothache, or harvest protective herbs?

This book brings to life the remarkable stories of five exceptional international development leaders and influencers: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Domingo Cavallo, Ela Bhatt, Dzingai Mutumbuka, and Adolfo Figueroa.

Transnational Memory and Popular Culture in East and Southeast Asia explores the significance of transnational popular culture in the formation and mediation of collective memories across the region.

Featuring a wide range of exercises, examples, and images, this textbook provides a practical way of analyzing the discourses of the global media industries.

Hugely impressive in its scope, with introductory chapters on social history, the film industry and theories of realism, this indispensable history of these vital years contains unusually fresh discussions of films justly regards as important, alongside those unjustly ignored.

Kevin Starr is the foremost chronicler of the California dream and indeed one of the finest narrative historians writing today on any subject.

This book takes on the challenge of conceptually thinking Paraguayan cultural history within the broader field of Latin American studies.

This book analyzes the social legitimacy deficit of the European Parliament (EP) in the United Kingdom and Greece.

This volume aims to go beyond the study of developments within Mexico's criminal world and their relationship with the state and law enforcement.

It is an interesting consequence of the new reconstructions of the early history of Israel that the Israelites must originally have been Canaanites.

Considered to be the founding father of British cultural theory, Williams was concerned throughout his life to apply a materialist and socialist analysis to all forms of culture, defined generously and inclusively as "e;structures of feeling.

Germany and the Holy Roman Empire offers a striking new interpretation of a crucial era in German and European history, from the great reforms of 1495-1500 to the dissolution of the Reich in 1806.

The book is a collection of essays, which aim to situate African legal theory in the context of the myriad of contemporary global challenges; from the prevalence of war to the misery of poverty and disease to the crises of the environment.

Recent political changes in Central Asia, where the United States is replacing Russia as the dominant power, are having a profound effect on Russian speakers in the region.

This introduction to the staging of genders and sexualities across world theatre sets out a broad view of the subject by featuring plays and performance artists that shifted the conversation in their cultural, social, and historical moments.

This book is the first ever collection on diasporic screen production in New Zealand.

This book undertakes a concentrated study of the impact of degraded and low-quality imagery in contemporary cinema and real-world portrayals of violence.