Society & culture: general books

A collection of critical scholarship on early modern closet plays between 1560-1670 that were performed in private...  Read More >>

The experiences of two social generations of LGBTQ people in Australia as they navigate a period of unprecedented...  Read More >>

Draws on Confederate monuments as a preaching presence and site of contested speech to suggest localized strategies...  Read More >>

Analyses language and marginalised identities, as illustrated through a linguistic ethnography case study of young...  Read More >>

A comprehensive quantitative analysis of the integral roles of Christians and Jews in the modern Ottoman bureaucracy,...  Read More >>

How mobility and its impediment serve as frameworks for expressions of political dissent in cultural production...  Read More >>

When I navigate the currents of the soul, I find myself within my ancestral pool. I find myself swimming in their...  Read More >>

Covering literature, visual media and popular culture, this book explores how the Gothic is consistently used to...  Read More >>

This book investigates the relationship between the process of Europeanization – the expected rise of a common culture...  Read More >>

This collection offers close readings on Hammer’s cycle of horror films, analysing key films and placing particular...  Read More >>

This important volume provides an in-depth analysis of those risk communication strategies currently used to inform...  Read More >>

This book offers a common set of concepts to help make sense of online shaming practices, accounting for instances...  Read More >>

This book uniquely bridges the conceptual gap between the history of geographic, cartographic thought and film theory...  Read More >>

There is widespread rhetorical agreement that the fashion industry must get itself onto a more ethical and sustainable...  Read More >>

This book explores the relationship of the life and work of the remarkable Parisian-Jewish writer Georges Perec...  Read More >>

Cinema and Surveillance: The Asymmetric Gaze shows how key modern filmmakers challenge and disturb the relation...  Read More >>

This book introduces a comprehensive conceptual framework which examines the impact of ecological modernization...  Read More >>

Starting from the observation of the ubiquity of fan podcasts engaging in media commentary, this book explores three...  Read More >>

The authors of this volume ask how minorities have sought to belong, and trace how their sense of belonging has...  Read More >>

This book investigates the role of the internet and social media in political processes in non-western and non-democratic...  Read More >>

Focusing on high-end cuisine, this book examines the flows of culinary knowledge from culturally peripheral locations...  Read More >>

This book examines how narratives of communal conflicts in south India affect Muslims, women, and the lower castes,...  Read More >>

This book disrupts the dominant underlying international norms informing urban development strategies across African...  Read More >>

This text explores how social education impacts gender inequalities in rural Tamil Nadu where women’s lives are...  Read More >>

This book explores social citizenship through the lens of investigating local compulsory education policy targeting...  Read More >>