Drawing on Foucault's later work on governmentality, this book traces the effects of 'the rise of risk' on contemporary…

This collection makes a compelling case for the importance of studying ceremony and ritual in deepening our understanding of…

With approaches ranging from semiotic theory to psychoanalytic theory, sociological theory to personal reflection, Berger…

This book examines the internet as a form of power in global politics. Focusing on the United States' internet foreign…

This book explores the representation of Hinduism through myth and discourse in urban Hindi theatre in the period 1880-1960.…

The Moral Responsibilities of Companies is a philosophical analysis of the question of whether companies can be held morally…

Presenting a critical overview of what 'emerging multipolarity' means for the world's foremost global trading bloc and…

Inverting the traditional focus of ethnic studies on blackness as the object of scrutiny, this book explores dominant forms…

This pioneering study on fan translation focuses on Italian fansubbing as a concept, a vibrant cultural and social…

A comprehensive, critical and accessible account of Theodor W. Adorno's materialist-dialectical aesthetic theory of art from…

This collection addresses the significant cultural phenomenon of the 'zombie renaissance' - the growing importance of zombie…

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Beckett and Philosophy examines and interrogates the relationships between Samuel Beckett's works and contemporary French…

This ground-breaking book explores the experiences of gay men and their understanding of what it meant to be gay in the 20th…

What has been the role played by principles, patterns and situations of conflict in the construction of Shakespeare's myth,…

Writing for educators and education leaders, Cunningham shows that combining a philosophy of pragmatism with thinking about…

Secrets and Democracy develops a new approach to understanding the centrality of secrecy to political life. From the ancient…

A conceptualization of the literary aesthetic for a concern for the Self.Bringing Gilles Deleuze and FĂ©lix Guattari's…

Now in paperback for the first time, the Handbook is an academic adaptation of information contained in the Global Report on…

Crossing the boundaries between 'continental' and 'analytic' philosophical approaches, this book proposes a naturalistic…

Constructing Coleridge examines Coleridge's penchant for re-invention and carefully demonstrates how the Coleridge family…

This book challenges the practice of exclusion by uncovering its roots in 19th century social and educational policy…

This book explores the widening gap between the wage packets of skilled and unskilled workers that has become a pressing…

With a communicative approach to the phenomenon of terrorism and new archival sources, the book documents Meinhof's…

What enables the few working-class people who enter higher education to achieve against the odds? This book offers answers…

What do refugee and concentration camps, prisons, terrorist and guerrilla training camps and prisoner of war camps have in…

This collection explores how new directions in feminist literary study might be informed by the work of the past. It offers…

Narcissism and Its Discontents challenges the received wisdom that narcissism is only destructive of good social relations.…

This volume brings together international scholars reflecting on the theory and practice of international security, human…

This book explores understandings and experiences of 'dirty work' - tasks or occupations that are seen as disgusting and…

This study is about new media, the crisis of democracy and political renewal. It asks: What is the political? How can we…

This book is about the new politics of leisure and pleasure - the values, practices, struggles and contradictions that now…

Chinese Discourse Studies presents an innovative and systematic approach to discourse and communication in contemporary…

The 2004 and 2007 enlargements pushed the EU's external border further east as well as closer to unstable areas in the…

Public space, both literally and figuratively, is foundationally important to political life. From Socratic lectures in the…

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a new generation took over the leading roles in Hollywood films. These…

Through a professional story-teller's sometimes humorous commentary on culture and literature from The Odyssey on , the book…

Written by an international group of writers on popular music, it is an essential book for those wishing to understand not…

Exploring the negative effects of populism, this study presents an original explanation of Greece's current political and…

This book presents a case study of shichigosan, an extremely popular childhood family ritual in contemporary Japan. Within…

This volume offers a wide-reaching exploration of foreign direct investment and developmental impacts through case studies…

We are currently in a period of rapid global change that is of profound importance, but the nature of which is difficult to…

Hollywood Remakes, Deleuze and the Grandfather Paradox explores the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze using the framework of…

War is always defined in relation to something else: peace, society, civilisation, friendship or love. What is the…

Poetry and Public Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America explores nineteenth-century poetry as it addresses and engages in…

Choose ten major contemporary diasporic writers (from Abdulrazak to Zadie), ask ten leading authorities to write about their…

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The themes and data generated by Poland's move away from Communism are crucial for discussing prospects for democratization…