Cultural studies Books
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Birth of the Museum
Book SynopsisIn a series of richly detailed case studies from Britian, Australia and North America, Tony Bennett investigates how nineteenth- and twentieth-century museums, fairs and exhibitions have organized their collections, and their visitors.Discussing the historical development of museums alongside that of the fair and the international exhibition, Bennett sheds new light upon the relationship between modern forms of official and popular culture.Using Foucaltian perspectives The Birth of the Museum explores how the public museum should be understood not just as a place of instruction, but as a reformatory of manners in which a wide range of regulated social routines and performances take place.This invigorating study enriches and challenges the understanding of the museum, and places it at the centre of modern relations between culture and government. For students of museum, cultural and sociology studies, this will be an asset to tTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I History and Theory; Chapter 1 The Formation of the Museum; Chapter 2 The Exhibitionary Complex; Chapter 3 The Political Rationality of the Museum; Part II Policies and Politics; Chapter 4 Museums and ‘The People’; Chapter 5 Out of Which Past?; Chapter 6 Art And Theory; Part III Technologies of Progress; Chapter 7 Museums and Progress; Chapter 8 The Shaping of Things to Come Expo ’88; Chapter 9 A Thousand and One Troubles;
£36.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Complexity and Postmodernism
Book SynopsisIn Complexity and Postmodernism, Paul Cilliers explores the idea of complexity in the light of contemporary perspectives from philosophy and science. Cilliers offers us a unique approach to understanding complexity and computational theory by integrating postmodern theory (like that of Derrida and Lyotard) into his discussion. Complexity and Postmodernism is an exciting and an original book that should be read by anyone interested in gaining a fresh understanding of complexity, postmodernism and connectionism.Trade Review'Clearly, indeed beautifully written ... this is an important book with a substantial argument to make. It is full of good things.' - JASSSTable of ContentsPreface. Approaching Complexity Introducing Connectionism Post-Structuralism, Connectionism And Complexity John Searle Befuddles Problems With Representation Self-Orgainzation In Complex Systems Complexity And Postmodernism Afterword: Understanding Complexity Bibliography.
£37.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Bodies Exploring Fluid Boundaries Critical
Book SynopsisThis is one of the first books to introduce students to the key concepts and debates surrounding the relationship between bodily boundaries, abject materiality and spaces. The text includes original interview and focus group data informed by feminist theory on the body and uses case studies to illustrate the social construction of bodies. It will critically engage students in topical questions around sexuality, cultural differences and women''s sub-ordination to men.Table of Contents1 Bodily openings 2 ‘Corporeographies’ 3 Pregnant bodies in public places 4 Men’s bodies and bathrooms 5 Managing managerial bodies 6 Some thoughts on close(t) spaces
£49.99
Taylor & Francis Adaptations of Shakespeare An Anthology of Plays
Book SynopsisShakespeare's plays have been adapted or rewritten in various ways since the seventeenth century. This anthology brings together thirteen theatrical adaptations of Shakespeare's work from around the world and across the centuries.Trade Review'A wonderfully rich collection of plays ... an important new resource for students and scholars interested in Shakespeare's drama and its afterlives'. - Susan Bennett, University of CalgaryTable of ContentsIntroduction 1.The Women's Prize or the Tamer Tamed 2.The History of King Lear 3.King Stephen: a Fragment or a Tragedy 4.The Public (El Público) 5.The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui 6.uMabatha 7.Measure for Measure 8.Hamletmachine 9.Lear's Daughters 10.Desdemona: a Play about a Handkerchief 11.This Island's Mine 12.Harlem Duet Further adaptations
£39.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Social History of Art Volume 4
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1951 Arnold Hausers commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone Age through to the Film Age. Exploring the interaction between art and society, Hauser effectively details social and historical movements and sketches the frameworks in which visual art is produced.This new edition provides an excellent introduction to the work of Arnold Hauser. In his general introduction to The Social History of Art, Jonathan Harris asseses the importance of the work for contemporary art history and visual culture. In addition, an introduction to each volume provides a synopsis of Hausers narrative and serves as a critical guide to the text, identifying major themes, trends and arguments.Trade Review'Arnold Hausers Social History of Art - a very important and under-appreciated text.' - Whitney Davis, John Evans Professor of Art History, Northwestern University'It is no exaggeration to say that more than any other work Hauser's four volumes inspired my interest in art history.' - Alan Wallach, Ralph H Wark Professor of Art History, College of William and Mary'This work has great value in a contemporary context. I look forward to seeing what Jonathan has done with the introduction, but I cannot think of anyone better suited to the task.' - Johanna Drucker, Professor of Art History, Yale UniversityHausers extraordinary energy and subtlety wave a brilliant synthesis of the interaction between the aesthetic and societal, giving us at one and the same time a wealth of artistic detail and a consistent and fully elaborated exposition of the social process. - Albert Boime, UCLA, author of The Social History of Modern Art, 1750-1989Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction; Introduction to Volume IV; I: Naturalism and Impressionism; II: The Film Age
£42.80
Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Cinema and Nation
Book SynopsisIdeas of national identity, nationalism and transnationalism are now a central feature of contemporary film studies, as well as primary concerns for film-makers themselves. Embracing a range of national cinemas including Scotland, Poland, France, Turkey, Indonesia, India, Germany and America, Cinema and Nation considers the ways in which film production and reception are shaped by ideas of national belonging and examines the implications of globalisation for the concept of national cinema.In the first three Parts, contributors explore sociological approaches to nationalism, challenge the established definitions of 'national cinema', and consider the ways in which states - from the old Soviet Union to contemporary Scotland - aim to create a national culture through cinema. The final two Parts address the diverse strategies involved in the production of national cinema and consider how images of the nation are used and understood by audiences both at home and abroad.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Sociology of Nationalism 2. The Concept of National Cinema 3. Film Policy, Nationalism, and the State 4. The Production of National Images 5. The Reception of National Images
£999.99
Taylor & Francis Thinking Through the Skin
Book SynopsisThis exciting collection of work from leading feminist scholars including Elspeth Probyn, Penelope Deutscher and Chantal Nadeau engages with and extends the growing feminist literature on lived and imagined embodiment and argues for consideration of the skin as a site where bodies take form - already written upon but open to endless re-inscription.Individual chapters consider such issues as the significance of piercing, tattooing and tanning, the assault of self harm upon the skin, the relation between body painting and the land among the indigenous people of Australia and the cultural economy of fur in Canada. Pierced, mutilated and marked, mortified and glorified, scarred by disease and stretched and enveloping the skin of another in pregnancy, skin is seen here as both a boundary and a point of connection - the place where one touches and is touched by others; both the most private of experiences and the most public marker of a raced, sexed and national history.Table of ContentsList of plates, Notes on contributors, Series editors’ preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction: dermographies, PART I: Skin surfaces, 1. Cut in the body: from clitoridectomy to body art, 2. Mortification, 3. Skin memories, 4. Skin-tight: celebrity, pregnancy and subjectivity, PART II: Skin encounters, 5. Eating skin, 6. Open wounds, 7. Carved in skin: bearing witness to self-harm, 8. Three touches to the skin and one look: Sartre and Beauvoir on desire and embodiment, 9. ‘You are there, like my skin’: reconfiguring relational economies, PART III: Skin sites, 10. Inscribing identity: skin as country in the Central Desert, 11. ‘My furladies’: the fabric of a nation, 12. ‘That is my Star of David’: skin, abjection and hybridity, 13. Robotic skin: the future of touch?, Index
£47.49
Taylor & Francis Ltd An Anthropology of Indirect Communication ASA
Book SynopsisSometimes we convey what we mean not by what we say but by what we do. This type of indirect communication is sometimes called ''indirection''. From patent miscommunication, through potent ambiguity to pregnant silence this incisive collection examines from a rare anthropological perspective the many aspects of indirect communication. From a Mormon Theme Park to carnival time on Montserrat the contributors analyse indirection by illustrating how food, silence, sunglasses, martial arts and rudeness call constitute powerful ways of conveying meaning. An Anthropology of Indirect Communication is an engaging text which provides a challenging introduction to this subject.
£37.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Julia Kristeva Essential Guides for Literary
Book SynopsisOne of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century, Julia Kristeva has been driving forward the fields of literary and cultural studies since the 1960s. This volume is an accessible, introductory guide to the main themes of Kristeva's work, including her ideas on:*semiotics and symbolism*abjection*melancholia*feminism*revolt.McAfee provides clear explanations of the more difficult aspects of Kristeva's theories, helpfully placing her ideas in the relevant theoretical context, be it literary theory, psychoanalysis, linguistics, gender studies or philosophy, and demonstrates the impact of her critical interventions in these areas.Julia Kristeva is the essential guide for readers who are approaching the work of this challenging thinker for the first time, and provides the ideal opportunity for those with more knowledge to re-familiarise themselves with Kristeva's key terms.Trade Review'These little books are certainly helpful study guides. They are clear, concise and complete. They are ideal for undergraduates studying for exams or writing essays and for lifelong learners wanting to expand their knowledge of a given author or idea.' - Beth Lord, Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsWhy Kristeva?; Part 1 Key Ideas; Chapter 1 Semiotic And Symbolic; Chapter 2 The Subject In Process; Chapter 3 Abjection; Chapter 4 Melancholia; Chapter 5 Herethics; Chapter 6 Women’s Time; Chapter 7 Revolt; Chapter 9 After Kristeva; further Further Reading; wor Works Cited; Index;
£24.32
Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) The Postcolonial Exotic Marketing the Margins
Book SynopsisGraham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is given to postcolonial works within their cultural field using both literary-critical and sociological methods of analysis.Table of ContentsPreface, Introduction: writing at the margins: postcolonialism, exoticism and the politics of cultural value, 1. African literature and the anthropological exotic, 2. Consuming India, 3. Staged marginalities: Rushdie, Naipaul, Kureishi, 4. Prizing otherness: a short history of the Booker, 5. Exoticism, ethnicity and the multicultural fallacy, 6. Ethnic autobiography and the cult of authenticity, 7. Transformations of the tourist gaze: Asia in recent Canadian and Australian fiction, 8. Margaret Atwood, Inc., or, some thoughts on literary celebrity, Conclusion: thinking at the margins: postcolonial studies at the millennium, Notes, Bibliography, Index
£44.78
Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Now You See It
Book SynopsisNow You See It, Richard Dyer's groundbreaking study of films by and about lesbians and gay men, has been revised for a second edition, and features an introduction by Juliane Pidduck outlining developments in lesbian and gay cinema since 1990. Now You See It examines familiar titles such as Girls in Uniform, Un Chant D'Amour, and Word Is Out, in their lesbian/gay context as well as bringing to light many other forgotten but remarkable films. Each film is examined in detail in relation to both film type and tradition and the sexual subculture in which it was made.Table of ContentsIntroduction to the first edition; Introduction to the second edition; 1: Sweden 1916; 2: Weimar; 3: Shades of genet; 4: Underground and after; 5: Lesbian/Woman; 6: From and for the movement; 7: After 1980
£36.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Greek Culture and the Ego A psychoanalytic survey of an aspect of Greek civilization and of art International Behavioural and Social Sciences Classics from the Tavistock Press 97
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£210.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd Sexuality
Book SynopsisTheories of sexuality and desire are commonly used in literary and cultural studies. In this illuminating study Joseph Bristow introduces readers to the fundamental critical debates surrounding the topic. This fully updated second edition includes: a historical account of sexuality from the Victorians to the present discussions of the most influential theorists including Freud, Lacan, Bataille, Baudrillard, Cixous, Deleuze, Irigaray and Kristeva a new and extended discussion of queer and transgender theory, race, ethnicity and desire a new preface summarising changes in the field since the first edition a new glossary, annotated further reading section and bibliography. Considering all of the major movements in the field, this new edition is the ideal guide for students of literary and cultural studies.Table of ContentsPreface to Second Edition Preface and Acknowledgements to the First Edition Introduction 1. Sexological Types Sexual Classifications Feminist Contentions Consuming Passions 2. Psychoanalytical Drives Freud’s Complexes Lacan’s Orders Feminist Interventions 3. Libidinal Economies (De)generating Pleasures Pornographic Materials 4. Discursive Desires Foucault’s Bodies Foucault’s Exclusions Foucault’s Followers 5. Diverse Eroticisms Queer (Non)Identities Global Sexualities Glossary Further Reading Bibliography Index Further Reading Works Cited
£22.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe A Functional
Book SynopsisHunger and Work in a Savage Tribe examines the cultural aspects of food and eating among the Southern Bantu, taking as its starting point the bold statement ''nutrition as a biological process is more fundamental than sex''. When it was first published in 1932, with a preface by Malinowski, it laid the groundwork for sociological theory of nutrition. Richards was also among the first anthropologists to establish women''s lives and the social sphere as legitimate subjects for anthropological study.Table of ContentsChapter 1 History of the Problem; Chapter 2 Human Relationships and Nutritive Needs; Chapter 3 Food and Family Sentiment in Bantu Society; Chapter 4 Food Production and Incentives to Work; Chapter 5 Kinship Sentiment and Economic Organization; Chapter 6 Economic Functions of the Clan and Tribe; Chapter 7 Food as a Symbol;
£52.70
Taylor & Francis Ltd Performativity
Book SynopsisDo our writings and our utterances reflect or describe our world, or do they intervene in it? Do they, perhaps, help to make it? If so, how? Within what limits, and with what implications? Contemporary theorists have considered the ways in which the languages we speak might be performative' in just this way, and their thinking on the topic has had an important impact on a broad range of academic disciplines.In this accessible introduction to a sometimes complex field, James Loxley: offers a concise and original account of critical debates around the idea of performativity traces the history of the concept through the work of such influential theorists as J. L. Austin, John Searle, Stanley Fish, Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man and Judith Butler examines the implications of performativity for fields such as literary and cultural theory, philosophy, performance studies, and the theory of gender and sexuality. emphasises the political and etTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. From the Performative to the Speech Act: J.L. Austin 2. Philosophy and Ordinary Language: Austin and Cavell 3. A General Theory of Speech Acts: Searle 4. Speech Acts, Fiction and Deconstruction: Searle, Fish and Derrida 5. Performativity, Iterability and Politics: Derrida and De Man 6. Being Performative: Butler 7. Performativity and Performance Theory
£24.32
Taylor & Francis Ltd Third Text 211
Book SynopsisThird Text is an international scholarly journal dedicated to providing critical perspectives on art and visual culture. Third Text addresses the complex cultural realities that emerge when different worldviews meet, and the challenge this poses to Eurocentrism and ethnocentric aesthetic criteria.Table of ContentsNotes on the Internet as a Weapon of the Multitude, Notes from the Beirut Siege, Repetition and Return: The Spectator’s Memory in Abbas Kiarostami’s, Koker Trilogy, Obscene Jouissance: The Visual Poetics of Labour Exploitation, Challenging the Canon: Socialist Realism in Traditional Chinese Painting Revisited, In Conversation, Historiographies of Laughter: Poetics of Deformation in Palestinian Political Cartoon, Listening to Trauma in the Art of Everlyn Nicodemus Reviews, 2006: Yawning Cultural Gaps in Fusing Landscapes, What We Talk About When We Talk, About a Biennale in Singapore, Seeing Up and Down
£46.54
Taylor & Francis Jean Baudrillard
Book SynopsisJean Baudrillard is one of the most controversial theorists of our time, famous for his claim that the Gulf War never happened and for his provocative writing on terrorism, specifically 9/11. This new and fully updated second edition includes: an introduction to Baudrillardâs key works and theories such as simulation and hyperreality coverage of Baudrillardâs later work on the question of postmodernism a new chapter on Baudrillard and terrorism engagement with architecture and urbanism through the Utopie group a look at the most recent applications of Baudrillardâs ideas. Richard J. Lane offers a comprehensive introduction to this complex and fascinating theorist, also examining the impact that Baudrillard has had on literary studies, media and cultural studies, sociology, philosophy and postmodernism.Table of ContentsWhy Baudrillard? Key Ideas 1. Beginnings: French Thought in the 1960's. 2. The Technological System of Objects. 3. Narrative of Primitivism: The `Last Real Book.' 4. Reworking Marxism. 5. Simulation and the Hyperreal. 6. America and Postmodernism. 7. Writing Strategies: Postmodern Performance. 8. Baudrillard and Terrorism. After Baudrillard Works Cited
£24.32
Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Ecocriticism
Book SynopsisEcocriticism: The Essential Reader charts the growth of this important field. The first-wave ecocriticism section focuses on key readings from the 1960s to the 1990s. The second-wave ecocriticism section goes on to consider a range of exciting contemporary trends, including environmental justice, aesthetics and philosophy, and globalization.Readings include the work of: Raymond Williams Jonathan Bate Timothy Morton Ursula Heise Lawrence Buell Kate Soper Cary Wolfe and Kate Rigby. Containing seminal, representative, and contemporary work in the field, this volume and the editorial commentary is designed for use on both undergraduate and postgraduate ecocritical literature courses.Table of ContentsPart 1: First-Wave Ecocriticism 1. Shakespeare’s American Fable, Leo Marx 2. Nature As Female, Carolyn Merchant 3. Country and City, Raymond Williams 4. The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis, Lynn White Jr. 5. The Deep Ecological Movement: Some Philosophical Aspects, Arne Naess 6. Introduction: Ecology and Man—A Viewpoint, Paul Shepard 7. The Etiquette of Freedom, Gary Snyder 8. The Economy of Nature, Jonathan Bate 9. Representing the Environment, Lawrence Buell 10. The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature, William Cronon 11. Introduction: Literary Studies in an Age of Environmental Crisis, Cheryll Glotfelty Part 2: Second-Wave Ecocriticism 12. The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics & Pedagogy, Joni Adamson, Mei Mei E.vans, and Rachel Stein 13. Introduction: Emerging Models of Materiality in Feminist Theory, Stacy Alaimo 14. Race, Class, and the Politics of Place, Robert D. Bullard 15. Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire, Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands 16. The Hitchhiker's Guide to Ecocriticism, Ursula K. Heise 17. Introduction, Graham Huggan 18. Environmentalism and Postcolonialism, Rob Nixon 19. Natural Universal and the Global Scale, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 20. Conclusion: What Is to Be Done? Political Ecology!, Bruno Latour 21. Imagining Ecology Without Nature, Timothy Morton 22. The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture and Literature in America, Dana Phillips 23. What is Nature? Culture, Politics and the non-Human, Kate Soper 24. Ecopolitics/ Ecocriticism, Gabriel Egan 25. Reading The Otherworld Environmentally, Alfred Siewers 26. Introduction: Troping the Tropics and Aestheticizing Labor, Beth Tobin 27. Ecology, Epistemology, and Empiricism, Robert N. Watson 28. The Climate of History: Four Theses, Dipesh Chakrabarty 29. The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, Ursula LeGuin 30. Writing After Nature, Kate Rigby
£999.99
Taylor & Francis A Theory of Adaptation
Book SynopsisA Theory of Adaptation explores the continuous development of creative adaptation, and argues that the practice of adapting is central to the story-telling imagination. Linda Hutcheon develops a theory of adaptation through a range of media, from film and opera, to video games, pop music and theme parks, analysing the breadth, scope and creative possibilities within each.This new edition is supplemented by a new preface from the author, discussing both new adaptive forms/platforms and recent critical developments in the study of adaptation. It also features an illuminating new epilogue from Siobhan OâFlynn, focusing on adaptation in the context of digital media. She considers the impact of transmedia practices and properties on the form and practice of adaptation, as well as studying the extension of game narrative across media platforms, fan-based adaptation (from Twitter and Facebook to home movies), and the adaptation of books to digital formats.A TheorTrade ReviewThe reviewers were asked if advances in digital media should be covered, and all agreed that they should. Opinions of the current edition are as follows. 'Hutcheon’s book is intelligent and accessible, two features that, unfortunately, rarely come together in academic writing.' - Professor Stephannie Gearhart, Bowling Green State University, US 'Overall I think the book offers an excellent look at the tremendously broad sweep of adaption as it encompasses myriad media.' - Professor David Marshall, California State University San Bernardino, US 'Hutcheon is a terrific theorist and students respond well to the assertive, agenda-shaping approach of this textbook.' - Professor Julie Sanders, University of Nottingham, UK 'The book offers a strong introduction to the study of adaptations.' - Dr David Watson, Uppsala University, Sweden 'The book is good – very solid.' - Dr Joyce Goggin, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Table of ContentsPreface to the 1st Edition Preface to the Revised Edition Chapter 1 Beginning to Theorize Adaptation Chapter 2 What? (Forms) Chapter 3 Who? Why? (Adapters) Chapter 4 How? (Audiences) Chapter 5 Where? When? (Contexts) Chapter 6 Final Questions Epilogue by Siobhan O’Flynn
£45.59
Taylor & Francis Introduction to Communication Studies
Book SynopsisThis revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining Why Fiske Still Matters' for today's students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Ron Becker, Elana Levine, Darrell Newton and Pamela Wilson on the theme of Structuralism and Semiotics, Fiske-Style'. Both underline the continuing relevance of this foundational text in communication studies.How can we study communication? What are the main theories and methods of approach?This classic text provides a lucid, accessible introduction to the main authorities in the field of communication studies, aimed at students coming to the subject for the first time. It outlines a range of methods of analysing examples of communication, and describes the theories underpinning them. Thus armed, the reader will be able to tease out the latent cultural meanings in such apparently simple communications as news photos or popular TV programmes, and tTrade Review"Shows a welcome ability to provide lucid and balanced summaries of a complex and diverse field."British Book NewsTable of Contents@contents: Selected Contents: List of plates Acknowledgements Why Fiske Still Matters Henry Jenkins Structuralism and Semiotics, Fiske-Style Ron Becker, Elana Levine, Darrell Newton and Pamela Wilson Notes on Contributors General Editor’s Preface Author’s note INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS COMMUNICATION? Chapter 1 COMMUNICATION THEORY Chapter 2 OTHER MODELS Chapter 3 COMMUNICATION, MEANING, AND SIGNS Chapter 4 CODES Chapter 5 SIGNIFICATION Chapter 6 SEMIOTIC METHODS AND APPLICATIONS Chapter 7 STRUCTURALIST THEORY AND APPLICATIONS Chapter 8 EMPIRICAL METHODS Chapter 9 IDEOLOGY AND MEANINGS CONCLUSION References Bibliography Further reading Books recommended for additional reading Index
£82.64
Taylor & Francis Ltd Introduction to Communication Studies
Book SynopsisThis revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining Why Fiske Still Matters' for today's students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Ron Becker, Elana Levine, Darrell Newton and Pamela Wilson on the theme of Structuralism and Semiotics, Fiske-Style'. Both underline the continuing relevance of this foundational text in communication studies.How can we study communication? What are the main theories and methods of approach?This classic text provides a lucid, accessible introduction to the main authorities in the field of communication studies, aimed at students coming to the subject for the first time. It outlines a range of methods of analysing examples of communication, and describes the theories underpinning them. Thus armed, the reader will be able to tease out the latent cultural meanings in such apparently simple communications as news photos or popular TV programmes, and tTrade Review"Shows a welcome ability to provide lucid and balanced summaries of a complex and diverse field."British Book NewsTable of Contents@contents: Selected Contents: List of plates Acknowledgements Why Fiske Still Matters Henry Jenkins Structuralism and Semiotics, Fiske-Style Ron Becker, Elana Levine, Darrell Newton and Pamela Wilson Notes on Contributors General Editor’s Preface Author’s note INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS COMMUNICATION? Chapter 1 COMMUNICATION THEORY Chapter 2 OTHER MODELS Chapter 3 COMMUNICATION, MEANING, AND SIGNS Chapter 4 CODES Chapter 5 SIGNIFICATION Chapter 6 SEMIOTIC METHODS AND APPLICATIONS Chapter 7 STRUCTURALIST THEORY AND APPLICATIONS Chapter 8 EMPIRICAL METHODS Chapter 9 IDEOLOGY AND MEANINGS CONCLUSION References Bibliography Further reading Books recommended for additional reading Index
£24.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Critical Theory The Key Concepts Routledge Key
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction KEY CONCEPTS A-Z Bibliography Index
£29.99
Taylor & Francis The Routledge Guidebook to Gramscis Prison
Book SynopsisGramsciâs Prison Notebooks are one of the most important and original sources of modern political philosophy but the Prison Notebooks present great difficulties to the reader. Not originally intended for publication, their fragmentary character and their often cryptic language can mystify readers, leading to misinterpretation of the text. The Routledge Guidebook to Gramsciâs Prison Notebooks provides readers with the historical background, textual analysis and other relevant information needed for a greater understanding and appreciation of this classic text. This guidebook: Explains the arguments presented by Gramsci in a clear and straightforward way, analysing the key concepts of the notebooks. Situates Gramsciâs ideas in the context of his own time, and in the history of political thought demonstrating the innovation and originality of the Prison Notebooks. Provides critique and analysis of Gramsciâs conceptualisation of politics and histoTrade Review"Schwarzmantel (Univ. of Leeds, UK) explains more fully the place of the 1971 Selections in the notebooks as a whole, relates them to the historical and political context in which they were written, and examines their influence on later thinkers and political developments. Schwarzmantel's explanation of Gramsci's main concepts and arguments, their relation to the controversies within the revolutionary movement of his day, and the ways in which they have been carried forward to the present are all excellent. Some critiques (e.g., that today's parties cannot play the role of the modern prince seem shallow), but overall, the book will be of great use to anyone interested in Gramsci and his thought." - J. C. Berg, CHOICE, Feb 2016 "This Guidebook will definitely become a most useful resource for Gramscian studies. John Schwarzmantel has achieved his aims, as formulated in his book's Preface, as the Guidebook 'introduces readers to Gramsci's highly original and exciting reflections on politics, history, philosophy and culture, which can help us make sense of our present epoch, different though it is in crucial aspects from the era in which Gramsci wrote his notes in the cell of a fascist prison'." Marx & Philosophy, Jan 2016 Table of Contents1. Gramsci before the Prison Notebooks 2. Nature and structure of the Prison Notebooks 3. Intellectuals and Education 4. History and Modernity 5. Politics, State, and Civil Society 6. Philosophy and Marxism 7. The afterlife and influence of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks
£24.69
Taylor & Francis Childrens Literature and the Posthuman
Book SynopsisAn investigation of identity formation in children's literature, this book brings together childrenâs literature and recent critical concerns with posthuman identity to argue that childrenâs fiction offers sophisticated interventions into debates about what it means to be human, and in particular about humanityâs relationship to animals and the natural world. In complicating questions of human identity, ecology, gender, and technology, Jaques engages with a multifaceted posthumanism to understand how philosophy can emerge from children's fantasy, disclosing how such fantasy can build upon earlier traditions to represent complex issues of humanness to younger audiences. Interrogating the place of the human through the non-human (whether animal or mechanical) leads this book to have interpretations that radically depart from the critical tradition, which, in its concerns with the socialization and representation of the child, has ignored larger epistemologies of humanness. The book coTrade Review"Jaques uncovers the posthuman nature of characters and types that we recognize from children’s literature: talking animals and plants, and the uncanny half-life of toys and robots are discussed through the lens of philosophers like Donna Haraway and Jacques Derrida... Jaques’s study successfully makes some interesting connections and convincingly argues for children’s literature, a place where non-traditional subjectivities are often explored, as an exciting arena for posthumanist studies."- Forum for Modern Language Studies"Children’s Literature and the Posthuman is an expansive, intelligent and frequently quite delightful trek through the history of children’s literature in order to uncover the myriad ways in which children’s books have imaginatively sought to engage with philosophical debates about what it means to be human. Unlike other critical applications of posthumanism to children’s literature, which have tended to concentrate on the impact of technology on human subjectivity and have thus focused primarily on the genre of science-fiction (a category into which my own recently published monograph, Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction: The Posthuman Subject, which was published in 2014, falls), Jaques’ monograph offers its readers a much broader and more exploratory argument about the origins of posthumanism in children’s books and films."- Victoria Flanagan, Macquarie UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Child, the Book and the Posthuman Ethic Part I: Animal 1. Creature 2. Pet Part II: Environment 3. Tree 4. Water Part III: Cyborg 5. Robot 6. Toy Conclusion: A Question: Who are you?
£137.75
Taylor & Francis Representing African Music Postcolonial Notes
Book SynopsisOffers a critique of discourse about African music. This work offers a look at the history of African music scholarship. It offers an alternative "Afro-centric" means of understanding African music, and in doing so, describes a different mode of creativity beyond the usual provenance of Western criticism.Trade Review"presents a new way to think about African music. . . . obligatory reading." -- Grant Olwage, South AfricanJournal of Musicology "few books in recent years have pursued a more ambitious agenda. . .without any doubt the most powerful theoretical intervention in African musicology in a decade or more. . . by a long stretch, one of the most edgy and stylish pieces of writing on the politics of culture in postcolonial Africa to have appeared of late." -- Veit Erlmann, Music Theory Spectrum"strikingly original.. upset[s] applecarts of convention and dispassionate prose. . . engag[es] readers in thorough, lively, critical debate about African music and Africanist musical scholarship. . .will be required reading for students of ethnomusicology, music theory, and historical musicology for some time." -- Gabriel Solis, Notes"At times frankly informative, at times darkly ironic, and at times passionately earnest, Representing African Music reads like a resource text, satire, and manifesto all at once...[offers a] trenchant critique of otherwise neutral-seeming representations of African music.. makes many daring statements and reaches a series of alarming conclusions...Those in search of a genuinely global musical discourse...could do much worse than begin their quest by reading Agawu's Representing African Music. His is the unmistakable voice of authentic hope." -- Martin Scherzinger, Current Musicology"unfailingly intelligent, well informed, and closely argued . . .lucidly and elegantly written. . .stimulating and provocative. . provides an African outlook on controversies that have been primarily covered by scholars in Europe and the United States. . .filled with incisive observations." -- Richard M. Shain, International Journal of African Historical Studies"This is a strikingly original book, promising to shed new light both on music from across the African continent, and on the history of Africanist musical discourse. Upsetting apple carts of convention and dispassionate prose, this book, while sure to elicit controversy from virtually all corners of contemporary American musical scholarship, should be required reading not only for African music theorists, and historical musicologist with an interest in the politics of representation.Kofi Agawu's Representing African Music does an excellent jobof engaging readers in a thorough, lively, criticaldebate about African music and Africanist musicalscholarship." -- Gabriel Solis, University ofIllinois,Urbana-Champaign,NotesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Colonialism's Impact 2. The Archive 3. The Invention of African Rhythm 4. Polymeter, Additive Rhythm, and Other Enduring Myths 5. African Music as Text 6. Popular Music Defended Against its Devotees 7. Contesting Difference 8. How Not to Analyze African Music 9. The Ethics of Representation Epilogue References
£45.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Beyond Bollywood
Book SynopsisBeyond Bollywood is the first comprehensive look at the emergence, development, and significance of contemporary South Asian diasporic cinema. From a feminist and queer perspective, Jigna Desai explores the hybrid cinema of the Brown Atlantic through a close look at films in English from and about South Asian diasporas in the United States, Canada, and Britain, including such popular films as My Beautiful Laundrette, Fire, Monsoon Wedding, and Bend it Like Beckham.Table of ContentsPreface: Brown Skin and Silver Screens 1: South Asian Diasporas and Transnational Cultural Studies 2: Between Hollywood and Bollywood 3: Home on the Range: Diaspora and Postcoloniality in Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala 4: Reel a State: Reimagining Diaspora, Homeland, and Nation-state in Srinivas Krishna's Masala 5: Homesickness and Motion Sickness: Embodied Migratory Subjectives in Gurinder Chadha's Bhaji on the Beach 6: Homo on the Range: Queering Postcoloniality and Globalization in Deepa Mehta's Fire 7: Sex in the Global City: The Sexual and Gender Politics of the New Urban, Transnational, and Cosmopolitan Indian Cinema in English 8: Conclusion: Migrant Brides, Feminist Films, and Transnational Desires Endnotes Bibliography Filmography
£43.79
Basic Books Killing Monsters
Book SynopsisFrom a veteran creator of children's entertainment, an insider's view of how even the most violent games and TV shows can help children conquer fears and develop a bold sense of self.
£999.99
University of California Press Images and Empires Visuality in Colonial and
Book SynopsisConsiders the meaning and power of images in African history and culture. This title assembles a range of collection of essays dealing with specific visual forms, including monuments, cinema, cartoons, domestic and professional photography, body art, world fairs, and museum exhibits.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: An Amazing Distance: Pictures and People in Africa Paul Landau 1. "Our Mosquitoes Are Not So Big": Images and Modernity in Zimbabwe Timothy Burke 2. The Sleep of the Brave: Graves as Sites and Signs in the Colonial Eastern Cape David Bunn 3. Tintin and the Interruptions of Congolese Comics Nancy Rose Hunt 4. Cartooning Nigerian Anticolonial Nationalism Tejumola Olaniyan 5. Empires of the Visual: Photography and Colonial Administration in Africa Paul Landau 6. Portraits of Modernity: Fashioning Selves in Dakarois Popular Photography Hudita Nura Mustafa 7. Mami Wata and Santa Marta: Imag(in)ing Selves and Others in Africa and the Americas Henry John Drewal 8. "Captured on Film": Bushmen and the Claptrap of Performative Primitives Robert Gordon 9. Decentering the Gaze at French Colonial Exhibitions Catherine Hodeir 10. The Politics of Bushman Representations Pippa Skotnes 11. Omada Art at the Crossroads of Colonialisms Paula Ben-Amos Girshick 12. Bad Copies: The Colonial Aesthetic and the Manjaco-Portuguese Encounter Eric Gable Conclusion: Signifying Power in Africa Deborah D. Kaspin Bibliography List of Contributors Index
£999.99
University of California Press The Peyote Effect From the Inquisition to the War
Book SynopsisTrade Review“An eminently readable history of indigeneity and whiteness through the lens of a drug. . . . Provides a rich history of the interplay between hallucinogens and the politics of identity.” * CHOICE *“Dawson’s book departs from traditional peyote literature through outstanding coverage of the non-Indian organizations.” -- Benjamin R. Kracht * Reading Religion *"Deeply researched and conceptually rich, The Peyote Effect makes an important contribution to the history of drugs, history of race, history of medicine, Native American and Indigenous studies, borderlands history, and the history of the U.S. and Mexico." * Western Historical Quarterly *"Alexander Dawson has produced a stellar piece ofcomparative scholarship on the history of peyote and its uses in both Mexico and the United States." * Hispanic American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction1833: The Cholera Epidemic Chapter One1887: Dr. John Briggs Eats Some Peyote Chapter Two1899: The Instituto Médico Nacional Chapter Three1909: Poison Chapter Four1917: The Ban Chapter Five1918: The Native American Church Chapter Six1937: The Goshute Letter Chapter Seven1957: The Holy Thursday Experiment Chapter Eight1958: Alfonso Fabila Visits the Sierra Huichola Chapter Nine1964: Bona Fide Chapter Ten1971: Peyote Outlawed in Mexico Chapter Eleven1972: The Exemption Chapter Twelve2011: Tom Pinkson ConclusionRace, Space, Time Notes Bibliography
£60.00
University of California Press American Nightmares Social Problems in an Anxious World
Book SynopsisIn an accessible and droll style, best-selling author Joel Best shines a light on how we navigate these anxious, insecure social times. While most of us still strive for the American Dream-to graduate from college, own a home, work toward early retirement-recent generations have been told that the next generation will not be able to achieve these goals, that things are getting-or are on the verge of getting-worse. In American Nightmares, Best addresses the apprehension that we face every day as we are bombarded with threats that the social institutions we count on are imperiled. Our schools are failing to teach our kids. Healthcare may soon be harder to obtain. We can't bank on our retirement plans. And our homes-still the largest chunk of most people's net worth-may lose much of their value. Our very way of life is being threatened! Or is it? With a steady voice and keen focus, Best examines how a culture develops fears and fantasies and how these visions are created and recreated in every generation. By dismantling current ideas about the future, collective memory, and sociology's marginalization in the public square, Best sheds light on how social problems-and our anxiety about them-are socially constructed.Trade Review"Both professional sociologists and undergraduate students will find part of this small collection thought provoking." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments PART ONE. CONTEMPORARY CONCERNS 1. Popular Hazards; or, How We Insist Similar Social Problems Are Different 2. American Nightmares; or, Why Sociologists Hate the American Dream Written with David Schweingruber PART TWO. CONSTRUCTING FUTURE PROBLEMS 3. Evaluating Predictions; or, How to Compare the Maya Calendar, Social Security, and Climate Change 4. Future Talk; or, How Slippery Slopes Shape Concern PART THREE. LOOKING BACKWARD AND BEYOND SOCIOLOGY 5. Memories as Problems; or, How to Reconsider Confederate Flags and Other Symbols of the Past Written with Lawrence T. Nichols 6. Economicization; or, Why Economists Get More Respect Than Sociologists Afterword: The Future of American Nightmares References Index
£67.45
Cambridge University Press Cambridge in the Age of the Enlightenment
Book SynopsisThis book attempts to defend the use of the term 'English Enlightenment' by using late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Cambridge as an illustration of the widespread diffusion of some of the chief characteristics of the Enlightenment within the Church of England and the English 'Establishment' more generally.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. The 'Holy Alliance' in Gestation, 1660–88: 1. Restoration, religion and reaction; 2. Cambridge and the latitude-men; 3. Restoration Cambridge and the 'new philosophy'; Part II. The 'Holy Alliance' Proclaimed, 1689–1768: 4. The creation and consolidation of whig Cambridge; 5. The clash of creeds; 6. Newtonian natural philosophy established; Part III. The 'Holy Alliance' Questioned, 1769–1800: 7. The eclipse of whig Cambridge; 8. The revival of revealed theology; 9. Mathematics ascendant; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.
£35.14
Cambridge University Press Social Lives of Medicines 10 Cambridge Studies in
Book SynopsisMedicines are the core of treatment in biomedicine, as in many other medical traditions. As material things, they have social as well as pharmacological lives, with people and between people. They are tokens of healing and hope, as well as valuable commodities. Each chapter of this book shows drugs in the hands of particular actors: mothers in Manila, villagers in Burkina Faso, women in the Netherlands, consumers in London, market traders in Cameroon, pharmacists in Mexico, injectionists in Uganda, doctors in Sri Lanka, industrialists in India, and policymakers in Geneva. Each example is used to explore a different problem in the study of medicines, such as social efficacy, experiences of control, skepticism and cultural politics, commodification of health, the attraction of technology and the marketing of images and values. The book shows how anthropologists deal with the sociality of medicines, through their ethnography, their theorizing, and their uses of knowledge.Trade Review'… [this] recent volume in the Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology series [is an] important contribution to the study of medicines, not only for medical anthropologists, but for anybody who wants to understand what medicines do and how they do what they do … This book does a good job of presenting some of the research that has been done, and makes a persuasive plea for more anthropological and public health attention to this area.' Journal of Biosocial Science'It is difficult to do justice to a book that is full of so many different ethnographic studies and details. The plethora of ethnographic material is the book's big strength.' Journal of Social AnthropologyTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction: 1. An anthropology of materia medica; Part II. The Consumers: 2. Mothers and children: the efficacies of drugs; 3. Villagers and local remedies: the symbolic nature of medicines; 4. Women in distress: medicines for control; 5. Sceptical consumers: doubts about medicines; Part III. The Providers: 6. Drug vendors and their market: the commodification of health; 7. Pharmacists as doctors: bridging the sectors of health care; 8. Injectionists: the attraction of technology; 9. Prescribing physicians: medicines as communication; Part IV. The Strategists: 10. Manufacturers: scientific claims, commercial aims; 11. Health planners: making and contesting drug policy; Part V. Conclusion: 12. Anthropologists and the sociality of medicines.
£29.69
Cambridge University Press A Concise History of Wales Cambridge Concise Histories
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£80.75
Cambridge University Press Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England Ideas in Context Series Number 72
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£81.00
Cambridge University Press Discovering Levinas
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£73.15
Harvard University Press The Consent of the Governed
Book SynopsisWhat made the United States what it is began long before a shot was fired at a redcoat in Lexington, Massachusetts in 1775. The theories of reading developed by John Locke were the means by which a revolutionary attitude toward authority was disseminated throughout the British colonies in North America.Trade ReviewAccording to Brown, Locke furnishes American culture with a key political and psychological innovation: the understanding of the provisional state of childhood as simultaneously a social institution and a paradigm of freedom. Locke's entitlement of childhood with rights and desires is a critical element in the formation of the liberal state. Brown convincingly demonstrates that the story of the consenting child (whose desires constantly play off constraints to those desires) is 'the original story of the American republic.' The Consent of the Governed offers a penetrating and often dazzling account of the 'liberal paradox of freedom and determinism' as it is engaged by early American literature and pedagogy. -- Jay Fliegelman, author of Declaring IndependenceWhen all the talk is of the manipulation of the governed, it is particularly useful to understand just how the information revolution was waged in the cause of informing consent. Gillian Brown's erudite and elegantly argued new book recovers the viability of that cause and proposes a historically sophisticated and nuanced vision of the liberal polity, in the eighteenth century and today. -- Myra Jehlen, author of American IncarnationMoving from the political and education philosophy of John Locke through the education of the newly discovered 'child' in eighteenth-century and early national America to the equally newly emergent American woman as described in novels, this superb book tells a fascinating story about the insertion of the consenting person into the American political psyche. This is a work that should be read by political theorists, cultural and literary historians, and cultural critics who are willing to have their conventional views challenged. -- Gordon Schochet, author of The Authoritarian Family and Political Attitudes in 17th-Century EnglandTable of ContentsI. The Lockean Legacy Introduction: The Informed Consent of the Governed 1. The Child's Consent, the Child's Task 2. The Liberal Lessons of the New England Primer 3. Fables and the Forming of Americans 4. Paine's Vindication of the Rights of Children II. Consent and the Early American Novel Introduction: The Feminization of Consent 5. Coquetry and Its Consequences 6. The Quixotic Fallacy Epilogue Notes Acknowledgments Index
£999.99
Harvard University Press Being There Learning to Live CrossCulturally
Book SynopsisAs they immerse themselves in foreign cultures, trained anthropologists find that accepting difference is one thing, experiencing it is quite another. In tales that entertain and illuminate, these writers show how the moral and intellectual challenges of living cross-culturally revealed to them the limits of their perception and understanding.Trade ReviewAll preparing for extended stays in a culture foreign to them, whether for research or other purposes, can read the collection with profit. -- R. Berleant-Schiller * Choice *
£20.21
Harvard University Press Being Property Once Myself
Book SynopsisThroughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons. Joshua Bennett explores the place of animality in works by Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward, and other black writers, delving into the literary imagination and ethical concerns that emerge from being viewed as a subgenre of the human.Trade ReviewThis trenchant work of literary criticism examines the complex ways 20th- and 21st-century African American authors have written about animals. In Bennett’s analysis, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward, and others subvert the racist comparisons that have ‘been used against them as a tool of derision and denigration.’…An intense and illuminating reevaluation of black literature and Western thought. -- Ron Charles * Washington Post *A gripping work…Bennett’s lyrical lilt in his sharp analyses makes for a thorough yet accessible read…Adds to a growing body of critical work that tackles social issues in relation to the realm of ‘nature,’ pushing back simultaneously against the whiteness of both literary studies and ecocriticism. -- Lydia Ayame Hiraide * LSE Review of Books *By turns leading-edge and unaffected, revelatory and understated, Bennett appears much less concerned to prove that his chops as a critic and theorist are equal to his poetic abilities…By way of close readings of some well-established, and a few wholly unnoticed, scenes of black/Animal apposition or relationality, Bennett’s Being Property shares in the ensemblic turn toward black ecological criticism and theory exploring blackness, animality, ground-life, and philosophical posthumanism…Bennett stands to add many more fans to the crowd of us who’ve relished his poetic talents over many years. -- Maurice Wallace * S-USIH: Society for U.S. Intellectual History *A tremendously illuminating study of how black writers wrestle with black precarity. Bennett’s refreshing and field-defining approach shows how both classic and contemporary African American authors undo long-held assumptions of the animal–human divide. -- Salamishah Tillet, author of Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–Civil Rights ImaginationBennett writes so beautifully that it hurts. Imagine a world of animals—rats, cocks, mules, and dogs—that prompt renewed ways of seeing, thinking, and living beyond cages or chains. These absorbing, deeply moving pages bring to life a newly reclaimed ethics, and black feeling beyond the claims of property or propriety. -- Colin Dayan, author of With Dogs at the Edge of Life and The Law Is a White DogBeing Property Once Myself is destined to be an event. Exhilarating and original, it is as much a work of literary history as it is of literary theory, as much a poetic invocation as it is critical intervention, and as much about animals as it is about people, elegantly uniting the many singularities that constitute, collectively, black literary culture. -- Akira Mizuta Lippit, author of Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of WildlifeBennett makes an important contribution to the fields of Black studies and critical animal studies while offering a uniquely lyrical voice of literary criticism. -- Bénédicte Boisseron * American Literary History *
£16.10
Harvard University Press Sexy Dressing Etc Essay the Power and Politics of Cultural Identity
Book SynopsisKennedy argues that American radicalism is possible and desirable. One base for radical politics is the institutional workplace; another is popular culture (hence, sexy dressing). Kennedy's aim is to wed the rebelliousness, irony, and irrationalism of cultural modernism and postmodernism to the earnestness of political correctness.Trade ReviewWhat these essays have in common, besides wit and provocative argument, is Kennedy’s understanding that we come to know the world based upon situational perspectives and lifestyles. * Choice *Kennedy’s book offers a dazzling one-man show with many voices. It reveals a man of the left, without a trace of puritanism or ideological correctness; a blithe and antic spirit, with a wholly serious program for critical scholars and activists of promoting freedom through small, local, practical acts of analysis, reimagination, resistance, and organization. -- Robert Gordon, Stanford Law SchoolTable of ContentsPreface 1. Radical Intellectuals in American Culture and Politics, or My Talk at the Gramsci Institute 2. A Cultural Pluralist Case for Affirmative Action in Legal Academia 3. The Stakes of Law, or Hale and Foucault! 4. Sexual Abuse, Sexy Dressing, and the Eroticization of Domination Notes Index
£35.96
Manchester University Press Time work and leisure
Book SynopsisExplores the major changes in our use of and attitude to time over three centuries. Asks why the 1960s and 1970s expectation that leisure time would increase has failed to come aboutTrade ReviewTime, Work and Leisure is a pleasure to read, and should find a wide audience, including undergraduate students and even policymakers. Cunningham strikes a good balance between descriptive narrative and a Thompsonian use of a wider range of primary sources, from poetry to first-hand narratives to employer screeds, workers' time-diaries, and government statistics. Moreover, he does an excellent job historically contextualizing present concerns about how we spend our time. -- Jamie Bronstein. Labour/Le Travail, Volume 76Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Time and society in the eighteenth century 3. Leisure preference and its critics, 1700-1850 4. Leisure and class, 1750-1850 5. Work time in decline, 1830-1970 6. Men, work and leisure, 1850-1970 7. The leisured class, 1840-1970 8. Towards 'work-life balance' Conclusion Select bibliography Index
£76.50
Manchester University Press Rebel by vocation Sen OFaolin and the generation
Book SynopsisFrom 1940 to 1954, The Bell was notable as an outspoken liberal voice at a time of political and intellectual stagnation. While primarily a literary magazine, it is now mostly discussed in the context of its hard political criticism. Carson has unearthed a wealth of sources to put The Bell in its social as well as literary contexts.Trade Review'The book makes excellent use of archival research, including fascinating material quoted from O'Faolains's dealings with the BBC.'Claire Connolly, Irish Times, May 2016‘The book is a significant contribution that deserves a wide readership.’Brad Kent, Université Laval, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Vol.40 -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Rebel by vocation1. Beginnings and blind alleys: O'Faoláin and his circle 2. A broken world: Church and State in The Bell 3. The mart of ideas: O'Faoláin and Literature 4. The thin society: O'Faoláin and the descent of The Bell 5. Conclusion: Signing off Works Cited Index
£63.75
Pluto Press Common Ground
Book SynopsisDraws on past philosophical debates to propose a new way of conceiving the commons in today's neo-liberal era.Trade Review'A bold, brilliant and ultimately hopeful attempt to build a critique of liberalism and neoliberalism on different foundations' -- Mark Fisher, Goldsmiths'A serious and courageous engagement with the deepest issue of our time. Humanity cannot go on as we are, but how do we change course? Gilbert starts to build a strategy from the wreckage' -- Anthony Barnett, founder of openDemocracy'We live in an interregnum. The old is not yet dead and the new is yet to be born. No one understands this moment better than Jeremy Gilbert.' -- Neal Lawson, Chair for Compass'The task of a philosophy of relation, of a transindividual philosophy, is not just to assert the reality of relations, but to understand how those very relations individuate us. Gilbert's book is an important contribution to such a project' -- Jason Read, The New Inquiry'A bold, brilliant and ultimately hopeful attempt to build a critique of liberalism and neoliberalism on different foundations' -- William Davies, Goldsmiths'Addresses the most urgent practical questions about individualism and collectivism, using the most sophisticated theoretical tools available to progressive thought' -- Lawrence Grossberg, Morris Davis Distinguished Professor of Media Studies & Cultural Studies at UNC, and author of Cultural Studies in the Future Tense (Duke University Press, 2010)'Jeremy Gilbert is a master storyteller, reassembling critical traditions and opening up contemporary cases. In contrast to much theorising of the present, Common Ground honours the liveness and the conceptual vitality of the political: a necessity, in this exciting and terrifying contemporary moment' -- Lauren Berlant, George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor, Department of English, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsPreface 1. Postmodernity and the Crisis of Democracy 2. A War of All Against All: Neoliberal Hegemony and Competitive Individualism 3. Leviathan Logics: Group Psychology from Hobbes to Laclau 4. The State of Community Opened: Multitude and Multiplicity 5. The Non-Fascist Crowd: Individuation and Infinite Relationality 6. Feeling Together: Affect, Identity and the Politics of the Common 7. On the Impossibility of Making Decisions: Affect, Agency and the Democratic Sublime Conclusions Notes Index
£26.59
Polity Press Gadamer
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£17.09
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Reflexive Modernization Politics Tradition and
Book Synopsisaeo Concerns debates now at the core of social and political theory -- particularly the debate about the nature of modernity. aeo Provides an accessible introduction to the basic ideas of the theory of reflexive modernization. aeo Each of the three contributors is very well--known at an international level.Trade Review"Reflexive Modernization is stimulating and imaginative ... all the authors raise important issues. Giddens provides a much-needed sociological discussion of the nature of tradition, which should provoke debate. Lash's contribution is in some ways the most helpful, given his direct engagement with his co-authors and his relation of theory to a variety of evidence." Radical Philosophy "This is an attractive an original collection with much to commend ... the Giddens essay ... is elegant, smoothly written and carries lightly a vast amount of insight ... this is Giddens at his most mature and very best and explains his dominance in contemporary socialogical theory." British Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsPreface. 1. The Reinvention of Politics: . Towards a Theory of Reflexive Modernization: Ulrich Beck. 2. Living in a Post-Traditional Society: . Anthony Giddens. 3. Reflexivity and its Doubles:. Structure, Aesthetics, Community: Scott Lash. 4. Replies and Critiques:. Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens, Scott Lash. Index.
£17.09
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Timewatch
Book SynopsisIn this book the author moves beyond the time of clocks and calendars in order to study time as embedded in social interactions, structures, practices and knowledge, in artefacts, in the body, and in the environment. Adam suggests ways not merely to deconstruct but to reconstruct both common--sense and social science understanding.Trade Review"Barbara Adam is rapidly establishing herself as one of the authorities on the field of time and reflexive social theory. She shows how our present perspective on time is fully out of key with the problems we face in the risk society. This highly original book not only points out the problems but also makes valuable suggestions for a new contextual approach to social theory." Ulrich Beck, University of Munich "This book will delight many, including many at late-school or early-university level; since Adam has managed to write at a level accessible to such readers, while simultaneously introducing complexities and depths of theoretical concern often excluded from texts at that level, because seen as too complex. It is a considerable feat to overcome this barrier; and in my view Adam accomplishes it most deftly and successfully." Fiona Mackie, LaTrobe University "This ... encourages the reader to think resoundingly, reverberatingly, long after the moment of reading it ... Barbara Adam's Timewatch is a most excellent book. Like time itself, it is more than the sum of its parts. It should be used, not just read, to think through how we can all 'do things with time'." Time and SocietyTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. 'My' Time, 'Our' Time, 'Other' Time. 2. Of Time and Health, Life and Death. 3. Education: Learning the Habits of Clock Time. 4. The Time Economy of Work Relations. 5. Global Times and the Electronic Embrace. 6. The Times of Global Environmental Change. 7. The 'Temporal Turn': Mapping the Challenge for Social Science. Coda. References. Index.
£999.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Comfort of Things
Book SynopsisThe diversity of contemporary London is extraordinary, and begs to be better understood. Never before have so many people from such diverse backgrounds been free to mix and not to mix in close proximity to each other. But increasingly people's lives take place behind the closed doors of private houses.Trade Review"Miller's moving account...is a stout defence of that pejorative notion: 'only sentimental value.'He builds up a tapestry of the variety of ways in which people use things to express themselves and make meaning in their lives. The nondescript, the ordinary can be invested with great value." The Guardian "An outstanding piece of work: a fine example of modern anthropological fieldwork, a powerful corrective to the banal notion that materialism is synonymous with excessive individualism and, perhaps above all, an informed, sensitive, and wholly sympathetic guide to the human diversity to be found through the keyholes of our capital city." Laurie Taylor, The Independent "A wonderful and unusual antidote to the fear that humanity and individuality is losing its battle with modern consumerism. In his book, even the most trivial product of consumerism can be rendered almost magical by its owners." Financial Times "This book sums up how far social anthropology has progressed since Henry Mayhew wrote about the skull shapes of costermongers in the 19th century." New Statesman "A set of delicately drawn pen portraits of lives in a single, unnamed South London street ... this is a book quite out of the ordinary. While you read these pages, this is the street where you live." Times Literary Supplement "[I]t would be an injustice to Daniel Miller and to the exquisite text he has crafted to describe The Comfort of Things as anything less than beautifully written ... This particular book opens up a variety of avenues for exploration, and serves as a reminder of what sociologists can learn from such rich anthropological research." British Journal of Sociology "This is social anthropology at its finest." Steven Carroll, The Age "This is the very best kind of micro-ethnography. Miller writes better - and with more insight and compassion - than most novelists. This book will profoundly change the way you look at your friends' and neighbours' homes and possessions - and indeed your own." Kate Fox, Social Issues Research Centre and author of Watching the English "I am so impressed by Danny Miller's book. It is so keenly felt and beautifully written, it provides as deep a view of modern Londoners as early anthropologists tried to provide of residents of more distant and exotic zones. Miller has produced a marvelously personal and creative work, provoking us to wonder at the extraordinary attachments of ordinary people. This is a great and lasting achievement." Sharon Zukin, Brooklyn College "Through shoe leather fieldwork, human empathy, and unflinching readiness to discern, Daniel Miller shows the central role of material culture in contemporary urban life. An instant classic." Mitchell Duneier, Princeton University "An artful antidote to continually demonised consumerism." Crafts Magazine "A timely reminder that investing possessions with meaning is proof of humanity rather than inhumanity." Blueprint "In this remarkable book Daniel Miller provides an illuminating portrait of people's relations to the ordinary objects that surround them. The result is a surprising meditation on how we all maintain order in our daily lives." Viviana Zelizer, Princeton University "This book offers a bold and creative model for how we might go about the work of theorising and abstracting, trying to tell more or less convincing stories about the 'relationships which flow constantly between people and things'." Environment and Planning D: Society and SpaceTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Prologue. Portrait 1 Empty. Portrait 2 Full. Portrait 3 A Porous Vessel. Portrait 4 Starry Green Plastic Ducks. Portrait 5 Learning Love. Portrait 6 The Aboriginal Laptop. Portrait 7 Home and Homeland. Portrait 8 Tattoo. Portrait 9 Haunted. Portrait 10 Talk to the Dog. Portrait 11 Tales from the Publicans. Portrait 12 Making a Living. Portrait 13 McDonald's Truly Happy Meals. Portrait 14 The Exhibitionist. Portrait 15 Re-Birth. Portrait 16 Strength of Character. Portrait 17 Heroin. Portrait 18 Shi. Portrait 19 Brazil 2 England 2. Portrait 20 A Thousand Places to See before You Die. Portrait 21 Rosebud. Portrait 22 The Orientalist. Portrait 23 Sepia. Portrait 24 An Unscripted Life. Portrait 25 Oh Sod It!. Portrait 26 José and José's Wife. Portrait 27 Wrestling. Portrait 28 The Carpenter. Portrait 29 Things That Bright Up the Place. Portrait 30 Home Truths. Epilogue: If This is Modern Life – Then What is That?. Appendix: The Study
£15.19
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Communication and Social Change
Book SynopsisHow do the communication practices of governments, NGOs and social movements enhance opportunities for citizen-led change? In this incisive book, Thomas Tufte makes a call for a fundamental rethinking of what it takes to enable citizens' voices, participation and power in processes of social change. Drawing on examples ranging from the Indignados movement in Spain to media activists in Brazil, from rural community workers in Malawi to UNICEF's global outreach programmes, he presents cutting-edge debates about the role of media and communication in enhancing social change. He offers both new and contested ideas of approaching social change from below, and highlights the need for institutions governments and civil society organizations alike to be in sync with their constituencies. Communication and Social Changeprovides essential insights to students and scholars of media and communications, as well as anyone concerned with the practices and processes that leadTrade Review"Tufte brings the significance of social change to life with eclectic and compelling illustrations across global contexts. This will be a classic text in conversations considering the importance of communication and the role of citizens in strategic social change. It is time for the field of communication for social change to take seriously the connections suggested in this book toward a more comprehensive framework. The attention here to social movements and political protests offers a welcome contribution to our scholarship and our practice."Karin Gwinn Wilkins, University of Texas at Austin "The ever-relevant Tufte has reinvented himself. With sensitivity he has crafted a coruscating and masterly book. The tight post-disciplinary synthesis solidifies the claim that communication study has such a key role in the reinvention of the humanities. Anyone interested in communication, humanity, democracy and change must read this book!"Colin Tinei Chasi, University of Johannesburg"[Tufte's] book is one that deserves to be used as a textbook in the field as well as a refresher on existing ideas and perspectives."European Journal of CommunicationTable of ContentsContents Foreword (Silvio Waisbord) Preface and Acknowledgements 1. Towards a New Social Thought in Communication and Social Change 2. Changing Contexts and Conceptual Stepping Stones 3. Participation: A Project of Transformation 4. Movements and Media, Communication and Change 5. Cultures of Governance: Enhancing Empowerment and Resilience 6. Communication Movements 7. Invited Spaces: Institutions Communicating for Social Change 8. Towards a New Paradigm and Praxis in Communication and Social Change References Index
£16.14
Edinburgh University Press Media Persuasion and Propaganda
Book SynopsisOffers an overview of persuasive strategies and propaganda techniques. How do individuals and organisations exert influence to build communities and networks? What role do media play in communicating persuasive messages? How do we use recent discoveries in cognitive science to promote a cause, advocate social change or market ideas and products?Table of ContentsCase Studies; 1. Orientalism; Explores western scholarly and media portrayals of the Orient - the Middle East, North Africa, and Islam - for ideological purposes.; 2. Abu Ghraib Exposed; Examines the disturbing images which emerged in the US media in 2004 exposing the torture of Iraqi prisoners by the American military and CIA operatives in Abu Ghraib prison, Baghdad.; 3. PR and Climate Change; Delves into Cuba's Revolutionary Landscape to look at the presentation of climate issues.; 4. The Power of Nightmares; British filmmaker Adam Curtis argues that the global 'war on terror' is based on a myth providing politicians with their power to govern.; 5. Rupert Murdoch and his News Corporation Scandal; 6. The Israel Lobby; In March 2009, British MP George Galloway was denied entry into Canada because he supported Hamas, an elected political party in Gaza identified as a terrorist organisation by the Canadian government. Soules examines the pro-Israel lobby as a significant source of flak challenging media reports on Israeli-Palestinian relations.; 7. Fox News; Raises issues about journalistic ethics and management interference, especially when that interference is sustained, partisan, and inflammatory.; 8. Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry; In his notorious 1995 performance piece, dissident Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei photographed himself dropping an ancient Han Dynasty urn which smashed at his feet. This case study explores the aftermath and how Ai Wei Wei became a hero of dissent for critics of China's human rights policies.
£22.79
