Popular newspapers like the British "The Sun" and the German "Bild" regularly invite controversy over their morals and methods, power and responsib...

This book examines the construction and articulation of diasporic cultural identity among the Turkish working-class youth in Kreuzberg (Little Ista...

(Dis)Orientation appears to be a phenomenon that is connected to media in numerous respects: today, finding your way in the world often means findi...

Media depictions of Arabs and Muslims continue to be framed by images of camels, belly dancers, and dagger-wearing terrorists. But do only Hollywoo...

In this book, Natàlia Cantó Milà elaborates on Georg Simmel's relational approach to a theory of value, pointing at the heuristic possibilities tha...

Radical ideologies may manifest differently at first, but they do follow a similar logic: truth claims, promises of salvation and a unifying common...

This volume offers transdisciplinary perspectives on the study of acting and performance in moving image forms. It assembles 26 international schol...

Despite a number of retrospective works on cultural studies, to date no other book dedicates itself to the historical and theoretical examination o...

The cultural field of advertising is a much-debated topic with perspectives focusing on a range of concepts from harassment and the anxiety of infl...

"After the Storm" traces the cultural and political responses to Hurricane Katrina. Ever since Katrina hit the Gulf coast in 2005, its devastating ...

When Toula's father in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" says to his daughter (age 30) "you look so old" or when Don DeLillo's protagonist (age 28) "feels...

The linking of age and ill-health is part of a cultural narrative of decline as age is often defined as the absence of good health. Research has sh...

The study combines theories of myth, popular culture, structuralism and poststructuralism to explain the enormous appeal of "Star Wars" and "Harry ...

Animal minds and animal ethics - different origins, connecting similarities. Philosophers working on questions of animal ethics usually draw on res...

This book examines the different roles of architects in rural post-disaster housing and their impact on the degree of success of the projects from ...

This book offers a compelling perspective on the striking similarity of art and commerce in contemporary culture. Combining the history and theory ...

Although the asymmetrical concepts have been well-known to scholars across the social sciences and humanities, their role in structuring the human ...

This book gives an insight into the media constructions of historical remembrance reflecting transnational, national or nationalistic forms of poli...

This interdisciplinary study examines the still vivid phenomenon of the most controversial psychiatric diagnosis in the United States: multiple per...

While literature in computer-based and networked media has so far been experienced by looking at the computer screen and by using keyboard and mous...

This book explores the productive effects of bodily "failure" in the sphere of visuality. The aim is to reflect on the human body's constant exposu...

The social structures of Moroccan society have been changing in accordance with western models at an ever-growing rate. The role of Islam in sharin...

Focussing European borders: The book provides insight into a variety of changes in the nature of borders in Europe and its neighborhood from variou...

The demonstrations of monks in Tibet and Myanmar (Burma) in recent times as well as the age-old conflict between a predominantly Buddhist populatio...

The Egyptian revolution of 2011 has significantly changed the relationship between citizens, public space, and visual expression. "Cairo: Images of...

"Camp Comforts" investigates the wide-ranging impact of camp on AIDS literature and places this impact within two different traditions of camp anal...

This volume puts an emphasis on the question how children themselves experience and manage migration and by means of which they construct an identi...

Using the theoretical frameworks of Freud, Todorov, and Bahktin, this book explores how American writers of the late 20th century have translated t...

The ongoing crisis in Europe has dramatic impact on the life in many Southern European cities: Unemployment, social deprivation, poverty, political...

In the present social and cultural transformation of South Thailand's cultural politics, ideologies involving the family, gender and home provide t...

Climate change will impact ecosystems and production processes. Thus, adaptation to climate change has become a prevalent concept in environmental ...

By the end of the twentieth century certain new media had established themselves which have profoundly changed communication among lovers. SMS and ...

Urban violence has become a major threat in big cities of the world. Where the orthodox protection through the police and individual target hardeni...

The role of private companies in violent conflicts has gained increasingly more attention in recent years. Although the private sector is often ass...

This volume investigates the "cool city" phenomenon with an empirical focus on Istanbul. The book approaches "cool Istanbul" not only as a consumab...

The book provides unique insights into the culture of computer-mediated hospitality and how this has begun to transform contemporary tourism and tr...

This book offers a fundamental contribution to the literature on the creative industries and the knowledge-based economy by focusing on three aspec...

Both the identity of dance and that of theory are at risk as soon as the two intertwine. This anthology collects observations by choreographers and...

This book presents the first in-depth archival exploration of a lost history of dance as an extracurricular activity at Radcliffe College, the wome...

This book presents the first in-depth critical and historical examination of the internationally renowned National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica...

Conspicuously, Islam has become a key concern in most European societies with respect to issues of immigration, integration, identity, values and i...

This book explores the complexity of the dialectic relationship between ritual-like activities and social structure; focusing on women's increasing...

"Digital Culture & Society" is a refereed, international journal, fostering discussion about the ways in which digital technologies, platforms ...

Digital tools are increasingly used in media studies, opening up new perspectives for research and analysis, while creating new problems at the sam...

As a world religion Islam is based on a highly abstract and absolute notion of the transcendent, which its followers establish and celebrate - in a...

How do young Israelis and Germans communicate about National Socialism and the Holocaust? In this collection of essays, authors from both societies...

The omnipresence and popularity of American consumer products in Japan have triggered an avalanche of writing shedding light on different aspects o...

The concept of "worldmaking" is based on the idea that "the world" is not given, but rather produced through language, actions, ideas and perceptio...