Media Theory and Cultural Technologies
Media theory is now one of the most influential trends in contemporary thinking, namely within cultural studies, the arts and humanities. This anthology examines recent developments in the field brought about by concepts such as “cultural techniques” and “operative ontologies”.
This book on media translation covers its history and major theories, offering practical applications in Arabic and English. It seeks to help students and professionals acquire the skills needed for this profession.
Media, Power and Empowerment
This collection of original research maps trends in CEE media, providing insight into the region’s shared history and politics. It also discusses the differences among the countries, the consequences for their media scenes, and the lived experiences of their people.
Mediated Deviance and Social Otherness
This thought-provoking anthology explores provocative representations of deviance in various media—from films to internet sites—and their substantial cultural, political, and social consequences for individuals of different backgrounds and lifestyles.
Mediating Germany
This volume explores how German popular culture responds to contemporary life, combining tradition with current social debates. Essays offer case studies of popular fiction, theatre, music, and filmmaking, analyzing today’s issues and their historical legacies.
Mediations in Cultural Spaces
These essays explore the cultural production of space across East and West. Through interdisciplinary treatments of architecture, politics, and new media, this volume reveals space as a radically mobile concept, conceived in terms of power and emancipation.
This volume explores the social, historical and cultural dimensions of medicine. It covers medical knowledge, public health, and the experience of illness, raising ethical and philosophical questions that will open up new vistas of study for the reader.
Memory and Ethnicity
In museums and public spaces, ethnicity has become central to the Jewish and Israeli cultural imagination. Memory and Ethnicity explores how diverse Jewish groups represent their past, analyzing which memories are preserved and which are suppressed.
This volume brings together innovative research across Iberian Studies. The collection includes cutting-edge work on memory politics, dictatorships, the Spanish Civil War, and colonial exchanges, exploring themes of migration, resistance, trauma, sexuality, and feminism.
Men in Color
This collection analyzes ethnic masculinities—including African American, Asian American, Chicano, and white—in U.S. literature and cinema. It explores the intersection of gender and race, highlighting both the differences and recurring stereotypes among them.
Mental Health in Qatar
This is the first volume to explore mental health in Qatar, a priority area in the country’s strategic vision. Experts discuss the history of mental health systems, current challenges, and treatment for all ages and special populations, including at schools and in the workplace.
This book tackles the paradox of observing hidden behaviours, such as prohibited drug use. Under what conditions are these secrets revealed to an inquirer? It discusses methods to ensure valid data, serving as a guide for researchers and a source of support for decision-makers.
Despite their different economic models, the middle classes in the US and South Korea face the same crisis: labor market instability and widening inequality. This book examines the causes, the consequences for family and education, and presents policy ideas for revitalization.
Migrancy, Memory and Repossession
This book explores the hidden histories of women artists on the periphery of mainstream society. By analysing their representations of “marginal” groups like Travellers and Roma, it uncovers new conclusions about the relationships between different cultures.
Migrants and Cultural Memory
This volume explores representations of the Traveller, Roma, and migrant “Other”. It shows how the migrant experience is echoed in the hybrid and diverse discourses of Western countries, pointing to the ongoing reconfiguration of dominant cultural narratives.
Migrants and Memory
This volume gives a voice to marginalized communities—the hidden Irish, the migrant, the nomad. Scholars and activists explore ethnicity, identity, and racism, offering a catalyst for new inquiry in Irish, Traveller, Romani, and Migration Studies.
Migrants and Minorities
Europe is being irrevocably changed by immigration. This book pinpoints the trends shaping its future, exploring EU-level regulations, the challenges of Islam and xenophobia, and how different nations are integrating migrants and minorities.
Migration and Exile
This volume challenges the boundaries between American studies, exploring exile and migration. It asks how crossing borders affects notions of home, nation, and language, charting new literary and artistic territories in exilic creation.
Migration and New International Actors
New migration studies focus on the political dimension of Diasporas and the trans-national character of migration, exploring their action as agents of para-diplomacy to move investigations beyond the narrow frame of the Nation State.
Migration in Eastern Africa
This collection of essays honors Professor John Oyaro Oucho, exploring the nexus between migration and national development in Africa. The book covers challenges and opportunities in urbanization, human security, health care, and governance for scholars and policy-makers.