Philosophy of Sport
Leading moral and philosophical academics examine the global significance of sport. Articles provide a diverse set of ideas, from the ethics of performance enhancing substances and fair play, to nationalism and how sport can contribute to human well-being.
Pink Ink
Calder traces the evolution of Australia’s gay and lesbian publications from smudgy porn sold in brown paper bags to glossy coffee-table magazines proudly on display, and discusses the impact of the Internet on the industry.
Place
This book explores tensions between global new media and local practices, focusing on artists in indigenous cultural settings. Through analysis of art and film, it asks how long-held attachments to place are transforming in the new media context.
Platonism for the Iron Age
Poland in Transatlantic Relations after 1989
This book brings together a number of scholars to examine the transformation of Poland within the context of regional and global power relations, focusing in particular on analyses of the country’s political and social development in the area of transatlantic relations.
Political Correctness in the Era of Trump
This collection explores the intense debates surrounding “political correctness.” It argues that in the era of Trump, the term has been employed as an ideological scapegoat to delegitimize and roll back progress on gender and racial equality, human rights, and democracy.
This book examines the politics and culture of the Lebanese Diaspora. Essays explore identity formation, political activism, and cultural representation among migrants and their descendants, challenging fixed notions of homeland and identity.
Pop Culture Matters
We immerse ourselves daily in expressions of popular culture but rarely pay critical attention to them. The essays in this collection redress this situation and critically examine various offerings in film, television, social media, music, literature, sports, and related areas.
Popular Culture
This volume breaks down disciplinary barriers to explore popular culture from an interdisciplinary perspective. It brings together a plethora of methodological and theoretical approaches, fostering dialogue between international scholars on the topic.
Popular Culture and Subcultures of Czech Post-Socialism
Explore Czech culture’s evolution after socialism. This volume reveals the diverse trajectories of popular culture and subcultures, showing what truly changed and what surprisingly endured from the late socialist era.
Popular culture surrounds us. This collection offers a diverse selection of scholarship examining contemporary television, film, video games, internet fandom, gender, and identity, exploring the many cultural modes that shape our everyday lives.
Popular Media and Communication
This collection of essays explores media and communication across four key areas: the public sphere, professional identity, industry policy, and political communication. It reveals how forces like capital and technology structure communication and produce public meaning.
Populism and Illiberalism in Western Societies
Radical right forces threaten to supplant liberal democracy. This book offers a fresh perspective on the populism behind this challenge, applying Niklas Luhmann’s theory of autopoietic social systems to analyze its rise in Britain, Europe, and the United States.
Portable Roots
This book challenges the traditional understanding of human development by focusing on identity formation in bicultural children. Drawing on a three-decade study, it explores themes of “rootlessness” and asks how transplanted roots can thrive.
The American 1950s will not be left alone. This book addresses this enduring phenomenon through its Portuguese proponents, from the arrival of rock ‘n’ roll to the contemporary retro scene. Through interviews, it reveals why this American aesthetic continues to fascinate.
Postmodernism and After
This collection of essays reflects on developments in literature pointing beyond postmodernism. Diagnosing its exhaustion, these articles trace a return to traditional concepts and invite a reconsideration of truth and meaning in our new literary age.
This book examines the relationship between modernism and postmodernism, visual culture, and East-West aesthetics. It argues that recent postsocialist visual art contradicts canonical theories of the avant-garde, offering a global view on the philosophy of art.
How did images and spectacles shape power in early modern Europe? This collection of interdisciplinary essays reveals how aesthetic choices in art, theatre, and literature were used to consolidate and subvert institutional power from the 12th to 17th centuries.
Gender plays a significant role in accessing resources, rights, and power. Through case studies, research, and theory, interdisciplinary scholars shed light on the intricate links between gender, policy, and social change in Africa and worldwide.
Practices of Proximity
This study investigates the appropriation of English in the literary contact zone between ‘white’ and Indigenous Australia. It insists on the multilateral ownership of the language, seeing Indigenous literature as a space to rethink co-habitation and sovereignty.