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21st-Century Gay Culture

Edited By: David A. Powell

£29.99

This collection of essays on 21st-century queer culture features authors from a variety of fields investigating the ever-fluid nature of labels and definitions. Topics include queer African-Americans, same-sex marriage, and French gay culture.

Sexing Code

Subversion, Theory and Representation

By: Claudia Herbst

£29.99

Sexing Code proposes that the representation of technical ability perpetuates the association of the male with intellect and the female with the body. Challenging this, it highlights women’s contributions and demonstrates how gendering is a salient factor in culture.

The Social Economy

Poverty Alleviation and Social Wellbeing

Edited By: Masudu Alam Choudhury, Uzir Abdul Malik

£29.99

This journal has been discontinued. Any issues are available to purchase separately.

One Paradigm, Many Worlds

Conflict Resolution across the Disciplines

Edited By: Mitchell Rosenwald

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One Paradigm, Many Worlds surveys collaborative, "win-win" conflict resolution across disciplines. It challenges traditional "win-lose" paradigms, documenting the merits of this approach in fields from education and human services to international relations.

One Paradigm, Many Worlds surveys collaborative, “win-win” conflict resolution across disciplines. It challenges traditional “win-lose” paradigms, documenting the merits of this approach in fields from education and human services to international relations.

Women, Social and Cultural Change in Twentieth Century Ireland

Dissenting Voices?

Edited By: Sarah O’Connor, Christopher C. Shepard

£29.99

This book explores women, social and cultural change in twentieth-century Ireland. The interdisciplinary work gathered here challenges monolithic representations of Irish female identity, exposing women’s disparate backgrounds and varied experiences.

American Popular Culture

Historical and Pedagogical Perspectives

Edited By: Seymour Leventman

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"A varied and fascinating collection of original investigations." Scholars explore how pop culture has become our new reality, absorbing every facet of life. This book offers important insights into this maddening phenomenon's uplifting and downgrading possibilities.

“A varied and fascinating collection of original investigations.” Scholars explore how pop culture has become our new reality, absorbing every facet of life. This book offers important insights into this maddening phenomenon’s uplifting and downgrading possibilities.

Dispersion of Meaning

The Fading Out of the Doctrinaire World?

By: Matko Meštrović

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In a fractured world, how do we find shared meaning? This book breaks disciplinary barriers to connect art, technology, and economics, showing how a collective learning process becomes the heart of productivity in a new era of cognitive capitalism.

Trends in Contemporary Italian Narrative 1980-2007

Edited By: Gillian Ania, Ann Hallamore Caesar

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This volume's eight essays examine Italian narrative from the 1980s to the present, focusing on genres and trends rather than authors. It covers a wide range of themes, from detective stories to lesbian and gay writing, immigration literature, and dystopia.

This volume’s eight essays examine Italian narrative from the 1980s to the present, focusing on genres and trends rather than authors. It covers a wide range of themes, from detective stories to lesbian and gay writing, immigration literature, and dystopia.

Seductive Screens

Children's Media—Past, Present, and Future

By: Michael Brody

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This book describes the development of children's media from radio to Facebook, explaining the perfect storm—a collision of economics, psychology, and technology—behind its growth. It explores the influence of Disney, Sesame Street, and Batman in this context.

This book describes the development of children’s media from radio to Facebook, explaining the perfect storm—a collision of economics, psychology, and technology—behind its growth. It explores the influence of Disney, Sesame Street, and Batman in this context.

Travellers, Gypsies, Roma

The Demonisation of Difference

Edited By: Jean Ryan Hakizimana

£29.99

This volume explores new areas of enquiry in Irish, Traveller, Romani and Migration Studies. In a rapidly changing Ireland, increased acknowledgement of diversity makes dialogue between mainstream society, older minorities and newer immigrant communities necessary.

New Social Movements, Class, and the Environment

A Case Study of Greenpeace Canada

By: John-Henry Harter

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This history of Greenpeace Canada explores its troubled relationship with the working class. Through its actions against sealing, forestry, and its own workers, it illustrates the historic obstacles to a common labour and environmental agenda.

Framing Globalization

Visual Perspectives

Edited By: Patrizia Faccioli, Jacqueline A. Gibbons

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This collection of readings explores the intersection of the global and local through visual sociology. It examines how images in various contexts reflect and generate sociological concepts, shaping our understanding of identity, culture, and belonging worldwide.

Colonial Visions, Postcolonial Revisions

Images of the Indian Diaspora in Malaysia

By: Shanthini Pillai

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This book traces the Malaysian Indian diaspora from colonial subordination to postcolonial identity. It uncovers the suppressed story of coolie resistance and reveals how pioneer immigrants choreographed the diasporic identity they left as a legacy for today.

The Cultural Politics of Heiner Müller

Edited By: Dan Friedman

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Heiner Müller, one of Europe’s most provocative playwrights, was a communist banned by his own government. Infuriating both East and West, his work defied theater itself. In this collection, leading scholars grapple with his artistic and political legacy.

Entertainment, Leisure and Identities

Edited By: Alyson Brown

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Beyond mere diversion, entertainment is how we forge our identities. This collection of essays reveals this vital process from the Middle Ages to the present day.

Mapping Appetite

Essays on Food, Fiction and Culture

Edited By: Pere Gallardo-Torrano, Jopi Nyman

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This collection of case studies explores the representation of food in cultural texts, from post-colonial fiction to magazines and cookbooks. The essays show how food narratives reveal crucial issues of gender, nation, race, and power in contemporary culture.

Dangers in the Incommensurability of Globalization

Socio-Political Volatilities

Edited By: Gary Backhaus, John Murungi

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A gap exists between our intentions and their objective consequences, creating a chaos, or incommensurability, that foils human plans. This book explores how this dynamic reveals the tenuous character of our world through global warming, peak oil, and volatile economics.

African American Humor, Irony and Satire

Ishmael Reed, Satirically Speaking

Edited By: Dana A. Williams

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Essays on Ishmael Reed, George Schuyler, Dave Chappelle, and more reveal how humor, irony, and satire highlight the complexity of African American life and its connections to world cultures.

Sociology at the Frontiers of Psychology

Edited By: Gwynyth Overland

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This collection explores the frontiers between sociology and psychology, where theories are freely borrowed. Sociologists use psychological theory for studies of sociological phenomena, and vice versa. Featuring international authors, including Thomas J. Scheff.

“Survivor” – Representations of the “New Irish”

Dúchas Dóchasach

By: Jean Ryan Hakizimana

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This book is a window on the new multicultural Irish experience. As the poems and paintings in this volume attest, the experiences of exile and renewal remain as perennial as human nature itself. I ndeireadh na dála, níl ach cine amháin ann agus sin an cine daonna.