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Myths and Facts about Football
The Economics and Psychology of the World’s Greatest Sport
This book presents economic and psychological analyses of football, investigating popular conceptions and misconceptions. Are teams more likely to concede a goal after scoring? Does the team going first in a penalty shoot-out have an advantage?
This book presents economic and psychological analyses of football, investigating popular conceptions and misconceptions. Are teams more likely to concede a goal after scoring? Does the team going first in a penalty shoot-out have an advantage?
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Representing Culture
Essays on Identity, Visuality and Technology
Defying traditional boundaries, these interdisciplinary essays offer new perspectives for cultural criticism. They explore current experience through the intersecting axes of identity politics, visual culture and technology.
Defying traditional boundaries, these interdisciplinary essays offer new perspectives for cultural criticism. They explore current experience through the intersecting axes of identity politics, visual culture and technology.
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Seeking the Self – Encountering the Other
Diasporic Narrative and the Ethics of Representation
This collection offers new insights into diasporic experiences. It examines how we can ethically read and interpret encounters with the cultural, sexual, and ethnic other in narratives of displacement, belonging, and exclusion.
This collection offers new insights into diasporic experiences. It examines how we can ethically read and interpret encounters with the cultural, sexual, and ethnic other in narratives of displacement, belonging, and exclusion.
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The World as a Global Agora
Critical Perspectives on Public Space
Ranging from architecture to gender studies, the essays in this collection explore public space as a vital aspect of public life. The authors agree that no matter what form it takes, public space remains fundamental to all societies as the basis for civic action.
Ranging from architecture to gender studies, the essays in this collection explore public space as a vital aspect of public life. The authors agree that no matter what form it takes, public space remains fundamental to all societies as the basis for civic action.
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The Globetrotting Shopaholic
Consumer Spaces, Products, and their Cultural Places
This book examines the cultural, political, and social reasons why we consume. Exploring global consumer spaces—from Canada's West Edmonton Mall to Japanese theme parks—it reveals how consumer goods and spaces define who we are as human beings.
This book examines the cultural, political, and social reasons why we consume. Exploring global consumer spaces—from Canada’s West Edmonton Mall to Japanese theme parks—it reveals how consumer goods and spaces define who we are as human beings.
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Florida without Borders
Women at the Intersections of the Local and Global
This anthology explores women’s activism across borders, highlighting global issues like human rights, poverty, and trafficking. Feminist scholars investigate the gendered body in activism, the obstacles women face, and the fight for feminist social change.
This anthology explores women’s activism across borders, highlighting global issues like human rights, poverty, and trafficking. Feminist scholars investigate the gendered body in activism, the obstacles women face, and the fight for feminist social change.
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Hunks, Hotties, and Pretty Boys
Twentieth-Century Representations of Male Beauty
This study challenges the standard of white, heterosexual male beauty. It explores the connections between beauty and a broad spectrum of masculinities, examining Chicano, Asian, working class, and queer constructions of male beauty in Western culture.
This study challenges the standard of white, heterosexual male beauty. It explores the connections between beauty and a broad spectrum of masculinities, examining Chicano, Asian, working class, and queer constructions of male beauty in Western culture.
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Africa’s Finances
The Contribution of Remittances
Remittances to developing countries exceed development aid. This volume explores their contribution to Africa’s finances and provides guidelines to expand them, examining resources from money transfers and new technologies to skills remitted by the diaspora.
Remittances to developing countries exceed development aid. This volume explores their contribution to Africa’s finances and provides guidelines to expand them, examining resources from money transfers and new technologies to skills remitted by the diaspora.
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Culture and Power
The Plots of History in Performance
These essays explore the performance of historical plots. Questioning traditional historiography, they analyze the emplotment of history in visual culture, museums, and national identities, arguing that writing history is a performative act.
These essays explore the performance of historical plots. Questioning traditional historiography, they analyze the emplotment of history in visual culture, museums, and national identities, arguing that writing history is a performative act.
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Psychology and Indigenous Australians
Effective Teaching and Practice
From a fraught colonial past, a new Australian psychology is emerging. Led by Indigenous voices, this landmark collection showcases a culturally responsive practice for all Australians.
From a fraught colonial past, a new Australian psychology is emerging. Led by Indigenous voices, this landmark collection showcases a culturally responsive practice for all Australians.
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Humorous Garden-Paths
A Pragmatic-Cognitive Study
This book investigates short humorous texts like one-liners and witticisms based on the “garden-path mechanism”—the pleasurable surprise of being deceived. It will interest anyone who finds humour research appealing; no background knowledge is necessary.
This book investigates short humorous texts like one-liners and witticisms based on the “garden-path mechanism”—the pleasurable surprise of being deceived. It will interest anyone who finds humour research appealing; no background knowledge is necessary.
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Leading international victimologists explore practical and theoretical issues in Victimology. This collection describes how a victim’s rights are deprived and offers recommendations to balance the justice system and improve the situation for victims of crime.
Leading international victimologists explore practical and theoretical issues in Victimology. This collection describes how a victim’s rights are deprived and offers recommendations to balance the justice system and improve the situation for victims of crime.
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Gender is everywhere, from the cradle to the grave. Like the air, it is all around us, seldom thought of, but always present. Spanning literature, politics, sex, and religion, we hope you enjoy this volume and take away something you did not anticipate.
Gender is everywhere, from the cradle to the grave. Like the air, it is all around us, seldom thought of, but always present. Spanning literature, politics, sex, and religion, we hope you enjoy this volume and take away something you did not anticipate.
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As Halloween spreads across Europe, is it rampant cultural imperialism or a welcome treat? This book examines the phenomenon from its origins to its arrival in Europe, revealing a complexity characterised by multiple meanings and intense battles over ownership.
As Halloween spreads across Europe, is it rampant cultural imperialism or a welcome treat? This book examines the phenomenon from its origins to its arrival in Europe, revealing a complexity characterised by multiple meanings and intense battles over ownership.
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From Guest Workers into Muslims
The Transformation of Turkish Immigrant Associations in Germany
This comparative analysis of five Turkish immigrant associations shows that immigrants are not victims of the German state. On the contrary, immigrant elites are important actors who negotiate for rights and membership, exercising agency in the political process.
This comparative analysis of five Turkish immigrant associations shows that immigrants are not victims of the German state. On the contrary, immigrant elites are important actors who negotiate for rights and membership, exercising agency in the political process.
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Scent and Scent-sibilities
Smell and Everyday Life Experiences
Though often ignored, smells shape our social world. This pioneering book explores how smell constructs boundaries of race, class, and gender. It reveals how scents offer insights into social relations and power structures, using Singapore as a case study.
Though often ignored, smells shape our social world. This pioneering book explores how smell constructs boundaries of race, class, and gender. It reveals how scents offer insights into social relations and power structures, using Singapore as a case study.
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This publication studies suffrage, citizenship and parliamentary reforms in various socio-political contexts. By highlighting national differences, this collection argues that the age of suffrage narratives based on universal emancipation is over.
This publication studies suffrage, citizenship and parliamentary reforms in various socio-political contexts. By highlighting national differences, this collection argues that the age of suffrage narratives based on universal emancipation is over.
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Transmission Image
Visual Translation and Cultural Agency
A challenging survey of the debate about visual culture from a global perspective. This volume proposes a truly global outlook, with scholarly perspectives from around the world, highlighting the complex cultural codification of images and their impact.
A challenging survey of the debate about visual culture from a global perspective. This volume proposes a truly global outlook, with scholarly perspectives from around the world, highlighting the complex cultural codification of images and their impact.
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Masculinity and the Other
Historical Perspectives
Men have been defined as much by their relations to other men as to women. This collection brings together scholars from fields including literature and history to examine the forms of 'otherness' against which ideas of masculinity have been defined.
Men have been defined as much by their relations to other men as to women. This collection brings together scholars from fields including literature and history to examine the forms of ‘otherness’ against which ideas of masculinity have been defined.
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Long Live the King
A Genealogy of Performative Genders
Escudero-Alías acutely examines the drag king phenomenon, as well as key theoretical texts by feminist, postcolonial and cultural thinkers, delving into drag king culture and highlighting its relevance for the study of the relationship between gender, sex, race and sexuality.
Escudero-Alías acutely examines the drag king phenomenon, as well as key theoretical texts by feminist, postcolonial and cultural thinkers, delving into drag king culture and highlighting its relevance for the study of the relationship between gender, sex, race and sexuality.
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