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Society in Focus—Change, Challenge and Resistance
Reflections from South Africa and Beyond
This collection of sociological research from South Africa critically examines societal issues. Chapters explore themes of power and the environment, development, workplace change, and the complex interplay of race, class, and gender with empirical richness.
This collection of sociological research from South Africa critically examines societal issues. Chapters explore themes of power and the environment, development, workplace change, and the complex interplay of race, class, and gender with empirical richness.
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Minor Mythologies as Popular Literature
A Student's Guide to Texts and Films
This is the first single-author study of the genres and roots of popular literature in its relation to film and television, exploring the effects of academic snobbery on the teaching of popular literature. It challenges perceived notions of popular literature.
This is the first single-author study of the genres and roots of popular literature in its relation to film and television, exploring the effects of academic snobbery on the teaching of popular literature. It challenges perceived notions of popular literature.
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The Surplus of Culture
Sense, Common-sense, Non-sense
This volume presents the surplus of culture: the added value of irony, irrationality, and absurdity that subverts mainstream culture. It dwells at the risky intersection of untamed interpretation and tradition, where entrenched notions reveal their shattering nature.
This volume presents the surplus of culture: the added value of irony, irrationality, and absurdity that subverts mainstream culture. It dwells at the risky intersection of untamed interpretation and tradition, where entrenched notions reveal their shattering nature.
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Cultural Difference and Social Solidarity
Solidarities and Social Function
This book explores solidarity as a social function, highlighting its critical value in understanding contemporary societies. It presents new theoretical approaches alongside diverse global case studies to explore how solidarity is made and remade.
This book explores solidarity as a social function, highlighting its critical value in understanding contemporary societies. It presents new theoretical approaches alongside diverse global case studies to explore how solidarity is made and remade.
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Studies in Irreversibility
Texts and Contexts
This collection argues that the difference between irreversible and reversible phenomena is underappreciated. Contributors from literature, art, history, and ethics use irreversibility as a key to interpreting culture, outlining a new paradigm for cultural studies.
This collection argues that the difference between irreversible and reversible phenomena is underappreciated. Contributors from literature, art, history, and ethics use irreversibility as a key to interpreting culture, outlining a new paradigm for cultural studies.
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This book explores how the study of culture as the realm of meaning and identity can inform debates on globalization. It marries theoretical abstraction with the everyday, using examples from music, film, migration, and education to illustrate daily life in a globalized world.
This book explores how the study of culture as the realm of meaning and identity can inform debates on globalization. It marries theoretical abstraction with the everyday, using examples from music, film, migration, and education to illustrate daily life in a globalized world.
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Passage to Manhattan
Critical Essays on Meena Alexander
This is the first collection of essays on Meena Alexander, one of the most influential contemporary South Asian American writers. Scholars analyze her poetry, memoirs, and fiction, examining her contribution to postcolonial and US multicultural studies.
This is the first collection of essays on Meena Alexander, one of the most influential contemporary South Asian American writers. Scholars analyze her poetry, memoirs, and fiction, examining her contribution to postcolonial and US multicultural studies.
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Inspired by the ‘Historicising the Lesbian’ conference, this collection of essays covers a wide period in history, from the medieval to the modern. The chapters explore a huge range of subjects to widen our knowledge of lesbian history.
Inspired by the ‘Historicising the Lesbian’ conference, this collection of essays covers a wide period in history, from the medieval to the modern. The chapters explore a huge range of subjects to widen our knowledge of lesbian history.
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Gendered Bodies and New Technologies
Rethinking Embodiment in a Cyber-era
As human interaction with technology becomes seamless, the body is reduced to an interface. What is forgotten is that being human means being embodied. To live in the dynamic intersection between mind and body is what makes us human.
As human interaction with technology becomes seamless, the body is reduced to an interface. What is forgotten is that being human means being embodied. To live in the dynamic intersection between mind and body is what makes us human.
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The Strategic Smorgasbord of Postmodernity
Literature and the Christian Critic
This volume brings two worlds together. Instead of crisis, its contributors see the postmodern turn as an opportunity. These Christian scholars enter into dialogue with contemporary literary theory, offering innovative new readings informed by both theory and faith.
This volume brings two worlds together. Instead of crisis, its contributors see the postmodern turn as an opportunity. These Christian scholars enter into dialogue with contemporary literary theory, offering innovative new readings informed by both theory and faith.
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Transcultural Encounters amongst Women
Redrawing Boundaries in Hispanic and Lusophone Art, Literature and Film
This collection explores how women from the Hispanic and Lusophone world cross cultural boundaries in literature and film, examining their experiences through the powerful themes of identity, conflict, and values.
This collection explores how women from the Hispanic and Lusophone world cross cultural boundaries in literature and film, examining their experiences through the powerful themes of identity, conflict, and values.
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Betraying the Event
Constructions of Victimhood in Contemporary Cultures
This volume offers a critical reconsideration of victimhood, exposing its cultural and political constructions. It examines how language can be manipulated to devise a vicious reversal of victim/victimizer positions, raising awareness of the consequences.
This volume offers a critical reconsideration of victimhood, exposing its cultural and political constructions. It examines how language can be manipulated to devise a vicious reversal of victim/victimizer positions, raising awareness of the consequences.
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Global Babel
Questions of Discourse and Communication in a time of Globalization
Globalization is double-edged. It can enable the exploitation of the powerless by the powerful; in different contexts, it can also facilitate individual and collective agency. This collection of essays explores this complexity and its cultural consequences.
Globalization is double-edged. It can enable the exploitation of the powerless by the powerful; in different contexts, it can also facilitate individual and collective agency. This collection of essays explores this complexity and its cultural consequences.
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Locality, Memory, Reconstruction
The Cultural Challenges and Possibilities of Former Single-Industry Communities
This volume explores the role of culture in single-industry communities facing industrial loss. Through international case studies, it shows how cultural memory, local traditions, and identity become communal strategies for survival and perseverance.
This volume explores the role of culture in single-industry communities facing industrial loss. Through international case studies, it shows how cultural memory, local traditions, and identity become communal strategies for survival and perseverance.
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Outsourcing and Service Work in the New Economy
The Case of Call Centres in Mexico City
This book examines outsourcing's impact on workers in the new economy. Through a study of Mexico City's call centres, it identifies managerial practices that harm employment conditions, revealing how 'old economy' tactics persist in the 21st century.
This book examines outsourcing’s impact on workers in the new economy. Through a study of Mexico City’s call centres, it identifies managerial practices that harm employment conditions, revealing how ‘old economy’ tactics persist in the 21st century.
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The satires of Lucian of Samosata targeted everyone from cult-leaders to the rich and powerful. This volume focuses on what his works show us about the intellectual, political, religious, and everyday life of the vibrant Imperial period.
The satires of Lucian of Samosata targeted everyone from cult-leaders to the rich and powerful. This volume focuses on what his works show us about the intellectual, political, religious, and everyday life of the vibrant Imperial period.
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This book enhances the reader's knowledge of globalization's role in the evolving world of new technologies from a multidisciplinary perspective. It overviews the process from historical, geographical, social, and political-economic contexts.
This book enhances the reader’s knowledge of globalization’s role in the evolving world of new technologies from a multidisciplinary perspective. It overviews the process from historical, geographical, social, and political-economic contexts.
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Current Latin American post-feminist writers propose a transgressive new social order. This critical text explores how their narratives seek a dignified life for women by overcoming dominant social, political, and cultural structures.
Current Latin American post-feminist writers propose a transgressive new social order. This critical text explores how their narratives seek a dignified life for women by overcoming dominant social, political, and cultural structures.
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This book analyzes family diversity across cultures and generations. It reveals the complex connections between individual lives and major social, economic, and demographic shifts, deconstructing myths and exploring changes in gender and generational roles.
This book analyzes family diversity across cultures and generations. It reveals the complex connections between individual lives and major social, economic, and demographic shifts, deconstructing myths and exploring changes in gender and generational roles.
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The Worlds of Elias Canetti
Centenary Essays
The essays gathered here challenge conventional wisdom about Nobel laureate Elias Canetti. This volume introduces us to a Canetti we have not yet known, one who belongs to the twenty-first century, and opens up new areas to scholarly investigation.
The essays gathered here challenge conventional wisdom about Nobel laureate Elias Canetti. This volume introduces us to a Canetti we have not yet known, one who belongs to the twenty-first century, and opens up new areas to scholarly investigation.
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