Why do Koreans work some of the longest hours in the world? This book explores the reasons behind Korea’s demanding work culture and reveals the major impact lengthy working hours have on the ability of average Koreans to participate in leisure activities.
Navigating Multiculturalism
This provocative volume explores multiculturalism from various perspectives, addressing divisive questions about race, ethnicity, and identity. This collection challenges readers to examine their own perceptions and consider how to navigate change.
Ebony Roots, Northern Soil
This powerful collection of critical essays explores the histories and cultural engagements of black Canadians. It challenges the myth of a racially benevolent Canada, dissecting institutional racism and defining a black Canadian identity distinct from American ideals.
Global society, cosmopolitanism, and human rights constitute the basis of our future. This volume analyzes the dominant traits of a world beyond the nation-state: the dynamics of unification, cosmopolitan lifestyles, and human rights as regulation.
Cases of Intervention
Cases of Intervention offers new perspectives on the case study in British cultural studies. In this volume, the method takes centre stage as scholars apply theory to diverse topics like the cup of tea, CCTV, and monarchs on film.
The Boom Femenino in Mexico
This collection of essays explores the “boom femenino,” the surge of women’s writing in Mexico over the last three decades. International scholars investigate the term’s cultural significance and how these authors challenged a traditionally male literary arena.
Multiple Lenses
Spanning 400 years, this essential introduction explores the Black Canadian experience. Through diverse lenses from law to music, leading voices reveal the ongoing struggle and triumph in the quest for identity, justice, and self-definition.
Multilingual Trends in a Globalized World
Explore evolving language education trends as globalization shifts the focus to multilingualism. This book presents the latest controversies and case studies from South East Asia and other diverse contexts around the world.
Economy in Changing Society
Within the frame of globalisation and post-socialist transformation, this book analyzes how actors, relations, and institutions drive economic processes. Empirical studies explore transition economies, new markets, consumption, and corporate behavior.
Heimat Goes Mobile
The German concept of Heimat—a feeling of home and belonging—is evolving in a globalized world. This collection of essays explores new, hybrid forms of Heimat in film, literature, and culture, showing how the notion now transcends boundaries of nation and race.
Exchanges and Correspondence
This challenging survey of “feminism-in-the-making” spans from the 18th century to the present, across the globe. A fascinating chorus of voices emerges, throwing light on women’s growing consciousness and the struggle for their rights.
In post-socialist countries, consumer culture is a “science in the shadows,” studied commercially but neglected by academia. This book creates a counterbalance, exploring consumer behaviour, new theories, and recent criticism from leading scholars.
The Measure of All Things
This book reviews man’s relationship with the forces of evolution in a biological and spiritual sense. It is an innovative excursion into the arguments between evolutionists and creationists regarding the fate of man.
Diverse Spaces
An interdisciplinary group of scholars interrogate how ‘Canadian-ness’ is represented, disputed, and negotiated in public culture. This volume examines official spaces and alternative narratives that assert voice, highlighting the conflicts and successes that emerge.
This book chips away at racial hierarchies obstructing human rights and social justice. While many authors write from an Australian perspective, the issues—from Indigenous sovereignties to media representations—have clear relevance beyond national borders.
Learning from Memory
This book, with contributions from international social scientists, explores the link between body, memory, and digital technologies. It outlines a sociology of memory, throwing light on human behavior and the neurobiological factors that underpin it.
A scholarly resource bringing together current knowledge and contemporary debate in social marketing. This book explores numerous hot topics and controversial issues, such as ethics, climate change, energy consumption, and healthy eating habits.
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.
Marronnage and Arts
Marronnage, the quest for freedom during Slavery, has infiltrated social relationships and the arts. This book explores how revolt is incarnated in bodies and voices through music and dance, from the French West Indies to Madagascar and Brazil.
Ideological Battlegrounds – Constructions of Us and Them Before and After 9/11 Volume 1
This volume explores the global cultural and literary effects of 9/11. It examines the representation of Islam, political and psychological dilemmas, and asks if 9/11 was a historical disruption or a catalyst for escalating existing stereotypes.