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Making Culture, Changing Society
Making Culture, Changing Society proposes a challenging new account of the relations between culture and society focused on how particular forms of cultural knowledge and expertise …
Speculative Research
Is another future possible? So called ‘late modernity’ is marked by the escalating rise in and proliferation of uncertainties and unforeseen events brought about by the interplay …
Unpacking IKEA
This book represents the first anthropological ethnography of Ikea consumption and goes to the heart of understanding the unique and at times frantic popularity of this one iconic …
The Known Economy
Why do critics and celebrants of globalization concur that international trade and finance represent an inexorable globe-bestriding force with a single logic? The Known Economy …
The Media and Social Theory
Media studies needs richer and livelier intellectual resources. This book brings together major and emerging international media analysts to consider key processes of media change, …
Red Creative: Culture and Modernity in China
As China’s leading economic metropolis and ‘most western city’ Shanghai in the last twenty years has used culture as a major spur to its ambitions to become a global city. This …
Diasporas and Diplomacy
Diasporas and Diplomacy analyzes the exercise of British ‘soft power’ through the BBC’s foreign language services, and the diplomatic role played by their diasporic broadcasters. …
Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu's Legacy
Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu’s Legacy explores the achievements and limitations of a Bourdieusian approach to cultural analysis through original contributions from distinguished …
Studio Studies
Consider the vast array of things around you, from the building you are in, the lights illuminating the interior, the computational devices mediating your life, the music in the …
For Public Service
This book develops a particular stance on the subject of public service. It does so in large part by indicating how early modern political concepts and theories of state, …
Sport and the Transformation of Modern Europe
In the modern era, sport has been an important agent, and symptom, of the political, cultural and commercial pressures for convergence and globalization. In this fascinating, …
Interdisciplinarity
The idea that research should become more interdisciplinary has become commonplace. According to influential commentators, the unprecedented complexity of problems such as climate …