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Media in Motion: Cultural Complexity and Migration in the Nordic Region

by Eide & Nikunen

Owing to increased migration from the 1990s, Nordic countries have gone through substantial cultural and social changes, resulting in increased debate surrounding the politics of multiculturalism. By drawing...


Re-crafting Rationalization: Enchanted Science and Mundane Mysteries

by Locke

Re-Crafting Rationalization contributes to debates relating to the public understanding of science, regarding the conceptualisation of the relationship between 'science' and 'the public'. With profound implications...


Muslim Diaspora in the West: Negotiating Gender, Home and Belonging

by Moghissi & Ghorashi

In view of the growing influence of religion in public life, Muslim Diaspora in the West offers a timely contribution to scholarly debates and concerns raised in the West about Islam and Muslims within diaspora....


Radicalism in French Culture: A Sociology of French Theory in the 1960s

by Kauppi

This ground-breaking book furthers the internal sociological analysis of ideas and styles of thought by showing that the defining but largely neglected feature of what has become 'French theory' is a collective...


Conversations With Landscape

by Benediktsson & Anna Lund

Conversations With Landscape moves beyond conventional dualist approaches to the study of landscape and its relation with humans. With contributions drawn from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology,...


Transgressive Bodies: Representations in Film and Popular Culture

by Richardson

In recent years the 'body' has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, social sciences and humanities. Transgressive Bodies engages with these contemporary cultural debates to offer an examination...


The Empty Museum: Western Cultures and the Artistic Field in Modern Japan

by Morishita

The book examines the processes through which public art museums, as modern Western institutions, were introduced to Japan in the late nineteenth century and how they subsequently developed distinctive national...


Advertising and Cultural Politics in Global Times

by Odih

Advertising and Cultural Politics in Global Times traces daringly transgressive convergences between cultural politics and global advertising media. By drawing on the work of Baudrillard, Giroux, Foucault, Castells...


Liberalizing, Feminizing and Popularizing Health Communications in Asia

by Kai Khiun

With specific examples drawn from popular media, this volume examines the extent to which developments in the communication and portrayal of biomedical discourses in Asia have given the broader public both greater...


Media, Policy and Interaction

by Fitzgerald & Housley

Situated within the field of discourse-oriented approaches to policy and media, this collection explores the interface between government, media and the public, highlighting the increasing importance placed...


Media Discourse and the Yugoslav Conflicts: Representations of Self and Other

by Kolstø

In spite of the growing literature on discourse analysis, the relationship of discourse to violent/non-violent outcomes of conflict is an under-researched area. This book combines theories on ethnic conflict,...


A New Youth?: Young People, Generations and Family Life

by Leccardi & Ruspini

A New Youth? offers critical reflections in the realm of sociology of youth by providing broader understandings of the term 'youth'. The detailed analysis of new forms of marginality and social exclusion among...


Risky Pleasures?: Club Cultures and Feminine Identities

by Hutton

In this book Fiona Hutton provides a fascinating insight into women's experiences of clubbing. Revealing the important role of different spaces and atmospheres in how women participate in club scenes, she argues...


Historicizing Lifestyle: Mediating Taste, Consumption and Identity from the 1900s to 1970s

by Bell & Hollows

Examining issues of taste, media and lifestyle from the 1900s to 1970s, this volume provides empirical evidence and debate from varied international perspectives. Including examples as diverse as 'Good Housekeeping'...


Drugs, Clubs and Young People: Sociological and Public Health Perspectives

by Sanders

Drawing material from the USA, UK and Hong Kong, this volume allows the demystification of stereotypical presentations surrounding young people who attend clubs and/or use club drugs. The volume provides theoretical...


Adapting Idols: Authenticity, Identity and Performance in a Global Television Format

by Zwaan & de Bruin

This volume brings together original studies from international scholars to identify and evaluate the productive dimensions of Idols. As one of the world's most successful television formats, Idols offers a...


Advertising and Reality: A Global Study of Representation and Content

by Amir Hetsroni

Advertising and Reality: A Global Study of Representation and Content offers, for the first time, an extensive study of the way our life is represented in advertising. Leading scholars from different countries,...


Spin Sisters

by Myrna Blyth

Myrna Blyth, former editor-in-chief of Ladies' Home Journal, was part of the Spin Sisters media elite for over twenty years. In Spin Sisters, she tells the truth about the business she knows so well---its power...


Women and the White House: Gender, Popular Culture, and Presidential Politics

by Justin S. Vaughn & Lilly J. Goren

The president of the United States traditionally serves as a symbol of power, virtue, ability, dominance, popularity, and patriarchy. In recent years, however, the high-profile candidacies of Hillary Clinton,...


Music Festivals and Regional Development in Australia

by Chris Gibson & John Connell

This book has an original focus and is structured in two parts: the first discusses broad issues affecting music festivals globally, especially in the context of rural revitalisation. The second part looks in...