Cultural studies
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Cultural studies
Hardback. Analyzes diverse contemporary reactions to the depiction of the Holocaust and other cultural traumas in museums, movies, television shows, classroom discussions, and bestselling books. This work also describes several effective pedagogical strategies dedicated to overcoming student resistances to critical analysis and social engagement. Series: Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1; JFC; JMH; JNU. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 191
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230602724
- ISBN
- 9780230602724
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 46.64
€ 53.36
€ 46.64
Paperback. This broad-ranging collection introduces the key methodologies and debates surrounding the study of the textiles and dress of the Middle Ages. New critical viewpoints are brought to bear on the medieval material in the areas of archaeology, art and architecture, economics, law, history, literature, religion, and textile technology. Editor(s): Koslin, Desiree G.; Snyder, Janet. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3H; AKTH; HBTB; JFCK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230602359
- ISBN
- 9780230602359
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 138.30
€ 138.30
Hardcover. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and queer theory to explore the unstable relationship between heterosexual masculine identity and cultural representation, this book examines the ways straight men are queered and abjected in literature, theory, and film. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; DSB; JFCA; JFSJ2. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600089
- ISBN
- 9780230600089
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Paperback. Placing gender at the centre of the debate about young children and multimedia, particularly video games, this, now available in paperback, book develops a relational approach to game play using. The book explores issues of violence and parental regulation and argues that economic relations are central to the micro-relations of playing. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFSJ; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230584716
- ISBN
- 9780230584716
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.82
€ 126.82
Hardback. Bringing together leading scholars to investigate trends in contemporary social life, this book examines the current patterning of identities based on class and community, gender and generation, 'race', faith and ethnicity, and derived from popular culture, exploring debates about social change, individualization and the re-making of social class. Editor(s): Wetherell, Margaret. Series: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230580879
- ISBN
- 9780230580879
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardback. Following the spirit of Benjamin's Arcades Project, this book acts as a kaleidoscope of change in the 21st century, tracing its different reflections in the international contemporary while seeking to understand individual/collective reactions to change through a series of creative methodologies. Editor(s): Pusca, Anca M. Num Pages: 210 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230580862
- ISBN
- 9780230580862
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.36
€ 127.36
Hardback. This book provides the first in-depth analysis of the global phenomenon of snowboarding culture. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, it offers key insights into the sport, lifestyle, industry, media, gender relations, travel, and physical experience of snowboarding, in both historical and contemporary contexts. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JHBS; WSWM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 24. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 322
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230579446
- ISBN
- 9780230579446
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.03
€ 68.03
hardcover. Drawing on the work of Raymond Williams, Valentin Volosinov and Mikhail Bakhtin, the book examines key issues for working-class studies including: the idea of the 'death' of class; the importance of working-class writing; the significance of place and space for understanding working-class identity; and the centrality of work in working-class lives. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2007th Edition
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230549203
- ISBN
- 9780230549203
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.60
€ 127.60
Hardback. Internationally renowned media and literature scholars, social scientists, game designers and artists explore the cultural potential of computer games in this rich anthology, which introduces the latest approaches in the central fields of game studies and provides an extensive survey of contemporary game culture. Editor(s): Jahn-Sudmann, Andreas; Stockmann, Ralf. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; UDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230545441
- ISBN
- 9780230545441
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.93
€ 138.93
Hardcover. In this significant intervention into the academic and institutional debate on European cultural identity, Monica Sassatelli examines the identity-building intentions and effects of the European Capital of Culture programme, and also looks at the work of the Council of Europe and the recent European Landscape Convention. Num Pages: 247 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; GTB; HBJD; HBTB; JFC; JFFS; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230537422
- ISBN
- 9780230537422
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.66
€ 127.66
Hardback. An international collection of papers focused on media, culture and society in postcommunist Russia. Contributors deploy a wealth of primary data in examining the kinds of issues that are central to our understanding of the kind of system that has been established in the world's largest country after a period of far-reaching change. Editor(s): White, Stephen. Series: Studies in Central and Eastern Europe. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HBLW3; JFC; JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230524859
- ISBN
- 9780230524859
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Hardback. Why do the dead return? Do they remain part of the world of the living? This book examines these questions as they emerge in areas as diverse as film, Holocaust testimony, and the works of Jacques Derrida, Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok. The book suggests it may be as difficult for the living to get rid of the dead as it is to live without them. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HPC; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 187
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230507821
- ISBN
- 9780230507821
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.24
€ 128.24
Hardback. Explores the theoretical concerns of literary and cultural studies through a reappraisal of three innovative women writers of the modernist period: Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein. In its provocative combination of cultural methodologies, this work significantly expands on existing aesthetic cartographies of modernism. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230500495
- ISBN
- 9780230500495
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. Young people are regularly posited as a threat to social order and Deconstructing Youth explores why. Applying Derridean deconstruction to case studies on youth sexuality, violence and developmental neuroscience, Gabriel offers a fresh perspective on how we might attend to 'youth problems' by recasting the foundations of the concept of 'youth'. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFFJ; JFSG; JFSP; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230363335
- ISBN
- 9780230363335
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. This timely book examines austerity's conflicted meanings, from austerity chic and anti-austerity protest to economic and eco-austerity. Bramall's compelling text explores the presence and persuasiveness of the past, developing a new approach to the historical in contemporary cultural politics. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; JFFA; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230360471
- ISBN
- 9780230360471
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. Gives long overdue attention to O'Neill's one-acts, this edited collection offers a variety of lenses through which to better understand both his one-act plays and entire oeuvre. Editor(s): Bennett, Michael Y.; Carson, Benjamin D. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230339811
- ISBN
- 9780230339811
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 47.23
€ 53.36
€ 47.23
Hardcover. Utilizing an ethnographic study of a public university and its users, Cicalo analyzes the practical and symbolic potential that affirmative action has to redress historically-produced and territorialized inequalities in the urban space. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC; JFSL3; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338524
- ISBN
- 9780230338524
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardback. Multiple Normalities enhances sociological understandings of normality by illustrating it with the help of British novels. It demonstrates commonalities and differences between the meanings of normality in these two periods, exemplifying the emergence of the multiple normalities and the transformation of ways in which we give meaning to the world. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCX; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230336957
- ISBN
- 9780230336957
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardback. Why do we share so much about our lives on social media when we often have little idea who might be reading or viewing? David R. Brake examines the causes and consequences of moving towards a radically open society. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 383.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230320291
- ISBN
- 9780230320291
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Hardcover. Jan De Vos's second book on psychologization argues that psychology IS psychologization, a phenomenon traced back from Late-Modernity to the Enlightenment. Engaging with seminal thinkers such La Mettrie, Husserl, Lasch and Agamben, the book teases out the limits of psychoanalysis as a critical tool. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; JFCX; JHBA; JMA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 221 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230308466
- ISBN
- 9780230308466
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50