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Cultural studies
Paperback. Dancers create 'civic culture' as performances for public consumption and vernaculars connecting individuals with little in common. Examining performance and the construction of culturally diverse communities, this book, now in paperback with a new preface, suggests that amateur and concert dance can teach us how to live and work together. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASDT; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 316.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230302334
- ISBN
- 9780230302334
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. How did consumer culture become synonymous with westernised societies? Iqani argues that it is the way it is promoted by media texts. She provides a detailed analysis of publicly displayed consumer magazine covers and engages with big questions about the public, power and identity in mediated consumer culture. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFFT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230303683
- ISBN
- 9780230303683
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Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Remembering Diana: Cultural Memory and the Reinvention of Authority (P...
Victor Jeleniewski Seidler
Hardcover. Analysing the events surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997, Vic Seidler considers the public outpourings of grief and displays of emotion which prompted new kinds of identification and belonging in which communities came together regardless of race, class, gender and sexuality. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPR; JFCA; JFCX; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 29. Weight in Grams: 514.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230320260
- ISBN
- 9780230320260
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.71
€ 67.71
Hardcover. Drawing on cultural anthropology and cultural studies, this book sheds new light on the everyday politics of heritage and memory by illuminating local, everyday engagements with Germanness through heritage fetishism, claims to hometown belonging, and the performative appropriation of cultural property. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; JFCX; JHMC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230320345
- ISBN
- 9780230320345
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardcover. "This book is adapted from the German manuscript 'Die Rote Linie. Eine Geschichte der Veterinèar- und Siedlungsgrenze in Namibia (1890er-1960er Jahre),' completed in 2009 and published in 2012 by the Basler Afrika Bibliographien in Switzerland Series: Palgrave Series in African Borderlands Studies. Num Pages: 339 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; HBTD; HBTQ; JFC; JHM; RGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 638.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230337480
- ISBN
- 9780230337480
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Condition: New
€ 68.19
€ 68.19
Hardcover. Examines contemporary cinematic representations of Argentine masculinities, the social construction of gender, and the financing of domestic film production following Argentina's 1990 change to a neo-liberal economic model. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; APFA; JFCA; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338180
- ISBN
- 9780230338180
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Culture, Education, and Community: Expressions of the Postcolonial Ima...
Lavia, J., Mahlomaholo, S.
Hardcover. Provides a critical space in which to interrogate the ways in which postcolonial voices are imagined and struggle to be valued, heard, and responded to. Takes the imagination of the postcolonial as its focus, acknowledging that it is a troubling, unsettling, and ambiguous concept requiring re-visiting and re-interpretation. Editor(s): Lavia, Jennifer; Mahlomaholo, Sechaba. Series: Postcolonial Studies in Education. Num Pages: 286 pages, 1 figures, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: HBTR; JFC; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338258
- ISBN
- 9780230338258
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Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 47.40
€ 53.37
€ 47.40
Hardcover. This book examines the iconography of the Virgin of Guadalupe as a force for social justice and feminist emancipation within Chicana cultural productions from 1975-2010. In these productions the Virgin serves as a paradigm to unlock the histories of conquest and colonization, racism, and sexual oppression in the US-Mexico borderland and beyond. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; 2ADS; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340008
- ISBN
- 9780230340008
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Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Noha Radwan offers the first book-length study of the emergence, context, and development of modern Egyptian colloquial poetry, recently used as a vehicle for communications in the revolutionary youth movement in Egypt on January 25th 2011, and situates it among modernist Arab poetry. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HBE; DSC; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341326
- ISBN
- 9780230341326
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Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Hardcover. A history of the love affair between BDSM (Bondage/Discipline, Dominance/Submission, Sadism/Masochism) and science fiction and fantasy. Lewis Call explores representations of BDSM in the 1940s Wonder Woman comics, the pioneering prose of Samuel Delany and James Tiptree, and the television shows Battlestar Galactica, Buffy, Angel and Dollhouse. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT; DSK; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230348042
- ISBN
- 9780230348042
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Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardcover. Southgate draws on ideas within history, philosophy, literature, psychology, and theology to explore two traditions: contentment with our situation as it is, and the aspiration to transcend it. He discusses the possibility of escape from intellectual constraints, and advocates a positive 'duty of discontent', and its implications. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPS; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230354593
- ISBN
- 9780230354593
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. Drawing upon field work and interviews with cultural workers in the UK and Australia, this book examines the cultural work experiences of rural, regional and remotely located creative practitioners, and how this sits within local economies and communities. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AF; JFC; JFSF; JHBL; KJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230355422
- ISBN
- 9780230355422
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230356160
- ISBN
- 9780230356160
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Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. Analyzing action at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, this first ethnography of the site offers a fresh approach to studying the memorial and memory work as potential civic engagement of visitors with themselves and others rather than with history itself. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages, 9 figures. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBWQ; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230363304
- ISBN
- 9780230363304
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Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Hardcover. From neorealism's resolve to Berlusconian revisionist melodramas, this book examines cinema's role in constructing memories of Fascist Italy. Italian cinema has both reflected and shaped popular perceptions of Fascism, reinforcing or challenging stereotypes, remembering selectively and silently forgetting the most shameful pages of Italy's history. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; JFCA; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230363328
- ISBN
- 9780230363328
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Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Paperback. Exploring representations of gender, sexuality and ethnicity in Hindi films, Banaji examines the socio-political contexts and how young audiences in India and the UK construct them. In-depth interviews, observations and photographs provide insights into spectatorship and comparison with theories about Hindi film and popular culture. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; APF; JFCA; JFSJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 227
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230363458
- ISBN
- 9780230363458
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This book explores how digital communication generates new intimacies and meanings of friendship in a networked society, developing a theory of mediated intimacies to explain how social media contributes to dramatic changes in our ideas about personal relationships, through themes of self, youth, families, digital dating and online social capital. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFFP; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230364172
- ISBN
- 9780230364172
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.60
€ 127.60
Hardcover. Copyright governance is in a state of flux because the boundaries between legal and illegal consumption have blurred. Trajce Cvetkovski interrogates the disorganizational effects of piracy and emerging technologies on the political economy of copyright in popular music, film and gaming industries. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; LNRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230368477
- ISBN
- 9780230368477
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. Mediating Memory in the Museum is a contribution to an emerging field of research that is situated at the interface between memory studies and museum studies. It highlights the role of museums in the proliferation of the so-called memory boom as well as the influence of memory discourses on international trends in museum cultures. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; GM; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230368866
- ISBN
- 9780230368866
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.22
€ 161.22
Hardcover. Radio, the most widely used medium in the world, is a dominant mediator of musical meaning. Through a combination of critical analysis, interdisciplinary theory and ethnographic writing about community radio, this book provides a novel theorization of democratic aesthetics, with important implications for the study of old and new media alike. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APW; AV; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 136 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230390508
- ISBN
- 9780230390508
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77