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Unfolding Spatial Movements in the Second-Hand Book Market in Kolkata Notes on the Margins in the Boipara

Unfolding Spatial Movements in the Second-Hand Book Market in Kolkata Notes on the Margins in the Boipara

This insightful book unfolds the boipara exploring the acts of thinking and writing about space and place in the context of recent key conversations at the intersections of cultural geographies mobilities materialities and heritage studies. This book reconsiders how we can think about space place and spatialisation using the book market as a case study. Focusing on everyday lived and imagined experiences within the space it provides insights into the intricacies complexities and mobilities involved in the many ways in which temporal material structural and sensorial experiences of spaces are inter-implicated. As expression and method this work aims to be a writing of space (rather than a writing about space) produced through the interleafing of the author’s lived spatial experience of the boipara with the stories experiences and memories of other regulars who have used and continue to use it along with the non-human materialities and mobilities that characterise it. This book is essential reading for a wide international audience particularly those interested in the evolving discussions on mobility or writing about space and place materiality assemblage theory and heritage spaces in the South Asian context. | Unfolding Spatial Movements in the Second-Hand Book Market in Kolkata Notes on the Margins in the Boipara

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The Development of an African Working Class Studies in Class Formation and Action

The Development of an African Working Class Studies in Class Formation and Action

Originally published in 1975 this volume reassesses the historical political and social role of African workers and examines the extent to which a working class has formed and undertaken collective action in various parts of Africa. The book is based on primary historical sources or first-hand experiences. The contributors are linked by their belief in the legitimacy of action by organised workers to create a more just society. | The Development of an African Working Class Studies in Class Formation and Action

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The Social Framework of Agriculture

The Social Framework of Agriculture

Published in 1968: The author not only pioneered modern-style village surveys in both England and India but also modern style urban surveys and studies in India. There he broke new ground in his remarkable first-hand researches on agricultural labour village economics depressed or Untouchable classes in town and country and human and industrial relations in India’s first steel town Jamshedpur. In the text of this book we reproduce thirty-five of the author’s papers – in whole in part or in summary. | The Social Framework of Agriculture

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Hybrid Drawing Techniques for Interior Design

Hybrid Drawing Techniques for Interior Design

Hybrid Drawing Techniques for Interior Design shows you a flexible and productive design workflow that starts with hand drawing and moves on to digital techniques. In this book digital and freehand images are displayed side-by-side so that you can choose at every step which method is best for your desired effect. You will also learn how to draw freehand using a digital tablet and how to render perspective views elevations and floor plans. This book includes more than 400 color images and practice exercises that can be referenced online.

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World Dance Cultures From Ritual to Spectacle

World Dance Cultures From Ritual to Spectacle

From healing fertility and religious rituals through theatrical entertainment to death ceremonies and ancestor worship the updated and revised second edition of World Dance Cultures introduces an extraordinary variety of dance forms and their cultures which are practiced around the world. This highly illustrated textbook draws on wide-ranging historical documentation and first-hand accounts taking in India Bali Java Cambodia China Japan Hawai‘i New Zealand Papua New Guinea Africa Türkiye Spain Native America South America and the Caribbean with this second edition adding new chapters on the Pacific Islands Southern Africa France and Cuba. Each chapter covers a certain region’s distinctive dances pinpoints key issues and trends from the form’s development to its modern iteration and offers a wealth of study features including: • Spotlights zooming in on key details of a dance form’s cultural historical and religious contexts • Explorations—first-hand descriptions by famous dancers and ethnographers excerpts from anthropological fieldwork or historical writings on the form • Think About—provocations to encourage critical analysis of dance forms and the ways in which they’re understood • Discussion Questions—starting points for group work classroom seminars or individual study. Offering a comprehensive overview of each dance form covered with over 100 full color photos World Dance Cultures is an essential introductory resource for students and instructors alike. | World Dance Cultures From Ritual to Spectacle

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Human Rights in the Media Fear and Fetish

Human Rights in the Media Fear and Fetish

This collection sets about untangling some of the knotty issues in the underexplored relationship between human rights and the media. We investigate how complex debates in political judicial academic and public life on the role and value of human rights are represented in the media particularly in print journalism. To focus the discussion we concentrate on media representation of the controversial proposals in the United Kingdom to repeal the Human Rights Act 1998 and to replace it with a British Bill of Rights. The collection is underpinned by the observation that views on human rights and on the proposals to repeal and replace are polarised. On the one hand human rights are presented as threatening and therefore utterly denigrated; on the other hand human rights are idolised and therefore uncritically celebrated. This is the ‘fear and fetish’ in our title. The media plays a decisive role in constructing this polarity through its representation of political and ideological viewpoints. In order to get to grips with the fear the fetish and this complex interrelationship the collection tackles key contemporary themes amongst them: the proposed British Bill of Rights Brexit prisoner-voting the demonisation of immigrants press freedom tabloid misreporting trial by media and Magna Carta. The collection explores media representation investigates media polarity and critiques the media’s role. | Human Rights in the Media Fear and Fetish

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The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games Assessing the 30-Year Legacy

The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games Assessing the 30-Year Legacy

The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games stand as the most profitable and arguably the most important event in the history of the modern Olympic movement. Fresh off the back of the financially disastrous Montreal Games of 1976 and the politically controversial Moscow Games of 1980 the Olympic movement returned to the United States for the sixth time in an attempt to salvage the economic viability and global prestige of the Olympics. The Los Angeles Olympics proved to be both provocative and polarizing. On the one hand they have been heralded as an overwhelming transformative success ushering the Olympic movement into the modern commercial age. On the other hand critics have repudiated the Games as a manifestation of commercial excess and a platform for western political and cultural propaganda. In conjunction with the 30th anniversary of the Los Angeles Olympics this volume examines their legacy. With an international collection of contributing scholars this volume will span a range of global legacies including the increasing commercialization of the Games the changing participation of women the Communist boycott movement nationalism and sporting identity and the modernization and California-cation of the Games. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport. | The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games Assessing the 30-Year Legacy

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Essays on African Population

Essays on African Population

Originally published in 1961 this book comprises of 14 studies by scholars and officials with first-hand experience of Africa and deals with the nature and organization of population censuses and with the many uses to which their results may be put. Written at a time of political transition on the African continent it was vitally important that the collection and interpretation of statistics dealing with distribution density migration and occupation in Africa continued. This volume shows how demographers sociologists anthropologists and geographers were using the research to be followed in the interpretation of the numerous censuses being conducted in the early 1960s. | Essays on African Population

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Ethnocide: A Cultural Narrative of Refugee Detention in Hong Kong A Cultural Narrative of Refugee Detention in Hong Kong

Ethnocide: A Cultural Narrative of Refugee Detention in Hong Kong A Cultural Narrative of Refugee Detention in Hong Kong

This title was first published in 2000: An ethnographic inquiry into the socio-cultural dynamics of the Vietnamese asylum seeker detention centres in Hong Kong during the period of 1988-1995. It deals essentially with the British asylum policy towards Vietnamese refugees and its outcome in Hong Kong. Based on the author's first hand experience of working in refugee camps this book argues that the administrators managed to solve the crisis by perpetuating horrendous human rights violations and subsequent ethnocide of the asylum seekers trapped in the detention centres. | Ethnocide: A Cultural Narrative of Refugee Detention in Hong Kong A Cultural Narrative of Refugee Detention in Hong Kong

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Spatializing the History of Ecology Sites Journeys Mappings

Spatializing the History of Ecology Sites Journeys Mappings

Throughout its history the discipline of ecology has always been profoundly entangled with the history of space and place. On the one hand ecology is a field science that has thrived on the study of concrete spatial entities such as islands forests or rivers. These spaces are the workplaces in which ecological phenomena are identified observed and experimented on. They provide both epistemic opportunities and constraints that structure the agenda and the analytical sensibilities of ecological researchers. On the other hand ecological knowledge and practices have become important resources through which spaces and places are classified delineated explained experienced and managed. The impact of these activities reaches far beyond the realms of the ecological discipline. Many ecological concepts such as biotopes ecosystems and the biosphere have become entities that widely resonate in public life and policy making. This book explores the mutual entanglement between space and knowledge-making in the history of ecology. Its first goal is to explore to which extent a spatial perspective can shed new light on the history of ecological science. Second it uses ecology as a critical site to gain broader insights into the history of the environment in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Via a series of case studies – discussing topics that range from ecological field stations in the early-twentieth century Caribbean over wisent breeding in Nazi Germany to computer modelling in North American deserts – the book offers a tour through the changing landscapes of modern ecology. | Spatializing the History of Ecology Sites Journeys Mappings

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Allying beyond Social Divides Coalitions and Contentious Politics

Allying beyond Social Divides Coalitions and Contentious Politics

This book offers a fresh look at the role of coalitions in contentious politics in North Africa and the Middle East based on conceptual reflexions and empirical case studies by researchers who have conducted extensive fieldwork in the region. Coalitions of actors that have traditionally not been allies have become a key feature of the protest movements that have emerged across North Africa and the Middle East since 2011. But what happens when Islamists ally with Leftists workers with student unions and young engineers with local tribesmen? How do coalitions form across ideological generational professional ethnic and class divides? Are such collaborations transformative? The authors seek to show that it is important to go beyond analyses that focus mainly on identifying the factors that led to a coalition’s success or failure: coalitions are moments of transformative encounter that can lead to changes affecting relations with political authorities ideological learnings repertoires of action and understandings of the notion of right. Instead of analyzing coalitions and social divides as two opposite processes this book further argues that studying the alliance of social groups goes hand in hand with exploring processes of differentiation that are engineered by both political regimes and social actors. Focusing on the role of coalitions in contentious politics before and after the Arab uprisings this book proposes a sociology of coalitions in the Middle East based on key empirical examples to analyze the transformations that emerged out of such alliances at the levels of repertoires of action forms of organization relations to political authorities and ideological learnings. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Mediterranean Politics. | Allying beyond Social Divides Coalitions and Contentious Politics

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Salted Paper Printing A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Contemporary Artists

Salted Paper Printing A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Contemporary Artists

Salted Paper Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Contemporary Artists makes one of the oldest known photographic processes easy for the 21st century using simple digital negative methods. Christina Z. Anderson’s in-depth discussion begins with a history of salted paper printing then covers the salted paper process from beginner to intermediate level with step-by-step instructions and an illustrated troubleshooting guide. Including cameraless imagery hand-coloring salt in combination with gum and printing on fabric Salted Paper Printing contextualizes the practice within the varied alternative processes. Anderson offers richly-illustrated profiles of contemporary artists making salted paper prints discussing their creative process and methods. Salted Paper Printing is perfect for the seasoned photographer looking to dip their toe into alternative processes or for the photography student eager to engage with photography’s rich history. | Salted Paper Printing A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Contemporary Artists

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South Africa's Struggle to Remember Contested Memories of Squatter Resistance in the Western Cape

South Africa's Struggle to Remember Contested Memories of Squatter Resistance in the Western Cape

Transitional justice studies typically focuses on how nations remember face and deal with histories of past violence. This book however shifts the frame from national discourses of transitional justice onto local memory actors who attempt to engage with these broader systems of meaning from below. The case study is based on the memory struggles of individuals and groups who are attempting to gain access to the discourses and benefits associated with dominant memory identities of ‘victim’ and ‘veteran’ in the context of post-transition South Africa. They share a common history of squatter resistance in the Western Cape in the 1980s and a common struggle for inclusion in dominant memory frameworks. The main theme of this book is the politics of memory as it relates to the conversation between national and local memory. Integrated within this theme is the further theme of alternative histories and counter-memories of struggle from below. In focusing on counter memories of violence and transition this book aims to tell a different version of South African liberation history in relation to the dominant narrative. It analyses local memory actors' attempts to bring their lived histories into conversation with national discourses of reconciliation and the national liberation struggle. In doing so it unpacks a memory paradox occurring within these narratives which highlights the politics of inclusion and exclusion within the frames of transitional justice knowledge. On the one hand this alternate story exposes the paradox between local and national memory while on the other hand it brings into focus the local experience of the intersection between international transitional justice discourses and national transition politics. This book will be of local and international interest to scholars and students in the field of transitional justice memory politics national liberation struggle and South African historiography. It will also be of interest to a broader South Africa public as it offers a deeper understanding of South Africa’s history which challenges taken for granted transitional justice frames of knowledge. | South Africa's Struggle to Remember Contested Memories of Squatter Resistance in the Western Cape

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Volume 20: The Auction Catalogue of Kierkegaard's Library

Volume 20: The Auction Catalogue of Kierkegaard's Library

This volume is a revised and improved edition of the auction catalogue of Kierkegaard’s private library. The catalogue has long served as one of the most valuable tools in Kierkegaard studies and has been actively used by commentators translators and researchers for tracing the various sources of Kierkegaard’s thought. With the catalogue in hand one can determine with some degree of probability what books he read and what editions he used for his information about specific authors. The present volume represents the fourth printing of the catalogue and it differs from its predecessors in many respects. The previous editions contained incomplete erroneous and inconsistent bibliographical information about the works in the catalogue. The primary goal of the present edition was to obtain all of the books and check their title pages for the precise bibliographical information. The result is an accurate and reliable edition of the catalogue that conforms to the needs of Kierkegaard studies in the digital age. | Volume 20: The Auction Catalogue of Kierkegaard's Library

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Economic Development in Rural Areas Functional and Multifunctional Approaches

Economic Development in Rural Areas Functional and Multifunctional Approaches

Analysing the ongoing changes and dynamics in rural development from a functional perspective through a series of case studies from the global north and south this volume deepens our understanding of the importance of new functional and multifunctional approaches in policy practice and theory. In rural areas of industrialized societies food production as a basis for growth and employment has been declining for many decades. In the Global South on the other hand food production is still often the most important factor for socio-economic development. However rural areas both in the industrialized north and in the global south are facing new challenges which lead to significant changes and threats to their development. New forms of food production but also new functional (e. g. housing or business parks) and often multifunctional approaches are being discussed and practiced yet it remains unclear the extent to which these result in better or more sustainable development of rural areas. | Economic Development in Rural Areas Functional and Multifunctional Approaches

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The Art of Suffering and the Impact of Seventeenth-century Anti-Providential Thought

The Art of Suffering and the Impact of Seventeenth-century Anti-Providential Thought

This title was first published in 2003. 'The art of suffering' is one of many strands of literature on suffering published in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This book explores through the art of suffering the way in which the meaning for suffering which the seventeenth century inherited from the Middle Ages and which centres on the role of suffering as a manifestation of the hand of God in the process of salvation is refined and enhanced by successive puritan writers only to crumble under the impact of emerging anti-providential thought. It goes on to explore the challenge which the absence of meaning for suffering presents to the Judaeo-Christian concept of an omnipotent and infinitely good God and the ways in which themes and doctrines already present in the literature on suffering are reshaped and recombined to defend the omnipotence and infinite goodness of God. | The Art of Suffering and the Impact of Seventeenth-century Anti-Providential Thought

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Urbanization in Vietnam

Urbanization in Vietnam

Most studies on urbanisation focus on the move of rural people to cities and the impact this has both on the cities to which the people have moved and on the rural communities they have left. This book on the other hand considers the impact on rural communities of the physical expansion of cities. Based on extensive original research over a long period in one settlement a rural commune which over the course of the last two decades has become engulfed by Hanoi’s urban spread the book explores what happens when village people become urbanites or city dwellers – when agriculture is abandoned population density rises the value of land increases people have to make a living in the city and the dynamics of family life including gender relations are profoundly altered. This book charts these developments over time and sets urbanisation in Vietnam in the wider context of urbanisation in Southeast Asia and Asia more generally. | Urbanization in Vietnam

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Corporate Strategy in Post-Communist Russia

Corporate Strategy in Post-Communist Russia

Russian businesses in the post-Soviet period have been noted for their unusual sometimes allegedly corrupt business practices and for their role in the enrichment of oligarchs. This book which includes a wide range of case study examples and which draws on the author’s first-hand experience of running a Russian company argues that a key to understanding contemporary Russian business is the importance of arbitrage that is the ability to take advantage of price and cost differentials in different markets. The book argues that the conditions for such arbitrage advantages are often created by businesses which have special links to particular institutions; that arbitrage benefits are not available to all businesses in a sector thereby providing unfair competitive advantages to some businesses; and that businesses’ overall activities are often distorted by this system. The book includes an analysis of a wide range of different types of arbitrage activities in action. | Corporate Strategy in Post-Communist Russia

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The Complete Guide to Perspective Drawing From One-Point to Six-Point

The Complete Guide to Perspective Drawing From One-Point to Six-Point

Computers can calculate perspective angles and create a drawing for us but the spontaneity of mark making the tactile quality of a writing surface the weight of a drawing instrument and the immediacy of the human touch are sensations that keep traditional drawing skills perpetually relevant. The sensuality and convenience of the hand persists and will survive as a valuable communication tool as will the need to accurately express your ideas on paper. As a professional understanding the foundations of drawing how we process images and how we interpret what we see are principal skills. Understanding linear perspective enables artists to accurately communicate their ideas on paper. The Complete Guide to Perspective Drawing offers a step-by-step guide for the beginner as well as the advanced student on how to draw in one-point through six-point perspective and how to make scientifically accurate conceptual illustrations from simple to complex situations. | The Complete Guide to Perspective Drawing From One-Point to Six-Point

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The Routledge International Handbook of Dyscalculia and Mathematical Learning Difficulties

The Routledge International Handbook of Dyscalculia and Mathematical Learning Difficulties

Mathematics plays an important part in every person’s life so why isn’t everyone good at it? The Routledge International Handbook of Dyscalculia and Mathematical Learning Difficulties brings together commissioned pieces by a range of hand-picked influential international authors from a variety of disciplines all of whom share a high public profile. More than fifty experts write about mathematics learning difficulties and disabilities from a range of perspectives and answer questions such as: What are mathematics learning difficulties and disabilities? What are the key skills and concepts for learning mathematics? How will IT help now and in the future? What is the role of language and vocabulary? How should we teach mathematics? By posing notoriously difficult questions such as these and studying the answers The Routledge International Handbook of Dyscalculia and Mathematical Learning Difficulties is the authoritative volume and is essential reading for academics in the field of mathematics. It is an incredibly important contribution to the study of dyscalculia and mathematical difficulties in children and young adults.

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Quality and Regulation in Health Care International Experiences

Quality and Regulation in Health Care International Experiences

First published in 1992 Quality and Regulation in Health Care employs socio-legal ideas concerning regulation to examine the methods used to influence the quality of health care in the US UK and Western Europe. Throughout the Western world health care systems both public and private are grappling with the problems of assuring quality while containing costs. On the one hand governments and insurers argue that there must be some limit to the apparently endless growth of health care expenditures. On the other patient groups and consumer advocates already dissatisfied by the problems in holding doctors accountable for their actions protest that such limits must not result in sick people getting inferior treatment. This book examines in detail the debate surrounding the question: How can the professional expertise of the clinicians be reconciled with the preferences of their patients and the economic concerns of taxpayers or insurers? It will be essential reading for graduate and undergraduate courses in health policy medical sociology and health law. | Quality and Regulation in Health Care International Experiences

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The Roots of Religion Exploring the Cognitive Science of Religion

The Roots of Religion Exploring the Cognitive Science of Religion

The cognitive science of religion is a new discipline that looks at the roots of religious belief in the cognitive architecture of the human mind. The Roots of Religion deals with the philosophical and theological implications of the cognitive science of religion which grounds religious belief in human cognitive structures: religious belief is ’natural’ in a way that even scientific thought is not. Does this new discipline support religious belief undermine it or is it despite many claims perhaps eventually neutral? This subject is of immense importance particularly given the rise of the ’new atheism’. Philosophers and theologians from North America UK and Australia explore the alleged conflict between truth claims and examine the roots of religion in human nature. Is it less ’natural’ to be an atheist than to believe in God or gods? On the other hand if we can explain theism psychologically have we explained it away. Can it still claim any truth? This book debates these and related issues. | The Roots of Religion Exploring the Cognitive Science of Religion

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Bosnia and Herzegovina A Polity on the Brink

Bosnia and Herzegovina A Polity on the Brink

First published in 2007. Emerging from communism in the early 1990s the new state of Bosnia and Herzegovina was immediately embroiled in devastating ethnonationalist conflict. Now an international protectorate the choices of its elites may well propel Bosnia either to a stable future integrated into an expanding European entity or to a future filled with insecurity conflict and adversity. This volume assesses current conditions in Bosnia as well as the prospects for stability in a country torn between nationalistic elites on the one hand and the desires of important regional actors for control of Bosnia on the other with a fractious international community overseeing the matter. Friedman controversially denies that the wars of Yugoslavia's dissolution are a necessary product of ancient ethnic hatreds contending that Bosnia and Herzegovina was once the quintessential multi-ethnic multireligious community and could be again. Containing chapters on the country's history economics international relations and politics this book will provide social scientists with an accessible overview of contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina. | Bosnia and Herzegovina A Polity on the Brink

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Studies on Ottoman Society and Culture 16th–18th Centuries

Studies on Ottoman Society and Culture 16th–18th Centuries

The studies presented in this collection are concerned most particularly with the material conditions of life in the mature Ottoman state of the 16th-18th centuries. They range from the evaluation of sources of livelihood and conditions in the workplace on the one hand to notions of domesticity and organization of the private sphere on the other and deal with the provinces in both the Balkans and in Asia as much as with Istanbul. At the same time the volume aims to illuminate Ottoman imperial institutional forms and norms as they existed in the high imperial era before the rapid change and transformation associated with late imperial times when the empire was more exposed both to global economic forces and external political pressures. This concentration on the relatively stable conditions that prevailed in the empire throughout the bulk of the early modern era (ca. 1450-ca. 1750) provides the reader with an opportunity to assess Ottoman institutional development and observe social and economic organization in their relatively 'pure' state before the double impact of industrialization and increasing Westernization in the late nineteenth century. | Studies on Ottoman Society and Culture 16th–18th Centuries

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Cultural Theory and Popular Culture A Reader

Cultural Theory and Popular Culture A Reader

The fifth edition of John Storey’s successful Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader is an essential companion volume to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction now in its eighth edition. The reader offers students the opportunity to experience first-hand the theorists and critics discussed in Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction through crucial articles and essays spanning over a hundred years of cultural theory. It can be used both in conjunction with and independently of the textbook. Taken as a whole this book provides a theoretical analytical and historical introduction to the study of popular culture and provides key primary coverage of fundamental issues in cultural studies. This edition includes: a new section on class as well as additional readings on sexuality and gender; fully revised general and section introductions from the editor contextualizing and linking the readings with key issues from the textbook; a fully updated bibliography. The new edition is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of cultural studies media studies communication studies the sociology of culture popular culture and other related subjects. | Cultural Theory and Popular Culture A Reader

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