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  • - Cultural Studies, History and the Material Turn
     
    675,-

    This book explores and develops new understandings of how power is made up and exercised by examining the role of material infrastructures in the organization of state power and the role of material cultural practices in the organization of colonial forms of governance.

  • - A Routledge Companion
     
    3 323,-

    There is broad acceptance across the Humanities and Social Sciences that our deliberations on the social need to take place through attention to practice, object-mediated relations, non-human agency and the affective dimensions of human sociality. This Companion focuses on the objects and materials found at centre stage, and asks: what matters about objects? Original chapters from over forty international, interdisciplinary contributors address an array of objects and materials to ask what the terms of collaborations with objects and materials are, and to consider how they become integral to our understandings of the complex, relational dynamics that fashion social worlds.

  • - Media Work in Three Cultural Industries
    av Sarah Baker & David Hesmondhalgh
    624 - 2 321,-

    What is it like to work in the media? Are media jobs more 'creative' than those in other sectors? This book explores the creative industries, using a combination of original research and a synthesis of existing studies. It is suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of subjects including business and management studies.

  • - Cultural Economies of Insurance, Credit and Spending
    av Liz McFall
    752 - 2 316,-

  • av Tony Bennett
    864 - 2 321,-

  • av David Wright, Tony Bennett, Mike Savage, m.fl.
    800 - 2 321,-

    Offers a contribution to international debates regarding the role of cultural capital in relation to modern forms of inequality. Drawing on a national study of the organisation of cultural practices in contemporary Britain, this work reviews Bourdieu's classic study of the relationships between culture and class in the light of subsequent debates.

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    769,-

    Media studies needs richer and livelier intellectual resources. This book considers key processes of media change, using a number of critical perspectives. It is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers of cultural studies, media studies and social theory.

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    2 881,-

    Media studies needs richer and livelier intellectual resources. This book considers key processes of media change, using a number of critical perspectives. It is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers of cultural studies, media studies and social theory.

  • - Cultural Studies, History and the Material Turn
     
    2 321,-

    Explores and develops fresh understandings of how power is made up and exercised by examining the role of material infrastructures in the organisation of state power and the role of material cultural practices in the organisation of colonial forms of governance.

  • - A Companion
     
    2 802,-

    This book gathers some of the most influential international scholarship in an emergent social science of infrastructures. Approaching infrastructures as complex, dynamic and fragile assemblages the volume aims to introduce readers to a new field of analytical approaches that draws attention to how the study of infrastructures can offer politically and theoretically generative perspectives on key areas of contemporary concern.

  • - Purifying the Social
    av UK) Nimmo & Richie (University of Machester
    624 - 2 401,-

    Presents a socio-material analysis of the British milk industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This title is suitable for any researcher interested in the hybrid socio-material, economic and political factors underpinning the transformation of the milk industry.

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    2 160,-

    Migrants bring music from the homeland to the metropolis. But music also migrates via the media: `world¿ music, hip hop, bossa nova ... . With case studies from across the world this ground-breaking collection shows how migrating music is key to the construction of a still-emerging, global cosmopolitan imagination.

  • - Labour, Continuity and Change in the Cultural and Creative Industries
     
    2 321,-

    Theorizing Cultural Work brings together leading theorists to reflect on the ways in which forms of cultural work are embedded historically and socially, and to assess the extent to which they are illustrative of some putatively new social relations of work. It analyzes both local and internationally inter-linked cultural/creative labour processes as they unfold across different territories and economic regimes, considering the history and the future of cultural work in light of the immediate (post-crisis) and longer term social context.

  • - The Material Politics of Plastic
     
    2 481,-

    Plastic has become emblematic of economies of abundance and ecological destruction. If the post-war `plastics age¿ was cleaner and brighter than all that preceded it, this boosterism has now become intertwined with anxiety as the burdens of accumulating plastic wastes register in environments and bodies. This innovative book investigates how plastic accumulates functions, concerns, politics, properties and more.

  • av Australia) Watkins, Megan (University of Western Sydney, Australia) Noble, m.fl.
    573 - 2 301,-

  • - States, media and markets 1950-2010
     
    1 912,-

    This book focuses on the emergence and expansion of media markets; high-performance sport¿s transformation by, and effects upon, Cold War dynamics and inter-relations and the implications of the Treaty of Rome for an emerging European identity in sport as in other areas. It traces the connections between the forces of ideological division, economic growth, leisure consumption, European integration and the development of European sport, and examines the role of sport in the changing relationship between Europe and the US. Illuminating a key moment in global cultural history, this book is important reading for any student or scholar working in international studies, modern history or sport.

  • - Consumer Credit, Debt Collection and the Capture of Affect
    av UK) Deville & Joe (Lancaster University
    599 - 2 321,-

  • - An International Forum on the Future of Cities
     
    2 316,-

    In 2010 Shanghai hosted the largest, most spectacular and most expensive expo ever. Attracting a staggering 73 million visitors, and costing around US$45 billion dollars, Shanghai Expo broke the records in the history of world's fairs and universal expositions. The thirteen essays in Shanghai Expo, written by a team of interdisciplinary researchers, offer a uniquely detailed analysis of this globally significant event.

  • - The Happening of the Social
     
    2 321,-

    Methods texts in social and cultural research have not kept pace with the increasing importance of interdisciplinary work, changing conceptions of the empirical, and the need to communicate with diverse users and audiences. This volume proposes a set of approaches for the empirical investigation of the contemporary world.

  • - A socio-cultural analysis
    av Kath Woodward, Garry Whannel, John Horne & m.fl.
    675 - 2 438,-

  • - Global Models, Local Lives?
     
    2 031,-

    Models matter and have material effects on the lives of people. They emerge and change in historical, social and cultural conjunctures that operate at different scales and promote different subjective experiences and conditions of possibility for action. Industry and Work in Contemporary Capitalism engages critically with models of the economy and blueprints of the future, providing an ethnographically rich account of the enactment of models in specific communities. It also addresses the uses of projections into the future as forms of knowledge that are simultaneously powerful instruments of transformation.

  • - Cosmopolitan contact zones at the BBC World Service (1932-2012)
     
    2 321,-

    This volume links contemporary debates on cosmopolitanism to historical and comparative case studies on international broadcasting. Through the prism of the BBC World Service, it illuminates how diasporic broadcasters at the BBC translate and produce news in dozens of languages and, as skilled cultural intermediaries, are integral to British diplomacy.

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