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This book uses case studies of mundane technologies such as the walking boot, the car and the TV remote control to question some of the fundamental dichotomies through which we make sense of the world.

In this new work van Loon demonstrates how new technologies are transforming the character of risk and examines the relationship between technological culture and society through chapters on ecology, crime and communication.

Why did the 1989 Chinese student movement end in violent confrontation at Tiananmen Square, despite the fact that both the Chinese government and the students very much wanted to avoid violence? This title addresses this question and offers insights into these dramatic events.

Celia Lury describes the body's ability to act outside itself both mechanically and perceptually. She draws on a wide range of examples including phototherapy, accounts of false memory syndrome, family albums and Benetton adverts.

Demonstrates how colonial exploitation of the Caribbean led directly to contemporary forms of consumption of the region and its products, aiming to trouble innocent indulgence in the pleasures of thoughtless consumption.

This collection intervenes in debates around mobility, life, animation and thought by foregrounding the radically ambiguous concept of 'stillness' as a crucial site for critical interrogation. Stillness provides both a challenge and an invitation to consider how the dynamics of passivity, suspension and stasis are integral to our understanding of life on the move.

In this study, the author examines how the "new middle class" of the late 20th century goes about constructing and defending its social identity. Residents of a housing estate, with its own private leisure and sports facilities, formed the basis of the study.

Containing two previously unpublished essays by Jean Baudrillard, this book provides a series of dazzling demonstrations of the power of Baudrillard¿s thought from many of his most accomplished commentators.

Dominant theorists of globalization take on the assumptions of a 'Washington Consensus' which presumes the centrality of neo-liberal American individualism. This book analyzes China as a 'risk culture', embracing the boundless opportunity and adventure of Beijing's Olympic architecture.

A Tale of Two Cities is a study of two major cities, Manchester and Sheffield. Drawing on the work of major theorists, the authors explore the everyday life, making contributions to our understanding of the defining activities of life.

This collection intervenes in debates around mobility, life, animation and thought by foregrounding the radically ambiguous concept of 'stillness' as a crucial site for critical interrogation. Stillness provides both a challenge and an invitation to consider how the dynamics of passivity, suspension and stasis are integral to our understanding of life on the move.

Hollywood screening of tourist destinations has generated tourist industries globally, transforming conventional tourist marketing and experience. This book provides a look at the phenomenon of 'cinematic tourism', exploring audiences' perceptions of film and their covert relationship with tourist advertising campaigns.

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1998. In this highly fragmented culture of ours books are needed to integrate fields of interest ordinarily considered separately, to state their common problems and to deal with their differences in the light of other criteria than the separate functions and local loyalties of the special interests in themselves. This book was originated with that purpose in mind. Specifically this book deals with the practical dualism of our modern morals. With the traditional Christian ethic at one pole and the variegated, often contradictory assemblage of practices and precepts of our secular life at the other, it has never been co-ordinated or made intelligible from within.

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

How has the Labour party handled the issue of race? Caroline Knowles argues that the commonwealth of socialism is founded upon a well-concealed history of brutality and repression.

This incisive inter-disciplinary text provides a major contribution to the study of finance capital and the metropolis.