‘Woke’ betekent zoveel als een verscherpt gevoel voor onrechtvaardigheid. Na Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, de klimaatzaak, het zwartepietendebat, de dekolonisatie van de witte westerse mentaliteit en de kritiek op heteronormativiteit vanuit de lgbtqia+-gemeenschap kun je er niet naast kijken. Films, boeken, auteurs, artiesten en zangers worden gecanceld of voorzien van een waarschuwing. Literaire canons gaan op de schop, de geschiedenis wordt herschreven en de taal gezuiverd. Universiteiten...

An introductory textbook which uses short bite-sized snap shots to introduce the key debates & approaches, technologies and genres in popular music. Written by an internationally recognised authority it explores the 'ipodification' of popular music whilst providing clear social context for the field as a whole.

As with the three previous titles in the Cultures and Globalization Series, this is a cutting edge collection from an international group of authors. Heritage and memory in particular are key themes in international cultural and media studies.

A fully revised and updated edition of this widely adopted textbook. The First Edition was published in 2003 by Hodder.

A long awaited fully revised and updated edition of Graeme Turner's popular exploration of celebrity studies.

This innovative textbook explores a variety of every facets of culture, both in past and present. How is it possible to study 'culture' when the topic covers the arts, literature, film, history, sociology, anthropology and gender studies? Culture examines the evolution of a concept with varying meanings depending on changing norms. Offering the first long-duration analysis of the relationship between culture and nature, this book looks at the origins of culture from an international perspective.

Using examples from the several scholarly traditions in the practice of studying culture, the book is a key introduction to the area. It identifies the history of interpreting culture as a meeting point between the long-standing historical investigation of 'humanism' and 'postmodernism' and is a comprehensive resource for those who wish to further their engagement with culture as both a historical and contemporary phenomen...

The common saying is that people have a culture. This book argues that people live a culture – which may explain why they are so affectively attached to it. By considering cultural interactions on a global scale, this book investigates how cultures can be understood in terms of conflict and cooperation, in relation to the nationstate, a multiplicity of worlds, society, civilization and community. It considers how culture is at the basis of the construction of individual and collective selve...

Cultuur staat volop in de belangstelling. Sommigen menen dat cultuur een hobby is, anderen denken dat het niet bestaat. Voor velen is cultuur alleen datgene wat wij nu om ons heen zien, of een fenomeen zonder geschiedenis. Hoe kan men 'cultuur' bestuderen als het onderzoeksveld zo groot is dat begrippen uit de beeldende kunst, literatuur, geschiedenis, sociale wetenschappen, filosofie, religie en media er allemaal onderdeel vanuit maken? Deze inleiding laat zien hoe er, vanaf de negentiende e...

This ground-breaking book shines a spotlight on how design has become embedded in political economies, emerging as a vital feature of neoliberal economic systems, from urban strategies to commercial processes to government policy-making.