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  • Stuart Hall

    Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies

    Edited by Kuan-Hsing Chen, David Morley ...
    Series series Comedia
    Stuart Hall's work has been central to the formation and development of cultural studies as an international discipline. Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies is an invaluable collection of writings by and about Stuart Hall. The book provides a representative selection of Hall's enormously influential writings on cultural studies and its concerns: the relationship with Marxism; ... Read more

    $72.68 CAD

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  • Sociology: The Key Concepts

    Edited by John Scott ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    An essential A-Z guide to the full range of sociological thought, Sociology: The Key Concepts is an important addition to the established and successful Key Concepts series.Fully cross-referenced with an extensive glossary, this accessible text also includes:alphabetical listings of key concepts for ease of usesuggestions for further reading to enhance understanding of areas coveredentries on ... Read more

    $64.05 CAD

  • Maps of Meaning

    by Peter Jackson ...
    This innovative book marks a significant departure from tradition anlayses of the evolution of cultural landscapes and the interpretation of past environments. Maps of Meaning proposes a new agenda for cultural geography, one set squarely in the context of contemporary social and cultural theory.Notions of place and space are explored through the study of elite and popular cultures, gender and ... Read more

    $81.30 CAD

  • Strange Encounters

    Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality

    by Sara Ahmed ...
    Series series Transformations
    Examining the relationship between strangers, embodiment and community, Strange Encounters challenges the assumptions that the stranger is simply anybody we do not recognize and instead proposes that he or she is socially constructued as somebody we already know. Using feminist and postcolonial theory this book examines the impact of multiculturalism and globalization on embodiment and community ... Read more

    $91.16 CAD

  • Ideology and Modern Culture

    Critical Social Theory in the Era of Mass Communication

    by John B. Thompson ...
    In this major new work, Thompson develops an original account of ideology and relates it to the analysis of culture and mass communication in modern Societies.Thompson offers a concise and critical appraisal of major contributions to the theory of ideology, from Marx and Mannheim, to Horkheimer, Adorno and Habermas. He argues that these thinkers - and social and political theorists more generally ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Cultural Theory

    An Introduction

    by Philip Smith, Alexander Riley ...
    This second edition of Cultural Theory provides a concise introduction to cultural theory, placing major figures, traditional concepts, and contemporary themes within a sharp conceptual framework.Provides a student-friendly introduction to what can often be a complex field of studyUpdates the first edition in response to reader feedback and to the changing nature of the fieldIncludes additional ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Identity and Justice

    by Ian Angus ...
    In this provocative study of the task of English-Canadian philosophy, Ian Angus contends that English Canada harbours a secret and unofficial dream of self-rule that is revealed through critiques of empire. Looking at the main tensions between local dwelling and the globalized market, Identity and Justice shows how contemporary society's reactions to technological advances and a world market ... Read more

    $38.15 CAD

  • Linguistic Imperialism Continued

    by Robert Phillipson ...
    This volume brings together key writings since the 1992 publication of Linguistic Imperialism – Robert Phillipson’s controversial benchmark volume, which triggered a major re-thinking of the English teaching profession by connecting the field to wider political and economic forces. Analyzing how the global dominance of English in all domains of power is maintained, legitimized and persists in the ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • State Power

    by Bob Jessop ...
    Bob Jessop presents an up-to-date account of his distinctive approach to the dialectics of structure and strategy in the exercise of state power. While his earlier work critically surveys other state theories, this book focuses on the development of his own strategic-relational approach. It introduces its main sources, outlines its development, applies this approach to four case studies, and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World

    System, Scale, Culture

    by Richard E. Lee, Franco Moretti ...
    In this collection of essays, leading cultural theorists consider the meaning and implications of world-scale humanist scholarship by engaging with Immanuel Wallerstein’s world-systems analysis. The renowned sociologist developed his influential critical framework to explain the historical and continuing exploitation of the rest of the world by the West. World-systems analysis reflects Wallerstein ... Read more

    $34.46 CAD

  • An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture

    by Dominic Strinati ...
    An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture is widely recognized as an immensely useful textbook for students taking courses in the major theories of popular culture. Strinati provides a critical assessment of the ways in which these theories have tried to understand and evaluate popular culture in modern societies.Among the theories and ideas the book introduces are: mann culture, the ... Read more

    $81.30 CAD

  • History and Cultural Theory

    by Simon Gunn ...
    In recent times there has been recognition of the growing influence of cultural theory on historical writing. Foucault, Bourdieu, Butler and Spivak are just some of the thinkers whose ideas have been taken up and deployed by historians.What are these ideas and where do they come from? How have cultural theorists thought about 'history'? And how have historians applied theoretical insights to ... Read more

    $108.41 CAD