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  • Reading Science/Fiction

    Practices, Pleasures and Publics

    by Amy C. Chambers, Lisa Garforth, Miranda Jeanne Marie Iossifidis, Joanna Verran ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the relationship between reading science in fiction and engaging with science. Focusing on embodied readers and empirical approaches to fiction reading, the authors examine contemporary social, cultural, biographical and political contexts in which science fictions come to matter. Drawing together a distinctive set of research studies and conceptual resources, the book outlines ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Urban Narratives about Nature

    Socio-Ecological Imaginaries between Science and Entertainment

    by Carlos Tabernero, Carlos Acosta, Tim Boon, Santos Casado, Carlos Gámez-Pérez, Lisa Garforth, Jean-Baptiste Gouyon, Oliver Hochadel, Max Long, Ignasi Medà-Calvet0, Marta Piñol-Lloret1, Marco Armiero2 ...
    Series series Environment and Society
    When more than half of the Earth population lives in cities, and living conditions worldwide suffer from a steady increase in environmental issues, historical inquiry provides useful reflections and new perspectives on the present. Urban Narratives about Nature: Socio-Ecological Imaginaries between Science and Entertainment aims at generating specific historical knowledge concerning processes of ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Green Utopias

    Environmental Hope Before and After Nature

    by Lisa Garforth ...
    Environmentalism has relentlessly warned about the dire consequences of abusing and exploiting the planet's natural resources, imagining future wastelands of ecological depletion and social chaos. But it has also generated rich new ideas about how humans might live better with nature.Green Utopias explores these ideas of environmental hope in the post-war period, from the environmental crisis to ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

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    Why Reality Matters for Feminism

    by Kathleen Stock ...
    PREORDER KATHLEEN STOCK'S NEW BOOK DO NOT GO GENTLE: THE CASE AGAINST ASSISTED DEATH (APRIL, 2026)'A clear, concise, easy-to-read account of the issues between sex, gender and feminism . . . an important book' Evening Standard'A call for cool heads at a time of great heat and a vital reminder that revolutions don't always end well' Sunday TimesMaterial Girls is a timely and trenchant criti... ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Gender and Media

    Representing, Producing, Consuming

    by Tonny Krijnen, Sofie Van Bauwel ...
    Series series Communication and Society
    This thoroughly revised second edition provides a critical overview of the contemporary debates and discussions surrounding gender and mediated communication.The book is divided into three parts: representing, producing, and consuming, with each section made up of three chapters. The first chapter of each section attempts to answer the most basic questions: ‘Who is represented?’, ‘Who produces ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Television Studies: The Key Concepts

    by Ben Calvert, Neil Casey, Bernadette Casey, Liam French, Justin Lewis ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Television Studies: The Key Concepts is the definitive reference guide to an area of rapidly expanding academic interest. Among those aspects of television studies covered in this comprehensive and up-to-date guide are:theoretical perspectives which have shaped the study of television - Marxism; semiology; feminismconcepts which have shaped the study of television - narrative; representation; ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Introducing Cultural Studies

    by Brian Longhurst, Greg Smith, Gaynor Bagnall, Garry Crawford, Miles Ogborn ...
    This updated, new edition of Introducing Cultural Studies provides a systematic and comprehensible introduction to the concepts, debates and latest research in the field. Reinforcing the interdisciplinary nature of Cultural Studies, the authors first guide the reader through cultural theory before branching out to examine different dimensions of culture in detail – including globalisation, the ... Read more

    $78.99 USD

  • Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance

    A Mediterranean Approach to the Anglosphere

    Edited by Maria Isabel Romero-Ruiz, Pilar Cuder-Domínguez ...
    Series series Thinking Gender in Transnational Times
    This Open Access book considers the cultural representation of gender violence, vulnerability and resistance with a focus on the transnational dimension of our contemporary visual and literary cultures in English. Contributors address concepts such as vulnerability, resilience, precarity and resistance in the Anglophone world through an analysis of memoirs, films, TV series, and crime and literary ... Read more

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  • Fan Cultures

    by Matthew Hills ...
    Series series Sussex Studies in Culture and Communication
    Emphasising the contradictions of fandom, Matt Hills outlines how media fans have been conceptualised in cultural theory. Drawing on case studies of specific fan groups, from Elvis impersonators to X-Philes and Trekkers, Hills discusses a range of approaches to fandom, from the Frankfurt School to psychoanalytic readings, and asks whether the development of new media creates the possibility of new ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Creative Explorations

    New Approaches to Identities and Audiences

    by David Gauntlett ...
    How do you picture identity? What happens when you ask individuals to make visual representations of their own identities, influences, and relationships?Drawing upon an array of disciplines from neuroscience to philosophy, and art to social theory, David Gauntlett explores the ways in which researchers can embrace people's everyday creativity in order to understand social experience.Seeking an ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Media/Theory

    Thinking about Media and Communications

    by Shaun Moores ...
    Series series Comedia
    From an established author with a growing international profile in media studies, Media/Theory is an accessible yet challenging guide to ways of thinking about media and communications in modern life.Shaun Moores draws on ideas from a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, and expertly connects the analysis of media and communications with key themes in contemporary social ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Doing Anthropological Research

    A Practical Guide

    Edited by Natalie Konopinski ...
    Doing Anthropological Research provides a practical toolkit for carrying out research. It works through the process chapter by chapter, from the planning and proposal stage to methodologies, secondary research, ethnographic fieldwork, ethical concerns, and writing strategies. Case study examples are provided throughout to illustrate the particular issues and dilemmas that may be encountered. This ... Read more

    $55.99 USD