Focusing on Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, this edited volume examines changing food production and consumption practices in the Baltic region in the politically tumultuous twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journa..
Consisting of thirty critical full-length chapters from renowned, established scholars, this volume takes the wider European context into consideration and is a timely appraisal of the distinctive themes of European social theory...
Today, more mediated information is available to more people than at any other time in human history. New and revitalized sense-making strategies multiply in response to the challenges of "cutting through the clutter" of competing narratives and taming the avalanche of information. Data miners, "sen..
From the English Romantics to Lenin’s wife, from Plato to Herbert Schiller, this book offers new insights into how intellectuals from Europe, Canada and North America have sought over time to assert their cultural values in public life...
The book is an attempt to reinstate - and demonstrate by practical example - the mutual relevance and interdependence of literary studies and cultural studies..
The book offers a critical survey of the most important contributions to managerial marketing discourse from the earliest twentieth century onwards, articulating a social critique and evaluation of marketing...
This guidebook provides an ideal entry-point for readers new to Heidegger, transforming it from a daunting task into an exciting and necessary challenge...
This book critically approaches contemporary meanings of materiality and discuses ways in which we understand, experience, and engage with objects through popular culture in our private, social and professional lives...
Drawing on previous scholarship on the interrelation of memory and materiality, this book applies recent theories of new materialism to explore the material dimension of memory in art and popular culture...
Contemporary media authorship is frequently collaborative, participatory, non-site specific, or quite simply goes unrecognized. In this volume, media and film scholars explore the theoretical debates around authorship, intention, and identity within the rapidly transforming and globalized culture in..
Contemporary media authorship is frequently collaborative, participatory, non-site specific, or quite simply goes unrecognized. In this volume, media and film scholars explore the theoretical debates around authorship, intention, and identity within the rapidly transforming and globalized culture in..
This book explores the diversity of meanings ascribed to the turn-of-the-century New Woman in the context of cultural debates conducted within and across a wide range of national frameworks. Individual chapters by international scholars scrutinize the flow of ideas, images, and textual parameters of..