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Contemporary popular culture is engaged in a rich and multi-levelled set of representational relations with austerity. This volume seeks to explore these relations, to ask: how does popular culture give expression to austerity; how are its effects conveyed; how do texts reproduce and expose its mythic qualities? It provides a reading of cultural texts in circulation in the present age of austerity . Through its central focus popular culture it considers the impact and influence of austerity across media and textual categories. The collection presents a theoretical deconstruction of popular...

Revisiting Richard Hoggart’s classic work The Uses of Literacy (1957), this book applies Hoggart’s framework to media literacy today, examining media literacy’s various uses, the tensions between them and what this means for people, communities and the contemporary configurations of social class.

In The Uses of Literacy (1957), Richard Hoggart wrote about how his working class community, in the North of England, were at once using the new ‘mass literacy’ for self-improvement, education, social mobility and civic engagement and, at the same time, the powerful...

A conference held under the auspices of the Department of Antiquities of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, The Council for British Research in the Levant and the Department of Archaeology at the University of Liverpool

Edited by Philip Freeman, Julian Bennett, Zbigniew T. Fiema and Birgitta Hoffmann

The much-anticipated, two-volume proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies held in Amman, Jordan (September 2000). The 100 papers published here represent approximately two-thirds of the presentations made at this important event. The...

A conference held under the auspices of the Department of Antiquities of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, The Council for British Research in the Levant and the Department of Archaeology at the University of Liverpool

The much-anticipated, two-volume proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies held in Amman, Jordan (September 2000). The 100 papers published here represent approximately two-thirds of the presentations made at this important event. The 'limits' of the discussions encompass (Volume I) General Themes, The Eastern Frontier, Rome and...