The work of Pierre Bourdieu, one of the most influential French intellectuals of the twentieth century, has had an enormous impact on research in fields as diverse as aesthetics, education, anthropology, and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Art, Literature, and Culture is the first collection of essays to focus specifically on the contribution of Bourdieu's thought to the study of cultural production. Though Bourdieu's own work has illuminated diverse cultural phenomena, the essays in this volume extend to new cultural forms and to national situations outside France. Far from simply...
The work of Pierre Bourdieu, one of the most influential French intellectuals of the twentieth century, has had an enormous impact on research in fiel...
Canada is situated geographically, historically, and culturally between old empires (Great Britain and France) and a more recent one (the United States), as well as on the terrain of First Nations communities. Poised between historical and metaphorical empires and operating within the conditions of incomplete modernity and economic and cultural dependency, Canada has generated a body of cultural criticism and theory, which offers unique insights into the dynamics of both center and periphery. The reader brings together for the first time in one volume recent writing in Canadian cultural...
Canada is situated geographically, historically, and culturally between old empires (Great Britain and France) and a more recent one (the United State...
Cultural Theory: An Anthology is a collection of the essential readings that have shaped and defined the field of contemporary cultural theory
Features a historically diverse and methodologically concise collection of readings including rare essays such as Pierre Bourdieu's -Forms of Capital- (1986), Gilles Deleuze -Postscript on Societies of Control- (1992), and Fredric Jameson's -Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture- (1979)
Offers a radical new approach to teaching and studying cultural theory with material arranged around the central areas of inquiry in...
Cultural Theory: An Anthology is a collection of the essential readings that have shaped and defined the field of contemporary cultural theory ...
Globalization has challenged concepts such as local culture and cultural autonomy. And the rampant commodification of cultural products has challenged the way we define culture itself. Have these developments transformed the relationship between culture and autonomy? Have traditional notions of cultural autonomy been recast?
Cultural Autonomy showcases the work of scholars who are exploring new ways of understanding the critical issue of globalization and culture. By defining culture broadly -- as a set of ideas or practices that range from skateboarding to the work of public...
Globalization has challenged concepts such as local culture and cultural autonomy. And the rampant commodification of cultural products has challen...
This volume brings together works written by international theorists since the fall of the Berlin Wall, showing how today's crisis-ridden global capitalism is making Marxist theory more relevant and necessary than ever. This collection of key texts by prominent and lesser-known thinkers from Latin America, Asia, Africa, America, and Europe showcases an area of scholarly analysis whose impact on academic and popular discourses as well as political action will only grow in the coming years. It reflects today's sense of planetary eco-emergency and a heightened interest in political economy...
This volume brings together works written by international theorists since the fall of the Berlin Wall, showing how today's crisis-ridden global ca...
This volume brings together works written by international theorists since the fall of the Berlin Wall, showing how today's crisis-ridden global capitalism is making Marxist theory more relevant and necessary than ever. This collection of key texts by prominent and lesser-known thinkers from Latin America, Asia, Africa, America, and Europe showcases an area of scholarly analysis whose impact on academic and popular discourses as well as political action will only grow in the coming years. It reflects today's sense of planetary eco-emergency and a heightened interest in political economy...
This volume brings together works written by international theorists since the fall of the Berlin Wall, showing how today's crisis-ridden global ca...
Popular Culture: A User's Guide, International Edition ventures beyond the history of pop culture to give readers the vocabulary and tools to address and analyze the contemporary cultural landscape that surrounds them.
Moves beyond the history of pop culture to give students the vocabulary and tools to analyze popular culture
suitable for the study of popular culture across a range of disciplines, from literary theory and cultural studies to philosophy and sociology
Covers a broad range of important topics including the underlying socioeconomic...
Popular Culture: A User's Guide, International Edition ventures beyond the history of pop culture to give readers the vocabulary and tools t...
How has our relation to energy changed over time? What differences do particular energy sources make to human values, politics, and imagination? How have transitions from one energy source to another--from wood to coal, or from oil to solar to whatever comes next--transformed culture and society? What are the implications of uneven access to energy in the past, present, and future? Which concepts and theories clarify our relation to energy, and which just get in the way?Fueling Culture offers a compendium of...
How has our relation to energy changed over time? What differences do particular energy sources make to human values, politics, and i...
How has our relation to energy changed over time? What differences do particular energy sources make to human values, politics, and imagination? How have transitions from one energy source to another--from wood to coal, or from oil to solar to whatever comes next--transformed culture and society? What are the implications of uneven access to energy in the past, present, and future? Which concepts and theories clarify our relation to energy, and which just get in the way?Fueling Culture offers a compendium of...
How has our relation to energy changed over time? What differences do particular energy sources make to human values, politics, and i...
Popular Culture: A User's Guide, International Edition ventures beyond the history of pop culture to give readers the vocabulary and tools to address and analyze the contemporary cultural landscape that surrounds them.
Moves beyond the history of pop culture to give students the vocabulary and tools to analyze popular culture
suitable for the study of popular culture across a range of disciplines, from literary theory and cultural studies to philosophy and sociology
Covers a broad range of important topics including the underlying socioeconomic...
Popular Culture: A User's Guide, International Edition ventures beyond the history of pop culture to give readers the vocabulary and tools t...
