Cultural Theory Books

New and Published Books

1. Cccs Classic Texts Set

   Edited by Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Making Culture, Changing Society

   By Tony Bennett

   Series: CRESC

   Making Culture, Changing Society proposes a challenging new account of the relations between culture and society focused on how particular forms of cultural knowledge and expertise work on, order and transform society. Examining these forms of culture’s action on the social as aspects of a...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
3. Second-Generation Memory and Contemporary Children’s Literature

   Ghost Images

   By Anastasia Ulanowicz

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   This book visits a range of textual forms including diary, novel, and picturebook to explore the relationship between second-generation memory and contemporary children’s literature. Ulanowicz argues that second-generation memory — informed by intimate family relationships, textual mediation, and...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
4. Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture

   Edited by Liedeke Plate, Anneke Smelik

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture. The authors take their cue from the observation that art and popular culture enact memory and generate processes of memory. They do memory, and in this...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
5. Dialogue & Difference

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
6. Dynamics and Performativity of Imagination

   The Image between the Visible and the Invisible

   Edited by Bernd Huppauf, Christoph Wulf

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   In this interdisciplinary anthology, essays study the relationship between the imagination and images both material and mental. Through case studies on a diverse array of topics including photography, film, sports, theater, and anthropology, contributors focus on the role of the...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
7. Law and the Question of the Animal

   A Critical Jurisprudence

   Edited by Yoriko Otomo, Edward Mussawir

   Series: Law, Justice and Ecology

   This book addresses the problem of ‘animal life’ in terms that go beyond the usual extension of liberal rights to animals. The discourse of animal rights is one that increasingly occupies the political, ethical and intellectual terrain of modern society. But, although the question of the status of...

   Published February 7th 2013 by Routledge
8. The Routledge Companion to Identity and Consumption

   Edited by Ayalla A. Ruvio, Russell W. Belk

   Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

   "Tell me what you eat, I'll tell you who you are," said Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Today, "You are what you consume" is more apt. Barbara Krueger’s ironic twist of Descartes - "I shop therefore I am" - has lost its irony. Such phrases have become commonplace descriptions of our identity in the...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption

   Edited by Russell W. Belk, Rosa Llamas

   Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

   The first generation that has grown up in a digital world is now in our university classrooms. They, their teachers and their parents have been fundamentally affected by the digitization of text, images, sound, objects and signals. They interact socially, play games, shop, read, write, work,...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Politics of Imagination

    Edited by Chiara Bottici, Benoît Challand

    Series: Birkbeck Law Press

    The Politics of Imagination offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the contemporary relationship between politics and the imagination. What role does our capacity to form images play in politics? And can we define politics as a struggle for people’s imagination? As a result of the increasingly...

    Published December 16th 2012 by Birkbeck Law Press