Cultural Theory Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. 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 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. 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
4. Cccs Classic Texts Set

   Edited by Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Digital Evolution of an American Identity

   By C. Waite

   Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

   The Digital Evolution of an American Identity details how the concept of American individualism is challenged by the digital revolution. As digital media alter our print-dominant culture, assumptions regarding the relationship of the individual to the larger community become increasingly...

   Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge
6. Media Authorship

   Edited by Cynthia Chris, David A. Gerstner

   Series: AFI Film Readers

   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...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
7. Local Foods Meet Global Foodways

   Tasting History

   Edited by Benjamin Lawrance, Carolyn de la Peña

   This book explores the intersection of food and foodways from global and local perspectives. The collection contributes to interdisciplinary debates about the role and movement of commodities in the historical and contemporary world. The expert contributions collectively address a fundamental...

   Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
8. The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies

   Edited by Peter Howard, Ian Thompson, Emma Waterton

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Landscape is a vital, synergistic concept which opens up ways of thinking about many of the problems which beset our contemporary world, such as climate change, social alienation, environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity and destruction of heritage. As a concept, landscape does not respect...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
9. Cities, Citizens, and Technologies

   Urban Life and Postmodernity

   By Paula Geyh

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   This book is about the contemporary city and those who live in it. It is thus also about the urban world of the era (extending roughly from the 1960s to the present) that we see as postmodern, and specifically about how the postmodern city is changing under the impact of globalization and new...

   Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
10. Print Culture

    From Steam Press to Ebook

    By Frances Robertson

    Series: Directions in Cultural History

    With the advent of new digital communication technologies, the end of print culture once again appears to be as inevitable to some recent commentators as it did to Marshall McLuhan. And just as print culture has so often been linked with the rise of modern industrial society, so the alleged demise...

    Published November 26th 2012 by Routledge