Cultural Theory Books

New and Published Books

1. Celebrity Society

   By Robert van Krieken

   On television, in magazines and books, on the internet and in films, celebrities of all sorts seem to monopolize our attention. Celebrity Society brings new dimensions to our understanding of celebrity, capturing the way in which the figure of ‘the celebrity’ is bound up with the emergence of...

   Published May 27th 2012 by Routledge
2. Cultural Technologies

   The Shaping of Culture in Media and Society

   Edited by Göran Bolin

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   The essays in this volume discuss both the culture of technology that we live in today, and culture as technology. Within the chapters of the book cultures of technology and cultural technologies are discussed, focussing on a variety of examples, from varied national contexts. The book brings...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
3. Marketing Discourse

   A Critical Perspective

   By Per Skålén, Martin Fougère, Markus Fellesson

   Series: Routledge Interpretive Marketing Research

   The marketing discipline has been dominated by managerial research that has never really been counterbalanced by a systematic critical analysis which is problematic given the assumed legitimization of the managerialism that has ensued. This book is an attempt to rest the balance, articulating a...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Ambiguities of Activism

   Alter-Globalism and the Imperatives of Speed

   By Ingrid M. Hoofd

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   This volume provides a critical and in-depth investigation of the relationship between alter-globalist thinking and practices and their popular discourses. It examines the ways in which several alter-globalist activist groups (like Indymedia, no-borders campaigns, and forms of climate change...

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
5. Reading The Legal Case

   Cross-Currents between Law and the Humanities

   Edited by Marco Wan

   This volume examines the nature, function, development and epistemological assumptions of the legal case in an interdisciplinary context. Using the question of ‘reading’ as a guiding principle, it opens up new ways of understanding case law and the doctrine of precedent by bringing the law into...

   Published April 29th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Psychology and Politics of the Collective

   Groups, Crowds and Mass Identifications

   Edited by Ruth Parkin-Gounelas

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   What are the psychological factors in operation when we form groups or crowds, and how are these affected by socio-historical circumstances? History offers endless examples of different forms of human collectivity, both private and public, small-scale and large: from the primal horde to the modern...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
7. Handbook of Cultural Sociology

   Edited by John R. Hall, Laura Grindstaff, Ming-cheng Lo

   The Handbook of Cultural Sociology provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary scholarship in sociology and related disciplines focused on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life. With sixty-five essays written by scholars from around the world, the book...

   Published April 18th 2012 by Routledge
8. Popularizing National Pasts

   1800 to the Present

   Edited by Stefan Berger, Chris Lorenz, Billie Melman

   Series: Routledge Approaches to History

   Popularizing National Pasts is the first truly cross-national and comparative study of popular national histories, their representations, the meanings given to them and their uses, which expands outside the confines of Western Europe and the US. It draws a picture of popular histories which is...

   Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge
9. Routledge Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies

   Edited by Gerard Delanty

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Over the past two decades there has been great interest in cosmopolitanism across the human and social sciences. Where, earlier, it had largely been a term associated with moral and political philosophy, cosmopolitanism has now become a widely-used term in the social sciences. It is now integral to...

   Published April 3rd 2012 by Routledge
10. Genealogy and Ontology of the Western Image and its Digital Future

    By John Lechte

    Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

    With the emerging dominance of digital technology, the time is ripe to reconsider the nature of the image. Some say that there is no longer a phenomenal image, only disembodied information (0-1) waiting to be configured. For photography, this implies that a faith in the principle of an "...

    Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge