Postmodernism of Cultural Theory Books

New and Published Books

1. Deconstruction After 9/11

   By Martin McQuillan

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   In this book Martin McQuillan brings Derrida's writing into the immediate vicinity of geo-politics today, from the Kosovan conflict to the war in Iraq. The chapters in this book follow both Derrida's writing since Specters of Marx and the present political scene through the former Yogoslavia...

   Published February 2nd 2012 by Routledge
2. 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 September 16th 2011 by Routledge
3. The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism

   3rd Edition

   Edited by Stuart Sim

   Series: Routledge Companions

   This fully revised third edition of The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism provides the ideal introduction to postmodernist thought. Featuring contributions from a cast of international scholars, the Companion contains 19 detailed essays on major themes and topics along with an A-Z of key terms...

   Published June 26th 2011 by Routledge
4. Beyond the Consumption Bubble

   Edited by Karin Ekström, Kay Glans

   Series: Routledge Interpretive Marketing Research

   Research on consumption can shed light on many fundamental questions, such as the character of society, including social and cultural dimensions; the relations between the generations; dependency on technology and the risks involved; the rise of Asia and its potential consumption preferences; the...

   Published December 13th 2010 by Routledge
5. Economic Representations

   Academic and Everyday

   Edited by David F Ruccio

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   Why is there such a proliferation of economic discourses in literary theory, cultural studies, anti-sweatshop debates, popular music, and other areas outside the official discipline of economics? How is the economy represented in different ways by economists and non-economists? In this volume,...

   Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge
6. Communicating in the Third Space

   Edited by Karin Ikas, Gerhard Wagner

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   Communicating in the Third Space aims to clarify Homi K. Bhabha’s theory of the third space of enunciation by reconstructing its philosophical, sociological, geographical, and political meaning with attention to the special advantages and ambiguities that arise as it is applied in practical--as...

   Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge
7. The Undermining of Beliefs in the Autonomy and Rationality of Consumers

   By John O'Shaughnessy, Nicholas O'Shaughnessy

   Series: Routledge Interpretive Marketing Research

   This book examines modern consumption, focusing on concepts of autonomy and rationality. In recent years, conventional ideas of 'free will' have come under attack in the context of consumer choice and similarly, postmodernists have sabotaged the very notion of consumer rationality. O’Shaughnessy...

   Published November 7th 2007 by Routledge
8. Media, War and Postmodernity

   By Philip Hammond

   Media, War and Postmodernity investigates how conflict and international intervention have changed since the end of the Cold War, asking why Western military operations are now conducted as high-tech media spectacles, apparently more important for their propaganda value than for any strategic aims....

   Published October 21st 2007 by Routledge
9. Marketing and Social Construction

   Exploring the Rhetorics of Managed Consumption

   By Chris Hackley

   Marketing is at the centre of the business education boom: a million or more people worldwide are studying the subject at any one time. Yet despite widespread discontent with the intellectual standards in marketing, very little has changed over the past thirty years. In this ground-breaking new...

   Published March 25th 2007 by Routledge
10. Imagining Marketing

    Art, Aesthetics and the Avant-Garde

    Edited by Stephen Brown, Anthony Patterson

    Imagination is a word that is widely used by marketing practitioners but rarely examined by marketing academics. This neglect is largely due to the imagination's 'artistic' connotations, which run counter to the 'scientific' mindset that dominates marketing scholarship. Of late, however, an...

    Published March 14th 2007 by Routledge