Subcultures Books

New and Published Books

1. The Transgender Studies Reader 1&2 BUNDLE

   Edited by Susan Stryker, Aren Z. Aizura

   Over the past twenty years, transgender studies has emerged as a dynamic field of interdisciplinary scholarship. First collected in Routledge's own The Transgender Studies Reader in 2006, the field has moved on, rapidly expanding in many directions. The Transgender Studies Reader 2 gathers these...

   Published February 20th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Transgender Studies Reader 2

   Edited by Susan Stryker, Aren Z. Aizura

   Over the past twenty years, transgender studies has emerged as a vibrant field of interdisciplinary scholarship. In 2006, Routledge’s The Transgender Studies Reader brought together the first definitive collection of the field. Since its publication, the field has seen an explosion of new work that...

   Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge
3. 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
4. Textual Poachers

   Television Fans and Participatory Culture, 2nd Edition

   By Henry Jenkins

   The twentieth anniversary edition of Henry Jenkins’s Textual Poachers brings this now-canonical text to a new generation of students interested in the intersections of fandom, participatory culture, popular consumption and media theory. Supplementing the original, classic text is an interview...

   Published November 6th 2012 by Routledge
5. Youth Studies

   An Introduction

   By Andy Furlong

   Youth Studies: an introduction is a clear, jargon-free and accessible textbook which will be invaluable in helping to explain concepts, theories and trends within youth studies. The concise summaries of key texts and the ideas of important theorists make the book an invaluable resource. The book...

   Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
6. Club Cultures

   Boundaries, Identities and Otherness

   By Silvia Rief

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This book explores contemporary club and dance cultures as a manifestation of aesthetic and prosthetic forms of life. Rief addresses the questions of how practices of clubbing help cultivate particular forms of reflexivity and modes of experience, and how these shape new devices for reconfiguring...

   Published September 24th 2012 by Routledge
7. Anarchism & Sexuality

   Ethics, Relationships and Power

   Edited by Jamie Heckert, Richard Cleminson

   Series: Social Justice

   Anarchism & Sexuality aims to bring the rich and diverse traditions of anarchist thought and practice into contact with contemporary questions about the politics and lived experience of sexuality. Both in style and in content, it is conceived as a book that aims to question, subvert and...

   Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
8. The American Surfer

   Radical Culture and Capitalism

   By Kristin Lawler

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   The image of surfing is everywhere in American popular culture – films, novels, television shows, magazines, newspaper articles, music, and especially advertisements. In this book, Kristin Lawler examines the surfer, one of the most significant and enduring archetypes in American popular culture,...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Participatory Cultures Handbook

   Edited by Aaron Delwiche, Jennifer Jacobs Henderson

   How did we get from Hollywood to YouTube? What makes Wikipedia so different from a traditional encyclopedia? Has blogging dismantled journalism as we know it? Our media landscape has undergone a seismic shift as digital technology has fostered the rise of "participatory culture," in...

   Published July 24th 2012 by Routledge
10. 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 19th 2012 by Routledge