Subcultures Books

New and Published Books

1. Travel and Drugs in Twentieth-Century Literature

   By Lindsey Michael Banco

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   This book examines the connections between two disparate yet persistently bound thematics -- mobility and intoxication -- and explores their central yet frequently misunderstood role in constructing subjectivity following the 1960s. Emerging from profound mid-twentieth-century changes in how drugs...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
2. 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
3. Gender Diversity in Indonesia

   Sexuality, Islam and Queer Selves

   By Sharyn Graham Davies

   Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series

   Indonesia provides particularly interesting examples of gender diversity. Same-sex relations, transvestism and cross-gender behaviour have long been noted amongst a wide range of Indonesian peoples. This book explores the nature of gender diversity in Indonesia, and with the world’s largest Muslim...

   Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
4. Online Gaming in Context

   The social and cultural significance of online games

   Edited by Garry Crawford, Victoria K Gosling, Ben Light

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   There is little question of the social, cultural and economic importance of video games in the world today, with gaming now rivalling the movie and music sectors as a major leisure industry and pastime. The significance of video games within our everyday lives has certainly been increased and...

   Published September 19th 2011 by Routledge
5. Gay and Lesbian Subculture in Urban China

   By Loretta Wing Wah Ho

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   This book contributes to a critical understanding of how Chinese same-sex identity in urban China is variously imagined; how it is transformed; and how it presents its resistances as China continues to open up to global power relations. Equally important, the book will 1) sharpen knowledge of China...

   Published July 5th 2011 by Routledge
6. The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance

   By Graham St. John

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethnomusicology

   This lively textual symposium offers a collection of formative research on the culture of global psytrance (psychedelic trance). As the first book to address the diverse transnationalism of this contemporary electronic dance music phenomenon, the collection hosts interdisciplinary research...

   Published June 21st 2011 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 April 18th 2011 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 October 5th 2010 by Routledge
9. Dandyism and Transcultural Modernity

   The Dandy, the Flaneur, and the Translator in 1930s Shanghai, Tokyo, and Paris

   By Hsiao-yen Peng

   Series: Academia Sinica on East Asia

   This book views the Neo-Sensation mode of writing as a traveling genre, or style, that originated in France, moved on to Japan, and then to China. The author contends that modernity is possible only on "the transcultural site"—transcultural in the sense of breaking the divide between past and...

   Published September 1st 2010 by Routledge
10. Exploring the Networked Worlds of Popular Music

    Milieux Cultures

    By Peter Webb

    Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

    This book provides an `insider’ view of worlds of popular music. It shows the relationship between music, creativity, ideas and localities by looking at cities, independents, genre, globalization and musician’s relationships with each other. Webb examines groups of musicians, audiences and...

    Published April 7th 2010 by Routledge