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Globalisation and Advertising in Emerging Economies: Brazil, Russia, India and China
By Lynne Ciochetto
This book analyses four of the largest and most dynamic contemporary emerging economies. Brazil, Russia, India and China are the countries that will drive growth in the world economy in the next decades. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines anthropology, sociology, development studies...
August 2011 | 978-0-415-56200-3 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Security, War and Technology: Paul Virilio and the Global Politics of Disappearance
By Mark Lacy
This book analyses some of the key problems explored in Paul Virilio’s theorising on war and security. Virilio is one of the most challenging and provocative critics of technology, war and globalization. While many commentators focus on the new possibilities for mobility and communication in an...
August 2011 | 978-0-415-57604-8 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Everyday Life
Edited by Ben Highmore
As research in and around everyday life flourishes as never before, this new four-volume collection from Routledge’s acclaimed Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies series meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of...
August 2011 | 978-0-415-49946-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Politics and the Internet
Edited by William H. Dutton
It is commonplace to observe that the Internet—and the dizzying technologies and applications which it continues to spawn—has revolutionized human communications. But, while the medium’s impact has apparently been immense, the nature of its political implications remains highly contested. To give...
August 2011 | 978-0-415-56150-1 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Sport, Culture and Society: An Introduction, 2nd Edition
By Grant Jarvie
It is impossible to fully understand contemporary society and culture without acknowledging the place of sport. Sport is part of our social and cultural fabric, possessing a social and commercial power that makes it a potent force in the world, for good and for bad. Sport has helped to start wars...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-48393-3 | Paperback (Routledge)