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1. Gamers: Digital Gaming and Everyday Life

   By Garry Crawford, Victoria K Gosling

   Digital gaming has, over only a few decades, become a major global and leisure industry rivalling the movie and music sectors. Given gaming's widespread, and increasing, popularity this has in recent years become the focus of increased academic interest and activity, but still relatively little is...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-55620-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Anarchism and Sexuality: Ethics, Relationships and Power

   Edited by Jamie Heckert, Richard Cleminson

   Anarchism and Sexuality: Dangerous Desires brings the rich traditions of anarchist thought and practice to contemporary questions about the politics of sexuality. Overflowing and undermining governmental divisions between the personal and political, heterosexual and homosexual, activism...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-59989-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. The American Surfer: Radical Culture and Capitalism

   By Kristin Lawler

   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,...

   October 2010 | 978-0-415-87489-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Dandyism and Transcultural Modernity: The Dandy, the Flaneur, and the Translator in 1930s Shanghai, Tokyo, and Paris

   By Hsiao-yen Peng

   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...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-58428-9 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   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...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-47445-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance

   By Graham St John

   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...

   June 2010 | 978-0-415-87696-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Exploring the Networked Worlds of Popular Music: Milieux Cultures

   By Peter Webb

   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...

   April 2010 | 978-0-415-88262-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Gender Diversity in Indonesia: Sexuality, Islam and Queer Selves

   By Sharyn Graham Davies

   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...

   February 2010 | 978-0-415-37569-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero

   Edited by Angela Ndalianis

   Over the last several decades, comic book superheroes have multiplied and, in the process, become more complicated. In this cutting edge anthology an international roster of contributors offer original research and writing on the contemporary comic book superhero, with occasional journeys...

   January 2010 | 978-0-415-87841-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    Travel and Drugs in Twentieth-Century Literature

    By Lindsey Michael Banco

    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...

    September 2009 | 978-0-415-99861-1 | Hardback (Routledge)