Visual Anthropology Products

By Raminder Kaur, Saif Eqbal

This pioneering book presents a history and ethnography of adventure comic books for young people in India with a particular focus on vernacular superheroism. It chronicles popular and youth culture in the subcontinent from the mid-twentieth century to the contemporary era dominated by creative…

Paperback – 2018-10-23
Routledge India

Edited by Tomas Pernecky

The recent proliferation of events as a subject of study in its own right has signalled the emergence of a new field – event studies. However, whilst the management-inspired notion of planned events, which strives for conceptual slenderness, may indeed be useful for event managers, the moment we…

Hardback – 2016-05-16
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Event Research Series

Edited by Arvind Rajagopal, Anupama Rao

Collective political projects have become ephemeral and are subject to radical forms of erasure through cooptation, division, redefinition or intimidation in present times. Media and Utopia responds to the resulting crisis of the social by investigating the links between mediation and political…

Hardback – 2016-04-07
Routledge India
Critical Interventions in Theory and Praxis

By Jacqueline Adams

Written as a book for undergraduate students as well as scholars, Surviving Dictatorship is a work of visual sociology and oral history, and a case study that communicates the lived experience of poverty, repression, and resistance in an authoritarian society: Pinochet’s Chile. It focuses on…

Paperback – 2012-03-07
Routledge
Sociology Re-Wired

By Sarah Chaplin

Drawing on theories of place, consumption and identity, Sarah Chaplin details the evolution of the love hotel in urban Japan since the 1950s. Love hotels emerged in the late 1950s following a ban of licensed prostitution, then were extremely popular in the 1970s, were then legislated against in the…

Paperback – 2010-10-20
Routledge
Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

By Julia Solis

Did alligators ever really live in New York's sewers? What's it like to explore the old aqueducts beneath the city? How many levels are beneath Grand Central Station? And how exactly did the pneumatic tube system that New York's post offices used to employ work? In this richly illustrated…

Paperback – 2007-11-26
Routledge