Cultural Studies Products

Edited by Mirjana Ristic, Sybille Frank

Urban Heritage in Divided Cities explores the role of contested urban heritage in mediating, subverting and overcoming sociopolitical conflict in divided cities. Investigating various examples of transformations of urban heritage around the world, the book analyses the spatial, social and political…

Paperback – 2019-08-01 
Routledge
Key Issues in Cultural Heritage

By Carlos Lopes, Auma George Kararach

Debates on African development continue to downplay the achievement of the continent: economic achievements are diminished and the perception of a conflict prone continent continues. Many of the policy prescriptions externally imposed on African countries have done little to transform the continent…

Hardback – 2019-07-24 
Routledge
The International Political Economy of New Regionalisms Series

Edited by Daniel E. Coslett

Architectural relics of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and Japanese colonialism — actively exploited and experienced neocolonialist sites of memory — dot cityscapes throughout our globalizing world, just as built traces of colonialism remain embedded within the urban fabric of many…

Paperback – 2019-07-23 
Routledge
Architext

Edited by Sarah De Nardi, Hilary Orange, Steven High, Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto

This Handbook explores the latest cross-disciplinary research on the inter-relationship between memory studies, place and identity. In the works of dynamic memory, there is room for multiple stories, versions of the past and place understandings and often resistance to mainstream narratives.…

Hardback – 2019-07-19 
Routledge

Edited by Judith Misrahi Barak, K. Satyanarayana, Nicole Thiara

This book, companion to the much-acclaimed Dalit Literatures in India, examines questions of aesthetics and literary representation in a wide range of Dalit literary texts. It looks at how Dalit literature, born from the struggle against social and political injustice, invokes the rich and complex…

Paperback – 2019-07-11 
Routledge India

Edited by Sugata Ray, Venugopal Maddipati

This book surveys the intersections between water systems and the phenomenology of visual cultures in early modern, colonial, and contemporary South Asia. Bringing together contributions by eminent artists, architects, curators, and scholars who explore the connections between the environmental and…

Hardback – 2019-07-04 
Routledge India
Visual and Media Histories

Edited by Kalliopi Fouseki, Torgrim Sneve Guttormsen, Grete Swensen

Heritage and Sustainable Urban Transformations introduces the concept of ‘deep cities’, a novel approach to the understanding and management of sustainable historic cities that will advance knowledge about how the long-term, temporal and transformative character of urban heritage can be better…

Hardback – 2019-06-11 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Heritage

By Kevin Borgeson, Robin Valeri

Skinheads go beyond the societal stereotype of hate mongers, bigots, and Neo-Nazis. The community of skins also includes traditional skins (those that adhere to the original philosophy of the British movement in 1969), Skinheads Against Racial prejudice (SHARPS), and gay skins, female skins and…

Paperback – 2019-06-07 
Routledge

Edited by Jennifer Erin Salahub, Markus Gottsbacher, John de Boer, Mayssam D. Zaaroura

Reducing Urban Violence in the Global South seeks to identify the drivers of urban violence in the cities of the Global South and how they relate to and interact with poverty and inequalities. Drawing on the findings of an ambitious five-year, 15-project research programme supported by Canada’s…

Hardback – 2019-06-05 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Cities and Development

By Arnold Groh

This authoritative but concise guide describes the most significant cultural theories of the 20th and 21st centuries and their originators, as well as the links between them and their mutual influences. Exploring ideas around what culture is, when and why cultures change over time, and whether…

Paperback – 2019-05-30 
Routledge

By Susan B. Goldstein

This comprehensive workbook is designed to facilitate students' understanding and application of major concepts and principles of culture and psychology. This fully updated new edition features over 100 case studies, self-administered scales, mini-experiments, and library research projects,…

Paperback – 2019-05-28 
Routledge

By Keith Jacobs

Neoliberal Housing Policy considers some of the most significant housing issues facing the West today, including the increasing commodification of housing; the political economy surrounding homeownership; the role of public housing; the problem of homelessness; the ways that housing accentuates…

Paperback – 2019-05-28 
Routledge
Explorations in Housing Studies