Promotional Culture

Andrew Wernick

• Hardcover | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society | nr. 14
• Advertising has long been analyzed as a pervasive disseminator of cultural values. This title offers an analysis of advertisements as promotional text... Lees meer

Deleuze and Guattari

Philip Goodchild

• Hardcover | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society | nr. 44
• This accessible book examines critically the writings of Deleuze and Guattari, clarifying the ideas of these two notoriously difficult thinkers withou... Lees meer

Undoing Culture

Mike Featherstone

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society | nr. 39
• Written with the clarity and insight that readers have come to expect of Mike Featherstone Undoing Culture is a notable contribution to our understand... Lees meer

Simulation and Social Theory

Sean Cubitt

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• This insightful book is the first to critically examine the ideas of some of the key thinkers of simulation. It addresses the work of Baudrillard, Deb... Lees meer

Rethinking Sexuality

Diane Richardson

• Hardcover | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• This thoughtful and accessible book provides a critical examination of the central debates attached to conceptualizing sexuality as a site of knowledg... Lees meer

The Contradictions of Culture

Elizabeth Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• In this book, one of the most accomplished and thoughtful cultural commentators of the day, considers the contradictory nature of cultural relations. ... Lees meer

Immaterial Bodies

Lisa Blackman

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• A timely and multidisciplinary addition to the Theory, Culture & Society book series (given the recent turn to affect in the social sciences) from one... Lees meer

Liberal Democracy 3.0

Stephen P Turner

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• `This is a very fine text, a powerful piece of work that deserves to be read widely. The analysis is truly panoramic. It ranges across central concern... Lees meer

Pierre Bourdieu and Cultural Theory

Bridget Fowler

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society | nr. 48
• This is the first comprehensive description of Pierre Bourdieu′s theory of culture and habitus. Within the wider intellectual context of Bourdieu′s wo... Lees meer

Cultural Identity and Global Process

Jonathan Friedman

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society | nr. 31
• This fascinating book explores the interface between global processes, identity formation and the production of culture. Examining ideas ranging from ... Lees meer

After Capital

Couze Venn

• Hardcover | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• This book frames speculation on what postcapitalist societies could be, with regimes of private accumulation replaced by a politics and ethics of a de... Lees meer

The Media City

Scott McQuire

• Hardcover | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• Offering social commentary at the deepest levels of historical and critical reference, The Media City links Myspace to Howard Hughes; trams to cinema;... Lees meer

Global Culture

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society | nr. 2
• In this book leading social scientists from many countries analyze the extent to which we are seeing a globalization of culture. Is a unified world cu... Lees meer

Inhuman Nature

Nigel Clark

• Hardcover | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• A timely exploration of the social context of environmental change and it's effect on mankind. A unique mix of both social and environmental science a... Lees meer

The Cinematic Society

Norman K Denzin

• Hardcover | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society | nr. 34
• Ranging over a rich variety of material from film and film literature, and encompassing a critical interrogation of traditional realist ethnographic a... Lees meer

The Social Construction of Nature

Klaus Eder

• Hardcover | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society | nr. 47
• In this unique and agenda-setting examination of the relation between nature and culture, Klaus Eder demonstrates our ideas of nature are culturally d... Lees meer

Polar Inertia

Paul Virilio

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• Examining how the `here and now′ of space, territory, the body, are being redefined by new technologies and how this undoes simplistic versions of the... Lees meer

A History and Theory of the Social Sciences

Peter Wagner

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• Divided into two parts, this book examines the train of social theory from the 19th century, through to the `organization of modernity′, in relation t... Lees meer

Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society | nr. 43
• How can we interpret cyberspace? What is the place of the embodied human agent in the virtual world? This innovative collection examines the emerging ... Lees meer

Commodifying Bodies

• Hardcover | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• Increasingly the body is a possession that does not belong to us. It is bought and sold, bartered and stolen, marketed wholesale or in parts. The prof... Lees meer

Five Bodies

John O′neill+

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• Five Bodies offers an introduction to some of the most urgent contemporary concerns within the sociology of the body. The book was first published in ... Lees meer

Simmel on Culture

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• This volume brings together for the first time a wide range of essays on culture and related themes by the sociologist and philosopher Georg Simmel (1... Lees meer

Decentring Leisure

Chris Rojek

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society | nr. 35
• This book explores the meaning of leisure in the context of key social formations of our time. Chris Rojek brings together the insights of Marxism, fe... Lees meer

Sociology of Giving

Helmuth Berking

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
• We all give and receive gifts. But few of us reflect on the risks and uncertainties inherent to this form. For example, to give means to acquire power... Lees meer