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The Polity Reader in Cultural Theory Polity 9780745612089
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €21.29The field of cultural and media studies is one of the most important and rapidly developing areas in the social sciences and humanities today. This new text provides an overview of some of the key... -
Race, Rhetoric, and the Postcolonial by Gary A. Olson 9780791441749
Booksplease Price: €31.02Six internationally renowned intellectuals are brought together in a cross-disciplinary dialogue that addresses rhetoric, writing, race, feminist theory, cultural studies, and postcolonial theory... -
State, power, socialism by Nikos Poulantzas 9781781681480
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €17.84Developing themes of his earlier works, Poulantzas here advances a vigorous critique of contemporary Marxist theories of the state, arguing against a general theory of the state, and identifying... -
Caribbean Political Thought: Theories of the Postcolonail State by Aaron Kamugisha 9789766376192
Booksplease Price: €32.61Caribbean Political Thought: Theories of the Post-Colonial State reckons with the vast body of radical work and thought on the post-colonial Caribbean state. It focuses on the period after the Second... -
The Neoliberal Crisis: A Soundings Collection by Eds Sally Davison 9781910448076
RRP: €16.66Booksplease Price: €15.79The neoliberal revolution, which began in the 1970s, was an extremely successful attempt to roll back the gains of the post-war welfare state and of liberation movements, and to restore the dominance... -
Cultural Populism by Jim McGuigan
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €59.37First Published in 2004. This book provides a novel understanding of current thought and enquiry in the study of popular culture and communications media. The populist sentiments and impulses... -
Male Order: Unwrapping Masculinity by Rowena Chapman 9780853156901
Booksplease Price: €20.46A new edition of our ground-breaking collection of articles exploring the meanings of masculinity, at work, at home, in politics and in love. Looking at fashion, images of black men, heterosexuality,... -
Modernity and its Futures: Understanding Modern Societies, Book IV by Tony McGrew 9780745609669
Booksplease Price: €32.01Modernity and its Futures is a major introductory textbook which examines the forces reshaping modern industrial societies and the new patterns, structures and relationships that are emerging in the... -
Radio Activism: Breaking the Silence and Empowering Women by Annette Rimmer 9780367487201
RRP: €48.78Booksplease Price: €46.21This unique book draws on the narratives of women participants in community radio, using intersectionality, feminist, critical psychological and community development frameworks to explore how this... -
Chicanx Utopias: Pop Culture and the Politics of the Possible by Luis Alvarez
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94< -
Of Effacement: Blackness and Non-Being by David Marriott 9781503628786
RRP: €123.76Booksplease Price: €99.54In Of Effacement, David Marriott endeavors to demolish established opinion about what blackness is and reorient our understanding of what it is not in art, philosophy, autobiography, literary theory,... -
Discourse Theory and Practice: A Reader by Margaret Wetherell 9780761971566
Booksplease Price: €119.88`A highly effective introduction to the range of approaches found in discourse analysis... a lively and intellectually stimulating Reader' - David Silverman, Goldsmith College, University of London... -
Literary Theory: An Anthology Julie Rivkin (Connecticut College, USA) 9781118707852
Booksplease Price: €38.92The new edition of this bestselling literary theory anthology has been thoroughly updated to include influential texts from innovative new areas, including disability studies, eco-criticism, and... -
The Formations of Modernity: Understanding Modern Societies an Introduction Book 1 by Bram Gieben 9780745609607
Booksplease Price: €41.38Formations of Modernity is a major introductory textbook offering an account of the important historical processes, institutions and ideas that have shaped the development of modern societies. This... -
Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction by Bruce Robbins 9781503630192
RRP: €76.16Booksplease Price: €62.34An accessible introduction to cultural theory and an original polemic about the purpose of criticism What is criticism for? Over the past few decades, violent disagreements over that question in... -
Gramsci's Political Thought: An Introduction by 9781910448144
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €15.79Antonio Gramsci was an innovative and wide-ranging thinker whose interpretations of Marxism helped rescue it from determinism and economic reductionism. In the words of Stuart Hall: 'Reading Gramsci... -
Refashioning Futures: Criticism after Postcoloniality by David Scott
RRP: €61.88Booksplease Price: €52.66How can we best forge a theoretical practice that directly addresses the struggles of once-colonized countries, many of which face the collapse of both state and society in today's era of economic... -
Practising Rhythmanalysis: Theories and Methodologies by Yi Chen 9781783487783
Booksplease Price: €52.07This book explores rhythmanalysis as a philosophy and as a research method for the study of cultural historical experiences. It formulates 'rhythm' as a critical concept which is defined in dialogic... -
Writing Black Britain, 1948-98: An Interdisciplinary Anthology by James Procter
Booksplease Price: €28.01The first anthology of its kind, this timely collection brings together a diverse range of black British literatures, essays and documents from across the post-war period within a single volume.... -
Culture, Globalization and the World-System: Contemporary Conditions for the Representation of Identity by Anthony D. King 9780816629534
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.85A foundational work in the study of the globalization of culture.First published in 1991, Culture, Globalization and the World-System is one of the inaugural books discussing the increasing tendency... -
English Radicalism in the Twentieth Century: A Distinctive Politics? by Richard Taylor 9781784993191
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €90.02England has had a predominantly conservative political culture for some centuries. Yet there is a persistent, minority strand of radicalism that has challenged the practices, beliefs and structures... -
Richard Hoggart and Cultural Studies by S. Owen 9780230545458
Booksplease Price: €55.07In this new collection of essays, a range of established and emerging cultural critics re-evaluate Richard Hoggart's contribution to the history of ideas and to the discipline of Cultural Studies... -
Ghosts of the African Diaspora - Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity by Joanne Chassot 9781512601602
Booksplease Price: €42.90The first monograph to investigate the poetics and politics of haunting in African diaspora literature, Ghosts of the African Diaspora: Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity examines literary... -
Cultural Studies and Cultural Value by John Frow 9780198711285
Booksplease Price: €74.70Cultural Studies and Cultural Value is a major critique of the important new discipline of cultural studies. Cultural studies has generally organized itself around the opposition of high to low... -
Culture in Bits: The Monstrous Future of Theory by Gary Hall 9780826459909
Booksplease Price: €107.78Where is cultural studies today? Does it have anything left to say? Where is theory and where is politics? Certainly, cultural studies seems to have lost its way somewhere between today's... -
Empire Windrush: Reflections on 75 Years & More of the Black British Experience Onyekachi Wambu 9781399601917
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €20.68In June 1948, the SS Empire Windrush docked in Tilbury, carrying with it the hopes and dreams of hundreds of young men and women from the Caribbean.Their arrival was to have far-reaching effects on... -
Divided Cities: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2003 by Richard Scholar 9780192807083
Booksplease Price: €35.12Cities, at their best, are cradles of diversity, opportunity, and citizenship. Why, then, do so many cities today seem scarred by divisions separating the powerful and privileged from the victims of... -
Anxiety and the Contradictions of Culture: A Lacanian Approach to Gaze, Sex, Race, and Social Change Stephen Felder 9781666947212
Booksplease Price: €101.92Anxiety as not only a feeling of dread, but a feeling that we dread is widely considered by both philosophical and psychoanalytic thinkers as an important signal related to our experience of the... -
Key Sociological Thinkers by Rob Stones 9780814781166
Booksplease Price: €36.63Despite the fact that most of us think often about society and social life, few of us have had extensive schooling in how to organize or structure such thought. Guided by the belief that the... -
Convivialities: Possibility and Ambivalence in Urban Multicultures by Amanda Wise 9780367891824
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €50.27We live in a time of rising anti-immigrant fervour and attacks on multiculturalism. As Stuart Hall argued over twenty years ago, the capacity to live with difference is the pressing issue of our time... -
Folk Devils and Moral Panics by Stanley Cohen 9781138834743
RRP: €136.85Booksplease Price: €131.36'Richly documented and convincingly presented' -- New SocietyMods and Rockers, skinheads, video nasties, designer drugs, bogus asylum seeks and hoodies. Every era has its own moral panics. It was... -
The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Reader Kuan-Hsing Chen 9780415431354
RRP: €60.68Booksplease Price: €58.29Asian Cultural Studies or Cultural Studies in Asia is a new and burgeoning field, and the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Journal is at its cutting edge. Committed to bringing Asian Cultural Studies... -
Imagination in Theory: Culture, Writing, Words, and Things by Michele Barrett 9780814713440
Booksplease Price: €36.63Imagination in Theory focuses on Michele Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions and shows how it informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Taking... -
Female Stories, Female Bodies: Narrative, Identity, and Representation by Lidia Curti 9780814715734
Booksplease Price: €36.63Exploring women's narratives from an innovative feminist perspective, Female Stories, Female Bodies combines theory and textual commentary in a wide-ranging interrogation of representation and... -
Folk Devils and Moral Panics by Stanley Cohen 9780415610162
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €26.73'Richly documented and convincingly presented' -- New SocietyMods and Rockers, skinheads, video nasties, designer drugs, bogus asylum seeks and hoodies. Every era has its own moral panics. It was... -
Transitions by Sita Balani 9781915743992
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €17.28Part dialogue, part diagnosis, Transitions turns to the humanities to understand how we arrived at our present moment and what might carry us forward.The legacies of Britain's colonial past continue... -
Cultural Studies by Fred Inglis 9780631184546
RRP: €48.73Booksplease Price: €46.18What is, or are, Cultural Studies? In this outstanding critical and historical account, Fred Inglis, strips away the philosophical incoherence of Cultural Studies to reveal a common focus within the... -
Sentimental Education: Schooling, Popular Culture and the Regulation of Liberty by James Donald 9780860915553
Booksplease Price: €26.20What sort of institution is education? In this iconoclastic study, James Donald restores the school to its proper place at the heart of post-Enlightenment culture and politics. He traces the... -
Anticapitalism and Culture: Radical Theory and Popular Politics Jeremy Gilbert 9781845202309
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €45.21What does 'anticapitalism' really mean for the politics and culture of the twenty-first century?Anticapitalism is an idea which, despite going global, remains rooted in the local, persisting as a... -
Theatres of Memory: Past and Present in Contemporary Culture by Raphael Samuel
Booksplease Price: €41.84When Theatres of Memory was first published in 1994, it transformed the debate about what is to be considered history and questioned the role of "heritage" that lies at the heart of every Western...