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Many people think of Sweden as a compilation of four stereotypes: sex, suicide, socialism and spirits. Unfair and just plain incorrect according to this bicultural author team. True to its title the book traces many of Sweden's cultural traits back to its Viking heritage: self-…
"Germany's New Right as Culture and Politics" is the first full-length study in English of the New Right in Germany and it breaks new ground by considering the New Right as both a political and a cultural movement. This approach reveals the problems that arise when a political m…
This text considers the effects of state socialism on seemingly mundane aspects of life. Taking as its premise the notion that material culture can help explain the experience of state socialism as lived by ordinary people, it provides a revealing window through which to examine…
Using an impressive array of material from literature, archaeology and social theory, and demonstrating an abiding interest in Freud's work and its influence on his own, Edward Said explores the profound implications in Moses and Monotheism for middle-east politics today. He pro…
A World Beyond Difference unpacks the globalization literature and fills a void by presenting a lively conceptual and historical map of how we think about the emerging socio-political world, and above all how we think politically about human cultural differences. Here is a rare …
European Identity examines how Europe is represented linguistically in the news media of four EU countries, France, Italy, Poland, and the UK, through the use of an electronic corpus built from newspapers and television news transcripts. This multilingual comparable corpus, is c…
What is the cultural dimension of sustainability? This book offers a thought-provoking answer, with a theoretical synthesis on" cultures of sustainability". Describing how modernity degenerated into a culture of unsustainability, to which the arts are contributing, Sacha Kagan e…
