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A crucial question in the analysis of legal practices concerns the processes of identification with, in and as law ' a question of how and by what route law achieves its ends. While it is conventional to interpret the practices of law through the institutional sources of the leg…
"The Limits of Identity is a polemical critique of the repudiation of universalism and the theoretical commitment to identity and difference embedded in Latin American literary and cultural studies. Through original readings of foundational Latin American thinkers (such as José …
The Limits of Identity is a polemical critique of the repudiation of universalism and the theoretical commitment to identity and difference embedded in Latin American literary and cultural studies. Through original readings of foundational Latin American thinkers (such as José M…
Since 9/11, the American government has presumed to speak and act in the name of 'civilization'. But is that how the rest of the world sees it? And if not, why not? Stephen Mennell leads up to such contemporary questions through a careful study of the whole span of American deve…
This book explains how animals shape our lives and our health, providing evidence that a "One Health" approach is the only logical methodology for advancing human health in the future"--Provided by publisher
Animals, Diseases, and Human Health
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Mass culture theory, studying mass culture and the Frankfurt School were, in part, the antecedent of media studies, cultural studies, critical theory and bits of sociology. This book revisits the work of leading critical theorists, explores and explains their work and highlights…
"This is a welcome critical corrective to complacent mainstream accounts of the media's cultural impact"--Prof. Slavoj Zizek, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London. "A powerful and highly engaging re-assessment of p…
Now updated with coverage of globalization, youth subcultures, body modification, new media, virtual cultures and more, 'Introducing Cultural Studies' gives a systematic overview of the concepts, theories, debates and latest research in the field.
The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternativesoto conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that has exte…
This book explores the emergence and expansion of global kosher and halal markets with a particular focus on the UK and Denmark. Kosher is a Hebrew term meaning 'fit' or 'proper' while halal is an Arabic word that literally means 'permissible' or 'lawful'. This is the first book…