Frank Webster (ed.): Culture and Politics in the Information Age: A New Politics? (2001)
Filed under book | Tags: · cultural politics, culture, democracy, politics, transnationalism
This volume addresses these key issues through an analysis of important theoretical debates on issues such as digital democracy, cultural politics and transnational communities. Featuring contributors from both sides of the Atlantic, the book contains a series of case studies on new social movements including campaigns on the environment, gender, animal rights and human rights. It combines cutting edge research with theoretical material and makes an important contribution to this highly topical and rapidly growing area.
Publisher Routledge, 2001
ISBN 0415246369, 9780415246361
Length 231 pages
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Christopher Prendergast (ed.): Cultural Materialism: On Raymond Williams (1995)
Filed under book | Tags: · capitalism, cultural studies, cultural theory, culture, mass culture, materialism, poststructuralism, technological determinism
The work of Raymond Williams is of seminal importance in rethinking the idea of culture. He is widely regarded as one of the founding figures of international cultural studies. In tribute to his legacy, this edited volume is devoted to his theories of cultural materialism and is the most substantial and wide-ranging collection of essays on his work to be offered since his death in 1988. For all readers grappling with Williams’s complex legacy, this volume is not to be missed.
Contributors: Stanley Aronowitz, John Brenkman, Peter de Bolla, Catherine Gallagher, Stephen Heath, John Higgins, Peter Hitchcock, Cora Kaplan, David Lloyd, Robert Miklitsch, Michael Moriarty, Morag Shiach, David Simpson, Gillian Skirrow, Kenneth Surin, Paul Thomas, Gauri Viswanathan, and Cornel West.
Publisher University of Minnesota Press, 1995
ISBN 0816622809, 9780816622801
387 pages
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Comment (0)David Harvey: Paris, Capital of Modernity (2003)
Filed under book | Tags: · 1800s, city, culture, france, history, labour, literature, modernity, paris, politics
Collecting David Harvey’s finest work on Paris during the second empire, Paris, Capital of Modernity offers insights ranging from the birth of consumerist spectacle on the Parisian boulevards, the creative visions of Balzac, Baudelaire and Zola, and the reactionary cultural politics of the bombastic Sacre Couer. The book is heavily illustrated and includes a number drawings, portraits and cartoons by Daumier, one of the greatest political caricaturists of the nineteenth century.
Publisher Routledge, 2003
ISBN 041594421X, 9780415944212
372 pages
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