Communication & Cultural Studies

This book explores Niagara residents’ engagement with regional historical narratives and reveals how individuals select specific elements to form contemporary local identities.

Shedding light on historical moments and geographic locations, this book explores coloniality and its legacies in contemporary Mexico.

Staging the Absolute examines the use of public ritual to interrupt the flow of history, a distinct element in Russian culture during the late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries.

This book explores the complex connections between the memories, emotions, and objects that hold special meaning for us across the years.

This book explores the complex connections between the memories, emotions, and objects that hold special meaning for us across the years.

Beyond Human probes Spanish cultural production across hundreds of years to query the damaging ideologies and ecological practices that have perpetuated human and non-human suffering.

Skating on Thin Ice exposes the culture of toxic masculinity in professional hockey and suggests how sport and society can change the narrative on sexual assault and violence.

Focusing on the entanglement of art, technology, and culture, The Quantum Revolution illuminates the contemporary scientific imagination as a new way of understanding everyday life.

An Indwelling Voice presents a framework for understanding how, despite linguistic and philosophical barriers, sincere voices are written and read in poetry.

This volume presents, for the first time in English, fourteen essays by Yuri Andrukhovych, making a well-known Ukrainian voice accessible to the English-speaking world.

This book examines movies, TV shows, and documentaries to reveal how sex work connects to women’s experiences of gender, power, and labour.

Rescuing Humanity ​examines the possible roots of most planetary crises and reveals how we might instead create a livable and sustainable future.

This collection aims to develop and provide new platforms and strategies for making social justice education more accessible.

Adopting a cautious and yet optimistic view of an uncertain legal future, The Legal Singularity presents a coherent account of the radically positive impact artificial intelligence may have in the coming decades on law and legal institutions.

Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France explores literature, medicine, fashion, and social practices during the rise of modern French perfume culture.

Building on a South Asian oral folk legend, Hidden Paradigms identifies the important symbolic patterns that well-known epic stories while also suggesting fresh strategies for further discovery.