Communication & Cultural Studies

This book explores relations between smartness and social justice, and questions whether working toward more just and sustainable cities requires that we look beyond the limitations of "smartness" altogether.

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.

Digital Encounters approaches connectivity as a gravitational centre of contemporary Latin American cultural production.

A Decolonizing Ear investigates how documentary film can challenge conventions of listening and recording shaped by histories of colonial ethnography and extraction.

Acting as a lightning rod for transformative thinking, Transverse Disciplines offers exciting new methodologies for reshaping academic work beyond the bounds of traditional disciplines.

Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds focuses on women, gender, and the politics of selling US consumer culture and domesticity during the early Cold War through "polite propaganda."

Mussolini, Architect documents the numerous ways in which Mussolini used architecture to shape Italy and its citizens.

Wayward Feeling asks what contemporary audio-visual culture and aesthetic activisms might tell us about the affective afterlives of historical injustice in post-rainbow South Africa.

This book traces the many alignments between contemporary artistic creativity and its formal organization within higher education.

This edition of Empire and Communications enriches Harold A. Innis’s examination of the relationship between communications and power structures.

This book reveals how negotiation begins before anyone sits down at the bargaining table.

Drawing from theory and case studies, Pop Culture and Power takes apart popular culture and reassembles it in ways that empower students to develop analytical sensibilities and design the socially just world they want to live in.

Media Critique in the Age of Gillray reflects on print and paper culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, crafting a new approach to British visual culture.

This path-breaking collaboration by leading Black scholars examines the complexities of Black life in Canadian post-secondary education.

Applying media theory to late-Victorian print, Making Pictorial Print shows how popular illustrated magazines developed a new design interface that encouraged dynamic engagement and media literacy in the British public.

In the face of contemporary controversies, Dilemmas of Free Expression presents nuanced and trenchant analyses on recent controversies, judicial decisions, and policies implicating free expression.