Télécharger le livre :  Consumer Culture and Postmodernism

The first edition of this contemporary classic can claim to have put 'consumer culture' on the map, certainly in relation to postmodernism. This expanded new edition includes: a fully revised preface that explores the developments in consumer culture since the...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 2007-07-11

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19,74
Télécharger le livre :  Automobilities

Mobility - flows, movement and migration in social life - has emerged as a central area of sociological debate, yet one of its most dominant forms, automobility, has remained largely ignored. Edited by three leading social analysts, Automobilities presents one of the...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 2005-05-19

Format(s) : PDF
156,63
Télécharger le livre :  Recognition and Difference

Are there any cultural universals left? Does multiculturalism inevitably involve a slide into moral relativism? This timely and insightful book examines questions of politics and identity in the age of multicultures. It draws together the contribution of outstanding...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 2002-07-26

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182,95
Télécharger le livre :  Body Modification

This fascinating collection explores the growing range of body modification practices such as piercing, tattooing, branding, cutting and inserting implants, which have sprung up recently in the West. It asks whether this implies that we are returning to traditional...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 2000-04-19

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67,78
Télécharger le livre :  Spaces of Culture

In Spaces of Culture an international group of scholars examines the implications of questions such as: What is culture? What is the relationship between social structure and culture in a globalized and networked world? Do critical perspectives still apply, or does the...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 1999-03-30

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67,78
Télécharger le livre :  Love & Eroticism

This major collection explores the contested nature of love and eroticism, examining the ways in which erotic bodily pleasures have become central to contemporary consumer culture. It investigates the spatial dimension of erotic life through considerations of Bohemian...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 1999-03-19

Format(s) : PDF
51,99
Télécharger le livre :  Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk

How can we interpret cyberspace? What is the place of the embodied human agent in the virtual world? This innovative collection examines the emerging arena of cyberspace and the challenges it presents for the social and cultural forms of the human body. It shows how...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 1996-01-29

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60,55
Télécharger le livre :  Undoing Culture

Written with the clarity and insight that readers have come to expect of Mike Featherstone Undoing Culture is a notable contribution to our understanding of modernism and postmodernism. It explores the formation and deformation of the cultural sphere and the effects on...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 1995-09-21

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65,16
Télécharger le livre :  Global Modernities

Global Modernities is a sustained commentary on the international character of the most microcosmic practices. It demonstrates how the global increasingly informs the regional, so deconstructing ideas like the `nation state' and `national sovereignty'. The...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 1995-06-05

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73,05
Télécharger le livre :  The Body

This challenging volume reasserts the centrality of the body within social theory as a means to understanding the complex interrelations between nature, culture and society. At a theoretical level, the volume explores the origins of a social theory of the body in...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 1991-01-10

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67,78
Télécharger le livre :  Global Culture

In this book leading social scientists from many countries analyze the extent to which we are seeing a globalization of culture. Is a unified world culture emerging? And if so, how does this relate to existing cultural divisions and to the autonomy of the nation state?...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 1990-07-03

Format(s) : PDF
61,20