Cultural Studies

Cooking, eating and nutrition have become omnipresent cultural topics. This volume investigates the dimensions of a culinary turn, combining for the first time the theory and practice of cooking.

How can Cultural and Disability Studies stimulate each other? This essential volume addresses a variety of overlaps and resonances.

Geographical, economic, and social mobility were central tropes in American literature and film in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. This study provides in-depth case studies with particular attention to class, race, and gender as they intersect with representations of mobility.

Can only Hollywood movies and TV news frame public discourse? This innovative study demonstrates the potential of life writing to (re-)frame Orientalism in the »West.«

Myths play a vital role in the process of American »nation building«. On the basis of a critical analysis of central American myths this textbook offers an introduction to the field of American (Culture) Studies.

»Doing Identity« under globalized conditions: This volume investigates socio-cultural milieus in the unique society of multicultural Luxembourg.

After the creative industries hype, a proper analysis is overdue. With the help of cultural science, this volume unfolds a political economy of urban creative networks, also pointing out the limits of controlling them politically.

Buddhism is known as the gentle religion. But which role does the idea of human rights play in Buddhist countries? This volume paints a dense picture of the political and conceptual reality in the hemisphere of Buddhism.

In the present social and cultural transformation of South Thailand's cultural politics, ideologies involving the family, gender and home provide the cultural codes in social dramas of the state, the media and social and religious movements. This study looks at micropolitics and the nesting of the political action of everyday life in larger, ultimately global structures of power. Exploring the making of class, culture and space, the production and consumption of culture is understood as work which involves the constant negotiation of boundaries.

»Ending Slavery« offers insights into the »how« of practices of slavery that persist in parts of Mauritania up to the present day. It brings to the light the gendered structures of Moorish slavery, and examines their impact on strategies and tactics designed to bring this institution to an end. Underlying this study is empirical data gathered during two periods of field research in rural central Mauritania. The analysis of life histories of slaves and freed slaves, but also of tributaries and free Moors plays a key role in the book.