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A daring interdisciplinary journey into the nexus of the humanities and ecological science
Environmental sustainability and human cultural sustainability are inextricably linked. Reversing damaging human impact on the global environment is ultimately a cultural question, and as with politics, the answers are often ......
A daring interdisciplinary journey into the nexus of the humanities and ecological science
Environmental sustainability and human cultural sustainability are inextricably linked. Reversing damaging human impact on the global environment is ultimately a cultural question, and as with politics, the answers are often ......
In this multidisciplinary study, Amy Koritz examines the drama, dance, and literature of the 1920s, focusing on how artists used these different media to engage three major concurrent shifts in economic and social organization: the emergence of rationalized work processes and expert professionalism; the advent of mass markets and the consequent ......
Focusing on the mountainous area from northern Alabama to West Virginia, this important volume explores the historic and contemporary interrelations between culture and environment in a region that has been plagued by land misuse and damaging stereotypes of its people. Committed to taking account of humankind's place in the environment, this ......
Feminized Popular Culture in the Early Twenty-First Century
Exploring the cultural products targeted to and consumed by women.
Media expansion into the digital realm and the continuing segregation of users into niches has led to a proliferation of cultural products targeted to and consumed by women. Though often dismissed as frivolous or excessively emotional, ......
Michael R. Jeffords and Susan L. Post have circled the globe - and explored their neighborhood - collecting images of the natural world. This book opens their personal cabinet of curiosities to tell the stories of the pair's most unusual encounters.
From the "necking" battles of mate-hungry giraffes to the breathtaking ......
Containing the complete and annotated texts of six pamphlets written between 1609 and 1620, ''Custome Is an Idiot'' makes an invaluable contribution to the scholarship on early modern British cultural history, specifically on competing opinions about the role of women in society.During the early seventeenth century a fierce debate raged in British ......
Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High Technology Capitalism
In this highly readable and thought-provoking work, Nick Dyer-Witheford assesses the relevance of Marxism in our time and demonstrates how the information age, far from transcending the historic conflict between capital and its laboring subjects, constitutes the latest battleground in their encounter. Dyer-Witheford maps the dynamics of modern ......
