After Postmodernity?
in We Have Never Been Postmodern
June 2011; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: cultural studies. 4402 words.
Cosmopolitanism, long the dominant characteristic in sociology, has it appears become claustropolitanism, or is certainly in the process of ‘becoming claustropolitan’. For these new ‘new times’, with...
AIDS, pornography and the condom
in Object Matters
June 2008; published online July 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: cultural studies. 6438 words.
This chapter considers the impact of social and cultural theory in the context of AIDS, and does so in relation to theories of pornography from the 1980s and 1990s. Addressing accounts of eroticised...
AIDS, the condom and the history of heterosexuality: an introduction
in Object Matters
June 2008; published online July 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: cultural studies. 4631 words.
This chapter begins with discussions of Linda Singer's observations regarding the nature of power, control and regulation in relation to sexuality; and Joshua Gamson's claims about the contemporary...
All Trauma, Talk and Tears: In the Event of Speaking Out on TV
in Violence and the Cultural Politics of Trauma
April 2007; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: cultural studies. 12481 words.
This chapter is organised into two parts. Staged via Frigga Haug's feminist socialist reading of the global scene of child sexual abuse, the first part looks to interrogate the possibility of...
America and the Environment
in American Thought and Culture in the 21st Century
October 2008; published online September 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: cultural studies. 5847 words.
John Wills begins this chapter by contrasting the place of the environment for Henry David Thoreau in the 1840s with its status in the early twenty-first century, in which the preservation of...
American Leadership Into the New Century
in American Thought and Culture in the 21st Century
October 2008; published online September 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: cultural studies. 6443 words.
In this chapter John Dumbrell looks beyond the Cold War tensions between communism and capitalism to explore American leadership between 1989 and the first decade of the twenty-first century....
American Politics in the 1990s and 2000s
in American Thought and Culture in the 21st Century
October 2008; published online September 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: cultural studies. 6423 words.
In this chapter, Dominic Sandbrook traces the roots of the political debates of the 1990s and 2000s to the ascendancy of Ronald Reagan between 1981 and 1988. He argues that American politics during...
American Thought and Culture in the 21st Century
October 2008; published online September 2012.
Book. Subjects: cultural studies. 336 pages.
This volume considers the changing patterns of American thought and culture in its transition into the early twenty-first century. One of the questions this book tackles is whether the twenty-first...
American Ways of Seeing
in American Thought and Culture in the 21st Century
October 2008; published online September 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: cultural studies. 6691 words.
This chapter focuses on American photojournalism in the contexts of visual responses and representations of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the war in Iraq. Noting the links between photojournalism...
Analysis of Chapter Five (481)
in Sibawayh on ?imalah (Inclination)
July 2007; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: cultural studies. 873 words.
This chapter examines Sībawayh's views in the case of rā ([r]) and its effect on the inclination of the [A]. The [r] is a unique sound in that it is ‘repeated’, which gives it greater solidity than a...