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by Professor Maggi Savin-Baden, Dr Gemma Tombs
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
What is research in education? And what is it for in a digital age? Reflecting upon these questions, this engaging introduction provides critical discussion about the dilemmas of researching education in the digital age and ways forward for research in this complex area.
Research Methods for...
Sustainability and the Social Fabric
Europe’s New Textile Industries
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
While the topic of sustainability in textile manufacture has been the subject of considerable research, much of this is limited to a focus on materials and practices and their ecological impact. Padovani and Whittaker offer a unique exploration of the textile industry in Europe from the perspective...
Advertising and Anthropology
Ethnographic Practice and Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Examining theory and practice, Advertising and Anthropology is a lively and important contribution to the study of organizational culture, consumption practices, marketing to consumers and the production of creativity in corporate settings. The chapters reflect the authors' extensive lived experienced...
The Body and the Screen
Female Subjectivities in Contemporary Women’s Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Winner of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Best Book Prize 2018
Since the 1980s the number of women regularly directing films has increased significantly in most Western countries; in France, Claire Denis and Catherine Breillat have joined Agnès Varda in gaining...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
The Handbook of Fashion Studies identifies an innovative spectrum of thematic approaches, key strands and interdisciplinary concepts that continue to push forward the boundaries of fashion studies. The book is divided into seven sections: Fashion, Identity and Difference; Spaces of Fashion; Fashion...
Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion
New Perspectives from Europe and North America
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Introducing innovative new research from international scholars working on Islamic fashion and its critics, Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion provides a global perspective on muslim dress practices. The book takes a broad geographic sweep, bringing together the sartorial experiences of Muslims in locations...
Street Style
An Ethnography of Fashion Blogging
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Winner of the 2019 John Collier Jr Award
Street style blogging has experienced a meteoric rise in popularity over the last decade. Amateur photographers, often with no formal training in fashion, have become critical arbiters of taste and trends, influencing the representations that appear...
Managing Staff for Improved Performance
Human Resource Management in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Managing Staff for Improved Performance provides a comprehensive guide to people management in schools, giving school leaders and managers clear insights into how to develop employee performance and ensure high quality service in education. Middlewood and Abbott explore human resource management (HRM)...
The Tories
From Winston Churchill to David Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
This book offers a comprehensive and accessible study of the electoral strategies, governing approaches and ideological thought of the British Conservative Party from Winston Churchill to David Cameron. Timothy Heppell integrates a chronological narrative with theoretical evaluation, examining the...
Sustainable Fashion
Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Sustainable Fashion provides a unique and accessible overview of fashion ethics and sustainability issues of the past, present and future. This book is the first to situate today's eco-fashion movement in its multifaceted historical context, investigating the relationship between fashion and the environment...
Digital Materialities
Design and Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
As the distinction between the digital and the material world becomes increasingly blurred, the ways in which we think about design are also shifting and evolving. How can the human, digital and material be brought together to intervene in the world? What constitutes our digital-material environments?...
Social, Casual and Mobile Games
The Changing Gaming Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Social, casual and mobile games, played on devices such as smartphones, tablets, or PCs and accessed through online social networks, have become extremely popular, and are changing the ways in which games are designed, understood, and played. These games have sparked a revolution as more people from...
by Professor of Sociology Kath Woodward
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Boxing is a traditional sport in many ways, characterized by continuities in the form of practices and regulations and heavy with legends and heroes reflecting its traditional/historical values. Associations with class, hegemonic masculinity and racialized inclusions/exclusions, however, sit alongside...
Bollywood in Britain
Cinema, Brand, Discursive Complex
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Bollywood in Britain provides the most extensive survey to date of the various manifestations and facets of the Bollywood phenomenon in Britain. The book analyzes the role of Hindi films in the British film market, it shows how audiences engage with Bollywood cinema and it discusses the ways the image...