Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 400 p. This book examines the ethics, politics and aesthetics of veganism in contemporary culture and thought. Traditionally a lifestyle located on the margins of western culture, veganism has now been propelled into the mainstream, and as agribusiness grows animal issues are inextricably linked to environmental impact as well as to existing ethical...
London & New Brunswick Nj.: The Athlone Press, 2000. - 282 p. in English. language ISBN: 0-485-00412-7 HB A brief guide to the book Introduction: Science fiction and cyberpunk Cyberpunk and virtual technologies Cyberpunk, technology and mythology Technology and mythology: origins Cyborgs Myth and religion in cyberpunk Fiction, theory and the language of science Cyberpunk and...
Routledge, 2002. — 208 p. General Editor’s Preface Introduction: Subculture and Style From culture to hegemony Some case studies Holiday in the sun: Mister Rotten makes the grade Boredom in Babylon Back to Africa The Rastafarian solution Reggae and Rastafarianism Exodus: A double crossing Hipsters, beats and teddy boys Home-grown cool: The style of the mods White skins, black...
London: Routledge, 267 p. Youth cultures:A critical outline of key debates Paul Hodkinson As young as you feel: Youth as a discursive construct Andy Bennett Recent concepts in youth cultural studies: Critical reflections from the sociology of music David Hesmondhalgh ‘Insider’ and ‘outsider’ issues in youth research Rhoda Macrae Rethinking the subcultural commodity: The case of...
ECW Press, 2011. — 313 p. Encyclopedia Gothica is a guide through that shadowiest of subcultures: modern Goths. It collects and defines more than 600 words and phrases used by these children of the night so that you too can engage in conversations about deathhawks and rivetheads and who is more u¨bergoth: Bela Lugosi or Robert Smith. Compiled by acclaimed Goth journalist and...
Routledge, 2018. — 318 p. The protest against meat eating may turn out to be one of the most significant movements of our age. In terms of our relations with animals, it is difficult to think of a more urgent moral problem than the fate of billions of animals killed every year for human consumption. This book argues that vegetarians and vegans are not only protestors, but also...
Rereading Postwar American Dissent from Jack Kerouac to Tomas Rivera. — The University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. — 353 p. Rebelling against bourgeois vacuity and taking their countercultural critique on the road, the Beat writers and artists have long symbolized a spirit of freedom and radical democracy. Manuel Martinez offers an eye-opening challenge to this characterization...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 243 p. An examination of the way American suburbia has been depicted in Gothic and horror films, television and literature from 1948 to the present day, in which Bernice Murphy demonstrates that Gothic depictions of suburbia provide an intriguing glimpse into the way modern American society views itself.
Routledge, 2010. — 282 p. This book is a collection of essays that considers the continuing cultural relevance of the cyberpunk genre into the new millennium. Cyberpunk is no longer an emergent phenomenon, but in our digital age of CGI-driven entertainment, the information economy, and globalized capital, we have never more been in need of a fiction capable of engaging with a...
Winchester: Zero Books, 2017. — ISBN: 978-1-78535-544-8 Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battle ground is the internet. On one side the "alt right" ranges from the once obscure neo-reactionary and white separatist movements, to geeky subcultures like 4chan, to more mainstream manifestations such as the Trump-supporting...
New York: Back Bay Books, 2013. — 528 p. — ISBN10: 0316213527; ISBN13: 978-0316213523. We are anonymous is the first full account of how a loosely assembled group of hackers scattered across the globe formed a new kind of insurgency, seized headlines, and tortured the feds-and the ultimate betrayal that would eventually bring them down. Parmy Olson goes behind the headlines and...
New York: Back Bay Books, 2013 — 528 p. — ISBN10: 0316213527; ISBN13: 978-0316213523 We are anonymous is the first full account of how a loosely assembled group of hackers scattered across the globe formed a new kind of insurgency, seized headlines, and tortured the feds-and the ultimate betrayal that would eventually bring them down. Parmy Olson goes behind the headlines and...
Duke University, 2007. — 331 p. Saenz de Viguera Erquiaga L. Intensity and heterogeneity in Basque radical culture during the period of democracy since 1978. (in Spanish) This dissertation examines the ways in which a youth radical culture developed in the Basque Country after the Spanish Transition from Francoism to a democratic state in the late 1970´s and early 1980´s. In...
From the Countercultures of Jerry Garcia to the Subculture of Jerry Falwell. — Waco, Texas, USA: Baylor University Press, 2006. — 275 p. This volume demonstrates that the Christian Right has a surprising past. Historical analysis reveals that the countercultural movements and evangelicalism share a common heritage. Shires warns that political operatives in both parties need to...
Polity. 1995. ISBN13: 978-0745614434 eBook (Adobe Reader). ISBN10: 0745614434 eBook (Adobe Reader). (204 p.). Focusing on youth cultures that revolve around dance clubs and raves in Great Britain and the U.S., Sarah Thornton highlights the values of authenticity and hipness and explores the complex hierarchies that emerge within the domain of popular culture. She portrays club...
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., 2018. — xiii, 220 p. — ISBN: 9789811309779 (eBook). This book explores punk lives in contemporary China. Discussion about punk is currently thriving in academia, and focusing on Chinese punk can be regarded as in line with this trend. That said, the general lack of discussion about punk phenomena in Asian...
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