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Chapters apply novel interpretations of Simmel’s theories of social and cultural forms to diverse aspects of modern life, from aesthetics and urban experience to identity and emerging technological worlds. Examining Simmel’s often neglected ideas, the Companion proposes that his legacy lies not only in the diffusion of his wide-ranging concepts and insights, but in a distinct sociological sensibility attuned to the vital and dynamic aspects of social forms. Adopting an interpretation-through-application approach, contributors implement Simmel’s ideas to solve contemporary sociological problems and advance sub-field debates.

The Elgar Companion to Georg Simmel is a crucial read for academics and students of sociology, particularly as a tool for reorienting contemporary debates in epistemology, action theory and relationalism. Given the expansive nature of Simmel’s work, it is also a valuable resource for interdisciplinary scholars in the humanities, especially in cultural studies, philosophy, aesthetics, history of art and architecture.

For Spring Summer 2020, Gucci showed a collection questioning identity politics and capitalism. Rather than the usual explanation of the material, shapes or inspirations behind the collection, the press release handed out at the show quoted the philosopher Michel Foucault and questioned the very nature of fashion itself.

Gucci's press release reflects the popularization of critical theory in public discourse and fashion in particular. Philosophers, activists and academics are increasingly recruited to collaborate with luxury brands, and main-stream fashion brands have begun to adopt a discourse about politics and critical thinking using, in their communication, concepts such as "resistance", "gender fluidity", "national identity" or "cultural heritage" without accompanying these discourses with any form of political engagement or activism.

Based on this intellectualization of the fashion industry and the recent proliferation of critical theory in fashion education, this book stresses the importance of rethinking the relationship between fashion and theory. Drawing together eleven chapters and four conversations by and with philosophers, cultural theorists, historians, anthropologists, activists, performers and designers, the book investigates both the theorization of fashion and the ways in which fashion offers a useful landscape in understanding the current state of critical theory today.

This book provides a comprehensive international assessment of the relationship between tourism and sporting venues. Sporting venues are important instigators of tourism, with many professional sport sites attracting millions of visitors annually while also becoming icons of communities, clubs, sports, and nations. However, the concept of what constitutes a sporting venue, how sporting venues are managed and interpreted, and why tourists visit sporting venues are important questions for researchers and practitioners alike.

A variety of sporting venues from around the world are explored, from large professional stadia and Olympic sites to smaller community sporting venues, along with an understanding of what drives tourists to visit sporting venues, the marketing of sporting venues to visitors as sites of authenticity, cultural heritage, and hospitality, the challenges and opportunities for clubs and communities to develop tourism at sport sites, and the factors that go into presenting sporting venues to tourists, including the interpretation of the venue itself along with the personnel who create the experiences for visitors.

This book is essential reading for students, researchers and practitioners in tourism management, sport management, event management, leisure studies, and hospitality. It will also appeal to venue managers, destination marketing organizations, sport administrators, urban planners, and policymakers involved in sport tourism development. The volume spans multiple subject areas including sport tourism, venue management, cultural heritage tourism, destination marketing, visitor experience management, and the socio-economic impacts of sporting infrastructure.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Sport & Tourism.

This book studies the relation between English national culture and popular music in the first decades of the 21st century. In a dialogue of literary and popular music studies, it makes a case for paying renewed attention to the song lyric as a genre of cultural self-reflection and criticism.

Drawing on recent perspectives from cultural studies and postcolonial studies, the book contributes to the critical study of Englishness. It focuses on the pop-cultural significance of the Brexit debate and argues that the years leading up to the vote registered a shift in the ‘English pop’ paradigm. Schuhmaier includes close readings of PJ Harvey’s Let England Shake (2011), Kae Tempest’s Let Them Eat Chaos (2016), and Kano’s Made in the Manor (2016), which illustrate a tendency of British popular music in the early 21st century to be critical, rather than celebratory, of national identity. The book’s discussions focus on the pastoral imagination of Englishness, imperial nostalgia, and Black British reconfigurations of Englishness, as well as on socioeconomic conditions in the United Kingdom and its capital and the state of the nation according to British popular music.

The book speaks to students and scholars in literary and popular music studies as well to a wider audience with an interest in popular music and discourses of Englishness.

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and the Family brings together philosophical analysis with contemporary scholarship across the humanities and social sciences to place an oft-taken-for-granted institution under the microscope. It examines concrete regulatory structures such as social service policies and legal realities, but also less tangible but equally powerful cultural pressures, like the roles gender, sexuality, race, citizenship, class, and health have on family life and on understandings of the family itself.

Thirty-five chapters written by an international team of leading scholars are published here for the first time, and organized into five, broader sections:

I. Family ties

II. Intimate relationships

III. Family, state and justice

VI. Parenthood and procreation

V. Sickness and death

As a true work of applied philosophy, the Handbook is an outstanding resource for students and researchers alike in introducing and furthering philosophical understandings of the family.

Where civil society is often seen as a driving force for equality, this book addresses a challenging topic: civil society elites.

Drawing on a comprehensive study of Italy, Poland, Sweden, and the UK, this ground-breaking research investigates the often-overlooked power structures within civil society. By combining elite studies with civil society research, the book uncovers how a distinct civil society elite emerges and how it interacts with leaders in politics and business.

The findings reveal a fascinating paradox. While this elite may be a powerful engine for social change, its integration into wider power circles risks reproducing the very inequalities it seeks to dismantle. By exploring how this elite can become disconnected from its grassroots, the book provides essential insights into the future of civil society and its democratic promise.

Diversity in children’s and young adult literature encompasses shifting and often ill-defined historical and contemporary meanings, and yet, remains a necessary term for examining the possibilities and limitations of representation in storytelling for young people. The Handbook of Research on Diversity in Children’s and Young Adult Literature calls attention to the ideologies and social narratives that underwrite how books are published and circulated, how storytellers shape new images and interpretations for themselves and others, how literary works for young people are critiqued and studied, and how these works are made accessible in libraries and introduced in school settings.

The editors and contributors raise these questions at a time when storytelling by minoritized authors and illustrators has never been more exploratory and visible and simultaneously more subject to politicized surveillance, isolation, and exclusion. These questions also resonate with scholars in international contexts, highlighting the limits of western meanings and practices of diversity. Across four key dimensions for understanding children’s and young adult literature, authors from multiple fields and contexts illuminate how and why diverse literature matters in the lives of young people and their communities.

Part I addresses the history, status, and future of publishing and related ecosystems and the ways diverse literature is foregrounded in the United States and globally.

Part II features scholarship on intersectional representations and the speculative possibilities for storytelling within and across ‘beloved communities.’

Part III introduces new insights and tensions for studying diverse literature, focusing on methodologies and interdisciplinary scholarship encompassing literary studies, education, library science, cultural studies, media studies, critical race theory, critical youth studies, eco-criticism, and queer theory.

Part IV provides comprehensive research reviews on the role of diverse literature in classrooms, libraries, and community settings and proposes new directions for understanding how diverse literature is being reframed through classroom dialogue and pedagogy to advance critical inquiry.

Scholars, librarians, and educators working in the fields of Education, English Studies, Library and Information Science, and Ethnic Studies will find historical overviews and new theoretical frameworks suggesting new questions and frameworks for future inquiry. This volume directs the field of children’s and young adult literature scholarship to the most pressing questions of our time, with the intention to inspire and strengthen dialogue, inquiry, advocacy and artistry.

Raffaella Carra and the Media offers a comprehensive critical study of "the queen of Italian television," whose five-decade career transformed Italian popular culture and resonated internationally.

Drawing on cultural studies, gender studies, and television studies, the book situates Carra's stardom as a challenge to traditional Catholic-influenced social norms. It demonstrates how her originality in performance, music, and television formats continually adapted to shifting socio-political contexts, producing a cultural phenomenon that extended beyond Italy to Spain and Latin America. As the first major English-language publication on Carra, the volume provides a new lens for understanding intersections of gender, celebrity, and media across borders. The book develops its arguments through three case-study chapters spanning Carra's career. The 1970s highlight her rise through variety shows such as Canzonissima and Milleluci, where she crafted a bold yet carefully balanced star persona that pushed cultural boundaries while appeasing traditional audiences. The 1980s explore her dual reputation as both a household name in Italy and a transnational figure abroad, including her work in Argentina and the United States, and her innovative attempts to connect diasporic audiences through live broadcasts. From the 1990s onward, Carra reinvented her image through formats such as Carramba! Che sorpresa, pioneering "emotainment" and reconfiguring discourses on aging, motherhood, and emotional connection on television. These analyses underscore her ability to remain culturally relevant while expanding the expressive possibilities of television.

This volume will be of particular interest to scholars and students of Italian cultural studies, television studies, celebrity studies, and gender studies, as well as those researching European and Latin American popular culture. It also provides a valuable resource for courses examining media history, stardom, and the cultural politics of performance.

This book offers the first sustained examination of the extensive use of photographs in the coverage of the Scottsboro case during the decade when visual news came of age.

This case study offers the opportunity to explore broader questions of ongoing relevance about the ways photographs serve media narratives of race, gender, and class. The Scottsboro case witnessed the unprecedented proliferation of pictures of African Americans across American and indeed global media at a time when images of Black citizens rarely appeared in mainstream media. These photographs show how media forms constructed and sometimes challenged racial identities through photography for millions of citizens. The encoding of an individual photograph might vary whether printed in a Southern newspaper, on a Communist pamphlet, or in the African American press. The author develops a complex analysis of the multiple uses of photography by examining themes and case studies such as: the arrest photograph of the Nine in relation to the representation of lynching and mob violence; the media spectacle of the trials and 'hippodroming' (sensationalist courtroom photography); how Communist media and weaponized photomontage; the Black press and the Jim Crow legal system; the gendering of the coverage with respect to women accusers and defendants' mothers; the globalism of the case in relation to anti-imperialist movements; and mugshots and prison photographs of the Nine as carceral images. These discrete themes enable fresh insights into the production of racial values during this transformative decade in the histories of photography and mass media, and their interrelation in modern propaganda.

This is a fascinating and important text for scholars and students in the history of photography, history of media, and political and social history.

Leading scholars examine foundational concepts such as freedom of expression, misinformation and global journalism ethics. They further assess specific journalistic fields such as war reporting, visual communication and financial journalism to highlight the ethical dilemmas professionals face in practice. The Research Handbook outlines critical perspectives on communicational responsibility, hate speech and emerging challenges related to artificial intelligence. Featuring both conceptual reflections and empirical perspectives, this Handbook provides a timely and informed contribution to ongoing discussions surrounding ethical media practices.

Scholars and students in media, communications, and journalism studies will greatly benefit from this perceptive Research Handbook. Given its practical focus, it is also a valuable read for journalism professionals and educators, as well as policy makers and media regulators seeking to understand the systems that shape public communication.

Beyond Algorithms: Social Representations and the Public Understanding of AI explores how artificial intelligence is understood, debated, and socially constructed across different social, cultural, and institutional contexts. Drawing on Social Representations Theory and complementary perspectives, the volume examines the meanings, hopes, fears, and controversies associated with AI in domains such as education, health, work, ethics, communication, and public policy. By bringing together contributions from an international group of scholars, the book highlights how public understandings of AI shape social practices which, in turn, are shaped by broader social, political, and cultural transformations.

Psychoanalytic Culture explores how psychoanalysis has become deeply embedded in contemporary culture, shaping both individual subjectivity and collective understanding.

This edition delves into the intricate relationship between psychoanalysis and cultural discourse, examining how psychoanalytic ideas have evolved and permeated everyday life. Ian Parker provides a comprehensive overview of three main traditions in psychoanalysis, while critically analyzing their impact on identity, belief systems, and societal structures. The book highlights the ways psychoanalysis operates as both a tool for self-knowledge and a cultural phenomenon, revealing its contradictions and complexities. The updated edition engages with the global spread of psychoanalysis and gives attention to questions of therapeutic culture and cultural domination. By integrating insights from different domains of critical and social theory, Parker offers a nuanced critique of psychoanalytic practices and their role in shaping modern subjectivity.

This book is essential reading for scholars, students, and practitioners in psychology, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, cultural studies, and critical theory. It will also appeal to anyone interested in understanding the pervasive influence of psychoanalytic thought on Western culture and its implications for personal and collective identity.

The central focus of Kendrick Lamar: From the K.Dot Mixtapes to Untitled Unmastered is Kendrick Lamar’s early studio albums?Section.80 (2011), Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (2012), To Pimp a Butterfly (2015), and Untitled Unmastered (2016). These albums function not only as deeply personal and political statements but also as barometers of rap’s evolution in the early-to-mid 2010s. They chart a trajectory that mirrors both Lamar’s personal evolution and the broader shifts in rap’s sonic experimentation, thematic depth, and sociopolitical engagement during the decade?a period marked by the resurgence of concept albums, the mainstreaming of trap production, the rise of introspective and emotionally vulnerable lyricism, and a renewed emphasis on Black consciousness and political critique in response to the Black Lives Matter Movement.

Taken together, these four albums, move like a long suite, each movement deepening the last, tracing Kendrick Lamar’s passage from a sharp local voice to a global critic attuned to the hidden rhythms of power, memory, and survival. What unfolds is not simply career progression but apprenticeship and arrival: a sharpening of the storyteller’s ear, the theorist’s reach, and the bandleader’s sense of space and timing. Each record advances his craft while documenting the evolution of rap itself in the early-to-mid 2010s, when commercial formulas, streaming-friendly singles, and market logic threatened to thin the music’s marrow. Against that drift, Lamar insisted on the album as a living form capable of holding contradiction, sustaining narrative pressure, and staging a reckoning with both the past and the present. In doing so, he treated rap not as disposable music industry product but as a dynamic thinking music, a contemporary Black popular music continuum where lyrics double as narratives, structure matters, themes recur, and a deep sense of historic and current events counts. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in popular music studies, hip hop studies, African American studies, cultural studies, ethnic studies, and related interdisciplinary fields, who will find essential insights into contemporary Black popular culture and the artistic maturation of rap.