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Introduction to Cultural Geography makes the case for why thinking geographically about culture matters. Across its chapters, the book examines how cultural geographers have approached the relationship between geography and culture through topics from house floor plans and international migration to colonialism and digital geographies.

The book's first section develops a conceptual framework for studying cultural geography and its key concepts. From there, its chapters look at how and where people make and claim place across four spheres of our everyday lives: dwelling, moving, working, and playing. The book's final section addresses debates around materialities, assemblages, and artificial intelligence. Each chapter pairs theoretical engagement with concrete examples that enable readers to apply key concepts to the world around them.

Introduction to Cultural Geography:

• Features topics that resonate with students today, including artificial intelligence, social media, and contemporary cultural politics
• Presents complex ideas, theories and concepts in an accessible form
• Covers a wide range of themes such as tourism, memory and heritage, social movements, and pop culture with both historical and contemporary case studies

Written with multiple audiences in mind, Introduction to Cultural Geography is a great resource for instructors and scholars seeking a current survey of theoretical debates and a compelling way to help students understand the world around them. Written for both students who are new to cultural geography and scholars already familiar with the field, this book is an essential read for all human geographers.

This essential textbook prepares future managers and leaders to drive positive social change across non-profit, public and for-profit organizations.

From experts in social justice-oriented management studies, chapters examine how effective management and leadership can tackle poverty, economic inequality, and discrimination, while promoting fairness and inclusion.

Key features include:

*A values-driven approach exploring critical challenges in addressing economic and social inequalities through leadership and management roles.

*Comprehensive coverage of social justice entrepreneurship, marketing and supply chain management, social and environmental accounting, living wage and volunteer management, regulations, fundraising and impact evaluation.

*Leadership, collaboration, advocacy and storytelling skills.

*Engaging learning activities and contemporary international case studies.

This textbook is vital for students pursuing mission-driven careers, helping to build the next generation of leaders and managers for social justice.

The second edition of Environment and Society: Concepts for a Just Transformation delivers a major, timely update to one of the field’s most respected concept?driven environmental social science texts. Fully revised and significantly re-oriented to highlight concepts informing social projects in just transformation, this edition reshapes the book around an enhanced set of contemporary concepts?adding new chapters, removing outdated material, and thoroughly updating those retained?to reflect the dramatic shifts in how scholars, policymakers, and communities understand society?environment relations. With contributions from an even more globally diverse group of authors, the book now brings stronger representation from the Global South and a wider array of disciplinary perspectives.

The book examines whether today’s dominant ideas and conceptual frameworks meaningfully support a “Just Transformation” in the face of deepening environmental and climatological crises. Across eleven concept?focused chapters?ranging from justice, colonialism, and intersectionality to futures, metabolism, collective action, commons, footprints, and more?contributors offer accessible syntheses, illustrative examples, and end?of?chapter discussion topics designed for classroom use.

This edition is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students across environmental studies, environmental sociology, geography, sustainability, and allied social sciences, as well as scholars seeking a clear, comparative resource on conceptual trends. It will also appeal to practitioners, NGO staff, and policy professionals who require a deeper understanding of the conceptual tools shaping environmental thinking today.

Diversity characterizes societies of the present. Some fight using the slogans "We'll come united", "Leave no one behind," "Black lives matter", and "Trans rights". Others, however, experience diversity as a loss of control, which they counter with defense mechanisms, including an "us" versus "them" mindset. Accordingly, demands for inclusion and integration are often interwoven with diffuse fears of "new identities" (Hall), for example of refugees and migrants, but also of queer persons and non-heteronormative ways of life. In turn, demarcation struggles and identitarian divisions within social groups can arise from emphasizing difference, and can lead to "positional fundamentalism" (Villa Braslavsky) or so-called social "trigger points" (Mau/Lux/Westheuser). The publication takes these points of departure to explore processes of subjectivation, that is, processes of becoming a subject shaped through discourses, power relations, and social practices.The volume includes contributions that offer feminist, post/decolonial, and intersectional perspectives on subjectivation research, alongside critiques of ableism and racism, in order to analyse existing relations of diversity and difference, including the privileges and disadvantages, discriminations, inequalities and racisms embedded in them.

This book responds to changing views of the disinformation crisis, seeking to complement data-based approaches with a concentrated focus on narrative and story.? Social media have given a new dimension to public involvement in these, but television and cinema lead the way. If lies and disinformation are the arsenal in a propaganda war, story and dramatization are the weaponry, and gaining advantage is all about the design and impact of the weapons. Twisted plot lines, arcs of suspense, motivated actors: these have so much more destructive power against human intelligence than specific falsehoods. The chapters focus on prominent narrative influences in the political arena, illustrating how the dynamics of public communication draw on traditions of fantasy, myth, plotting, performance and dramaturgy. Attention is paid to the ideologies and theoretical paradigms that underpin these imaginative constructions and drive them towards electoral goals. In the geopolitical maelstrom of the 21st century, we are citizens of the world in a new way, and our opinions, collectively, count. Sharper awareness of why and how we participate in the spread of imaginative manipulation is urgently needed.

There are many books on the First World War, ranging from serious academic analyses to works aimed at a more general readership. There are also many books about rugby. But there are very few detailed academic analyses of the intersection between these two fields. This edited collection aims to address that gap, by presenting a range of analyses that explore how rugby was used and developed during and after the Great War. It presents these analyses in a specifically international and socio-political framework, and considers a number of aspects of the relationship between rugby and World War One, such as: how rugby was used to support the war, by being a tool for recruitment and for training; the significant role rugby played on the home front; the consequences of the war for the development and expansion of rugby in the post-war era; and the long-lasting social and political implications arising out of the role played by rugby during the war.

This book offers a major rethinking of secularisation and a defining sociological account of religion in the digital age. Based on the author's ESRC-funded PhD and developed over two decades of research and theoretical refinement, the book argues that modernity does not eliminate religion but reorganises it. Rather than treating spirituality as a residue of tradition or a symptom of fragmentation, it demonstrates how religious meaning is reflexively reconstructed under conditions of globalisation, market rationality, institutional uncertainty, and digital mediation.

Advancing a new framework of reflexive realism, the book provides a flagship theoretical intervention in the sociology of religion. It introduces an original "origins-orientations" typology for analysing the diversity of New Religious and Spiritual Movements and integrates classical theory with contemporary social analysis. Drawing on extensive qualitative fieldwork, interviews, participant observation, and digital ethnography conducted across Britain, the United States, and online communities, it offers a sustained empirical foundation for its theoretical claims.

Through detailed case studies of ISKCON, Falun Gong, Scientology, UFO religions, therapeutic spiritualities, and platform-native digital movements, the book addresses key themes including digital religion, algorithmic authority, commodified spirituality, post-secular mythologies, and AI-mediated faith. It shows how platforms, metrics, and data infrastructures are reshaping charisma, authority, and spiritual experience, positioning NRSMs as reflexive mediators through which individuals reconstruct meaning, embodiment, and transcendence in late modern society.

By reinterpreting secularisation as transformation rather than decline, this book provides a comprehensive and conceptually ambitious account of religious change in the twenty-first century. It will be essential reading for scholars and advanced students in sociology of religion, religious studies, cultural sociology, anthropology, and media and communication studies.

Over 80% of practitioners in the UK arts sector work on a freelance basis. While freelancing offers scope for autonomy and creative freedom, it is also characterized by widespread precarity, low pay, long hours and systemic inequalities. Funding cuts and recent challenges have only intensified these conditions.

This book provides an evidence-based account of what it means to work as a freelancer in the UK performing arts sector, drawing on data from the Big Freelancer Survey (2020-2025). It presents a unique insight into arts-based freelance work in the UK, providing workable recommendations for change.

Urban planning has moved online, transforming community engagement into a digital process-but this shift has opened the door to disruption. Automated social media accounts, or bots, now infiltrate forums, surveys and virtual meetings, skewing debates and disrupting development projects.

This book investigates the scale and impact of bot interference in US planning, tracing its roots in digital participation and the early use of AI. Through case studies, theoretical insights and the introduction of an Online Conversion Framework, it offers practical strategies for cities to safeguard democratic planning. It is essential reading for urban planners, policy makers and anyone concerned with technology's influence on civic life.

Why do we keep returning to the Weimar Republic as a focal point for queer and trans histories, and why are images so crucial to our understanding of this period? This volume brings together research from disciplines including history, art history, literature, film, performance, and gender studies to explore the ongoing resonances of visual and narrative queer mythologies from Weimar Germany, often considered a “golden age” for queer culture and a period of relative rights and freedoms.

Chapters contribute new readings of classic Weimar art and film while significantly expanding the archive of queer Weimar by examining new or previously overlooked visual materials and relations: from occult practices to the vagaries of human-animal love, and from trans representations on film to the ambiguous tensions of forbidden intergenerational desire. Taken together, this volume generates a deep understanding of the twentieth-century emergence of queer and trans subjects through visual media; it develops methods that give prominence to the voices and perspectives of the historical subjects of sexual science; and it critically interrogates past practices of sexual knowledge production for understandings of LGBTQI lives today.

A comprehensive reader exploring global child and youth studies.

Child and Youth Studies: A Reader is an invaluable tool for instructors and students who take courses on children and youth. This book collects 55 readings across 11 topic sections into a single, legally compliant volume. Edited by Ingrid E. Castro, a sociologist and editor of four prior collected volumes on childhood, this reader spans scholarship from the 1990s through the 2020s.

Organized thematically, the reader covers approaches to child and youth studies, core theories and concepts, methodologies, emotions and bodies, families, education, environments, ethnicities and migration, identities, popular culture and play, and future directions. Each section concludes with five in-class/out-of-class exercises. All included works draw on qualitative and participatory methods featuring diverse authors and children from around the globe.

Readers will also find:

• Research spanning child and youth geographies, socioemotional well-being, peer cultures, caring relationships, sexualities, surveillance, violence, and activism
• Classic and contemporary scholarship selected to represent diverse voices and global perspectives on childhood and youth experiences
• Qualitative and participatory methodologies that foreground children's and young people's own accounts of their lives and social worlds
• Compliance with current copyright and accessible content laws, eliminating the need for instructor-assembled course packets
• Fifty-five exercises designed to extend classroom discussion and deepen student engagement with each thematic section

Designed for undergraduate courses in sociology, child and youth studies, education, anthropology, social work, and child development, this reader provides instructors with a ready-made, thematically organized collection that replaces ad hoc course packets. Child and Youth Studies: A Reader gives students access to foundational and recent scholarship reflecting the global scope of child and youth studies.

A rigorous philosophical examination of the ethical dimensions of art

The relationship between art and ethics remains one of the most contested areas in philosophical aesthetics. Art and Morality offers a sustained investigation of how artworks engage moral life?through the emotions they arouse, the beliefs they shape, and the evaluative frameworks we apply to them. Written by a leading philosopher of art, history, and ethics, the book presents arguments for and against the ethical significance of artistic experience with analytical precision.

Three chapters examine the ways art engenders emotions for both good and ill, analyzing competing positions on whether emotional responses carry genuine moral weight. A fourth chapter turns to cognition, investigating art's capacity to influence moral beliefs. The final two chapters engage directly with autonomism?the position that art should be appreciated solely for its own sake, independent of social practices including morality?presenting arguments both supporting and challenging this view.

Art and Morality serves undergraduate and graduate courses on the relation of art to morality and society. Written in an accessible style, it also addresses general readers drawn to philosophical questions raised by the arts, providing a structured framework for debates that have shaped aesthetics over two centuries.

Digital Combat examines how contemporary warfare and historical traumas reshape the study and practice of film in Eastern Europe. Bringing together leading international scholars, the volume interrogates cultural canons, reframes national film histories, and situates recent Ukrainian cinema at the center of urgent debates about violence, testimony, and survival.

Structured in four parts, the collection moves from revisiting canonical questions to highlighting women’s voices, the ethics of documentary, and the role of new media. The chapters analyse diverse case studies, including the recovery of early Ukrainian cinema overlooked by Russian imperial narratives; portrayals of the Donbas as a “non-space” caught in perpetual conflict; female filmmakers’ reframing of war and gendered trauma; and the reflexive strategies of documentaries confronting displacement and atrocity. Further chapters explore how digital technologies, smartphones, and TikTok poetry videos transform both the aesthetics of wartime filmmaking and the preservation of cultural memory.

By combining close formal analysis with postcolonial and trauma theory, Digital Combat situates Eastern European cinema within a broader global discourse on war, exile, and the ethics of representation. It demonstrates how film and media not only record catastrophe but also create spaces of resilience, agency, and resistance. Timely and interdisciplinary, this book offers essential analyses for scholars of film studies, Slavic and East European studies, cultural memory, and conflict studies.

Public Representations explores how popular screen stories represent, and interact with, politics, governance, and the public sphere. It analyses a selection of recent films and broadcast, cable, and streaming series from the US and the UK, as well as a multi-decade survey of comparable Canadian films and series. Drawing on a wide range of interdisciplinary scholarship and popular media commentary, Public Representations considers questions of narrative representation, political agency, and conditions of screen story production as they intersect with race and gender.

Using a rich array of paratexts, including online and legacy media reviews, interviews, news reports and feature coverage, as well as metrics such as production budgets, box office figures, and awards, Public Representations traces the ways in which these screen stories function as frames of reference, and sites of contestation, for the most urgent issues within the contemporary public sphere.

This second edition of the book examines the various phases of globalization and communication technology and their impact on cultural change in Thailand. Updated with new information and expanded analysis, this edition also includes additional chapters that further explore contemporary developments in Thai society, media, and Buddhism.

The book explores Theravada Buddhism, which underpins the core values of Thai society, through the lenses of ontology, epistemology, and practical application?particularly how Buddhists cope with suffering and maintain inner calm in an increasingly chaotic world. It also explains how Theravada Buddhism has been adapted, influenced, and hybridized into the distinctive form commonly recognized as Thai Buddhism.

In addition, the book investigates issues of social justice, ethics, changing values, sustainability, self-reliance, and modes of communication within the context of Thai Buddhist culture, together with other contributing factors to social development. Drawing on both first-hand fieldwork and documentary research, and employing quantitative as well as qualitative data, the study provides a broad overview of how Thai people engage with social and mass media. It then moves on to examine digital communication in greater depth, highlighting its effects on society and individuals within Thailand’s socio-political, economic, and religious contexts.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

How do we position ourselves in relation to our digital cultural heritage when every software update threatens its very survival?

This book confronts the fragility of computer- and network-based art in an age of relentless technological obsolescence. Focusing on a seminal work by the pioneering artist duo JODI, this interdisciplinary study explores graphical user interfaces, executable files, hard-coded structures and the creative use of randomness. Through a model-assisted storytelling approach, it rethinks how programmed artworks can be remembered, analysed and reactivated once they cease to function.

A bold experiment in science communication, this volume is a must- read for scholars, practitioners and all who care about safeguarding our digital memory.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

Technologies are not created hostile, but they can become so. Through neglect, austerity or repurposing, the systems that shape our lives can cause profound harm to people, animals, and physical and social environments in ways their creators neither anticipated nor acknowledged.

Drawing on examples spanning border control, welfare systems, urban design and AI, this provocative collection introduces the concept of technological innocence: the obliviousness that allows bias and hostility to flourish unchallenged.

Moving beyond naive design ethics, it offers scholars, designers and policy makers a powerful new vocabulary for confronting the darker consequences of technological choice.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

What does it mean to become a father at a young age today?

This volume brings together research about the lived experiences of fathers aged 25 and under. Drawing on diverse contexts across the Global North and South, it explores how young fathers form identities and relationships within diverse social, welfare and policy environments.

Moving beyond deficit-based perspectives, the book highlights their social engagement, responsibilities and commitments to family life.

By combining insights from leading scholars within a shared conceptual framework, it provides a comprehensive international comparison of young fatherhood and offers valuable implications for policy, practice and future research.

Boundaries and Community is an essential guide for building bridges in a world marked by deep divisions. Across eleven concise chapters, this book offers practical tools and reflective insights for fostering meaningful connections within and across racially, ethnically, politically, and religiously divided communities. Rather than simply describing the problems that fracture our collective lives, it provides a hands-on toolkit for addressing them and empowers readers to move beyond ideological stalemates and take constructive action.

Each chapter tackles a critical challenge of collective life ? shared experience, collective responsibility, individual rights and communal belonging, social trust, and more ? offering a clear “rule” for action, real-life examples, and thought-provoking questions for group discussion. By modelling a forum for open, community-engaged dialogue, the book equips concerned citizens with strategies to address local issues without resorting to polarized formulas of the right or left.

Boundaries and Community serves as both diagnosis and roadmap, helping readers orient themselves in today’s polarized climate and inspiring them to forge new pathways for cooperation and understanding. Whether you are a community leader, organizer, or simply someone who cares about collective well-being, this book provides the tools and inspiration to act together ? even with those with whom you fundamentally disagree.

This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of how music represents enigma in film, shedding light on a subject that is both elusive and under-researched. Enigmatic phenomena, which are often inaccessible and hard to define, are regularly depicted in cinema.? With its intrinsic connection to emotion, music enhances the representation and interpretation of these mysteries, creating, intensifying, and addressing the inscrutable and providing emotional understanding where science and logic may fall short.

Music and Enigma in Film?categorizes enigmas into four main themes: religion, mythology, the paranormal, and the inexplicable, which serve as the structural foundation for the discussion. Through a musicological lens, chapters investigate how film music presents and invokes these enigmatic themes, analyzing the role of different music genres, sonic elements, and the relationship between sound and image. The book also explores the psychological mechanisms of musical perception?such as synaesthesia and Gestalt perception?that facilitate the comprehension of mysterious parameters in film music, inviting readers to consider the similarities between these mechanisms and specific musical attributes. Readers will also discover how music expresses ideological meaning by exploring the historical and cultural connotations that underpin the enigmatic undertones of film music.

Music and Enigma in Film?is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of film studies, musicology, and cultural studies, as well as filmmakers and composers fascinated by the mysterious interplay of sound and image in cinema

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

Collaboration, critical thinking and cultural competency are essential skills that shape young people’s futures. These key skills are often cultivated in the informal, creative spaces that society easily overlooks.

Drawing on the Australian Research Council and industry co-funded Vital Arts project, this book offers a bold and practical new vision: an inclusive, practice-based micro-credential system that recognises the competencies that young people build through creative cultural participation. Challenging prevailing policy narratives that pathologise young people, the book shows how partnerships between industry, cultural organisations and youth-led initiatives can reimagine education, diversify pathways into work and support genuine social mobility.

Offering fresh conceptual tools, compelling empirical insights and a transformative model for accrediting skills, this book repositions youth arts organisations and creative programmes as key actors in constructing more equitable and meaningful routes into employment.

This Open Access book investigates how to build a narrative for progressive social change. It asks a central question: What would it take to create a society that delivers flourishing lives for all? Drawing on extensive original research conducted in the UK and internationally, the book examines how, in a time of global “permacrisis,” no convincing plan has yet emerged to prevent a slide into dystopia or to create a positive vision for collective wellbeing. While governments around the world appear to have run out of ideas about how to build a good society, people and organisations across civil society are actively developing them. This book describes their efforts and outlines how their work can contribute to meaningful systems change.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

Virtual Reality promises immersion for all, yet it is built around assumptions of able-bodied users that leave many disabled people behind.

Drawing on original research with users, care providers and developers, this book examines how mainstream Virtual Reality design encodes a narrow idea of the 'normal' body - and the real costs of that choice. It shows how decisions made at the design stage, often invisible to non-disabled users, create barriers around vision, movement and sensory experience.

Moving beyond critique, it argues for a fundamental rethinking of VR design centring diverse bodies and minds. In doing so, it not only reframes accessibility, but expands what VR can be, and who it is truly for.

In an era marked by polarization and social fracture, kindness and compassion are increasingly treated as liabilities rather than strengths. A Kinder World challenges this assumption, reminding us that human evolution and progress have been driven not by competition alone, but by collaboration, empathy, and care.

To build a healthy, resilient, and sustainable future, philosopher Ingrid Leman Stefanovic argues that society must renew a shared ethos of kindness, both individually and collectively. Dispelling the myth that kindness signals weakness, Stefanovic critiques the "selfish gene" narrative and reconsiders the roles of aggression and competition in human development. The book demonstrates instead how moral integrity, social justice, basic civility, and human progress are reinforced through the practice of kindness. These values find expression not only in interpersonal relationships, but also in social and cultural norms, environmental ethics, and the design of our towns and cities.

Positioning kindness as a guiding principle for the good life, A Kinder World also offers practical pathways for cultivating it in an increasingly unkind world. Drawing on educational tools and behavioural strategies, the book shows that kindness is not naive or incidental, but a deliberate practice - and the enduring foundation of human flourishing.