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Against the backdrop of media representations of Africa through persistent and pervasive images of emaciated, starving Africans and the critical need to marshall food aid in response, Hungry Subjects places Africa's food anxiety within a broader historical context and expands ongoing food scholarship beyond its current confines in the social sciences. Njeri Githire weaves together coming-of-age texts across the African and African diasporic literary landscape in English, French, and Portuguese expression to ask how African writers incorporate food into their storylines to transmit cultural information, question norms, and propose alternatives. Eating is an intimately personal yet inherently social experience codified by public rituals and commerce, invariably linked to a larger tapestry of historical, cultural, economic, and political dynamics. Delving into the political dynamics of food as a tool of power and control alongside subversive potentialities, Hungry Subjects appraises the narrative and political thrust of (not-)eating and exposes the ways in which postcolonial manifestations of colonial-era power relations are symbolized in food's many functions and meanings.

This book explores the existence of a Christian discursive space in Japanese literature, extending from the Meiji (1868-1912) and Taisho (1912-1926) eras to the postwar period. It examines a crucial question: what is the correlation between Christianity and Japanese literature, and how did these two realms continue to interface following the significant Christian experience of the Meiji and Taisho years?

Highlighting a major shift across the World War II divide, from narratives that emphasized humanity's inability to change its fate and avoid spiritual damnation to narratives that contemplated the possibilities of salvation, this study argues that such transformations, and the subsequent developments at the intersection of art and faith, were largely a dialectical response to earlier paradigms of despair, nihilism, and ineluctability. Examining the works of eight major authors from these intervening years, this volume explores the important mutual connections that fuelled their fiction and deliberations, challenging conventional understandings and periodization of Christianity's influence on twentieth-century Japanese literature.

This work will be a valuable resource for students and scholars interested in literary criticism, Japanese literature, religion, and Christianity.

The gothic is far more than a genre preoccupied with ghosts, vampires and the supernatural. It is a phenomenon that has influenced the expression of unease and fear across many cultures.

Comprehending gothic textuality from the 18th century to the present, the Historical Dictionary of Gothic Literature, Second Edition addresses not merely supernatural fiction but also film, television, graphic works and the subtle influence of the genre upon global popular culture. Containing a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography, the dictionary section contains cross-referenced entries on African American gothic, cyberpunk and steampunk, dark academia, folk horror and Japanese gothic. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about gothic literature.

Cyberpower is a concept that has gained relevance with geopolitical dynamics reaching cyberspace and the increasing intertwining between the physical and digital. In this regard, this concept has been treated through three theoretical lenses: realism, liberalism, and constructivism. Still, constructivist approaches to the concept are sparse and deserve some attention.

Cyber Power in a Digital World is premised on a constructivist perspective, exploring the research problem: How do states' perceptions of cybersecurity shape the form of their power projection? Does that confer a new form of power relations, therefore, cyberpower as a phenomenon? To tackle these questions, the authors utilize a case study approach of three conventional European geopolitical powers-the United Kingdom, France, and Germany-and examine the intersectionality of cyberpower in industrial societies versus less industrial ones.

Offering a detailed examination of the intersection between cybersecurity and state power, Cyber Power in a Digital World delivers valuable insights for policymakers, scholars, and practitioners interested in the future of international relations and the role of cyberpower in shaping the global order.

The book introduces Media Anthropology as a distinct sub-discipline in India, presenting a sustained trajectory of research and media practice that have contributed to its growth over the years. Across five thematic sections and 18 chapters, the book presents wide ranging research on various strands of media anthropology as a field, including ethnographic and engaged studies of visual and digital forms of media. The chapters present anthropological research exploring vibrantly diverse spatial settings and subjectivities, allowing readers to grasp the ways in which media practices emerge and come alive.

This book will be indispensable for scholars and researchers of media and communication studies, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, and South Asian studies.

Indian Transnationalism: Gender, Culture, and Identity delves into the challenges and creative transformations faced by Indians as they forge new lives abroad, offering a fresh and critical perspective on belonging in an interconnected world. The book brings together insights on ethnonational identity, gender roles, performing arts, and music, while examining the organizations that provide diasporic communities with political voice and social support. It explores how digital spaces-such as social media, streaming platforms, and online archives-shape cultural memory, particularly among younger generations. Additionally, it traces the journeys of cultural forms as they travel and adapt abroad, from the fusion music of the Indo-Caribbean diaspora to the simplified performances of rituals like Theyyam from Kerala.

What emerges is a nuanced portrait of diasporic life as a continuous negotiation between preservation and change, between belonging here and belonging there. The book reveals how gender influences who speaks for the community, how culture serves as both a resource for connection and a site of conflict, and how identity remains fluid and unsettled.

Written for students and scholars in migration studies, sociology, anthropology, gender studies, religious studies, and cultural studies, this volume offers a grounded and critical exploration of how globalization is lived, rather than merely theorized.

This volume examines the representation of marginalized groups on the Korean screen to offer an academic exploration of the growing themes of diversity and intersectionality in audiovisual formats of South Korea's media industry.

Exploring representation of aging women, queer individuals, adoptees, and individuals with neurodivergence, the book presents comprehensive narratives of these underrepresented communities in South Korean society.

This book will interest students and scholars specializing in media studies, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, film studies, Korean studies, and Asian American studies.

This book brings together the essential debates concerning the emergent area of Digital Humanities in India. Through the interviews, the book attempts to identify the differences and convergences between DH practice in and that of Global North. The book can be seen as a compendium for exploring multifarious layers of the 'digital' and its relationship with humanities, academia and beyond which have bestowed DH (in India) with many complications and contentions. Conversations on the Digital Humanities depicts the chequered and amorphous nature of DH practice in India - as an academic discipline, as a methodology, as community projects and as an appendage to existing discipline of literary studies, towards charting the features of DH as an emerging discourse. For example, for some scholars DH is understood as a 'method', while others consider it to be a discipline; similarly, while some scholars agree DH in India as a derivative of DH in the Global South, others consider DH as in India as different from DH in the Global North. This book brings together these different, yet diverse and distinct notions in form of conversations, not to provide a uniform understanding of DH, but a comprehensive view of the paradigm of what can be tentatively understood as 'Indian DH'. As editors, we ensure that this book captures the pluralities around the concerns of DH, that are determined not by us, but by scholars and practitioners who have been steering the area of DH.

This volume will be of interest to those making their initial entry into the area of DH; particularly, students of literary studies, cultural studies, media and communication studies. The volume brings together diverse voices concerning not only Digital Humanities practice but also practices concerning the broader discourse of the digital and digitality; alongside, the volume will allow readers to engage with the evolving landscape of Digital Humanities with respect to the Indian context.

In Echo Chambers and Epistemological Bubbles: Communicative Flirtations with the End of Democracy, Lauren Zentz offers a critical linguistic ethnographic examination of moral-political discourse on social media following the January 6, 2021, US Capitol insurrection. Moving beyond the oft-used "echo chamber" hypothesis, Zentz proposes that contemporary digital political communication is better understood as ideological "trench warfare," where routine exposure to opposing viewpoints fuels retrenchment and out-group delegitimization rather than open-minded democratic deliberation.

Focusing on the Twitter practices of prominent "left-leaning" American political influencers, this monograph operationalizes a "sociolinguistics of morality". Through detailed micro-analyses of stance, deictics, deontics, underspecification, mockery, and chronotopic scaling, Zentz demonstrates how these actors discursively construct and defend an Enlightenment-based, scientistic, and inclusive democratic episteme against contemporary US far-right metapolitical movements. The book concludes with an argument that the traditional "left versus right" American binary is no longer analytically viable; instead, the United States faces a profound epistemological rupture pitting liberal democratic norms against anti-democratic authoritarianism.

This timely volume provides crucial theoretical frameworks for researchers in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, political communication studies and more, for graduate students and researchers seeking to understand the sociolinguistic architectures of modern democratic crises

This edited volume explores how women's life writing from post-Communist Europe turns the continent's most persistent fault line-the East-West divide-into a space of confrontation, vulnerability, and radical reimagining.

Examining personal narratives from seven European countries (Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Germany, France, and the Netherlands), the volume demonstrates how women "write back" to Western gazes, decolonize memory, and unsettle entrenched hierarchies that continue to position Eastern Europe as the 'other Europe' even after the fall of communism and EU integration. By combining transnational, transdisciplinary, and embodied approaches from the fields of life writing, literature and memory studies, this volume proposes alternative modes of scholarly engagement that privilege personal experiences, relationality, vulnerability, and genuine exchange over abstraction, offering new perspectives on how European identities, histories, and futures might be thought together.

Facilitating a distinctive collaboration among scholars from Eastern and Western Europe, The Transformative Power of Women's Life Writing in Post-Communist Europe will appeal to scholars and researchers with interests in women's life writing, European memory, memory studies, contested memory, post-communist Europe, and East-West perceptions.

This edited volume examines the relationship between journalism, democracy, and disinformation in contemporary Europe.

Drawing on original empirical research with journalists and media regulators, it provides a timely analysis of the European Union's evolving regulatory response to disinformation and media pluralism, while foregrounding the perspectives of those directly involved in interpreting and implementing these changes. Through a comparative study of seven countries-Spain, Italy, Norway, Iceland, Croatia, Poland, and Bulgaria-the book explores how media actors across diverse political, institutional, and regulatory contexts understand and respond to post-truth politics. In doing so, it investigates whether a shared European normative space around journalism, media freedom, and democracy is beginning to take shape.

This book will be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners in European studies, media studies, journalism, political communication, and cultural sociology.

Sports Diplomacy examines how nations and sporting actors-large and small-use medals, mega-events, elite athletes, global leagues, corporations, and even fans to influence international perceptions and advance strategic interests.

Introducing core concepts, issues and debates in the emerging discipline of sports diplomacy, the book moves beyond state-centric models of soft power to define sports diplomacy as a multi-actor and multi-level phenomenon, shaped by governments, international organisations, athletes, corporations, civil society, and grassroots communities. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary and historical case studies, the book explores sports diplomacy among major global powers such as the United States, China, and Russia; leading European states including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain; resource-rich Gulf states; and small states seeking global visibility. It also examines distinctive regional modalities, including South America's football-driven diplomacy, Africa's accelerating global repositioning through sport, and emerging arenas such as digital diplomacy, eSports, sustainability, and grassroots fan engagement.

Conceptually rigorous, empirically grounded, and with useful features in every chapter to assist teaching and learning, Sports Diplomacy is an essential textbook for any course on sports diplomacy or international relations and sport, as well as a useful reference for diplomats, policymakers, sport executives, and practitioners seeking to understand the power of sport in global affairs.

Kuah advances the "Collaborative Cultural Basin" framework to analyze the transnational flow of Chinese cultural elements-such as religion, popular culture, food, museum exhibits, and educational knowledge-within the global Chinese Diaspora and mainland China.

The book highlights how these cultural elements are increasingly utilized as tools of cultural power and diplomacy, fostering local and transnational sociocultural networks among various agencies within this collaborative space. The shared, differentiated, and hybridized nature of these cultural elements, that are circulated within the Diaspora Chinese and mainland China universes, enabling individuals and social groups to derive social meanings and memories. It also uses rich empirical data to explore how Diaspora Chinese communities engage with these cultural elements to interact with local communities and mainland Chinese, articulating their version of Chinese culture, identity, social memories, and sense of belonging.

A valuable book for researchers and scholars of Chinese Studies, Migration and Diaspora Studies, Asian Studies, and Social Sciences, offering insights into the dynamics of cultural interaction and identity formation within the global Chinese context.

The Critique of Pure Information offers a critical rethinking of disinformation, misinformation, and "post-truth" politics by challenging the assumption that political deception is best understood as a problem of false or impure information.

This book argues that the dominant vocabulary of "information disorder" has helped install an infocentric model of communication, one that reduces deceptive public communication to faulty content, corrupted circulation, or deficient belief. Combining conceptual history, communication theory, systematic review, and close rhetorical analysis, the book shows how deception and confusion work through rhetoric, style, genre, image-text composition, platformed circulation, affect, and public uptake. Through an extended case study of a long-circulating Trump quotation meme, it demonstrates why democratic communication cannot be repaired by fact-checking, media literacy, platform governance, or AI detection alone.

This fascinating and insightful study will be of great interest to students and scholars of media and communication, journalism, media ethics, political science, and sociology.

This volume explores how emotions are constructed, expressed, and commodified in digital environments through language and discourse.

Examining the multifaceted nature of online emotional communication across personal, intersubjective, and collective dimensions, an international and interdisciplinary group of authors analyse diverse digital contexts, from WhatsApp conversations and TikTok videos to online mourning practices and food imagery, using frameworks from pragmatics, discourse analysis, and digital communication studies. Organised into three sections - Personal Area, focusing on individual emotional expression, Intersubjective Area, examining emotions in sustained online interactions, and Collective Area, exploring emotions in group identity formation - the book provides new perspectives on how digital technologies are reshaping our emotional landscapes in the 21st century.

This volume will offer valuable insights for researchers, educators, and students in communication studies, sociolinguistics, digital media and digital marketing.

This volume provides a sustained study and review of a distinct school of thought in Vienna which has long shaped a specific form of interpretive social research, setting it apart from other approaches.

Labelled the "Vienna School of Interpretive Social Research" in 2020, the book explores the movement's key characteristics, which are anchored in structure, materiality, and reflexivity. It examines how these elements form an integrated yet permeable body of knowledge and situates this approach in relation to other interpretive traditions. The contributors demonstrate how the Vienna School occupies a unique space on the map of qualitative methodologies and methods, both in terms of epistemological stance and local environment of thinking, with one of its defining characteristics being that it dissolved some of the established fault lines throughout European and Anglo-American discourses. In this spirit, the school fosters permeable boundaries to other approaches and communities conducive to enriching understandings of the social world without giving up or diluting its own distinct approach.

As such, this volume presents an integrative contribution to ongoing debates that transparently addresses and discusses contradictions and opportunities for conversation across qualitative approaches in postmodern, critical, and symbolic interactionist traditions, offering generative ways forward. It will therefore appeal to scholars of sociology with an interest in the sociology of knowledge, communication, and social theory.

In their day the French Impressionists were met with criticism and even disbelief, yet today their paintings are admired and collected worldwide. The leading members of the group included Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley, who dedicated themselves to working in oil paints out of doors, to capturing the transient effects of light and weather and depicting the society in which they lived. These artists challenged the traditions of the French Academy, bringing about a revolution in art during a period of enormous political and social change.


Historical Dictionary of Impressionism contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography, as well as practical information on the eight Impressionist exhibitions. The dictionary section comprises cross-referenced entries on the French Impressionists, the locations they worked in (both in France and further afield), their predecessors and followers, and their models, critics and dealers. It also contains useful entries on key political events and figures, as well as the places of entertainment that sprang up all over Paris in the 'belle epoque'. This book is designed to appeal to students, researchers and the general reader.

This timely new text provides a comprehensive and critical guide to ethics and sustainability across the Fashion industry.

Seeking to foster critical analysis, the book encourages students to question common narratives and delve deeper into surface-level approaches to sustainability. It raises awareness of ethical issues in the fashion industry, including the lack transparency, poor labour practices, environmental impact, and social implications of fashion production and consumption. The book provides insights into current trends, emerging regulations, and practical applications, underpinned by examples from industry. Real-life case studies from around the world showcase some of the innovative brands that have shifted the focus from profit-driven motives to value-driven growth, embracing ethics, transparency, and social purpose in their business strategies.

Exploring how the fashion industry can commit to more comprehensive, measurable changes across all aspects of design, production, labour, sales, marketing, and community engagement, this text is essential reading for postgraduate students of Fashion Management, Fashion Entrepreneurship and Fashion Sustainability, as well as reflective practitioners considering fresh approaches to their businesses.

Aesthetics and Music is a fresh, provocative exploration of the key concepts and arguments in musical aesthetics. It makes an eloquent case for a humanistic, meritocratic and genuinely aesthetic conception of music and musical understanding. Anyone interested in what contemporary philosophy has to say about music as an art will find this thought-provoking and highly enjoyable book required reading.

Thinkers discussed range from Pythagoras and Plato to Kant, Nietzsche and Adorno. Areas of music covered include classical, popular and traditional music, and jazz. This updated edition features new material, including three new chapters on the evolutionary perspective, words and music and music and language. There are guides to further reading, and new dialogues with some contemporary thinkers and musicians.

This pioneering open access book offers a new take on esotericism by centering the often-overlooked contributions of East Asian thinkers to the development of this field of knowledge. The intellectual history of esotericism has long revolved around Western ideas about the East. This book tells a more complex and accurate story that traces global exchanges of ideas across East and West.

Esotericism in East Asia critically examines how and why the language of 'esotericism' has become so ubiquitous in scholarship on Asian religious ideas and practices. It highlights the role of interactions between European and Asian scholars since the 16th century to show that Asian thinkers and their local contexts have crucially shaped our understanding of esotericism. With contributions focusing on a range of contexts in Japan and China, from Buddhism and Shinto to the Theosophical movement and occultism, this volume provides rich insights into how Asians have engaged with and influenced the study of esotericism across the globe.

By introducing a new framework for studying esotericism in Asia from a perspective of global cultural exchange, this volume provides an important corrective to the Eurocentric approaches to studying esotericism that have dominated Western scholarship. As an invaluable reference for scholars working at the intersection of East Asian studies and esotericism, it lays the groundwork for more nuanced scholarship in the field.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. This publication received financial support from the publication fund NiedersachsenOPEN, funded by zukunft.niedersachsen.

Offering a sweeping examination of how racial meaning, criminality, and social mobility are produced and contested across contemporary media systems, this book traces the criminalization of Blackness through print journalism, television broadcasting, digital and social media platforms, and AI-driven infrastructures.

Race, Crime, and Media in the Digital Age: Belonging and Exclusion shows how race, crime, and media have long been intertwined in shaping how societies imagine danger, belonging, and the limits of citizenship. In the United States, this entanglement is especially stark: media institutions have repeatedly amplified racialized narratives that link Blackness to criminality while reinforcing White innocence and social mobility. This book demonstrates how media storytelling influences public opinion, policy, and everyday experiences of belonging and exclusion. Drawing on cultural studies, sociology, Black studies, and global comparative research, Brian Chama exposes the feedback loops connecting media, structural inequality, and racialized fear, while foregrounding counter-narratives, community media, and emerging movements for ethical, inclusive media futures.

Moving from historical news framing to algorithmic amplification, this work will resonate with scholars, students, and practitioners across media studies, criminology, sociology, and race and ethnic studies. It will also appeal to government and non-government institutions, and policymakers seeking to understand and dismantle systemic bias in media culture.

This book considers how European and Asian Christian missionaries communicated religious doctrine through the visual arts in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Greater China.

Zooming in on these rich cross-cultural and inter-religious artifacts, Susangeline Patrick reveals how Christian images and visual culture reflected, interacted with, and influenced spiritual and sociopolitical powers during the period. Across eight chapters, Patrick expands the meaning of "liturgical art" within this historical and geographical context, locating religious visual arts within alternative spheres such as Christian charitable institutions, cartography, and bodily behavior, intentionally shedding light on Christian women's initiatives and participation in art, devotion, and power. In essence, this book underscores the interreligious and global aspects of encounters which shaped and impacted the production, circulation, and outcome of devotional art.

This collection offers the first systematic account of the pivotal role of literary translation in the history and future of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The volume explores the complex reciprocal relationship between the prize institution and translation from a transdisciplinary lens. Perspectives from varied disciplines from around the world consider the ways in which the prize relies heavily on translations before and after prize decisions but also the impact of laureate announcements on wider translation patterns. The collection concludes with several chapters on individual case studies and an afterword by esteemed translator Jan Henrik Swahn.

Making the case for a wide-reaching transdisciplinary approach to understanding the interplay of literary translation and the Nobel Prize, this book will be of interest to scholars in translation studies, comparative literature, literary studies, and cultural sociology.

This collection of incisive essays is a nuanced interrogation of the suitability of literature as a vehicle for moral philosophy - a complex debate at the intersection of ethics and aesthetics.

What connects these different perspectives is a central question: is literature is an appropriate medium for approaching and unpicking moral, ethical and philosophical questions? And what insights does its form allow? Whilst some thinkers have charged literature as the source of feelings of resentment and alienation, others have argued that it is the most fertile ground for the development a moral imagination. Indeed, numerous philosophers have shown a great deal of interest in the possibility of reading literature as a philosophical exercise, with proponents such as Martha Nussbaum and Iris Murdoch leading the quest for a philosophical style which is more representative of human experience than abstract, analytic texts.

This volume brings together 12 exciting new contributions to this debate, contextualised by a comprehensive and in-depth editorial introduction that delves into its conceptual lineage. Grouped into three thematic sections, chapters explore literature's ability to be argumentative, its potential to bring about moral growth, and the rich diversity of philosophical thought across different literary genres.

Contributing authors consider traditional physical and health education in local contexts and outline alternative approaches, while examining the successes and setbacks of these innovations to inform future practice. Chapters explore the concept of pedagogical models and their enactment; models-based practice; teachers, collaboration and professional learning; and health education and physical literacy. The book demonstrates that the challenge lies not in a lack of research-informed alternatives to multi-activity, sport technique-based approaches, but in understanding the cultural and political conditions under which these alternatives can be sustained.

International Perspectives on Physical Education is a key resource for scholars and students of physical education and sport pedagogy seeking a range of insights into the reshaping of physical education. Education policymakers and practitioners will also benefit from accounts of successful strategies for overcoming the obstacles of enacting non-traditional methods.