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The book series Disability Studies in Education is dedicated to the publication of monographs and edited volumes that integrate the perspectives, methods, and theories of disability studies with the study of issues and problems of education. The series features books that further define, elaborate upon, and extend knowledge in the field of disability studies in education. Special emphasis is given to work that poses solutions to important problems facing contemporary educational theory, policy, and practice.

Cultural Heritage Law and Policy RSS The aim of this series is to publish significant and original research on and scholarly analysis of all aspects of cultural heritage law through the lens of international law, private international law, and comparative law. The series is wide in scope, traversing disciplines, regions, and viewpoints. Topics given particular prominence are those which, while of interest to academic lawyers, have significant bearing on policymaking and current public discourse on the interaction between art, heritage, and the law.

Political Pedagogies is a collection of scholarly texts on methods of teaching and learning politics. The series seeks to be the premier assemblage of book-length contributions that explores all aspects of political pedagogy, from philosophical considerations about the role and purpose of pedagogy to practical guides and strategies for teaching political science and international relations... Political Pedagogies strives to create an inclusive and expansive space where scholars can explore what it means to teach and foster learning and provides a much-needed platform for longer, deeper, creative and more engaged scholarship that melds the teaching and research responsibilities of Political Science and International Relations faculty.

This new series will publish research monographs and edited collections focusing on the history and theory of photography. These original, scholarly books may take an art historical, visual studies, or material studies approach. Interdisciplinary books are encouraged.

This research series, developed by the International Council of Museums (ICOM), draws on the expertise of ICOM’s worldwide network of museum professionals, representing a range of museum- and heritage-related disciplines. Bridging theory and practice, the series addresses diverse issues of broad interest to the museum field and is of relevance for institutions around the world, featuring contributions by representatives of a range of cultures. Focusing on different types of museums and diverse fields of activity within the museum, the titles in the series will provide useful and thought-provoking insights for today’s museum professionals. Its multi-perspective approach ensures its relevancy for academics, researchers and students of museology. The behind-the-scenes glimpses offered into the state of the field will also appeal to the general museum-going public.

One of the biggest, if not THE biggest cultural transformation that our society is facing right now, is the digitalization of almost all realms of our lives. Digitalization does not stop at the doorstep of scientific research in general or the humanities in particular. Digitalization changes all that we are interested in, it changes communities, human interactions, societal institutions and organizations.

We live in an era where forms of education designed to win the consent of students, teachers, and the public to the inevitability of a neo-liberal, market-driven process of globalization are being developed around the world. In these hegemonic modes of pedagogy questions about issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, colonialism, religion, and other social dynamics are simply not asked. Indeed, questions about the social spaces where pedagogy takes place—in schools, media, corporate think tanks, etc.—are not raised. When these concerns are connected with queries such as the following, we begin to move into a serious study of pedagogy...

...offers a fresh perspective on the contemporary and historical significance of fashion as a bodily practice and cultural industry. A vibrant and growing field, fashion studies touches on disciplines such as art, film, history, design, sociology, literature, politics, geography and anthropology. The series explores modes of representation that fashion has taken historically, but also considers the cultural contexts for new directions, at a time when the fashioned body is increasingly implicated in the negotiation of individual and collective identities. By following new circuits of production and consumption the series highlights the range of social and political forces shaping fashion practices today. Looking to recent developments in new materialisms, medical humanities, disability studies, the posthuman, intermediality, decolonial and pluriversal perspectives, books in the series consider fashion’s role in anticipating new cultural transformations.

Anthropology, Culture and Society explores what anthropology can contribute to the challenges of the 21st century. This series is a distinctive contribution to discussions that are often dominated by politics and economics. The books are inspired by traditions of ethnographic research and anthropological analysis to address power and social change while keeping the struggles and stories of people centre stage. The authors offer progressive interventions and critical engagements for informed audiences across the arts, humanities and social sciences.

The Abolitionist Papers series celebrates work that demands an end to police, prisons, criminalization, and surveillance, and an end to the bolstering systems of racism, heteropatriarchy, and capitalism.

These books use geographical perspectives to understand contemporary society, politics and the environment. Including critiques of existing government policies and alternatives to staid ways of thinking about our societies, this series focuses on action needed to make positive changes that are radical, achievable, real and relevant.

Platforming underrepresented voices; intervening in important political issues; revealing powerful histories and giving voice to our experiences; Outspoken by Pluto is a book series unlike any other. Unravelling debates on sex ed and masculinity, feminism and class, and work and borders, this series has the answers to the questions you’re asking. These are books that dissent.

Vagabonds is a series of radical pamphlets to fan the flames of discontent. Too feisty for the academic press but too thoughtful for the online outrage machine, these short, beautiful and provocative texts inspire the radical imagination and catalyze creative action. Vagabonds occupy the overlap between critical inquiry, social activism and interventionist art and are in dialog with the great struggles of our age. The series will include unique anti-capitalist, anti-racist, queer and feminist voices towards revolutionary change and collective liberation.

THIRDWORLDS serves as a signifier of oppositional emerging economies and cultures ranging from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East, and even those ‘Souths’ within a larger perceived North, such as the U.S. South and Mediterranean Europe. The study of these otherwise disparate and discontinuous areas, known collectively as the Global South, demonstrates that as globalisation pervades the planet, the south, as a synonym for subalterity, also transcends geographical and ideological frontiers.

Post•45 publishes groundbreaking work on US culture from the Second World War to the present. Books in this series aim to interrogate rather than reproduce critical orthodoxies—to ask basic questions about how to read and categorize postwar culture. To that end, the series focuses on American literature and culture, but also on work that takes seriously the decreasing specificity of a national literature in the wake of the “American Century.”

Post•45 publishes groundbreaking work on US culture from the Second World War to the present. Books in this series aim to interrogate rather than reproduce critical orthodoxies—to ask basic questions about how to read and categorize postwar culture. To that end, the series focuses on American literature and culture, but also on work that takes seriously the decreasing specificity of a national literature in the wake of the “American Century.” We welcome submissions on a wide range of cultural forms, including literature, film, drama, music, graphic arts, and new media.

This series presents the latest research from right across the field of museum studies. It is not confined to any particular area, or school of thought, and seeks to provide coverage of a broad range of topics, theories and issues from around the world.

The nascent field of Memory Studies emerges from contemporary trends that include a shift from concern with historical knowledge of events to that of memory, from 'what we know' to 'how we remember it'; changes in generational memory; the rapid advance of technologies of memory; panics over declining powers of memory, which mirror our fascination with the possibilities of memory enhancement; and the development of trauma narratives in reshaping the past. These factors have contributed to an intensification of public discourses on our past over the last thirty years. Technological, political, interpersonal, social and cultural shifts affect what, how and why people and societies remember and forget. This groundbreaking series tackles questions such as: What is 'memory' under these conditions? What are its prospects, and also the prospects for its interdisciplinary and systematic study? What are the conceptual, theoretical and methodological tools for its investigation and illumination?

This series investigates the key connector that transformed the early modern world: the long-distance trade between Asia and Europe in material goods and culture. This trade stimulated Europe’s consumer and industrial revolutions, re-orientating the Asian trading world to European priorities. Europe’s pursuit of quality goods turned a pre-modern encounter with precious and exotic ornaments into a modern globally-organized trade in Asian export ware.

Dress Cultures publishes the best international scholarship in the study of dress practices historically and in the contemporary world. Bringing into creative dialogue a wide range of approaches, titles in the series explore the aesthetic and social relationships between dress, fashion and the body. Our authors investigate dress within material culture, as a field to be explored sociologically and politically, and from the perspective of economics and local and globalised fashion industries.

The collection includes transnational, comparative and connective studies, as well as works addressing the ways in which particular regions or nations interact with global forces. In its formative years, the series focused on the British Empire and Commonwealth, but there is now no imperial system, period of human history or part of the world that lies outside of its compass. While we particularly welcome the first monographs of young researchers, we also seek major studies by more senior scholars, and welcome collections of essays with a strong thematic focus that help to set new research agendas. As well as history, the series includes work on politics, economics, culture, archaeology, literature, science, art, medicine, and war. Our aim is to collect the most exciting new scholarship on world history and to make this available to a broad scholarly readership in a timely manner.

Dissident Acts locates itself at an interdisciplinary node of scholarship that focuses on embodied politics and decolonial practices. Books in the series reflect the dramatic shifts taking place in performance and politics across the broad scholarship on the Americas. The series values fresh voices and experimental approaches while publishing innovative, powerful research that imagines futures outside the colonial condition. Bringing a global perspective to performance studies and taking the field in new directions, Dissident Acts explores the changing political structures, global movements, and social ecologies that subvert power relations in the Americas and beyond.

The ethos of this book series is reflected by the bricolage constituency of Kilombos – settlements of African slaves, rebels and indigenous peoples in South America who became self-determining political communities that retrieved and renovated the social practices of its diverse constituencies while being confronted by colonial forces. The series embraces a multitude of methods and approaches, theoretical and empirical scholarship, alongside historical and contemporary concerns. Publishing innovative and top-quality peer-reviewed scholarship, Kilombo enquires into the shifting principles of colonial rule that inform global governance and investigates the contestation of these principles by diverse peoples across the globe. It critically re-interprets popular concepts, narratives and approaches in the field of IR by reference to the “colonial question” and, in doing so, the book series opens up new vistas from which to address the key political questions of our time.

This series presents theoretical and cultural examinations of intellectual property laws, developments, and policy. Volumes in the series may be identified by their innovative and critical analyses and their original contributions to international debate. Interdisciplinary in approach, the series will be of interest to intellectual property experts and stakeholders, policy advisors, and NGOs, as well as students and researchers in the very critical areas of intellectual property law, anthropology, and cultural studies.

This series, Cultural Geographies + Rewriting the Earth, provides a forum for cutting-edge research that embraces theoretical creativity, methodological experimentation, and ethico-political urgency. It provides a forum for a wide readership who desire to keep up with the innovations, debates, and agendas that define the humanities and social sciences today.

The Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism series features books by new as well as established scholars that throw a harsh spotlight on the conditions under which education currently labors and offers analysis, hope, and resistance in the name of more collective, egalitarian education for social and for economic justice.

Neoliberalism is degrading and destroying public education systems globally. The local characteristics may vary, the results are common - increased inequalities in schooling, vocational and higher education, inferior work conditions for teachers and faculty, and detheorized and technicized delivery systems of increasing conservative curricula at all levels of education. Neoliberalism - marketization, privatization, pre-privatization, commodification - is increasingly accompanied by forms of authoritarian conservatism - secular in some countries, religious in others - with increased control, surveillance, and forced abandonment of critique. Such neoliberal and conservative assaults on public education and on broader aims than those which are couched purely in terms of economic/human capital - meet with increased resistance by students, teachers, communities, social movements, and in some countries, political parties. The Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism series

Around the world, social movements have become legitimate, yet contested, actors in local, national and global politics and civil society, yet we still know relatively little about their longer histories and the trajectories of their development. This series seeks to promote innovative historical research on the history of social movements in the modern period since around 1750. We bring together conceptually-informed studies that analyse labour movements, new social movements and other forms of protest from early modernity to the present. We conceive of 'social movements' in the broadest possible sense, encompassing social formations that lie between formal organisations and mere protest events. We also offer a home for studies that systematically explore the political, social, economic and cultural conditions in which social movements can emerge.

Food Studies is a vibrant and thriving field encompassing not only cooking and eating habits but issues such as health, sustainability, food safety, and animal rights. Scholars in disciplines as diverse as history, anthropology, sociology, literature, and the arts focus on food. The mission of AltaMira Studies in Food and Gastronomy is to publish the best in food scholarship, harnessing the energy, ideas, and creativity of a wide array of food writers today. This broad line of food-related titles will range from food history, interdisciplinary food studies monographs, general interest series, and popular trade titles to textbooks for students and budding chefs, scholarly cookbooks, and reference works.

The Meals series examines our daily meals—breakfast, lunch, dinner, tea—as well as special meals such as the picnic and barbeque, both as historical construct and global phenomena. We take these meals for granted, but the series volumes provide surprising information that will change the way you think about eating. A single meal in each volume is anatomized, its social and cultural meaning brought into sharp focus, and the customs and manners of various peoples are explained in context. Each volume also looks closely at the foods we commonly include and why.