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  • Global Media Studies

    by Toby Miller, Marwan M. Kraidy ...
    Global Media Studies is unique in its coverage of places, peoples, institutions, and discourses. Toby Miller and Marwan M. Kraidy provide a comprehensive �how-to� guide to the study of media, going far beyond the established English-language literature and drawing on the best methods and research from around the world. They look at political economy, global policymaking and governance, and the ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Global Sports Go Green—Or Do They?

    by Toby Miller, Joan Pedro Carañana ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the multifaceted impact of sports mega-events, from the World Cup to the Olympics, Formula One, and America’s Cup. Often celebrated for uniting nations, showcasing culture, and driving economic growth, these events also face increasing scrutiny for their ecological and social consequences. Global Sports Go Green—Or Do They? critically examines claims of environmental ... Read more

    $153.69 CAD

  • Why Journalism? A Polemic

    by Toby Miller ...
    This new book from Toby Miller engages with journalism from within the cultural studies tradition, addressing fundamental claims for the profession and its biggest contemporary challenges: critiques, objectivity, and insecurity.Why Journalism? A Polemic considers four key aspects of contemporary journalism in terms of theoretical relevance and historic tasks that are not usually considered in ... Read more

    $75.57 CAD

  • Violence

    by Toby Miller ...
    Using discourses from across the conceptual and geographical board, Toby Miller argues for a different way of understanding violence, one that goes beyond supposedly universal human traits to focus instead on the specificities of history, place, and population as explanations for it.Violence engages these issues in a wide-ranging interdisciplinary form, examining definitions and data, psychology ... Read more

    $48.08 CAD

  • The Persistence of Violence

    Colombian Popular Culture

    by Toby Miller, Alfredo Sabbagh Fajardo, Olga Lucia Sorzano, Anamaria Tamayo Duque, Marta Milena Barrios, Jesús Arroyave Cabrera ...
    Colombia’s headline story, about the peace process with guerrilla and its attendant controversies, does not consider the fundamental contradiction of a nation that spans generosity and violence, warmth and hatred—products of its particular pattern of invasion, dispossession, and enslavement. The Persistence of Violence fills that gap in understanding. Colombia is a place that is two countries in ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

  • Greenwashing Sport

    by Toby Miller ...
    Professional sports promote their green credentials and yet remain complicit in our global environmental crisisSports are responsible for significant carbon footprints through stadium construction and energy use, player and spectator travel, and media coverage. The impact of sports on climate change is further compounded by sponsorship deals with the gas and petroleum industries—imbuing those ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Greenwashing Culture

    by Toby Miller ...
    Greenwashing Culture examines the complicity of culture with our environmental crisis. Through its own carbon footprint, the promotion of image-friendly environmental credentials for celebrities, and the mutually beneficial engagement with big industry polluters, Toby Miller argues that culture has become an enabler of environmental criminals to win over local, national, and international ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Television Studies: The Basics

    by Toby Miller ...
    Series series The Basics
    Television Studies: The Basics is a lively introduction to the study of a powerful medium. It examines the major theories and debates surrounding production and reception over the years and considers both the role and future of television.Topics covered include:broadcasting history and technologyinstitutions and ownershipgenre and contentaudiencesComplete with global case studie... ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • Cultural Policy

    by Toby Miller, George Yudice ...
    Hitherto, cultural theory and empirical work on culture have outstripped cultural policy. This book rectifies the peculiar imbalance in the field of Cultural Studies by offering the first comprehensive and international work on cultural policy. Fully alive to the challenges posed by globalization it addresses a wide range of central topics including cinema, television, museums, international ... Read more

    $141.59 CAD

  • Cultural Citizenship

    Cosmopolitanism, Consumerism, and Television in a Neoliberal Age

    by Toby Miller ...
    What does it mean to be a "citizen" today, in an age of unbridled consumerism, terrorism, militarism, and multinationalism? In this passionate and dazzling book, Toby Miller dares to answer this question with the depth of thought it deserves. Fast-moving and far-ranging, Cultural Citizenship blends fact, theory, observation, and speculation in a way that continually startles and engages the reader ... Read more

    $34.09 CAD

  • A COVID Charter, A Better World

    by Toby Miller ...
    With unprecedented speed, scientists have raced to develop vaccines to bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control and restore a sense of normalcy to our lives. Despite the havoc and disruption the pandemic has caused, it’s exposed exactly why we should not return to life as we once knew it. Our current profit-driven healthcare systems have exacerbated global inequality and endangered public health, ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture

    Edited by Toby Miller ...
    Series series Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions
    Research on popular culture is a dynamic, fast-growing domain. In scholarly terms, it cuts across many areas, including communication studies, sociology, history, American studies, anthropology, literature, journalism, folklore, economics, and media and cultural studies. The Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture provides an authoritative, up-to-date, intellectually broad, internationally ... Read more

    $122.29 CAD