Kitsch! Government powers

Kitsch! Government powersFrom bottle gardens, batman and the bachelor pad to garden gnomes and monogamy spray, this book uses a range of objects to explore the meanings and uses of kitsch. An accessible, comprehensive introduction for students and informed readers, it adds to debates on taste in cultural theory and sociology and provides a review of the literature.

It examines the rise of populism

Read an interview with Anne Marie Butler and Sascha Crasnow

Leprosy and colonialism investigates the history of leprosy in Suriname within the context of Dutch colonial power and racial conflict

A rare analysis that – for the first time – examines the crises of a region mired in political strife and ambiguity

1500 and argues that its sophistication and complexity provides a much-needed perspective on more modern debates over the relationship between history and literary theory

audiences and publics are

analysing the voices of those who actually ‘fought the war’

philosophically examines the nature of knowledge therein as well as the implications of certain popular critical approaches

and visual sources

Through exploration of black British community activism in three geographical case studies

addressing amongst other things the complex treatment of law and violence

and the meaning of dystopia when considered in the light of Adorno’s critique of modernity