"This volume considers world-making as the intersection of the fan pilgrimage experience and the responses of destinations. It examines the emerging field of popular culture tourism and its connection with fan studies and placemaking. It integrates theory and practice and provides evidence-based...

"This book studies the relationship of popular culture to older formations of political economic thought, which have made their way into a range of fictions as a fabulous, though feasible, source of resistance to the hegemony of neoclassical economics."

"Sounds Irish, Acts Global critically examines both the history of Ireland's popular music industry as well as the current music scene in the country. This book is of interest to business students as well as popular music scholars in addition to non-academic readers."

Exploring the extensive world of HBO's Game of Thrones series to illustrate leadership theories supported by scholarly research, Bend the Knee or Seize the Throne analyzes characters and scenarios from the series to demonstrate and deconstruct different examples of leadership and leader...

Popular representations of development need to be taken seriously (though not uncritically) as sources of authoritative knowledge, not least because they are how most people in the global north (and elsewhere) encounter development issues. To this end, this paper presents three clusters of films...

Introduction: the making of Black womanhood -- Theorizing Black women's cultural influence through consumption -- From riots to style: the history of Black Barbie -- From bootstraps to glass slippers: Black women's uplift in Disney's princess canon -- A Black Barbie's moment: Nicki Minaj and the...

"The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that captured-and transformed-the world's imagination. The Walkman. Karaoke. Pikachu. Pac-Man. Akira. Emoji. We've all fallen in love with one or another of Japan's pop-culture creations, from the techy...

"Getting busy with the fizzy" : Johansson, SodaStream and Oxfam : exploring the political economics of celebrity activism / Nathan Farrell -- Celebrities in socially engaged campaigns : the making of solidarity capital / Bruno Campanella -- Funded by philanthropy, founded for activism : Nobel...

This book explores the relationships between popular music, technology, and the changing media ecosystem. More precisely, it looks at infrastructures and practices of music making and consuming primarily in the post-Napster era of digitization - with some chapters looking back on the...

"This book explores media influence on consumers in a globalized world. It also analyzes popular culture, media, and consumption in disciplines such as sociology, communication, social work, business and international relations"--

"This book explores media influence on consumers in a globalized world. It also analyzes popular culture, media, and consumption in disciplines such as sociology, communication, social work, business and international relations"--

Popular representations of development need to be taken seriously (though not uncritically) as sources of authoritative knowledge, not least because they are how most people in the global north (and elsewhere) encounter development issues. To this end, this paper presents three clusters of films...

Between pink Hollywood and the black wave -- A change in rhythm -- Modernism and the avant-garde in the struggle for socialism -- Life in the American style -- Conclusion. The American dream the Yugoslav way?

En este artículo Taitu Heron explora los nexos entre la política y cultura popular en Jamaica a través de un análisis específico del papel de la canción popular en el proceso político de Jamaica durante tres décadas y media (1960-1996). This article explores the politics-culture nexus by...

Mediated superheroes have grown up, no longer relegated to serving as adolescent power fantasies or mindless diversions. Superheroes in comics and other forms of media carry with them rhetorical power and significance that deserve exploration. The purpose of this paper is to examine new and...

Behavioral economics and the credit-crisis novel -- Credit, characterization, personification -- Photography and foreclosure -- Houses of horror -- Coda : the living indebted (on students and sabotage)

Popular representations of development need to be taken seriously (though not uncritically) as sources of authoritative knowledge, not least because they are how most people in the global north (and elsewhere) encounter development issues. To this end, this paper presents three clusters of films...

The political economy of popular culture -- Popular culture and the East Asian region -- Japan's popular culture powerhouse -- The creation of a regional market -- Japan's regional model -- Conclusion: Japanese popular culture and the making of East Asia

chapter 1 Introduction: Organizations and popular culture -- chapter 2 Management as popular culture -- chapter 3 Articulating organization studies and popular culture -- chapter 4 Men, non-men and masculinity in Glengarry Glen Ross: The retardations of the masculine in contemporary capitalistic...

Introduction: Mediated immediacy : living in the now -- Of swingers and organization men : loose modernities -- Experts unbound : intimate professionals and the value of lifestyle -- Book as tool : lifestyle print culture and the West Coast publishing boom -- Being one : from knowledge to...