By giving voice to these women and men, this book honours the diversity of maternities, and validates new academic and creative methods in figuring herstory as a patchwork intersection of voices across and through time – simultaneously acknowledging difference and diversity as well as commonality. 32 b&w illus.

This book explores how phenomenology - the study of how the world shows itself to conscious experience - can provide new insights into acting and theatre-making. It explores Being-in-the-world in everyday life with practical exercises for rehearsal and performance. 7 b/w illus.

A collection that combines visual works with critical essays around the theme of everyday life to explore the concept of otherness and highlight photography as a form of critical practice. Put together in this way, the book images and text work in dialogue with one another to construct a new perspective on questions of otherness and alterity.

The Physical and the Digital City is a unique collection of projects where researchers and designers show how the theories of technology underpinning the digital urban environment are applied in practical and spatial terms. 79 b&w illus.

Planet Cosplay is authored by widely published scholars in this field, examining the central aspects of cosplay ranging from sources and sites to performance and play, from sex and gender to production and consumption.

This interdisciplinary book takes the reader on global journeys from the UK to China, from Ecuador to Jamaica, through a melange of music genres. In doing so, it raises key questions as the contributors reflect upon doing and communicating ethnographic research on popular music. 14 b&w illus.

Examines how scientific objects in museums and other collections act as inspiration to contemporary art practice, its histories, curating and aesthetics. Cross-disciplinary essays from leading arts professionals explore how scientific encounters in museums provoke new modes of creative thinking about art, science and curating. 84 col. illus.

Prison Cultures offers the first systematic examination of women in prison and performances in and of the institution. Using a feminist approach to reach beyond tropes of 'bad girls' and simplistic inside vs. outside dynamics, it examines how cultural products can perpetuate or disrupt hegemonic understandings of the world of prisons. 9 b/w illus.