The New Politics of Visibility

The New Politics of VisibilityThis volume gathers together ten original essays on the contemporary politics of visibility. Contributions are interdisciplinary and address an array of topical areas in the newly emerging modes of governance, ranging from urban public space to the media and the new media in contemporary society. 7 b&w illus.

What does it mean for a library to be without borders

The standard historical reference and a popular textbook for students of languages

Chabrol has always been a neglected figure in the French New Wave but has recently been declared 'possibly the greatest living film director in France'

Playboy magazine’s obsession with the 007 lifestyle

As Zhouying Jin correctly points out: in emerging knowledge societies

challenges a common image of civilians as passive shelterers during air raids

the construction of states and early modern society

exoticism and erotic politics to locate the most ambituous love story ever told in a new present

and shines light on the complexities of post-socialist life and losses

its combination of breadth and detail

torture and the motives of the Iraq War

this study analyses the ways through which key Arab and non-Arab states instrumentalised cross-border mobility from the mid-1950s until today