Globalized urban precarity in Berlin and Abidjan James V. Leonard

Globalized urban precarity in Berlin and Abidjan James V. LeonardThe comparative ethnography of young airtime sellers in Abidjan and delivery riders in Berlin analyses experiences of precarity for young men in the urban digital economy. It points to the relevance of symbolic capital in relational mechanisms of closure, domination and exploitation for making a living in globalised precarity.

Jonathan Day revisits this work and contributes a thoughtful critical commentary

which meant a difficult separation from her parents

professors and princes use marketing to identify demands and design a product to satisfy political consumers

Peter Greenaway's The Falls

With original full colour illustrations

Were there homosexuals in early modern Europe

the once much-vaunted Irish economic phenomenon

European Culture and the Media presents new research and thinking on cultural globalisation

South African London studies literary responses to London by exiled and émigré South Africans between 1948 and 2005 and traces the role London played in the development of South African letters

boy and elephant overcome danger and learn the true meaning of friendship

controversial due to the female nudity that catapulted Hedy Lamarr into stardom in the United States

identifying the ideas and important cultural forces behind the trends