Traditionally social science treated culture as a peripheral issue, but the last twenty years have witnessed a cultural turn throughout the social sciences. Cul

Traditionally, social science has treated culture as a peripheral issue. However, over the last twenty years, culture has moved to the core of the debate. This

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The contemporary fields of the study of culture, the humanities and the social sciences are unfolding in a dynamic constellation of cultural turns. This book pr

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