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In a world where visibility is power and identity is at the core of political contestation, the veil questions notions of who is and what is--Veil is a personal-philosophical exploration into how such fluidity of meaning and significance can reside in a single object.

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"Waste "explores the question: from nuclear waste to digital detritus, what can we learn about ourselves from what we let go to waste

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Now more than ever, we live in a society where we covet new and shiny things. Not only has consumption risen dramatically over the last 60 years, but we are damaging the environment at the same time. That is why buying quality and why Tara Buttons Buy Me Once brand has such popular appeal.

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This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and after the industrial revolution. Using a vast range of sources, it argues that the poor owned greater numbers and varieties of items with each generation and that poverty did not always mean living in squalor.

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This book examines US gay and lesbian leather archives alongside contemporary artistic practices that reframe and renegotiate historical source material, creating a queer politics of the present. -- .

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This book examines US gay and lesbian leather archives alongside contemporary artistic practices that reframe and renegotiate historical source material, creating a queer politics of the present. -- .

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Design and Popular Entertainment offers a selection of nine essays that examine the range of design for popular entertainment, from theatre and film, to television and radio. -- .

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The first work to survey dress around the world, covering consumption, ethnicity, gender and the body, as well as anthropological accounts and studies of representation. The book also examines international western style dress, headwear, ethnicity, traditional dress, 'alternative' dressing, and T-shirts as markers of identity. -- .

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For many the daily grind can feel like a trap - work, gym, drinks, shops, home, bed, work. She falls into a hidden community who teach her how to build a life using the things that others throw away, and finds that life on the margins amounts to so much more than you might think.

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This book focuses on men's bodies, emotions and material culture to offer a new understanding of masculinities in Britain in the long nineteenth century. Using objects as well as texts and images, it shows how idealised and ugly bodies, and the feelings they stimulated, helped convey ideas about manliness and unmanliness across society. -- .

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This book focuses on men's bodies, emotions and material culture to offer a new understanding of masculinities in Britain in the long nineteenth century. Using objects as well as texts and images, it shows how idealised and ugly bodies, and the feelings they stimulated, helped convey ideas about manliness and unmanliness across society. -- .

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Engaging with contemporary scholarship on museums and their interaction with communities, this work features contributions from highly respected scholars from around the world addressing a wide range of key issues. Offering new approaches and foregrounding new curatorial strategies, this is a must read for students and curators alike.

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This is a timely exploration of the traffic between design and activism in the context of precarity - a social and material condition brought about by the growth of temporary, informal and irregular work. The book shows how design objects and practices open up possibilities to recode and reconfigure the effects of precarity. -- .

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This book explores ruins whose intersections of symbolic messaging and material experience critique the modern project. By investigating ghost towns, industrial relics, prison sites, and other locales associated with dark tourism, contributors provide unique insights into contemporary rhetorics and performances of public life.

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A groundbreaking theory of materialism which reconsiders the role of stuff, the small objects that clutter our lives, as they crowd the pages of modern literature.

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A groundbreaking theory of materialism which reconsiders the role of stuff, the small objects that clutter our lives, as they crowd the pages of modern literature.

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Traces the progressive redrawing of the boundaries between human beings and things as represented in cinema through commodity culture, objectification, and technological supplementation.

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