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Comfort and Contemporary Culture

Comfort and Contemporary Culture

Andrew Hickey

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2025
Materia
Cultura popular
ISBN:
9781032536545
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Utilising analyses of popular culture and ethnographic accounts of everyday life, Comfort and Contemporary Culture works through case study accounts of comfort’s enactment to pose questions around what it means to live, now.

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