A review of Luc Boltanski, On Critique: A Sociology of Emancipation (Polity Press, Cambridge, 2011).

A review of Mick Broderick and Antonio Traverso (eds), Trauma, Media, Art: New Perspectives (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 2010).

A review of David Buckingham, The Material Child: Growing Up in Consumer Culture (Polity Press, Cambridge, 2011) and Reg Bailey, Letting Children Be Children: Report of an Independent Review of the Commercialisation and Sexualisation of Childhood (TSO for the Department of Education,…

An introduction to the themes of the 'On Noise' section and an overview of its contents.

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A review of Chris Rojek, Pop Music, Pop Culture (Polity, Cambridge, 2011) and Tara Brabazon, Popular Music: Topics, Trends & Trajectories (Sage, London, 2012).

A review of Melissa Gregg, Work’s Intimacy (Polity, Cambridge, 2011) and David Hesmondhalgh and Sarah Baker, Creative Labour: Media Work in Three Cultural Industries (Routledge, London, 2010).

An extended review of Terry Flew's The Creative Industries: Culture and Policy (Sage, London, 2012).

The paper explores the idea of settlement in each of its three major senses: as a place of human habitation; as a fixed and stable order of habitation; and as a political consensus reconciling fractious groups. Arguing that traditional accounts…

Practice as research is now an accepted mode whereby artists can obtain a higher degree in our universities. But what conditions pertain for them there? Daily experiences of the misfit between the university, particularly in its current corporate guise, and…