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1. Making Culture, Changing Society

   By Tony Bennett

   Series: CRESC

   Making Culture, Changing Society proposes a challenging new account of the relations between culture and society focused on how particular forms of cultural knowledge and expertise work on, order and transform society. Examining these forms of culture’s action on the social as aspects of a...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
2. Assembling Culture

   Edited by Tony Bennett, Chris Healy

   If the social does not exist as a special domain but, in Bruno Latour’s words, as ‘a peculiar movement of re-association and reassembling’, what implications does this have for how ‘the cultural’ might best be conceived? What new ways of thinking the relations between culture, the economy and the...

   Published December 7th 2010 by Routledge
3. Material Powers

   Cultural Studies, History and the Material Turn

   Edited by Tony Bennett, Patrick Joyce

   Series: CRESC

   This edited collection is a major contribution to the current development of a ‘material turn’ in the social sciences and humanities. It does so by exploring new understandings of how power is made up and exercised by examining the role of material infrastructures in the organization of state...

   Published October 3rd 2010 by Routledge
4. Culture, Class, Distinction

   By Tony Bennett, Mike Savage, Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva, Alan Warde, Modesto Gayo-Cal, David Wright

   Series: CRESC

   Culture, Class, Distinction is major contribution to international debates regarding the role of cultural capital in relation to modern forms of inequality. Drawing on a national study of the organisation of cultural practices in contemporary Britain, the authors review Bourdieu’s...

   Published August 16th 2009 by Routledge
5. Progression in Primary ICT

   By Richard Bennett, Andrew Hamill, Tony Pickford

   Series: Teaching ICT through the Primary Curriculum

   Providing an overview of the current context of ICT teaching within the primary classroom and an analysis of how to progress with it in order to enhance learning, this text: provides an analysis of what progression in ICT is and breaks this down into a series of detailed objectives includes '...

   Published December 26th 2006 by David Fulton Publishers
6. Pasts Beyond Memory

   Evolution, Museums, Colonialism

   By Tony Bennett

   Series: Museum Meanings

   Contributing to current debates on relationships between culture and the social, and the the rapidly changing practices of modern museums as they seek to shed the legacies of both evolutionary conceptions and colonial science, this important new work explores how evolutionary museums developed in...

   Published May 19th 2004 by Routledge
7. Contemporary Culture and Everyday Life

   Edited by Elizabeth Silva, Tony Bennett

   At the beginning of the twenty-first century the everyday lives of people in the industrialized western world are being changed by shifts in traditional assumptions about gender roles, power dynamics, sexualities, styles of work, personal relationships and life trajectories. The circumstances of...

   Published February 29th 2004 by Routledge-Cavendish
8. Formalism and Marxism

   3rd Edition

   By Tony Bennett

   Series: New Accents

   Russian Formalism and Marxist criticism had a seismic impact on twentieth-century literary theory. First published in 1979, Tony Bennett's Formalism and Marxism offered a ground-breaking new interpretation of the Formalists' achievements and demanded a new way forward in Marxist criticism.Placing...

   Published August 20th 2003 by Routledge
9. The Birth of the Museum

   History, Theory, Politics

   By Tony Bennett

   Series: Culture: Policy and Politics

   In a series of richly detailed case studies from Britian, Australia and North America, Tony Bennett investigates how nineteenth- and twentieth-century museums, fairs and exhibitions have organized their collections, and their visitors. Discussing the historical development of museums alongside...

   Published May 3rd 1995 by Routledge
10. Rock and Popular Music

    Politics, Policies, Institutions

    Edited by Tony Bennett, Simon Frith, Larry Grossberg, John Shepherd, Graeme Turner

    Series: Culture: Policy and Politics

    Rock and Popular Music examines the relations between the policies and institutions which regulate contemporary popular music and the political debates, contradictions and struggles in which those musics are involved.International in its scope and conception, this innovative collection explores the...

    Published November 3rd 1993 by Routledge