Description: This volume explores the changing field of cultural history to map out its new developments and future directions, covering major themes such as environment, digitization, heritage and identity.
Brief description: Willemijn Ruberg is Associate Professor of Cultural History at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Her research explores the cultural history of the body, gender, law, (forensic) medicine and psychiatry, as well as cultural theory. She is the author of History of the Body (2020).
Review Quotes:
" For anyone teaching or researching cultural history, this book is invaluable. It covers a wealth of topics from environment and post-truth to decoloniality and embodiment, with case-studies to match. If you're looking for a text that speaks to cultural history in the 2020s, this is it." --Simon Gunn, Professor Emeritus of Urban History, University of Leicester, UK
"Anyone interested in the future direction of history will want to read this volume which is filled with penetrating explanations of current trends and thoughtful suggestions for the future." --Lynn Hunt, Distinguished Research Professor, University of California at Los Angeles, USA