Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Disability Studies and Spanish Culture
Films, Novels, the Comic and the Public Exhibition
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Disability Studies and Spanish Culture is the first book to apply the tenets of Disability Studies to the Spanish context. In particular, this work is an important corrective to existing cultural studies of disability in Spain that tend to largely ignore intellectual disabilities. Taking on the representation...
India-Thailand Cultural Interactions
Glimpses from the Past to Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
This volume looks at facets of cultural interactions between India and Thailand---two historically significant countries of the South East Asian region. For the first time a comprehensive discussion on historical and contemporary cultural interactions between Indian and Thailand has been attempted...
by David Morley
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Television, Audiences and Cultural Studies presents a multi-faceted exploration of audience research, in which David Morley draws on a rich body of empirical work to examine the emergence, development and future of television audience research. In addition to providing an introductory overview from...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Since the 1990s there has been a dramatic increase in cultural flows and connections between the countries in the East Asian region. Nowhere is this more apparent than when looking at popular culture where uneven but multilateral exchanges of Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, Hong Kong and Chinese products...
Finding Purple America
The South and the Future of American Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The new southern studies has had an uneasy relationship with both American studies and the old southern studies. In Finding Purple America, Jon Smith, one of the founders of the new movement, locates the source of that unease in the fundamentally antimodern fantasies of both older fields.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This collection provides an in-depth and up-to-date examination of the concept of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the issues surrounding its value to society. Critically engaging with the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, the book also discusses local-level...
Yuchi Folklore
Cultural Expression in a Southeastern Native American Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
In countless ways, the Yuchi (Euchee) people are unique among their fellow Oklahomans and Native peoples of North America. Inheritors of a language unrelated to any other, the Yuchi preserve a strong cultural identity. In part because they have not yet won federal recognition as a tribe, the Yuchi...
American Indians and the American Imaginary
Cultural Representation Across the Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
American Indians and the American Imaginary considers the power of representations of Native Americans in American public culture. The book's wide-ranging case studies move from colonial captivity narratives to modern film, from the camp fire to the sports arena, from legal and scholarly texts to...
Between the Middle East and the Americas
The Cultural Politics of Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora traces the production and circulation of discourses about "the Middle East" across various cultural sites, against the historical backdrop of cross-Atlantic Mahjar flows. The book highlights the fraught and ambivalent...
The Political Philosophies of Antonio Gramsci and B. R. Ambedkar
Itineraries of Dalits and Subalterns
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Bridging two generations of scholarship on social inequality and modern political forms, this book examines the political philosophies of inclusion of subalterns/Dalits in Gramsci and Ambedkar’s political philosophies. It highlights the full range of Gramsci’s ‘philosophy of praxis’ and presents...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
This book presents a comprehensive, full-length analysis of the uses of media and communication technologies by different social actors in Malaysia. Unlike other studies of the media in Malaysia which concentrate on "political economy" or "freedom of the media" approaches, this...
Childhood and Pethood in Literature and Culture
New Perspectives in Childhood Studies and Animal Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Bringing together new perspectives in childhood studies and animal studies, this bookis the first collection to critically address the manifold alignments and frequent co-constitutions of children and pets in our families, our cultures, and our societies. The cultural politics of power shaping relationships...
Political Torture in Popular Culture
The Role of Representations in the Post-9/11 Torture Debate
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Political Torture in Popular Culture argues that the literary, filmic, and popular cultural representation of political torture has been one of the defining dimensions of the torture debate that has taken place in the course of the post-9/11 global war on terrorism. The book argues that cultural representations...
by Pamela Odih
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Advertising and Cultural Politics in Global Times traces daringly transgressive convergences between cultural politics and global advertising media. It engages with a range of interpolations between cultural politics and advertising technologies including: the governmental rationality of neoliberal...