Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
by Johannes Lenhard
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Cultural Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: Distinction, London School of Economics (Sociology), course: Cultural Theory, language: English, abstract: The categories of real and symbolic, material and meaning have for a long time bothered not only cultural theorists...
Body, Migration, Re/constructive Surgeries
Making the Gendered Body in a Globalized World
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Bringing together an international range of case studies and interviews with individuals who have had genital re/construction, Body, Migration, Re/constructive Surgeries explores the socio-cultural meanings of clitoral re/construction following female genital cutting (FGC), hymen reconstruction, trans...
Locating Television
Zones of Consumption
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Locating Television: Zones of Consumption takes an important next step for television studies: it acknowledges the growing diversity of the international experience of television today in order to address the question of ‘what is television now?’
The book addresses this question in two...
by Michael Mario Albrecht
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Recent years have seen a rise in the popularity and quantity of ’quality’ television programs, many of which featuring complicated versions of masculinity that are informed not only by the women’s movement of the sixties and seventies, but also by several decades of backlash and debate about...
The Other in South Asian Religion, Literature and Film
Perspectives on Otherism and Otherness
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This book introduces the term "otherism" and looks at the discourse of otherism and the issue of otherness in South Asian religion, literature and film. It examines cultural questions related to the human condition of being the "other," of the process of "othering" and...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2007
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Cultural Studies - Pacific Rim, grade: 60%, School of Political, Social and International Studies (University of East Anglia (England)), course: Politics and Popular Culture, 20 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: New Zealand is...
The Changing Face of Afro-Caribbean Cultural Identity
Negrismo and Negritude
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
The Changing Face of Afro-Caribbean Cultural Identity: Negrismo and Négritude looks primarily at Negrismo and Négritude, two literary movements that appeared in the Francophone and Hispanic Caribbean as well as in Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century. It draws on speeches and manifestos,...
Disability and Popular Culture
Focusing Passion, Creating Community and Expressing Defiance
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
As a response to real or imagined subordination, popular culture reflects the everyday experience of ordinary people and has the capacity to subvert the hegemonic order. Drawing on central theoretical approaches in the field of critical disability studies, this book examines disability across a number...
by David Bell, Kate Oakley
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
David Bell and Kate Oakley survey the major debates emerging in cultural policy research, adopting an approach based on spatial scale to explore cultural policy in cities, nations and internationally. They contextualise these discussions with an exploration of what both ‘culture’ and ‘policy’...
Innovations in Delivering Culturally Sensitive Social Work Services
Challenges for Practice and Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Innovations in Delivering Culturally Sensitive Social Work Services: Challenges for Practice and Education is for human service professionals and educators who are seeking innovative ways to make their practice and service delivery more culturally appropriate and their education and training more...
Cross-Cultural Women Scholars in Academe
Intergenerational Voices
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
This ground-breaking collection features the diverse voices, experiences, and scholarship of cross-cultural women of American Indian, Asian American, Black/African American and Hispanic descent at various levels of academe, actively engaged in the advancement of marginalized groups in the U.S. and...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Tourism explores and critically evaluates the debates and controversies in this field of Tourism. It brings together leading specialists from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and geographical regions, to provide state-of-the-art theoretical reflection and empirical...
Disability and Culture: The usefulness of Davis' argument about the relationship between the concept of normalcy and cultural production
Disability in Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, grade: 1:1 (First Class), , language: English, abstract: Disability is a natural part of the human condition. Almost everyone you cross paths with will possess some form of deviance from the socially enforced ideological...
The Effects of Cultural Traditions on the Education of women
The Study of the Tumbuka People of Zambia
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2013 in the subject Women Studies / Gender Studies, grade: ''-', , course: Education, language: English, abstract: The strong hold that the cultural traditions has on the locals has further resulted in conflicts with modern schooling, which is viewed as...