Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Cultural Memory
Resistance, Faith, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
The common "blood" of a people—that imperceptible flow that binds neighbor to neighbor and generation to generation—derives much of its strength from cultural memory. Cultural memories are those transformative historical experiences that define a culture, even as time passes and it adapts to new...
How to Have Theory in an Epidemic
Cultural Chronicles of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 1999
Paula A. Treichler has become a singularly important voice among the significant theorists on the AIDS crisis. Dissecting the cultural politics surrounding representations of HIV and AIDS, her work has altered the field of cultural studies by establishing medicine as a legitimate focus for cultural...
New Cultural Identitarian Political Movements in Developing Societies
The Bharatiya Janata Party
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Applying an intercultural and comparative theoretical approach across Asia and Africa, this book analyses the rise and moderation of political movements in developing societies which mobilise popular support with references to conceptions of cultural identity. The author includes not only the Hindu...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
This book explores the emerging concept of cultural DNA, considering its application across different fields and examining commonalities in approach. It approaches the subject from four different perspectives, in which the topics include theories, analysis and synthesis of cultural DNA artefacts.
After...
The Vegan Studies Project
Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
This inescapably controversial study envisions, defines, and theorizes an area that Laura Wright calls vegan studies. We have an abundance of texts on vegans and veganism including works of advocacy, literary and popular fiction, film and television, and cookbooks, yet until now, there has been no...
Civil Unrest and Governance in Hong Kong
Law and Order from Historical and Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This book examines important social movements in Hong Kong from the perspectives of historical and cultural studies. Conventionally regarded as one of the most politically stable cities in Asia, Hong Kong has yet witnessed many demonstrations and struggles against the colonial and post-colonial governments...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
The middle-class nuclear family model has long dominated discourses on family in Japan. Yet there have always been multiple configurations of family and kinship, which, in the context of significant socio-economic and demographic shifts since the 1990s, have become increasingly visible in public discourse....
The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America
Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Winner of the 2016 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in Cultural Studies
The Exquisite Corpse of
Asian America
addresses this central question: if race has been settled as a legal or social
construction and not as biological fact, why do Asian American artists,
authors,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 1992
During its first six years (1986–1991), the journal Cultural Anthropology provided a unique forum for registering the lively traffic between anthropology and the emergent arena of cultural studies. The nineteen essays collected in Rereading Cultural Anthropology, all of which originally appeared...
Starting Over
Feminism and the Politics of Cultural Critique
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
For more than a decade Judith Newton has been at the forefront of defining and promoting materialist feminist criticism. Starting Over brings together a selection of her essays that chart the establishment of feminist literary criticism in the academy and its relation to other forms of cultural criticism,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
This volume examines the global influence and impact of DIY cultural practice as this informs the production, performance and consumption of underground music in different parts of the world. The book brings together a series of original studies of DIY musical activities in Europe, North and South...
The Goddess in Hindu-Tantric Traditions
Devi as Corpse
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
The Great Goddess, in her various puranic and tantric forms, is often figured as sitting on a corpse which is identified as Shiva-as-shava (God Shiva, the consort of the Devi and an iconic representation of the Absolute without attributes, the Nirguna Brahman). Hence, most of the existing critical...
Mexican American Children and Families
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Offering new insight on Mexican American culture and families, this book provides an interdisciplinary examination of this growing population. Contributors from psychology, education, health, and social science review recent quantitative and qualitative literature on Mexican Americans. Using current...
Global Youth?
Hybrid Identities, Plural Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
This innovative collection of studies by international youth researchers, critically addresses questions of ‘global’ youth, incorporating material from regions as diverse as Sydney, Tehran, Dakar and Manila, and advancing our knowledge about young people around the globe. Exploring specific local...