Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
The Cultural Authority of Science
Comparing across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2018
The cultural authority of science is the authority that is granted to science in any particular context. This authority is as much a matter of image and perceived legitimacy as of statutory guarantee. However, while authority can be charismatic, based on tradition or based on competence, we would...
Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context
Being and Becoming
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2019
Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context examines modern Taiwanese culture through the prism of global cultural interactions. Challenging the view of Taiwan as a product of transience and displacement, it highlights Taiwan’s subjectivity, viewing the island as a site of a global development that epitomizes...
The End of Black Studies
Conceptual, Theoretical, and Empirical Concerns
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Following a history of racial oppression and segregation, Black Americans were able to move in greater numbers into previously all- or predominantly-White colleges and universities. However, they encountered normative structures that excluded or distorted the Black experience and denied Black perspectives....
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights
History, Politics, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights: History, Politics, Practice is an edited collection that brings together analyses of human rights work from multiple disciplines. Within the academic sphere, this book will garner interest from scholars who are invested in human rights as a field of study,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Featuring twenty-five key essays from the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (Traves/sia), this book surveys the most influential themes and concepts, as well as scouring some of the polemics and controversies, which have marked the field over the last quarter of a century since the Journal's...
Cultural Heritage, Ageing, Disability, and Identity
Practice, and the development of inclusive capital
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Cultural Heritage, Ageing, Disability, and Identity examines the effects of disability and ageing on engagement with cultural heritage and associated cultural identity formation processes. Combining theory with detailed case study research, it unpicks both the current state of play and future directions.
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Cultural Policy in South Korea
Making a New Patron State
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
This is the first English-language book on cultural policy in Korea, which critically historicises and analyses the contentious and dynamic development of the policy. It highlights that the evolution of cultural policy has been bound up with the complicated political, economic and social trajectory...
Native Men Remade
Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai‘i
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
Many indigenous Hawaiian men have felt profoundly disempowered by the legacies of colonization and by the tourist industry, which, in addition to occupying a great deal of land, promotes a feminized image of Native Hawaiians (evident in the ubiquitous figure of the dancing hula girl). In the 1990s...
Loca Motion
The Travels of Chicana and Latina Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
2006 Honorable Mention for MLA Prize in US Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies
In the summer of 1995, El Vez, the “Mexican Elvis,“along with his backup singers and band, The Lovely Elvettes and the Memphis Mariachis, served as master of ceremony for a ground-breaking...
The Orang Suku Laut of Riau, Indonesia
The inalienable gift of territory
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Land reform has been an indisputable part of Indonesian revolution. The consequent execution of development programmes for nation-building have provoked intense hostility over territorial rights. Global market forces in Indonesia have seen increasing flows of transnational investments, technology...
Cultural Studies
Volume 7, Issue 2
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
Cultural Studies explores popular culture in a uniquely exciting and innovative way. Encouraging experimentation, intervention and dialogue, Cultural Studies is both politically and theoretically rewarding.
Freedom Sounds
Civil Rights Call out to Jazz and Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
An insightful examination of the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African Independence on jazz in the 1950s and 60s, Freedom Sounds traces the complex relationships among music, politics, aesthetics, and activism through the lens of the hot button racial and economic issues of the time. Ingrid...
Opera in a Multicultural World
Coloniality, Culture, Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Through historical and contemporary examples, this book critically explores the relevance and expressions of multicultural representation in western European operatic genres in the modern world. It reveals their approaches to reflecting identity, transmitting meaning, and inspiring creation, as...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
The Harlem Renaissance is considered one of the most significant periods of creative and intellectual expression for African Americans. Beginning as early as 1914 and lasting into the 1940s, this era saw individuals reject the stereotypes of African Americans and confront the racist, social, political,...