Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
This volume of Who’s Who in Research series offers a useful guide for current researchers in Intellect’s subject area of Cultural Studies. The directory holds the names, institutions, biographies and current research interests of hundreds of leading international academics as well as references to the researchers’ principal articles in Intellect journals.
La Calle
Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwest City
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
On March 1, 1966, the voters of Tucson approved the Pueblo Center Redevelopment Project—Arizona’s first major urban renewal project—which targeted the most densely populated eighty acres in the state. For close to one hundred years, tucsonenses had created their own spatial reality in the historical,...
Leadership Peruvian Style
How Peruvians Define and Practice Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Leadership across cultural borders is the new frontier in leadership studies. Increased globalization means leaders are dealing with a variety of cultures in and out of their own countries. Leaders must be experts in understanding what cultural dimensions mean for being effective outside their own...
Crusoe's Footprints
Cultural Studies in Britain and America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
"Cultural Studies" has emerged in British and American higher education as a movement that challenges the traditional humanities and social science disciplines. Influenced by the New Left, feminism, and poststructualist literary theory, cultural studies seeks to analyze everday life and...
Once You Go Black
Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
2007 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, LGBT Studies
Richard Wright. Ralph Ellison. James Baldwin. Literary and cultural critic Robert Reid-Pharr asserts that these and other post-World War II intellectuals announced the very themes of race, gender, and sexuality with which so many contemporary critics...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
This is the first study to examine the representation of illness, disability, and cultural pathologies in modern and contemporary Iberian and Latin American literature. Innovative and interdisciplinary, the collection situates medicine as an important and largely overlooked discourse in these literatures,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Introduces key ideas and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions in the emerging field of disability media studies
Disability Media Studies articulates the formation of a new field of study, based in the rich traditions of media, cultural, and disability studies. Necessarily interdisciplinary...
The Postcolonial Eye
White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Informed by theories of the visual, knowledge and desire, The Postcolonial Eye is about the 'eye' and the 'I' in contemporary Australian scenes of race. Specifically, it is about seeing, where vision is taken to be subjective and shaped by desire, and about knowing one another across the cultural...
by Raud
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The effect of Japan on the challenges and complexities of the modernisation process that globalisation has brought to the fore in Asia are the subject of this interdisciplinary volume by leading scholars in the field. Using fascinating examples drawn from current business and organisational practice...
New Directions in Diaspora Studies
Cultural and Literary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
This collection brings together new critical approaches to diaspora studies, branching out to areas such as literary studies, visual culture, and museum studies, and explores them in relation to a variety of fictional works, cultural traditions, theoretical paradigms, and geo-political contexts. The...
Cultural Policy
Management, Value and Modernity in the Creative Industries
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Contemporary society is complex; governed and administered by a range of contradictory policies, practices and techniques. Nowhere are these contradictions more keenly felt than in cultural policy. This book uses insights from a range of disciplines to aid the reader in understanding contemporary...
Chinese Citizenship
Views from the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
Bringing a new dimension to the study of citizenship, Chinese Citizenship examines how individuals at the margins of Chinese society deal with state efforts to transform them into model citizens in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Based on extensive original research, the authors argue...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society is an interdisciplinary resource that focuses on contemporary Japan and the social and cultural trends that are important at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This Handbook provides a cutting-edge and comprehensive survey of significant...
Asia as Method
Toward Deimperialization
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Centering his analysis in the dynamic forces of modern East Asian history, Kuan-Hsing Chen recasts cultural studies as a politically urgent global endeavor. He argues that the intellectual and subjective work of decolonization begun across East Asia after the Second World War was stalled by the cold...