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Disaster Relief in the Asia Pacific

Agency and Resilience

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Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014

A UN report recently found that the Asia Pacific is the world’s most disaster-prone region. Indeed, considering that the region accounts for more than half of the total number of disasters in the world, building capacity and resilience to mitigate the devastating impact of disasters is a pressing...
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by Terence Lee
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010

This book explores this inherent contradiction present in most facets of Singaporean media, cultural and political discourses, and identifies the key regulatory strategies and technologies that the ruling People Action Party (PAP) employs to regulate Singapore media and culture, and thus govern the...
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Prospects for the American Age

Sovereignty and Influence in the New World Order

by Dr. Jamal Sanad Al-Suwaidi
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015

The Prospects for the American Age, is about the new world order. The book consists of seven chapters that revolve around theory, history, emergence, current status and future of the world order. Drawing on his academic training and practical experience, Dr. Jamal Sanad Al-Suwaidi reveals the ultimate...
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by Christian van Gorder
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2008

This book explores issues of cultural tension that affect Muslim and Christian interaction within the Central Asian context. It looks at the ways that Christians have interacted with Central Asian Muslims in the past, and discusses what might need to be done to improve Muslim-Christian relations in...
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Production Studies, The Sequel!

Cultural Studies of Global Media Industries

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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015

Production Studies, The Sequel! is an exciting exploration of the experiences of media workers in local, global, and digital communities—from prop-masters in Germany, Chinese film auteurs, producers of children’s television in Qatar, Italian radio broadcasters, filmmakers in Ethiopia and Nigeria,...
Cover of Creativity, Communication and Cultural Value
by Professor Keith Negus, Michael Pickering
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2004

'There have been few critical engagements with the concept of creativity in recent years, so the authors provide an important contribution in drawing attention to what is arguably at the heart of much of what we most value in culture' - Douglas Kellner, University of California, Los Angeles 'In...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006

As many observers have noted, the world is becoming increasingly visually mediated, with the rise of computers and the internet being central factors in the emergence of new tools and conventions. Exploring the social structure of visuality, this volume contains a collection of essays by internationally...
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by Alan Sinfield
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013

Following a first edition that generated wide-spread debate, Cultural Politics – Queer Reading is a bold study of the future of critical theory and the role of gender, ethnicity and cultures within academic literary studies. An illuminating introduction to the second edition revisits the...
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by Eve Stoddard, John Collins
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016

From the Foundations in Global Studies series, this text offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to the study of the social and cultural aspects of global studies. After a brief introduction to global studies, the early chapters of the book survey the key concepts and...
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Globalisation and the Middle Classes in India

The Social and Cultural Impact of Neoliberal Reforms

by Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase, Timothy J. Scrase
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008

This book fills an important gap in the existing literature on economic liberalization and globalisation in India by providing much needed ethnographic data from those affected by neoliberal globalisation. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, it reveals the complexity of the globalisation...
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by John Storey
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017

Theories of Consumption explores the concept of consumption from the post-disciplinary perspective of cultural studies. John Storey brings together work that up until now has been located in distinct disciplinary spaces including work on reception theory in literary studies and philosophy;...
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Egypt's Culture Wars

Politics and Practice

by Samia Mehrez
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008

This ground-breaking work presents original research on cultural politics and battles in Egypt at the turn of the twenty first century. It deconstructs the boundaries between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture drawing on conceptual tools in cultural studies, translation studies and gender studies to...
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The West in Asia and Asia in the West

Essays on Transnational Interactions

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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015

This collection of new essays examines the “transnational turn” in cultural studies between Asia and the West. Drawing on literature, history, culture, film and media studies, scholars from a range of disciplines explore the constructs of “Asia” and “the West” and their cultural collision....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009

This book explores race and multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore from a range of different disciplinary perspectives, showing how race and multiculturalism are represented, how multiculturalism works out in practice, and how attitudes towards race and multiculturalism – and multicultural practices...
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