Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Cultural Politics of Targeted Killing
On Drones, Counter-Insurgency, and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
The deployment of remotely piloted air platforms (RPAs) - or drones - has become a defining feature of contemporary counter-insurgency operations. Scholarly analysis and public debate has primarily focused on two issues: the legality of targeted killing and whether the practice is effective at disrupting...
Cultural Security
Evaluating the Power of Culture in International Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Over the past two centuries, abuse of antiquities and fine art has evolved from the “spoils of war” into a medium for conducting terrorism which strives to erase the cultural heritage of “the other”. At the same time, the growth of the art market over the past fifty years has created opportunities...
Religious Freedom in India
Sovereignty and (Anti) Conversion
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Drawing on the critical and theoretical concepts of sovereignty, biopolitics, and necropolitics, this book examines how a normative liberal and secular understanding of India’s religious identity is translatable by Hindu nationalists into discrimination and violence against minoritized religious...
Culture in Mind
Cognition, Culture, and the Problem of Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 1998
Despite the recognized importance of cultural diversity in understanding the modern world, the emerging science of cognitive psychology has relied far more on experimental psychology, neurobiology, and computer science than on cultural anthropology for its models of how we think. In this exciting...
by Gebhard Deissler
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Scientific Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, , course: Interkulturelles Management, language: English, abstract: From cultural specifics and therapies and sectoral efforts I am trying to lead towards an integrated perception of the whole which is the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
In many countries, particularly in the Global North, established forms of solidarity within communities are said to be challenged by the increasing ethnic and cultural diversity of the population. Against the backdrop of renewed geopolitical tensions – which inflate and exploit ethno-cultural,...
Affectivity and Race
Studies from Nordic Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This book presents new empirical studies of social difference in the Nordic welfare states, in order to advance novel theoretical perspectives on the everyday practices and macro-politics of race and gender in multi-ethnic societies. With attention to the specific political and cultural landscapes...
Beyond Multiculturalism
Views from Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
While the anthropological field initially shied away from the debate on multiculturalism, it has been widely discussed within the fields of political theory, social policy, cultural studies and law. Beyond Multiculturalism is the first volume of its kind to offer a comparative, worldwide view of multiculturalism,...
Prisons and Punishment in Texas
Culture, History and Museological Representation
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
This book explores the identity of Texas as a state with a large and severe penal system. It does so by assessing the narratives at work in Texas museums and tourist sites associated with prisons and punishment. In such cultural institutions, complex narratives are presented, which show celebratory stories...
Diaspora and Identity
Perspectives on South Asian Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book investigates the identity issues of South Asians in the diaspora. It engages the theoretical and methodological debates concerning processes of culture and identity in the contemporary context of globalisation and transnationalism. It analyses the South Asian diaspora - a perfect route to...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Religion has long been a powerful cultural, social, and political force in the Himalaya. Increased economic and cultural flows, growth in tourism, and new forms of governance and media, however, have brought significant changes to the religious traditions of the region in the twentieth and twenty-first...
Packaging Life
Cultures of the Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Packaging Life: Cultures of the Everyday is a study of the cultural politics of four aspects of everyday life-health, comfort, risk and mobility-as manifest in public culture. The book explores the commodification of these aspects, arguing that our experience and perception of these are mediated by...
by Duane Champagne, University of California, Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
This book defines the broad parameters of social change for Native American nations in the twenty-first century, as well as their prospects for cultural continuity. Many of the themes Champagne tackles are of general interest in the study of social change including governmental, economic, religious,...
Cultural Fault Lines in Healthcare
Reflections on Cultural Competency
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Healthcare in the U.S. faces two interpenetrating certainties. First, with over 66 racial and ethnic groupings, our “American Mosaic” of worldviews and values unavoidably generates clashes in hospitals and clinics. Second, our public increasingly mistrusts our healthcare system and delivery. One...