Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Amazonian Geographies
Emerging Identities and Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Amazonia exists in our imagination as well as on the ground. It is a mysterious and powerful construct in our psyches yet shares multiple (trans)national borders and diverse ecological and cultural landscapes. It is often presented as a seemingly homogeneous place: a lush tropical jungle teeming with...
Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids
Teenagers in an Era of Consumerism, Standardized Tests, and Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
In Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids: Teenagers in an Era of Consumerism, Standardized Tests, and Social Media, Second Edition, award-winning sociologist Murray Milner tries to understand why teenagers behave the way they do. The first edition drew upon two years of intensive fieldwork in one high school...
Cultural Crisis and Social Memory
Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book explores social memory in the context of cultural crises of modernity in Thailand and Laos. It explicates the ways in which social memory constructed by the people enters modernity, and how this in turn causes fundamental ruptures with their past, as well as the various ways cultural crises...
Connecting Taiwan
Participation – Integration – Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Taiwan has often been characterised as an isolated society in its search for sovereignty and security. Its contact with the world in an era of globalization and post-modernity, however, has increasingly led to Taiwanese actors successfully participating in many regional and global fields.
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Nouveau-riche Nationalism and Multiculturalism in Korea
A media narrative analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
The unprecedented economic success of South Korea since the 1990s has led in turn to a large increase in the number of immigrants and foreign workers in Korean industries. This book describes and explains the experiences of discrimination and racism that foreigners and ‘new’ Koreans have faced...
by Hilary Du Cros, Bob McKercher
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Cultural Tourism remains the only book to bridge the gap between cultural tourism and cultural and heritage management. The first edition illustrated how heritage and tourism goals can be integrated in a management and marketing framework to produce sustainable cultural tourism. The current edition...
by Zuozhen Liu
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
This book investigates China's demands for the repatriation of Chinese cultural relics 'lost' during the country's modern history. It addresses two main research questions: Can the original owners, or their rightful successors, of cultural objects looted, stolen, or illicitly exported before the...
Resisting Paradise
Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Winner of the Caribbean Studies Association's 2016 Barbara T. Christian Award
Tourists flock to the Caribbean for its beaches and spread more than just blankets and dollars. Indeed tourism has overly affected the culture there. Resisting Paradise explores the import of both tourism and diaspora...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
While many claims are made regarding the power of cultural heritage as a driver and enabler of sustainable development, the relationship between museums, heritage and development has received little academic scrutiny. This book stages a critical conversation between the interdisciplinary fields of...
Documents of Life Revisited
Narrative and Biographical Methodology for a 21st Century Critical Humanism
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
The cultural and narrative turn has had a considerable impact upon research in the social sciences as well as in the arts and humanities, with Ken Plummer's Documents of Life constituting a central text in the turn towards to narrative, biographical and qualitative methodologies, challenging and changing...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2008
This volume examines the implications and consequences of the idea of ‘intangible heritage’ to current international academic and policy debates about the meaning and nature of cultural heritage and the management processes developed to protect it. It provides an accessible account of the different...
Spaces of Vernacular Creativity
Rethinking the Cultural Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Creativity has become part of the language of regeneration experts, urban planners and government policy makers attempting to revive the economic and cultural life of cities in the 21st century. Concepts such as the creative class, the creative industries and bohemian cultural clusters have come to...
Movies in the Age of Obama
The Era of Post-Racial and Neo-Racist Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
The historic election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States had a significant impact on both America and the world at large. By voting an African American into the highest office, those who elected Obama did not necessarily look past race, but rather didn’t let race prevent them...
Environmental Advertising in China and the USA
The desire to go green
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Since the late 1980s, green consumerism has been hailed in the West as an efficient solution to environmental problems. However, Chinese consumers have been slow to warm up to eco-friendly products. Consumers prefer SUVs to hybrid cars, health supplements and snake oil medicines to organic foods and...