Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Cities Interrupted
Visual Culture and Urban Space
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Cities Interrupted explores the potential of visual culture – in the form of photography, film, performance, architecture, urban design, and mixed media – to strategically interrupt processes of globalization in contemporary urban spaces.
Looking at cities such as Amsterdam, Beijing, Doha,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Multiple Translation Communities in Contemporary Japan offers a collection of essays that (1) deepens the understanding of the cultural and linguistic diversity of communities in contemporary Japan and how translation operates in this shifting context and circulates globally by looking at some of...
Multi-stories
Cross-cultural Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
This unique work explores, through personal narratives, the overlapping and intermingling of cultures as well as the immense cultural diversity across the world. This exploration inevitably questions notions of higher or lower cultures, and civilized or uncivilized peoples. Indeed it questions the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
The number of publications dealing with video game studies has exploded over the course of the last decade, but the field has produced few comprehensive reference works. The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies, compiled by well-known video game scholars Mark J. P. Wolf and Bernard Perron, aims...
Timor Leste
Politics, History, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
This book provides a comprehensive country overview of Southeast Asia’s newest nation, Timor Leste (East Timor). This book focuses on its cultural and ethno-linguistic diversity, and its political history from the pre-Portuguese period up to 2009. The book pays particular attention to the historical...
Health Care in the Black Community
Empowerment, Knowledge, Skills, and Collectivism
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Empower patients with culture-specific strategies for promoting health, treating disease, and preventing violence!
Current reports show that Black Americans have the highest death rate of all racial and ethnic groups. They suffer disproportionately from a number of fatal diseases, including...
Queering the Color Line
Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2000
Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was “invented” as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, Siobhan...
These Days of Large Things
The Culture of Size in America, 1865-1930
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
The United States at the turn of the twentieth century cultivated a passion for big. It witnessed the emergence of large-scale corporate capitalism; the beginnings of American imperialism on a global stage; record-level immigration; a rapid expansion of cities; and colossal events and structures like...
Black for a Day
White Fantasies of Race and Empathy
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
In 1948, journalist Ray Sprigle traded his whiteness to live as a black man for four weeks. A little over a decade later, John Howard Griffin famously "became" black as well, traveling the American South in search of a certain kind of racial understanding. Contemporary history is littered...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Over the past decade, Korean popular culture has become a global phenomenon. The "Korean Wave" of music, film, television, sports, and cuisine generates significant revenues and cultural pride in South Korea. The Korean Popular Culture Reader provides a timely and essential foundation for...
Bodies of Inscription
A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2000
Since the 1980s, tattooing has emerged anew in the United States as a widely appealing cultural, artistic, and social form. In Bodies of Inscription Margo DeMello explains how elite tattooists, magazine editors, and leaders of tattoo organizations have downplayed the working-class roots of tattooing...
The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China
Charisma, Money, Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Focusing on contemporary Tibetan Buddhist revivals in the Tibetan regions of the Sichuan and Qinghai Provinces in China, this book explores the intricate entanglements of the Buddhist revivals with cultural identity, state ideology, and popular imagination of Tibetan Buddhist spirituality in contemporary...
The Trickster and the System
Identity and agency in contemporary society
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
For centuries, the trickster has been used in various narratives, including mythological, literary and cinematic, to convey the idea of agency, rebellion and, often turbulent, progress. In The Trickster and the System: Identity and Agency in Contemporary Society,Helena Bassil-Morozow shows how the...
Being Young in Super-Aging Japan
Formative Events and Cultural Reactions
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Japan is not only the oldest society in the world today, but also the oldest society to have ever existed. This aging trend, however, presents many challenges to contemporary Japan, as it permeates all areas of life, from the economy and welfare to social cohesion and population decline. Nobody is...