Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2003
How do race and nature work as terrains of power? From eighteenth-century claims that climate determined character to twentieth-century medical debates about the racial dimensions of genetic disease, concepts of race and nature are integrally connected, woven into notions of body, landscape, and nation....
The Body and Shame
Phenomenology, Feminism, and the Socially Shaped Body
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
The Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism, and the Socially Shaped Body investigates the concept of body shame and explores its significance when considering philosophical accounts of embodied subjectivity. Body shame only finds its full articulation in the presence (actual or imagined) of others...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Social differentiation, poverty and the emergence of the newly rich occasioned by the collapse of the Soviet Union have seldom been analysed from a class perspective. Rethinking Class in Russia addresses this absence by exploring the manner in which class positions are constructed and negotiated in...
Created in China
The Great New Leap Forward
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
This book examines China’s creative economy—and how television, animation, advertising, design, publishing and digital games are reshaping traditional understanding of culture. Since the 1950s China has endeavoured to catch-up with advanced Western economies. ‘Made in China’ is one approach...
Japan in Singapore
Cultural Occurrences and Cultural Flows
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
The Japanese impact on Southeast Asia has been profound, not only in terms of economic presence, but equally in terms of an increasingly visible cultural presence. Food, fashion, TV, film, religion, sport, popular music, ideas about management and social relationships and even local literatures have...
Crime and Punishment in Latin America
Law and Society Since Late Colonial Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2001
Crowning a decade of innovative efforts in the historical study of law and legal phenomena in the region, Crime and Punishment in Latin America offers a collection of essays that deal with the multiple aspects of the relationship between ordinary people and the law. Building on a variety of methodological...
To Die in this Way
Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1998
Challenging the widely held belief that Nicaragua has been ethnically homogeneous since the nineteenth century, To Die in This Way reveals the continued existence and importance of an officially “forgotten” indigenous culture. Jeffrey L. Gould argues that mestizaje—a cultural homogeneity that...
Continental Shifts
Migration, Representation, and the Struggle for Justice in Latin(o) America
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Applying a broad geographical approach to comparative Latino literary and cultural studies, Continental Shifts illuminates how the discursive treatment of Latinos changed dramatically following the enactment of NAFTA—a shift exacerbated by 9/11. While previous studies of immigrant representation...
by Edward E. Telles, Howard Winant, Michael Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 1999
Bringing together U.S. and Brazilian scholars, as well as Afro-Brazilian political activists, Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil represents a significant advance in understanding the complexities of racial difference in contemporary Brazilian society. While previous scholarship on this subject...
by John Hartley
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
An ambitious rendering of the digital future from a pioneer of media and cultural studies, a wise and witty take on a changing field, and our orientation to it
Investigates the uses of multimedia by creative and productive citizen-consumers to provide new theories of communication that accommodate...
After the Media
Culture and Identity in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
This provocative text considers the state of media and cultural studies today after the demolition of the traditional media paradigm, and engages with the new, active consumer culture.
Media Studies, particularly within schools, has until recently been concerned with mass media and the effects...
Textual Analysis
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2003
`Alan McKee presents a student friendly introduction to the analysis of cultural texts. The book highlights the cultural differences in interpretation with an array of fascinating examples. Textual Analysis is written in an accessible style with several useful case studies. Each chapter also includes...
by Nina Buschle
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, grade: 2,3, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, course: Cultural Studies, 6 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: 'An upper-class child may learn the 'facts of life' at an age when a lower-class...
by Rafael Parente
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2007
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, grade: PhD, The Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development (NYU), course: Cross-Cultural Studies of Socialization, 0 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Brazil has been...