Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Mediated Girlhoods
New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Mediated Girlhoods, Volume 2 is an anthology devoted to scholarship on girls’ media culture. Taking a cultural studies approach, it includes studies of girls’ media representations, girls’ media consumption, and girls’ media production. In an attempt to push research on girls’ media culture...
The Korean Wave
Korean Media Go Global
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Since the late 1990s South Korea has emerged as a new center for the production of transnational popular culture - the first instance of a major global circulation of Korean popular culture in history. Why popular (or not)? Why now? What does it mean socially, culturally and politically in a global...
Culture, Politics and Sport
Blowing the Whistle, Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2008
'Whannel is a foundational figure in the study of sports and the media. …For 20 years his writing has set a high standard …and it remains an inspiration to many' - Toby Miller, Professor of Cultural Studies, New York University, USA
Garry Whannel’s text Blowing the Whistle: The Politics...
Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 8
Preservation of Cultural Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes, and deals with the preservation of cultural heritage. In 1972, the World Heritage Convention linked in a single framework the concepts of nature conservation and the preservation of cultural sites. Since then, engineering geology is enlarging its...
A View from the Bottom
Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
A View from the Bottom offers a major critical reassessment of male effeminacy and its racialization in visual culture. Examining portrayals of Asian and Asian American men in Hollywood cinema, European art film, gay pornography, and experimental documentary, Nguyen Tan Hoang explores the cultural...
Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian
Contested Representation in the Global Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Focusing on the enactment of identity in dance, Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian is a cross-cultural, cross-ethnic, and cross-national comparison of indigenous dance practices.
Considering four genres of dance in which indigenous people are represented--K'iche Maya traditional dance, powwow,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Developed from the critically acclaimed and commercially successful Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations, now in its fourth edition, Encyclopedia of Race and Ethnic Studies has been assembled by a world-class team of international scholars led by Ellis Cashmore to provide an authoritative, single-volume...
The Machinery of Whiteness
Studies in the Structure of Racialization
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
In this follow up to his book, The Rule of Racialization—which considered the way class structure is formed in the U.S.—Steve Martinot now examines how the structures of racialization reside at the core of all social, cultural, and political institutions in the U.S. In The Machinery of Whiteness,...
by Gebrehiwot Gebreslassie Zesu
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Master's Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Cultural Studies - North African Studies, grade: Very good, , course: Social Anthropology with Concentration on Environmental Anthropology, language: English, abstract: The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, which is believed to be the largest of...
Managing Multiculturalism and Diversity in the Library
Principles and Issues for Administrators
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Discover ways to raise staff awareness regarding diversity!
Managing Multiculturalism and Diversity In the Library: Principals and Issues for Administrators is an academic guide to diversity issues such as affirmative action, career development of minorities in the library science profession,...
The Body
Social and Cultural Dissections
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
This college-level handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of sociological and cultural perspectives on the human body. Organized along the lines of a standard anatomical textbook delineated by body parts and processes, this volume subverts the expected content in favor of providing...
War Echoes
Gender and Militarization in U.S. Latina/o Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
War Echoes examines how Latina/o cultural production has engaged with U.S. militarism in the post–Viet Nam era. Analyzing literature alongside film, memoir, and activism, Ariana E. Vigil highlights the productive interplay among social, political, and cultural movements while exploring Latina/o...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Although recent scholarship has shown that the term ‘Theravāda’ in the familiar modern sense is a nineteenth- and twentieth-century construct, it is now used to refer to the more than 150 million people around the world who practice that form of Buddhism. Buddhist practices such as meditation,...
Images of the Body in India
South Asian and European Perspectives on Rituals and Performativity
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This intriguing book engages with the concept of the body in its cultural context by acknowledging and demonstrating that the human body is understood differently in Western and Indian cultures. The contributors go on to show that any attempt to put forward a single concept of the body within Indian...