Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
by Suman Gupta, Richard Allen, Subarno Chattarji
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
This book examines the status of English Studies in India, aspirations pinned on the subject by students, teachers, policy-makers and society in general, and how these are addressed at the higher education level. It presents analytical background discussions of the history and policy environment,...
Voices of East Asia
Essential Readings from Antiquity to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Voices of East Asia provides significant yet accessible readings in translation chosen to stimulate interest in the long and rich cultural history of East Asia, the countries of China, Japan, and Korea. The readings range from ancient to modern, elite to popular, and include poetry, stories, essays,...
African Cultural Heritage Conservation and Management
Theory and Practice from Southern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
For a long time, resource conservationists have viewed environmental conservation as synonymous with wilderness and wildlife resources only, oblivious to the contributions made by cultural and heritage resources. However, cultural heritage resources in many parts of the developing world are gradually...
From the Iron House
Imprisonment in First Nations Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
In From the Iron House: Imprisonment in First Nations Writing, Deena Rymhs identifies continuities between the residential school and the prison, offering ways of reading “the carceral”—that is, the different ways that incarceration is constituted and articulated in contemporary Aboriginal literature....
Flavor and Soul
Italian America at Its African American Edge
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
In the United States, African American and Italian cultures have been intertwined for more than a hundred years. From as early as nineteenth-century African American opera star Thomas Bowers—“The Colored Mario”—all the way to hip-hop entrepreneur Puff Daddy dubbing himself “the Black Sinatra,”...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
The Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture is the first comprehensive reference book to provide multidisciplinary coverage of the field of black cultural production in Britain. The publication is of particular value because despite attracting growing academic interest in recent years, this...
Corporeality and Culture
Bodies in Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The ’material turn’ in critical theory - and particularly the turn towards the body coupled with scientific insights from biomedicine, biology and physics - is becoming an important path in fields of humanities-based scholarly inquiry. Material and technological philosophies play an increasingly...
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Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History [3 volumes]
An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This three-volume work represents a leading reference resource for Asian American studies that gives students, researchers, librarians, teachers, and other interested readers the ability to easily locate accurate, up-to-date information about Asian ethnic groups, historical and contemporary events,...
Being American on the Edge
Penurbia and the Metropolitan Mind, 1945-2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This manuscript focuses on the development of hybrid city-country (penurban) landscapes around large urban areas which mesh stylized countryside with functional links to the cities. These landscapes are central to American mindsets as they combine the dreams, expectations, and experiences of the nation...
Museums in China
Power, Politics and Identities
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
From the earliest museums established by Western missionaries in order to implement religious and political power, to the role they have played in the formation of the modern Chinese state, the origin and development of museums in mainland China differ significantly from those in the West. The occurrence...
Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance
Theater and Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial India
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Despite its importance to literary and cultural texts of resistance, theater has been largely overlooked as a field of analysis in colonial and postcolonial studies. Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance seeks to address that absence, as it uniquely views drama and performance as central to the practice...
Discourses of the Developing World
Researching properties, problems and potentials
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Against the backdrop of overwhelming discourse scholarship emanating from the Western cosmopolitan centres, this volume offers a development-centred approach to unfamiliar, marginalized or otherwise disadvantaged discourses of the Third World or the Global South. Written by leading researchers based...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
The Routledge History of Latin American Culture delves into the cultural history of Latin America from the end of the colonial period to the twentieth century, focusing on the formation of national, racial, and ethnic identity, the culture of resistance, the effects of Eurocentrism, and the process...
Pre-Occupied Spaces
Remapping Italy's Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Runner Up Winner of the Edinburgh Gadda Prize - Established Scholars, Cultural Studies Category
Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize (20th & 21st Centuries)
Honorable Mention for the Howard R. Marraro Prize
By linking Italy’s long history of emigration to all...