Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Islam and Nationalism in India
South Indian contexts
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Islam in India, as elsewhere, continues to be seen as a remainder in its refusal to "conform" to national and international secular-modern norms. Such a general perception has also had a tremendous impact on the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent, who as individuals and communities have...
Islamic Civilization in South Asia
A History of Muslim Power and Presence in the Indian Subcontinent
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Muslims have been present in South Asia for 14 centuries. Nearly 40% of the people of this vast land mass follow the religion of Islam, and Muslim contribution to the cultural heritage of the sub-continent has been extensive. This textbook provides both undergraduate and postgraduate students, as...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Macao, the former Portuguese colony in southeast China from the 1550s until its return to China in 1999, has a long and very interesting history of cultural interaction between China and the West. As an entity with independent political power and a unique social setting and cultural development, the...
Madness in Black Women’s Diasporic Fictions
Aesthetics of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2017
This collection chronicles the strategic uses of madness in works by black women fiction writers from Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Europe, and the United States. Moving from an over-reliance on the “madwoman” as a romanticized figure constructed in opposition to the status quo, contributors...
Exchanges in Exoticism
Cross-Cultural Marriage and the Making of the Mediterranean in Old French Romance
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Charting important new territory within medieval gender studies, Megan Moore explores the vital role that women played in transmitting knowledge and empire within Mediterranean cross-cultural marriages. Whereas cross-cultural exchange has typically been understood through the lens of male-centered...
Transnational Borderlands in Women’s Global Networks
The Making of Cultural Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Transnational Borderlands: The Making of Cultural Resistance in Women's Global Networks investigates the implications of transnational feminist methodologies at multiple levels: collective actions, theory, pedagogy, discursive, and visual productions. It addresses a substantial gap in the field of...
The Emergence of Mexican America
Recovering Stories of Mexican Peoplehood in U.S. Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Winner of the 2006 Thomas J. Lyon Book Award in Western American Literary Studies, presented by the Western Literature Association
In The Emergence of Mexican America, John-Michael Rivera examines the cultural, political, and legal representations of Mexican Americans and the development of US capitalism...
Israeli Nationalism
Social conflicts and the politics of knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
The question of nationalism centres around the political, social, and cultural ways by which the concept and practice of a nation is constructed, and what it means to its various bearers. This book examines the issue of Jewish-Israeli nationalism, combining a sociological study of national culture...
Grief Therapy with Latinos
Integrating Culture for Clinicians
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
"We recommend this work for both bilingual counselors and for mono-lingual counselors in schools and clinical settings. The grief counseling techniques are clearly explained and are accessible even to those who have not been extensively trained in the areas of loss and grief."--Illness,...
Critical Childhood Studies and the Practice of Interdisciplinarity
Disciplining the Child
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
This book analyzes different figurations of childhood in contemporary culture and politics with a particular focus on interdisciplinary methodologies of critical childhood studies. It argues that while the figure of the child has been traditionally located at the peripheries of academic disciplines,...
Re-Orientalism and South Asian Identity Politics
The Oriental Other Within
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Orientalism refers to the imitation of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West, and was devised in order to have authority over the Orient. The concept of Re-Orientalism maintains the divide between the Orient and the West. However, where Orientalism is based on how the West constructs the East, Re-Orientalism...
Deciphering Culture
Ordinary Curiosities and Subjective Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Representation, subjectivity and sexuality continue to be central to scholarly inquiry in the humanities and social sciences. Deciphering Culture explores their relationship, each author taking a distinct approach to the concept of 'curiosity' as a way of deciphering the working of particular cultural...
Japan's Demographic Revival
Rethinking Migration, Identity and Sociocultural Norms
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Japan's Demographic Revival shifts discussions about employing immigration as the "best" or "sole" solution to assuaging Japan's demographic quagmire to a more systematic approach that identifies structural, organizational and cultural impediments that contribute to Japan's (and...
Routledge Companion to Contemporary Japanese Social Theory
From Individualization to Globalization in Japan Today
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Japanese Social Theory breaks new ground in providing a detailed, systematic appraisal of the major traditions of social theory prominent in Japan today – from theories of identity and individualization to globalization studies. The volume introduces readers...