Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
The Arab Diaspora
Voices of an Anguished Scream
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
The Arab Diaspora examines the range of roles the Arab world has played to various audiences on the modern and postmodern stage and the issues which have arisen as a result. The variety of roles explored reflects the diversity of Arab culture. With particular focus placed on political, diplomatic...
The Culture of Migration
Politics, Aesthetics and Histories
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Migration has been a phenomenon throughout human history but today, as a result of economic hardship, conflict and globalization, a higher percentage of people than ever before live outside their country of birth. Increased international migration has resulted in more movement of information, traditions...
New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities
From Industrial Restructuring to the Cultural Turn
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
The East and Southeast Asia region constitutes the world’s most compelling theatre of accelerated globalization and industrial restructuring. Following a spectacular realization of the ‘industrialization paradigm’ and a period of services-led growth, the early twenty-first century economic...
The Black Pacific Narrative
Geographic Imaginings of Race and Empire between the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
The Black Pacific Narrative: Geographic Imaginings of Race and Empire between the World Wars chronicles the profound shift in geographic imaginings that occurred in African American culture as the United States evolved into a bioceanic global power. The author examines the narrative of the “black...
Sexual Justice / Cultural Justice
Critical Perspectives in Political Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
This key volume explores the relationship between cultural justice and sexual justice in multicultural societies in a new light. The authors challenge the framing of ‘feminism and multiculturalism’ as one of inevitable conflict, as well as the portrayal of liberal sexual equality and cultural...
Articulating The Global And The Local
Globalization And Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
This book explores how discourses of the local, the particular, the everyday, and the situated are being transformed by new discourses of globalization and transnationalism, as used both by government and business and in critical academic discourse. Unlike other studies that have focused on the politics...
by Soodha Mungur
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, grade: none, , course: MA Enlish with Cultural studies, language: English, abstract: Globalization is a spatio-temporal process and 'the transtionalization of capitalism, interconnected to world economic system' . Gayatri...
Intimacies and Cultural Change
Perspectives on Contemporary Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Exploring cultural transformations of intimacy in contemporary Mexico, Intimacies and Cultural Change examines the ways in which globalization and rapid cultural change have transformed the cultural meanings of couple relationships, sexuality, and personal life in Mexican society. Through a range...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Since the late nineteenth century, religious ideas and practices in Japan have become increasingly intertwined with those associated with mental health and healing. This relationship developed against the backdrop of a far broader, and deeply consequential meeting: between Japan’s long-standing,...
The Other Ramayana Women
Regional Rejection and Response
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
This book is the first to present current scholarship on gender and in regional and sectarian versions of the Rāmāyaṇa. Contributors explore in what ways the versions relate to other Rāmāyaṇa texts as they deal with the female persona and the cultural values implicit in them. Using a wide...
The Biopolitics of Mixing
Thai Multiracialities and Haunted Ascendancies
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Debates over who belongs in Europe and who doesn't increasingly speak the language of mixing, but how are the figures commonly described as 'mixed' actually embodied? The Biopolitics of Mixing invites us to reckon with the spectres of pathologization past and present, placing the celebration of mixing...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This book takes on the challenge of conceptually thinking Paraguayan cultural history within the broader field of Latin American studies. It presents original contributions to the study of Paraguayan culture from a variety of perspectives that include visual, literary, and cultural studies; gender...
Multicultural Horizons
Diversity and the Limits of the Civil Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2008
The intensity of feeling that multiculturalism invariably ignites is considered in this timely analysis of how the ‘New Britain’ of the twenty-first century is variously re-imagined as multicultural. Introducing the concept of ‘multicultural intimacies’, Anne-Marie Fortier offers a new form...
Colonial Phantoms
Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the 19th Century to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Winner, 2019 Isis Duarte Book Prize, given by the Haiti/Dominican Republic Section of the Latin American Studies Association
Winner, 2019 Barbara Christian Literary Award, given by the Caribbean Studies Association
Highlights the histories and cultural expressions of the Dominican people
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