Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
The Appeal of the Philippines
Spain, Cultural Representation and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
This book examines the different means through which Spain has revisited its ex-colony - the Philippines - since 2000. Focusing on several major exhibitions organised in the period 1998-2017, the ‘poetics’ (narratives and meaning) and ‘politics’ (institutional power) of Spanish representations...
Latina Teachers
Creating Careers and Guarding Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Winner, 2018 Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship Book Award presented by the American Sociological Association's Section on Race, Class, and Gender
Honorable Mention, 2018 Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award presented by the American Sociological Association's Latina/o Sociology...
Interrogating Harmful Cultural Practices
Gender, Culture and Coercion
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This volume explores a variety of ’harmful cultural practices’: a term increasingly employed by organizations working within a human rights framework to refer to certain discriminatory practices against women in the global South. Drawing on recent work by feminists across the social sciences,...
Becoming Sexual
A Critical Appraisal of the Sexualization of Girls
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The sexualization of girls has captured the attention of the media, advocacy groups and politicians in recent years. This prolific discourse sets alarm bells ringing: sexualization is said to lead to depression, promiscuity and compassion deficit disorder, and rob young girls of their childhood. However,...
The Role of American NGOs in China's Modernization
Invited Influence
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
In the waning years of the Cold War, the United States and China began to cautiously engage in cultural, educational, and policy exchanges, which in turn strengthened new security and economic ties. These links have helped shape the most important bilateral relationship in the late-twentieth and early...
Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies
2nd edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2019
In this comprehensive, accessible handbook, acclaimed social theorist Anthony Elliott brings together internationally distinguished and emergent scholars in the social sciences and humanities to review the major theoretical traditions, trends and trajectories in the hugely popular field of identity...
Assisted Reproduction Across Borders
Feminist Perspectives on Normalizations, Disruptions and Transmissions
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Today, it often seems as though Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) have reached a stage of normalization, at least in some countries and among certain social groups. Apparently some practices – for example in vitro fertilization (IVF) – have become standard worldwide. The contributors to...
East Asia in the World
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
From the Foundations in Global Studies series, this text offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to East Asia. After a brief introduction to the study of East Asia, the early chapters of the book survey the essentials of East Asian history; important historical narratives;...
by Corinna Hein
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2004
Seminar paper from the year 2000 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, grade: 1,0 (A), European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) (Cultural Studies department), course: Humour in Literature - From Sermon to Cabaret, language: English, abstract: Die vorliegende Abschlussarbeit...
Teaching AIDS
The Cultural Politics of HIV Disease in India
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
This book approaches the subject of AIDS pedagogy by analysing the complex links between representation or discourse, ideology, power relations and practices of self, understood from the perspective of embodiment. While there is a fairly large amount of literature available on the social, economic,...
by Adam Barkman, Ashley Barkman, Nancy Kang
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
The Culture and Philosophy of Ridley Scott, edited by Adam Barkman, Ashley Barkman, and Nancy Kang, brings together eighteen critical essays that illuminate a nearly comprehensive selection of the director’s feature films from cutting-edge multidisciplinary and comparative perspectives. Chapters...
by Ann Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2010
Philosophical debates around individualization and the implications for intimacy, reflexivity and identity have occupied a central part of social and cultural theorizing in the West in the last decade. In fact, late modernity has become conspicuously engaged with issues of intimacy, reflexivity and...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Edited by Kris Rutten, Stefaan Blancke, and Ronald Soetaert, Perspectives on Science and Culture explores the intersection between scientific understanding and cultural representation from an interdisciplinary perspective. Contributors to the volume analyze representations of science and scientific...
Bollywood and Globalization
The Global Power of Popular Hindi Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
The field of Bollywood studies has remained predominantly critical, theoretical and historical in focus. This book brings together qualitative and quantitative approaches to tackle empirical questions focusing on the relationship between soft power, hybridity, cinematic texts, and audiences.
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