Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
by Michael D. Barr
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Cultural Politics and Asian Values looks at the political, cultural and religious background of East and Southeast Asian societies and those of 'the West', with a view to seeing how they are affecting contemporary national and international politics: democratization, the international human rights...
The Age of Promiscuity
Narrative and Mythological Meme Mutations in Contemporary Cinema and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
This book presents an original and engaging look at contemporary popular culture, opening with the provocative idea that this is a day and age of complete exhaustion of ideas, images, stories, and myths. Questioning the effects of content recycling in cinema and other media, the author further elaborates...
The Cultural Context of Biodiversity Conservation
Seen and Unseen Dimensions of Indigenous Knowledge among Q'eqchi' Communities in Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
How are biological diversity, protected areas, indigenous knowledge and religious worldviews related? From an anthropological perspective, this book provides an introduction into the complex subject of conservation policies that cannot be addressed without recognising the encompassing relationship...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
In Asia, where authoritarian-developmental states have proliferated, statehood and social control are heavily contested in borderland spaces. As a result, in the post-Cold War world, borders have not only redefined Asian incomes and mobilities, they have also rekindled neighbouring relations and raised...
Embedding cultural factors into the HFACS framework
Adding a cultural perspective to the Human Factors Analysis Classification System
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2016 in the subject Cultural Studies - Miscellaneous, , language: English, abstract: This paper integrates the cultural framework into the existing Human Factors Analysis Classification System (HFACS) framework. The cultural framework explores the contributory...
Latinas/os on the East Coast
A Critical Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Latinas/os on the East Coast: A Critical Reader provides a comprehensive overview of established and contemporary research and essays written about communities that represent the Latina/o diaspora on the East Coast of the United States. Collectively, it contributes to the historical, cultural, political,...
Sri Lanka's Global Factory Workers
(Un) Disciplined Desires and Sexual Struggles in a Post-Colonial Society
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
In Sri Lanka, the Free Trade Zone (FTZ) employs thousands of unmarried rural women, and their migration has aroused deep anxieties over female morality and ideal conduct. This book focuses on the global factory workers based in the FTZ, and analyzes intersections of gender, class and sexuality by...
by Jinaki Muslimah Abdullah, Charles E. Allen Jr., Toya Conston
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Africana Islamic Studies highlights the diverse contributions that African Americans have made to the formation of Islam in the United States. It specifically focuses on the Nation of Islam and its patriarch Elijah Muhammad with regards to the African American Islamic experience. Contributors explore...
The Cultural Politics of Human Rights
Comparing the US and UK
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2009
How does culture make a difference to the realisation of human rights in Western states? It is only through cultural politics that human rights may become more than abstract moral ideals, protecting human beings from state violence and advancing protection from starvation and the social destruction...
by Dayabati Roy
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
In comparison to other social groups, India’s rural poor – and particularly Adivasis and Dalits - have seen little benefit from the country’s economic growth over the last three decades. Though economists and statisticians are able to model the form and extent of this inequality, their work...
The Bengal Diaspora
Rethinking Muslim migration
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
India’s partition in 1947 and the creation of Bangladesh in 1971 saw the displacement and resettling of millions of Muslims and Hindus, resulting in profound transformations across the region. A third of the region’s population sought shelter across new borders, almost all of them resettling in...
Leisure Activities in Context
A Micro-Macro/Agency-Structure Interpretation of Leisure
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
There have been many analyses of leisure, drawing on the social, historical, cultural, temporal, and geographical contexts in which acts of leisure are pursued. Yet these studies lack a theoretical framework that can explain how leisure studies interact in various social contexts (cultural, temporal,...
Unruly Visions
The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
In Unruly Visions Gayatri Gopinath brings queer studies to bear on investigations of diaspora and visuality, tracing the interrelation of affect, archive, region, and aesthetics through an examination of a wide range of contemporary queer visual culture. Spanning film, fine art, poetry, and photography,...
New Activities For Cultural Heritage
Proceedings of the International Conference Heritagebot 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
This is the Proceedings of the International Workshop Heritagebot 2017 that was held in Cassino, Italy in September 2017. The papers cover a wide range of disciplines connected with Cultural Heritage, from humanistic fields up to engineering designs through legal aspects and financial/economical...