Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
The Evolution of Cultural Diversity
A Phylogenetic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Virtually all aspects of human behavior show enormous variation both within and between cultural groups, including material culture, social organization and language. Thousands of distinct cultural groups exist: about 6,000 languages are spoken today, and it is thought that a far greater number of...
Continuity and Change in Cultural Adaptation to Mountain Environments
From Prehistory to Contemporary Threats
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Up until now, mountain ecosystems have not been closely studies by social scientists as they do not offer a readily defined set of problems for human exploitation as, do for instance, tropical forests or arctic habitats. But the archaeological evidence had shown that humans have been living in this...
Sonic Politics
Music and Social Movements in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2019
This volume analyses the narration of the social through music and the seismographic function of music to detect social problems and envision alternatives.
Beyond state-driven attempts to link musical production to the official narrative of the nation, mass musical movements emerged during...
Soviet Postcolonial Studies
A View from the Western Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Postcolonial studies is a well-established academic field, rich in theory, but it is based mostly on postcolonial experiences in former West European colonial empires. This book takes a different approach, considering postcolonial theory in relation to the former Soviet bloc. It both applies existing...
Alternate Roots
Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Genealogy Media
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
In recent years, the media has attributed the surge of people eagerly studying family trees to the aging of baby boomers, a sense of mortality, a proliferation of internet genealogy sites, and a growing pride in ethnicity. New genealogy-themed television series and internet-driven genetic ancestry...
by Helen Omole
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Sociology - Individual, Groups, Society, , language: English, abstract: Cultural differences form the subject of this paper and propose a framework for exploring the role of culture in helicopter accidents. Cultural factors are not currently well represented...
International Migrants in China's Global City
The New Shanghailanders
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
Long a source of migrants, China has now become a migrant destination. In 2016, government sources reported that nearly 900,000 foreigners were working in China, though international migrants remain a tiny presence at the national level. Shanghai is China’s most globalized city and has attracted...
Science and Narratives of Nature
East and West
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The discourse and practice of science are deeply connected to explicit and implicit narratives of nature. However, nature has been understood in diverse ways by cultures across the world. Could these different views of nature generate the possibility of alternate views on science? Part of the innovative...
by Agnieszka Piotrowska
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
The Nasty Woman and the Neo Femme Fatale in Contemporary Cinema puts forward the theoretical notion of the ‘nasty woman’ as a means of examining female protagonists in contemporary culture and cinema, particularly films directed by women. The phrase is taken from an insult thrown at Hillary Clinton...
Social Media and Minority Languages
Convergence and the Creative Industries
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
As a field in its own right, Minority Language Media studies is developing fast. The recent technological and social developments that have accelerated media convergence and opened new ways of access and exchange into spaces formerly controlled by media institutions, offer new opportunities, challenges...
Black London
The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
This vibrant history of London in the twentieth century reveals the city as a key site in the development of black internationalism and anticolonialism. Marc Matera shows the significant contributions of people of African descent to London’s rich social and cultural history, masterfully weaving...
The Borderlands of Education
Latinas in Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
This innovative work critically studies the contemporary problems of one segment of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. The lack of a diverse U.S.-based pool of talent entering the field of engineering education has been termed a crisis by academic and political leaders. Engineering...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
Afterlives of Indigenous Archives offers a compelling critique of Western archives and their use in the development of “digital humanities.” The essays collected here present the work of an international and interdisciplinary group of indigenous scholars; researchers in the field of indigenous...
Dreaming Mobility and Buying Vulnerability
Overseas Recruitment Practices in India
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
In the alarming contemporary context of widespread corruption and fraudulence in the overseas labour recruitment system in India, this book attempts to understand the institution of emigration governance and recruitment practices in the country with a focus on the unskilled and semi-skilled sectors....