Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
by Denis Gainty
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
In 1895, the newly formed Greater Japan Martial Virtue Association (Dainippon Butokukai) held itsfirst annual Martial Virtue Festival (butokusai) in the ancient capital of Kyoto. The Festival marked the arrival of a new iteration of modern Japan, as the Butokukai’s efforts to define and popularise...
Both Sides of the Bullpen
Navajo Trade and Posts
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Between 1880 and 1940, Navajo and Ute families and westward-trending Anglos met in the “bullpens” of southwestern trading posts to barter for material goods. As the products of the livestock economy of Navajo culture were exchanged for the merchandise of an industrialized nation, a wealth of cultural...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
The last decade has witnessed the rise of the cell phone from a mode of communication to an indispensable multimedia device, and this phenomenon has led to the burgeoning of mobile communication studies in media, cultural studies, and communication departments across the academy.
The Routledge...
Cross-Cultural Analysis
The Science and Art of Comparing the World's Modern Societies and Their Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Cross-Cultural Analysis is the sequel to Culture's Consequences, the classic work published by Geert Hofstede, one of the most influential management thinkers in today's times. Hofstede's original work introduced a new research paradigm in cross-cultural analysis: studying cultural differences through...
by Donna M. Stringer, Patricia A. Cassiday
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Exercises to facilitate effective communication across a wide range of cultural differences
Communication styles and patterns differ vastly among people from different cultures. Every culture has a "communication style norm" and when that style mixes with another, stereotypes and...
Interpreting Tyler Perry
Perspectives on Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Tyler Perry has become a significant figure in media due to his undeniable box office success led by his character Madea and popular TV sitcoms House of Payne and Meet the Browns. Perry built a multimedia empire based largely on his popularity among African American viewers and has become a prominent...
Media Studies
Texts, Production, Context
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Media Studies: Texts, Production, Context, 2nd Edition is a comprehensive introduction to the various approaches in the field. From outlining what media studies is to encouraging active engagement in research and analysis, this book advocates media study as a participatory process and provides a framework...
Utopic Dreams and Apocalyptic Fantasies
Critical Approaches to Researching Video Game Play
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
Few books have attempted to contextualize the importance of video game play with a critical social, cultural and political perspective that raises the question of the significance of work, pleasure, fantasy and play in the modern world. The study of why video game play is 'fun' has often been relegated...
African Diaspora Identities
Negotiating Culture in Transnational Migration
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
African Diaspora Identities provides insights into the complex transnational processes involved in shaping the migratory identities of African immigrants. It seeks to understand the durability of these African transnational migrant identities and their impact on inter-minority group relationships....
Staging Philanthropy
Patriotic Women and the National Imagination in Dynastic Germany, 1813-1916
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Staging Philanthropy is a history of women's philanthropic associations during Germany's "long" nineteenth century. Challenged by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic occupation and war, dynastic groups in Germany made community welfare and its defense part of newly-gendered social obligations,...
The Social in Question
New Bearings
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
With postmodernism has come the questioning of the very idea of 'the social'. Thinkers form across the social sciences and humanities now agree that this one foundational concept can no longer be taken for granted as an objective or real characteristic of the world. However, their uncertainty has...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
The multiple and diverse forces of globalization have, indeed, affected Japan significantly over the past decades. But so, it must be said, has Japan influenced a variety of critical global developments - globalization is not a one-way street, particularly for a nation as economically influential...
by Francis Adu-Febiri,Everett Ofori
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2009
It is possible to overcome barriers to minority success in Canada. The stance of this book is that new immigrants, refugees and international students do not have to settle for underachievement despite the cultural and structural disadvantages they face in Canada. The fact is, the unequal social structure...
Post-Conflict Heritage, Postcolonial Tourism
Tourism, Politics and Development at Angkor
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2007
Angkor, Cambodia’s only World Heritage Site, is enduring one of the most crucial, turbulent periods in its twelve hundred year history. Given Cambodia’s need to restore its shattered social and physical infrastructures after decades of violent conflict, and with tourism to Angkor increasing by...