Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Disrupting Savagism
Intersecting Chicana/o, Mexican Immigrant, and Native American Struggles for Self-Representation
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2001
Colonial discourse in the United States has tended to criminalize, pathologize, and depict as savage not only Native Americans but Mexican immigrants, indigenous peoples in Mexico, and Chicanas/os as well. While postcolonial studies of the past few decades have focused on how these ethnicities have...
Transforming Borders
Chicana/o Popular Culture and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Transforming Borders: Chicana/o Popular Culture and Pedagogy contributes to transformative pedagogies scholarship by adding the voices of Chicana feminist pedagogies, epistemologies, and ontologies. C. Alejandra Elenes develops her conceptualizations of border/transformative pedagogies by linking...
by Danny Méndez
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Establishing an interdisciplinary connection between Migration Studies, Post-Colonial Studies and Affect Theory, Méndez analyzes the symbolic interplay between emotions, cognitions, and displacement in the narratives written by and about Dominican and Dominican-Americans in the United States and...
Racial Castration
Managing Masculinity in Asian America
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2001
Racial Castration, the first book to bring together the fields of Asian American studies and psychoanalytic theory, explores the role of sexuality in racial formation and the place of race in sexual identity. David L. Eng examines images—literary, visual, and filmic—that configure past as well...
Communication, Cultural and Media Studies
The Key Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
This fourth edition of Communication, Cultural and Media Studies: The Key Concepts is an indispensible guide to the most important terms in the field. It offers clear explanations of the key concepts, exploring their origins, what they’re used for and why they provoke discussion. The author provides...
The Rhetoric of Racist Humour
US, UK and Global Race Joking
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
In today's multicultural and multireligious societies, humour and comedy often become the focus of controversy over alleged racist or offensive content, as shown, for instance, by the intense debate of Sacha Baron Cohen's characters Ali G and Borat, and the Prophet Muhammad cartoons published in the...
Women Art Critics in Nineteenth-Century France
Vanishing Acts
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Over the past years, studies have begun not only to identify the factors that impeded the full participation of women artists in French cultural life, such as women’s limited access to professional art education, but also to bring to light the considerable artistic accomplishments of women occluded...
Buck Summer. Summers on the Lonely Isle
Summers on the Lonely Isle
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Cultural Studies - Pacific Rim, grade: A, San Francisco State University, language: English, abstract: An older brother is determined to shoot a buck during his summer on Molokai island in order to prove he is a man. He is struggling with his identity and feelings...
by Helen Walasek, contributions by Richard Carlton, Amra Hadžimuhamedović
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The massive intentional destruction of cultural heritage during the 1992-1995 Bosnian War targeting a historically diverse identity provoked global condemnation and became a seminal marker in the discourse on cultural heritage. It prompted an urgent reassessment of how cultural property could be protected...
In the Nature of Cities
Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2006
The social and material production of urban nature has recently emerged as an important area in urban studies, human/environmental interactions and social studies. This has been prompted by the recognition that the material conditions that comprise urban environments are not independent from social,...
Luxury
Fashion, Lifestyle and Excess
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Luxury has been both celebrated and condemned throughout history right up to the present day. This groundbreaking text examines luxury and its relationship with desire, status, consumption and economic value, exploring why luxury remains prominent even in the context of a global recession.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Japanese popular culture is constantly evolving in the face of internal and external influence. Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan examines this evolution from a new and challenging perspective by focusing on the movements of popular culture into and out of Japan.
Taking a multidisciplinary...
Boys Love Manga and Beyond
History, Culture, and Community in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Boys Love Manga and Beyond looks at a range of literary, artistic and other cultural products that celebrate the beauty of adolescent boys and young men. In Japan, depiction of the "beautiful boy" has long been a romantic and sexualized trope for both sexes and commands a high degree of...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Recent natural as well as man-made cataclysmic events have dramatically changed the status quo of contemporary Japanese society, and following the Asia-Pacific war’s never-ending ‘postwar’ period, Japan has been dramatically forced into a zeitgeist of saigo or ‘post-disaster.’ This radically...