Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Yakama Rising
Indigenous Cultural Revitalization, Activism, and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
The Yakama Nation of present-day Washington State has responded to more than a century of historical trauma with a resurgence of grassroots activism and cultural revitalization. This pathbreaking ethnography shifts the conversation from one of victimhood to one of ongoing resistance and resilience...
The Cultural Study of Music
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
What is the relationship between music and culture? The first edition of The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction explored this question with groundbreaking rigor and breadth. Now this second edition refines that original analysis while examining the ways the field has developed in the...
Reconstructing Dixie
Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2003
The South has long played a central role in America’s national imagination—the site of the trauma of slavery and of a vast nostalgia industry, alternatively the nation’s moral other and its moral center. Reconstructing Dixie explores how ideas about the South function within American culture....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2013!
Winner, APA Division 52 Ursula Gielen Global Psychology Book Award, 2014!
This new volume reviews the latest research on fathering from every continent, from cultures representing over 50% of the world’s population. International experts on...
The Urban Geography of Boxing
Race, Class, and Gender in the Ring
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
This book is an interdisciplinary cultural examination of twenty-first century boxing as a professional sport, a bodily labor, a lucrative business, a popular entertainment, and an instrument of ideology. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted with Latino boxers, women boxers, and...
The Arab-Israeli Conflict in the Media
Producing Shared Memory and National Identity in the Global Television Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
The television industry has metamorphosised from a national and largely-monopolized sector to a commercial and global enterprise. This has profoundly altered the way 'historical truth' and shared memory are constructed and conveyed. Despite the tremendous impact of this development, it has yet to...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Asian Popular Culture in Transition examines contemporary consumption practices in South Korea, China, India, and Japan, and both updates and extends popular culture studies of the region. Through an interdisciplinary lens, this collection of essays explores how recent advances and shifts in information...
Neoliberalism and Culture in China and Hong Kong
The Countdown of Time
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
This book examines the period leading up to the Hong Kong handover in 1997 - the 'countdown of time', and by using iconic cultural symbols such as the countdown clock, the Hong Kong Museum exhibitions and cultural heritage sites, argues that China has undergone a transition to neoliberal state, in...
Consuming China
Approaches to Cultural Change in Contemporary China
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Post-Mao China has been characterized in literature and the media as a burgeoning consumer society. Consuming China investigates this characterization by examining the cultural significance of consumption and consumerism in the People’s Republic of China today. In questioning the notion of consumption,...
Virtuous Vice
Homoeroticism and the Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2000
In this daring study of queer life and the public sphere, Eric O. Clarke examines the effects of inclusion within public culture. Departing from studies that emphasize homophobia and its mechanisms of exclusion, Virtuous Vice details how mainstream efforts to represent queers affirmatively continually...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
If today students of social theory read Jurgen Habermas, Michel Foucault and Anthony Giddens, then proper regard to the question of culture means that they should also read Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall and Slavoj Zizek. The Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory offers a concise, comprehensive...
German-Australian Encounters and Cultural Transfers
Global Dynamics in Transnational Lands
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This book approaches Australo-German relations from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives. It maps new pathways into the rich landscape of the Australo-German transnational encounter, which is characterized by dense and interwoven cultural, historical and political terrains. Surveying an...
Disability, Avoidance and the Academy
Challenging Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Disability is a widespread phenomenon, indeed a potentially universal one as life expectancies rise. Within the academic world, it has relevance for all disciplines yet is often dismissed as a niche market or someone else’s domain. This collection explores how academic avoidance of disability studies...
Global Entertainment Media
Between Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
A critical cultural materialist introduction to the study of global entertainment media.
In Global Entertainment Media, Tanner Mirrlees undertakes an analysis of the ownership, production, distribution, marketing, exhibition and consumption of global films and television shows, with an eye...