Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Intergenerational Relationships
Conversations on Practice and Research Across Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Understand how multigenerational family relationships can benefit all generations!
Intergenerational Relationships: Conversations on Practice and Research Across Cultures focuses on how family and community relationships are affected by pressing social problems. Respected international authorities...
The Serious Leisure Perspective
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
The "Serious Leisure Perspective" (SLP) is a theoretical framework that can help us understand the complexities of modern leisure as both an activity and an experience. Bringing together the study of serious leisure, casual leisure and project-based leisure, it is an essential component...
Poor, but Sexy
Reflections on Berlin Scenes
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Poor, But Sexy: Reflections on Berlin Scenes offers readers a varied cross-section of the city’s scenes, providing a prismatic view of one of Europe’s mythical cultural capitals. The authors gathered here address a range of topics, including Turkish gay clubs, queer filmmaking, record labels,...
Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism
Rooted, Feminist and Vernacular Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism inaugurates a new, situated, cosmopolitan anthropology. It examines the rise of postcolonial movements responsive to global rights movements, which espouse a politics of dignity, cultural difference, democracy, dissent and tolerance. The book starts from the...
by Gordon Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Originally a student of Meiji Japan, Gordon Daniels is widely known for his work on the Pacific War and the Occupation of Japan, with particular regard to the world of communications in film and propaganda as well as Japanese sport. He has also been closely involved with the post-war era of international...
by Peter Cole, Tony Harcup
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Are newspapers faced with an existential threat or are they changing to meet the challenges of a digital world? With the newspaper's role in a state of fundamental redefinition, Newspaper Journalism offers a timely and up to the minute analysis of newspapers today, in the context of their historical...
Cultural Chaos
Journalism and Power in a Globalised World
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2006
With examples drawn from media coverage of the War on Terror, the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Hurricane Katrina and the London underground bombings, Cultural Chaos explores the changing relationship between journalism and power in an increasingly globalised news culture.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2003
In response to the events following September 11, a number of leading cultural studies and interpretive qualitative researchers write from their own experiences and hearts. Their essays—by noted scholars Kellner, Fine, McLaren, Richardson, Denzin, Giroux and others—are collected in this volume,...
by Paul C. Mocombe, Carol Tomlin, Christine Callender
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
This work sets forth the argument that in the age of (neoliberal) globalization, black people around the world are ever-so slowly becoming “African-Americanized”. They are integrated and embourgeoised in the racial-class dialectic of black America by the material and ideological influences of...
World Heritage and Human Rights
Lessons from the Asia-Pacific and global arena
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
The World Heritage community is currently adopting policies to mainstream human rights as part of a wider sustainability agenda. This interdisciplinary book combines a state of the art review of World Heritage policy and practice at the global level with ethnographic case studies from the Asia-Pacific...
Organizing Crime in Chinatown
Race and Racketeering in New York City, 1890-1910
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
More than a century ago, organized criminals were intrinsically involved with the political, social, and economic life of the Chinese American community. In the face of virulent racism and substantial linguistic and cultural differences, they also integrated themselves successfully into the extensive...
Mapping the Path to Maturity
A Connected History of Bengal and the North-East
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
This book delves into varied aspects of the history of Bengal and North east situated within a time frame of more than a hundred years, from the colonial times to the present. The individual essays deal with ideas, literary texts, politics, gender, industries, culture, health, sports and tribal issues...
Tradition, Democracy and the Townscape of Kyoto
Claiming a Right to the Past
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
As the historic capital of the country and the stronghold of the nation’s most celebrated traditions, the city of Kyoto holds a unique place in the Japanese imagination. Widely praised for the beauty of its townscape and natural environments, it is both a popular destination for tourists and home...
The Buraku Issue and Modern Japan
The Career of Matsumoto Jiichiro
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Written by an internationally recognized specialist on Buraku studies, this book casts new light on majority-minority relations and the struggle for Buraku liberation. Ian Neary focuses on the Burakumin activist, left-wing politician, family company manager and arguably the most important Buraku leader...