Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
by Florian Mayer
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2003
Essay from the year 2003 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, grade: 82, University of Leeds (Trinity and All Saints College), course: National and Global Culture, 106 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: It has been argued that individual and national identities...
Reporting Thailand's Southern Conflict
Mediating Political Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Since 2004, Thailand’s southern border provinces have been plagued by violence. There are a wide array of explanations for this violence, from the revival of Malay nationalist movements and the influence from the global trend of radical Islam, to the power play among the regional underground crime...
by Lorna Piatti-Farnell
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Prominent examples from contemporary vampire literature expose a desire to re-evaluate and re-work the long-standing, folkloristic interpretation of the vampire as the immortal undead. This book explores the "new vampire" as a literary trope, offering a comprehensive critical analysis of...
An Imperialist Love Story
Desert Romances and the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
A curious figure stalks the pages of a distinct subset of mass-market romance novels, aptly called “desert romances.” Animalistic yet sensitive, dark and attractive, the desert prince or sheikh emanates manliness and raw, sexual power. In the years since September 11, 2001, the sheikh character...
Chinese Americans and Their Immigrant Parents
Conflict, Identity, and Values
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Based on culture-related themes derived from the author's psychotherapeutic work with young Chinese-American professionals, this important book relates personal problems and conditions to specific sources in Chinese and American cultures and the immigration experience. Unique and practical, this is...
medi@sia
Global Media/tion In and Out of Context
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
This new inter-disciplinary book is the first comparative, case-based analysis of media panoply in (and out of) Asia today. Examining what the authors call the "media/tion equation", the contributors demonstrate the multiple links between media, society and culture, and advance the claim...
Ethnicity and Nationalism
Anthropological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
Is ethnicity a result of cultural differences? Is ethnicity dependent on the practical use and belief in cultural differences? Drawing on a wide-range of classic and recent studies in anthropology and sociology, Thomas Hylland Eriksen examines the relationship between ethnicity, class, gender and...
Aboriginal Student Engagement and Achievement
Educational Practices and Cultural Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Aboriginal people in Canada want an education that reflects their cultural values and linguistic heritages. They want an education that will foster their children’s sense of engagement and identity, putting them on the path to success. When students enter public school systems, however, they encounter...
Subject to Ourselves
An Introduction to Freud, Psychoanalysis, and Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
The revised edition of Subject to Ourselves, a lively and provocative book that was a leader on its topic in England, uses psychoanalytic theory as the basis for a fresh reassessment of the nature of modernity and postmodernism. Analyzing changing experiences of selfhood, desire, interpersonal relations,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Disasters of the 21st century differ substantially from other kinds of hazards that previous societies have had to cope with because of the twin forces of globalization and the communications revolution. But what makes today’s disasters—industrial, technological, environmental, and socio-cultural—so...
by Elaine Jeffreys
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
China, Sex and Prostitution is a topical and important critique of recent scholarship in China studies concerning sexuality, prostitution and policing. Jeffrey's arguments are constructed in the form of detailed analysis of a wide range of primary texts, including documents, press reports, police...
China on the Road to Democracy?
A Theoretical Investigation on China's Political Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject South Asian Studies, South-Eastern Asian Studies, grade: 1.5, University of Luzern (Politikwissenschaftliches Seminar), language: English, abstract: Democracy is a system of popular government, in which power is retained and exerted by citizens. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This edited volume is the first book-length study focusing entirely on mobile phone use in China. Drawing on examples from a wide range of contemporary situations in China and beyond, the contributors argue that the mobile phone is in fact an important means by which one can understand a rapidly changing...
Religion of the Field Negro
On Black Secularism and Black Theology
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Black theology has lost its direction. To reclaim its original power and to advance racial justice struggles today black theology must fully embrace blackness and theology. But multiculturalism and religious pluralism have boxed in black theology, forcing it to speak in terms dictated by a power structure...