Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
by Simon During
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction is a wide-ranging and stimulating introduction to the history and theory of Cultural Studies from Leavisism, through the era of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, to the global nature of contemporary Cultural Studies. Cultural Studies: A Critical...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Cultural Studies has evolved and continues to evolve primarily along regional lines. However uncomfortable this might be, the genie of British cultural studies cannot be returned to the bottle of history. Thus, national versions of cultural studies have arisen in a few African countries. This book...
What's Become of Australian Cultural Studies?
The Legacies of Graeme Turner
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Cultural studies face a complicated yet rich future, proving both flexible and resilient in many countries. Against this backdrop, this book offers a fresh perspective on the state of the field of cultural studies, via an evaluation of the work of one of its key thinkers – Graeme Turner – and...
The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies
Autonomy and Representation in the University
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Originating in the 1968 student-led strike at San Francisco State University, Asian American Studies was founded as a result of student and community protests that sought to make education more accessible and relevant. While members of the Asian American communities initially served on the departmental...
Cultural Studies
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
"This book presents a magisterial overview of Cultural Studies, and of studies of culture more broadly. It synthesizes a bewildering range of writers and ideas into a comprehensible narrative. It’s respectful to the history of ideas and completely cutting edge. I learned a lot – you will...
Cultural Disability Studies in Education
Interdisciplinary Navigations of the Normative Divide
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Over the last few decades disability studies has emerged not only as a discipline in itself but also as a catalyst for cultural disability studies and Disability Studies in Education. In this book the three areas become united in a new field that recognises education as a discourse between tutors...
by Gilbert B. Rodman
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Why Cultural Studies? is a rallying call for a reinvigoration of the project of cultural studies that provides a critical analysis of its meteoric rise to the academic fore and makes a convincing argument for the pressing need for a renewed investment in, and re-evaluation of, its core ideals.
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Introducing Cultural Studies
Learning through Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2007
"An outstanding entry level text aimed at those with little or no cultural studies knowledge... Innovative, creative and clever."
***- Times Higher Education ***
"The ideal textbook for FE and first year HE cultural studies students. Its quality and character allow the reader...
The Creative Industries
Culture and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
"Moving from age-old warnings about the influence of the cultural industry to a tentative embrace of a global creative society, Terry Flew's new book provides an excellent overview of this exciting field. Warmly recommended for students and policymakers alike."
- Mark Deuze, Indiana University**
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by Lawrence Grossberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
Lawrence Grossberg is one of the leading figures in cultural studies internationally. In Cultural Studies in the Future Tense, he offers a powerful critique of the present state of cultural studies and, more broadly, of the intellectual left, especially in the Anglo-American academy. He develops a...
Subalternity and Representation
Arguments in Cultural Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 1999
The term “subalternity” refers to a condition of subordination brought about by colonization or other forms of economic, social, racial, linguistic, and/or cultural dominance. Subaltern studies is, therefore, a study of power. Who has it and who does not. Who is gaining it and who is losing it....
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Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Physical cultural studies (PCS) is a dynamic and rapidly developing field of study. This handbook offers the first definitive account of the state of the art in PCS, showcasing the latest research and methodological approaches. It examines the boundaries, preoccupations, theories and politics of PCS,...
Cultural Sustainability in Rural Communities
Rethinking Australian Country Towns
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
There has been a recent expansion of interest in cultural approaches to rural communities and to the economic and social situation of rurality more broadly. This interest has been particularly prominent in Australia in recent years, spurring the emergence of an interdisciplinary field called 'rural...
Cultural Conundrums
Gender, Race, Nation, and the Making of Caribbean Cultural Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
Cultural Conundrums investigates the passions of race, gender, and national identity that make culture a continually embattled public sphere in the Anglophone Caribbean today. Academics, journalists, and ordinary citizens have weighed in on the ideological meanings to be found in the minutiae of cultural...