Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
by Mechthild Hart, Miriam Ben-Yoseph
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Discover different dimensions of the meaning of home across political, cultural, and geographic boundaries!
Psychological, Political, and Cultural Meanings of Home brings a unique multidisciplinary, multicultural approach to address the interconnection of diverse experiences with the meaning...
by William A. Callahan
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2006
This text examines the politics of culture and the culture of politics in Pacific Asia through case studies on the South Pacific, China, South Korea, Thailand and Southeast Asia. The contexts and cultures of the chapters are wide-ranging and Callahan skilfully ties them together with the objective...
Cultural Studies and the Symbolic: Theory Studies, Presented at the Univeristy of Glasgow's Centre for Intercultural Studies: v. 1: Occasional papers in cassirer and cultural
Theory Studies, Presented at the Univeristy of Glasgow's Centre for Intercultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"Given the growing disenchantment, on all sides, with the 'high theory' of the 1970s and 1980s, and with the dominant master-trope of literary and cultural reflexion of the 1980s and 1990s, the extended metaphor or 'allegory', this volume offers a timely re-examination of what, according to Goethe,...
Living with Strangers
Bedsits and Boarding Houses in Modern English Life, Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Living with Strangers examines the history and cultural representation of bed-sitting rooms and boarding houses in England from the early twentieth century to the present. Providing a historical overview, the authors explore how these alternative domestic spaces came to provide shelter for a diverse...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
This volume provides an exploration of the manifold ways pedagogy is enacted in cultural studies practice. Pedagogy in the book comes to stand as far more than simply the "art of teaching"; contributors explore how pedagogy defines and shapes their practice as cultural studies scholars. Chapters variously...
by John Hughson, David Inglis, Marcus W. Free
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2004
This textbook puts sport in the spotlight of cultural inquiry for the first time. The authors provide the essential resources for the study of sport within culture and popular culture. Sport is an important part of cultural life, yet until recently it has tended to remain on the margins of academic...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property contains new contributions from scholars working at the cutting edge of cultural property studies, bringing together diverse academic and professional perspectives to develop a coherent overview of this field of enquiry. The global range of authors use...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
The issue of divinizing in South Asian traditions has not been examined before as a process involving various methods to affect the socio-cultural cognition of the community. It is therefore essential to consider the context of "divinizing" and to analyse what groups, institutions or individuals...
Cultural Studies and Political Economy
Toward a New Integration
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
This book addresses the notorious split between the two fields of cultural studies and political economy. Drawing on the works of Harold Innis, Theodor Adorno, Raymond Williams, Richard Hoggart, E.P. Thompson, and other major theorists in the two fields, Robert E. Babe shows that political economy...
South Asian Racialization and Belonging after 9/11
Masks of Threat
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
This collection of essays interrogates literary and cultural narratives in the contexts of the incidents following 9/11. The collected essays underscore the new and (re)emerging racial, political, and socio-cultural discourse on identity related to terrorism and identity politics. Specifically, the...
by Bob Ashley, Joanne Hollows, Steve Jones
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
What and how we eat are two of the most persistent choices we face in everyday life. Whatever we decide on though, and however mundane our decisions may seem, they will be inscribed with information both about ourselves and about our positions in the world around us. Yet, food has only recently become...
Critique for What?
Cultural Studies, American Studies, Left Studies
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Students want to know: What does one do with critique? Fortunately, some of the most provocative self-critical intellectuals, from the postwar period to the postmodern present, have wrestled with this. Joel Pfister, in Critique for What?, criss-crosses the Atlantic to take stock of exciting British...
The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy brings together a range of international experts to critically analyze the ways that governmental actors and non-governmental entities attempt to influence the production and implementation of urban policies directed at the arts, culture, and creative activity....
Hegemony, Mass Media and Cultural Studies
Properties of Meaning, Power, and Value in Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
In the early part of the 20th century, state and corporate propagandists used the mass media to promote the valor and rightness of ascending U.S. hegemony on the global stage. Critics who challenged these practices of mass persuasion were quickly discredited by the emergent field of communication...