Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Cultural borrowing is exploding across the world. Creative ideas are transferred and modified in ever increasing number and complexity making new products ranging from TV shows to architectural style in new cities. But what do we really know about the spread of creative ideas? This intriguing, engrossing,...
by Maureen McNeil
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Feminist Cultural Studies of Science and Technology challenges the assumption that science is simply what scientists do, say, or write: it shows the multiple and dispersed makings of science and technology in everyday life and popular culture.
This first major guide and review of the new field...
Gay Latino Studies
A Critical Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
The authors of the essays in this unique collection explore the lives and cultural contributions of gay Latino men in the United States, while also analyzing the political and theoretical stakes of gay Latino studies. In new essays and influential previously published pieces, Latino scholars based...
Nation, Culture, Text
Australian Cultural and Media Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2002
Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies is the first collection of cultural studies from Australia, selected and introduced for an international readership.
Participating in the `de-centring' of cultural studies - considering what perspectives other than the European and the American...
Queer Theory and Communication
From Disciplining Queers to Queering the Discipline(s)
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Get a queer perspective on communication theory!
Queer Theory and Communication: From Disciplining Queers to Queering the Discipline(s) is a conversation starter, sparking smart talk about sexuality in the communication discipline and beyond. Edited by members of The San Francisco Radical...
Body Studies
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
In recent years, body studies has expanded rapidly, becoming an increasingly popular field of study within anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies. This groundbreaking textbook takes the topics and theories from these disciplines, and combines them into one single, easily accessible text for...
Scene Thinking
Cultural Studies from the Scenes Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
How is cultural activity shaped by the places where it unfolds? One answer has been found in the ‘scenes perspective’, a development within popular music studies that explains change and transformation within musical practices in terms of the social and institutional histories of scenes. Scene...
Odd Tribes
Toward a Cultural Analysis of White People
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2005
Odd Tribes challenges theories of whiteness and critical race studies by examining the tangles of privilege, debasement, power, and stigma that constitute white identity. Considering the relation of phantasmatic cultural forms such as the racial stereotype “white trash” to the actual social conditions...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
The idea of cultural reproduction was first developed by Bourdieu (1973) who sees the function of the education system as being to reproduce the culture of the dominant classes, thus helping to ensure their continued dominance. Through his concepts of cultural capital' and habitus' Bourdieu's influence...
Worlding Multiculturalisms
The Politics of Inter-Asian Dwelling
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Worlding multiculturalisms are practices that infuse our arbitrary cultural lives with new things from other cultures in poetic ways to enable us to dwell and be at home with the complexity of the world. In the context of the crisis of multiculturalism in the West and the growing obsolescence of state-based...
Cultural Policy, Work and Identity
The Creation, Renewal and Negotiation of Professional Subjectivities
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
How have cultural policies created new occupations and shaped professions? This book explores an often unacknowledged dimension of cultural policy analysis: the professional identity of cultural agents. It analyses the relationship between cultural policy, identity and professionalism and draws from...
by Florian Mayer
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2002
Essay from the year 2001 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, grade: 1 (A), University of Leeds (Department for Communication and Cultural Studies), course: Communication & Cultural Studies, 26 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: After, what has been...
Radical Utopianism and Cultural Studies
On Refusing to be Realistic
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
In Radical Utopianism and Cultural Studies, John Storey looks at the concept of utopianism from a cultural studies perspective and argues that radical utopianism can awaken the political promise of cultural studies.
Between the Preface and the Postscript, there are seven chapters that explore...
by Rey Chow
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Rey Chow is arguably one of the most prominent intellectuals working in the humanities today. Characteristically confronting both entrenched and emergent issues in the interlocking fields of literature, film and visual studies, sexuality and gender, postcolonialism, ethnicity, and cross-cultural politics,...