Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Food - its cultivation, preparation and communal consumption - has long been considered a form of cultural heritage. A dynamic, living product, food creates social bonds as it simultaneously marks off and maintains cultural difference. In bringing together anthropologists, historians and other scholars...
Heritage, Diaspora and the Consumption of Culture
Movements in Irish Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Using an interdisciplinary and transhistorical framework this book examines the cultural, material, and symbolic articulations of Irish migration relationships from the medieval period through to the contemporary post-Celtic Tiger era. With attention to people’s different uses of social space, relationships...
by Michael Bérubé
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
The terrorist attacks of 9/11 and Bush’s belligerent response fractured the American left—partly by putting pressure on little-noticed fissures that had appeared a decade earlier.
In a masterful survey of the post-9/11 landscape, renowned scholar Michael Bérubé revisits and reinterprets the...
Delinquents and Debutantes
Twentieth-Century American Girls' Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
The contributors, including such leading scholars as Vicki L. Ruiz, Jennifer Scanlon, and Miriam Formanek-Brunell, examine myriad ways in which a variety of discourses and activities from popular girls' magazines and advertisements to babysitting and the Girl Scouts help form girls' experiences of...
La trama interétnica
Ritual, sociedad y figuras de intercambio entre los grupos negros y Emberá del Chocó
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 2, 2015
¿Qué es ser “moreno”, “libre”, “chocoano”, “cholo” o “Emberá” en los ríos del Chocó rural? ¿Son necesarios la presencia, el impacto cultural y la parcial inclusión del otro en el espacio social propio para desplegar todos los recursos y competencias sociales y culturales...
Education and Cultural Politics
Interrogating Idiotic Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
Education and Cultural Politics: Interrogating Idiotic Education is a conceptualization of protest and resistance against the cultural politics of oppression and domination of people of African descent in the Caribbean and North America. It is also a theorization of their redemption from being victims...
Transformations in Independent Timor-Leste
Dynamics of Social and Cultural Cohabitations
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
1999 was a decisive year in the long history of the people of Timor-Leste, whose future was open when they voted for independence in a UN-sponsored referendum. Its results left no doubt that the Timorese considered themselves to be a nation wishing to have their own state, which they would rule.
This...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
This book documents urban experiences of dissent and emergent resistance against disjunctive global and local capital, technology and labour flows that converge and intersect in some of Asia’s fastest growing cities. Rather than constructing occupants of the city as simply passive victims of globalisation...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Visual artists, craftspeople, musicians, and performers have been supported by the development community for at least twenty years, yet there has been little grounded and critical research into the practices and politics of that support. This new Routledge book remedies that omission and brings together...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
This volume explores the panic that is a central affective register of our current international order. Fears of Somali pirates, "Gypsy" kidnappers, African warlords, Ebola, "Mexican meth," pimps, coyotes, gangs, climate refugees and more, structure the dark side of a metropolitan unconscious. These...
The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration
Gender, Race, and Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
How the immigration policies and popular culture of the 1980's fused to shape modern views on democracy
In the 1980s, amid increasing immigration from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia, the circle of who was considered American seemed to broaden, reflecting the democratic gains made by...
A Cultural Approach to Emotional Disorders
Psychological and Aesthetic Interpretations
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
In her latest contribution to the growing field of emotion studies, Deidre Pribram makes a compelling argument for why culturalist approaches to the study of emotional "disorders" continue to be eschewed, even as the sociocultural and historical study of mental illness flourishes. The author ties...
Equality and Cultural Capital for Ethnic Minorities
Embarking on the Path of Community Learning and Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
In response to the growing concern in a wider community regarding sense of belonging, community cohesion and integration, intolerance, civic irresponsibility, and a degree of hostility that a growing number of people face, the study has had to answer a number of interrelated questions about what qualities...
by Jessica L. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
This book traces how the American freak show has re-emerged in new visual forms in the 21st century. It explores the ways in which moving image media transmits and contextualizes, reinterprets and appropriates, the freak show model into a “new American freak show.” It investigates how new freak...