Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
The Political Theory of Tyranny in Singapore and Burma
Aristotle and the Rhetoric of Benevolent Despotism
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Covering various fields in political science, this new book presents an historical and political-cultural analysis of Buddhism and Confucianism.
Using Singapore and Burma as case studies, the book questions the basic assumptions of democratization theory, examining the political science of...
Cultural Exclusion in China
State Education, Social Mobility and Cultural Difference
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2008
Ethnic minorities form a very substantial proportion of the population of China, with over 100 million people in 55 formally designated minority groups inhabiting over 60% of the country’s land area. Poverty and economic inequality of minority groups are widely-recognised problems. However, as this...
by Tiantian Zheng, Kevin Carrico, Professor Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
In globalizing Asia, sexual mores and gender roles are in constant flux. How have economic shifts and social changes altered and reconfigured the cultural meanings of gender and sexuality in the region? How have the changing political economy and social milieu influenced and shaped the inner workings...
Black Television Travels
African American Media around the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
“Black Television Travels provides a detailed and insightful view of the roots and routes of the televisual representations of blackness on the transnational media landscape. By following the circulation of black cultural products and their institutionalized discourses—including industry lore,...
The Extreme in Contemporary Culture
States of Vulnerability
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
This is a study of vulnerability as a dominant cultural discourse today, especially as it manifests in ‘extreme cultures’. These are cultural practices and representations of humans in risky, painful or life-threatening conditions where the limits of their humanity are tested, and producing heightened...
by Gebhard Deissler
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Scientific Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, , course: Interkulturelles Management, language: English, abstract: The 'labouring' of cultures, nations and religions is symptomatic of the whole of creation's gravitation towards unity. The wars of diversity...
by Gebhard Deissler
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Scientific Study from the year 2011 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, , course: Intercultural Research, language: English, abstract: The quantum metaphorical conceptualization of the world is derived from Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and Bohr's complementarity principle...
Dialogues across Diasporas
Women Writers, Scholars, and Activists of Africana and Latina Descent in Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Dialogues Across Diasporas focuses on the shared historical legacies of members of the Africana and Latina diasporas, and the cultural impact of the African diaspora in the Americas. This book seeks to emphasize connections rather than divisions among different migratory ethnic communities via a reconfiguration...
Security Community in South Asia
India - Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
The security relationship between India and Pakistan is generally viewed through a neo-realist approach of International Relations.. Treading on a different path, this book explains the rivalry of these countries by looking at the socio-cultural norms found at two levels, elites versus popular. Furthermore,...
Culture and Politics in the Information Age
A New Politics?
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
This volume addresses these key issues through an analysis of important theoretical debates on issues such as digital democracy, cultural politics and transnational communities.
Featuring contributors from both sides of the Atlantic, the book contains a series of case studies on new social movements...
High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy
Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2000
High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy is an ethnography of globalization positioned at the intersection between political economy and cultural studies. Carla Freeman’s fieldwork in Barbados grounds the processes of transnational capitalism—production, consumption, and the crafting of...
Spatial locations: Maps, nations, regions and spatial segregation - Analyzed by the countries Germany, South Korea and Ecuador
Analyzed by the countries Germany, South Korea and Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2007
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, grade: A, Ewha Womans University (Graduate School of International Studies), course: Comparative Society and Culture , 20 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This paper deals with three...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Fans constitute a very special kind of audience. They have been marginalized, ridiculed and stigmatized, yet at the same time they seem to represent the vanguard of new relationships with and within the media. ’Participatory culture’ has become the new normative standard. Concepts derived from...
by Edward Wafula
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, grade: 'A', Atlantic International University (SOCIAL AND HUMAN STUDIES), course: EDUCATION, language: English, abstract: This course addresses organizational conduct, as well as morality, which incorporates...