Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
by Shakiba Razmeh, Amin Davoodi
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Scientific Study from the year 2015 in the subject Cultural Studies - Near Eastern Studies, , course: Language & Identity, language: English, abstract: As shifting identity and target cultural attachment act as important factors in the language learning process, this study aims to analyze the...
by Megan Watkins, Greg Noble, Catherine Driscoll
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Pedagogy is often glossed as the ‘art and science of teaching’ but this focus typically ties it to the instructional practices of formalised schooling. Like the emerging work on ‘public pedagogies’, the notion of cultural pedagogies signals the importance of the pedagogic in realms other than...
by Linda L. Veazey
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
'A Woman’s Right to Culture: Toward Gendered Cultural Rights' is a new and insightful analysis of the usual meme that cultural rights in international law are at odds with the rights of women in affected societies. Rather than seeing these concepts as mutually exclusive, Linda Veazey frames cultural...
UNESCO, Cultural Heritage, and Outstanding Universal Value
Value-based Analyses of the World Heritage and Intangible Cultural Heritage Conventions
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
This book explores the international legal framework developed by UNESCO to identify and protect world heritage and its implementation at the national level. Drawing on close policy analysis of UNESCO’s major documents, extensive professional experience at UNESCO, as well as in-depth analyses of...
Learning to Be Tibetan
The Construction of Ethnic Identity at Minzu University of China
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese Community Party (CCP) has launched a nation-wide ethnic identification project to recognize ethnic minorities, which are widely considered as “peripheral,” “barbarian,” “inferior,” “backward,” and “distrusted.”...
Asia through Art and Anthropology
Cultural Translation Across Borders
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
* AWARDED BEST ANTHOLOGY BY THE ART ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND *
How has Asia been imagined, represented and transferred both literally and visually across linguistic, geopolitical and cultural boundaries? This book explores the shifting roles of those who produce, critique and...
Cultural Histories, Memories and Extreme Weather
A Historical Geography Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Extreme weather events, such as droughts, strong winds and storms, flash floods and extreme heat and cold, are among the most destructive yet fascinating aspects of climate variability. Historical records and memories charting the impacts and responses to such events are a crucial component of any...
Sexualities in World Politics
How LGBTQ claims shape International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
As LGBTQ claims acquire global relevance, how do sexual politics impact the study of International Relations? This book argues that LGBTQ perspectives are not only an inherent part of world politics but can also influence IR theory-making. LGBTQ politics have simultaneously gained international prominence...
Urbanisation, Citizenship and Conflict in India
Ahmedabad 1900-2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Urbanisation is rapidly changing the geographic and social landscape of India, and indeed Asia as a whole. Issues of collective violence, urban poverty and discrimination become crucial factors in the redefinition of citizenship not only in legal terms, but also in a cultural and socio-economic dimension....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
The volume contributes to disrupt the old grand narrative of cultural contact and colonialism in Spanish and Portuguese America in a wide and complete sense. This edited volume aims at exploring contact archaeology in the modern era. Archaeology has been exploring the interaction of peoples and cultures...
by Rachael Hutchinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
Examining a wide range of Japanese videogames, including arcade fighting games, PC-based strategy games and console JRPGs, this book assesses their cultural significance and shows how gameplay and context can be analyzed together to understand videogames as a dynamic mode of artistic expression.
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Homo Redneckus
On Being Not Qwhite In America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Discussing questions of race and class in America, we often skip those who are white but are treated as a different kind of "other." A professor of English and literature, Dr. William Matthew McCarter explores the realities of being "Not Qwhite in America" from a historical and literary perspective....
Eurasia and India
Regional Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Eurasia has assumed importance in the post-Soviet period and the peoples of Siberia have distinctive historico-cultural similarities with the Indian Himalayas due to common traditions and Buddhist culture. The Eurasianism of Russia brings it closer to India in historico-cultural, political and economic...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
This volume investigates cultural migrants: people who, from their own free will, move to another country because of their interest in the target language and culture. Chapters include studies on cultural migrants acquiring French, Italian, Spanish and English and consider linguistic, psycholinguistic,...