Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
The environment is perhaps most misunderstood as a static place, somewhere "out there," separated from the practices of our everyday lives. Given this assumption, environmental movements and concerns have remained mostly marginalized or denigrated in cultural studies publications, conferences,...
From Revolution to Revelation
Generation X, Popular Memory and Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
From Revolution to Revelation offers a new paradigm for Cultural Studies. Tara Brabazon explores our understanding of our own past and the collective past we share with others through popular culture. She investigates Generation X, the ’post-youth’ generation born between 1961 and 1981, and the...
Culture and Social Behavior
The Ontario Symposium, Volume 10
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2005
Cross-cultural differences have many important implications for social identity, social cognition, and interpersonal behavior. The 10th volume of the Ontario Symposia on Personality and Social Psychology focuses on East-West cultural differences and similarities and how this research can be applied...
Critical Humanities from India
Contexts, Issues, Futures
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
The field of humanities generates a discourse that traditionally addressed the questions of what is proper to man, rights of man, crimes against humanity, human creativity and action, human reflection and performance, human utterance and artefact. The university as a philosophical-political institution...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book asks what ‘transnationalism’ might mean for Cultural Studies as an intellectual project shaped in vastly differing circumstances across the world. With contributions from scholars with experience of cultural life and the work of education in various regions, countries and locales - from...
by Tai Wei Lim, Wen Xin Lim, Xiaojuan Ping;Hui-Yi Tseng
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
This book aims to provide comprehensive empirical and theoretical studies of expanding fandom communities in East Asia through the commodification of Japanese, Korean and Chinese popular cultures in the digital era. Using a multidisciplinary approach including political economy, East Asian studies,...
British Marxism and Cultural Studies
Essays on a living tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
A comprehensive exploration of the profound influence of Marxist ideas on the development of Cultural Studies in Britain, this volume covers a century of Marxist writing, balancing synoptic accounts of the various schools of Marxist thought with detailed analyses of the most important writers. Arguing...
Whose Culture Is It, Anyway?
Community Engagement in Small Cities
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
We live, by consensus, in an Age of the Metropolis, and the vast preponderance of scholarship about contemporary urban life has focused on the phenomenon of big–city life. But that is an approach that overlooks the smaller cities and towns where many of us choose to live. Whose Culture Is It, Anyway?...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Cultural Practices of Victimhood aims to set the agenda for a cultural study of victimhood. Words such as ‘victim’ and ‘victimhood’ represent shifting cultural signifiers, their meaning depending on the cultural context of their usage. Using case studies and through a practice-based approach,...
Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice
The Rhetorics of Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2010
Within both feminist theory and popular culture, establishing similarities between embodied practices rooted in different cultural and geo-political contexts (e.g. ‘African’ female genital cutting and ‘Western’ cosmetic surgery) has become increasingly common as a means of countering cultural...
Flexible Citizenship
The Cultural Logics of Transnationality
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Few recent phenomena have proved as emblematic of our era, and as little understood, as globalization. Are nation-states being transformed by globalization into a single globalized economy? Do global cultural forces herald a postnational millennium? Tying ethnography to structural analysis, Flexible...
Cultural Studies and the 'Juridical Turn'
Culture, law, and legitimacy in the era of neoliberal capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
The relationship between culture and the law has become an emergent concern within contemporary Cultural Studies as a field, but the recent focus has been largely limited to the role played by cultural representations and identity politics in the legitimation of legal discourse and policies. While...
Sinologism
An Alternative to Orientalism and Postcolonialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Why, for centuries, have the West and the world continuously produced China knowledge that deviates from Chinese realities? Why, since the mid-nineteenth century, have Chinese intellectuals oscillated between commendation and condemnation of their own culture, and between fetishization and demonization...
Cultural Studies of Rights
Critical Articulations
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
At a time of global uncertainties and erosion of liberties, how will cultural studies clear a space for a parallel intellectual and political engagement with human rights practice? How will human rights thinking be liberated from its doctrinal approach to ethics and legal justice? This book forges...