Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Critically Sovereign
Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Critically Sovereign traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of Indigenous politics and U.S. and Canadian imperialism and colonialism. The contributors show how gender, sexuality, and feminism work as co-productive forces of Native American and Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination,...
Multiple Minority Identities
Applications for Practice, Research, and Training
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
"[V]ery few texts cover such a broad range of diversity and intersecting identities."--PsycCRITIQUES
This important volume chronicles a shift from the old multicultural paradigm that depicts members of a minority group as being limited to racial and ethnic categories, to a modern...
Living Beyond the Borders
Essays on Global Immigrants and Refugees
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Cross-border migration has resulted in many social, cultural, economic, and political challenges that need attention. Globalization, migration, and transnationalism have a strong impact on the lives of diasporic immigrants and refugees. Transnationalism and diaspora, which result from globalization...
Shades of Difference
Why Skin Color Matters
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
Shades of Difference addresses the widespread but little studied phenomenon of colorism—the preference for lighter skin and the ranking of individual worth according to skin tone. Examining the social and cultural significance of skin color in a broad range of societies and historical periods, this...
Unequal China
The political economy and cultural politics of inequality
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Economic development and a dramatic improvement in living standards in many parts of the People’s Republic of China during the past three decades of economic reforms have been hailed by the Chinese Communist Party and many commentators in the international arena as the most spectacular achievements...
Critical Animal and Media Studies
Communication for Nonhuman Animal Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
This book aims to put the speciesism debate and the treatment of non-human animals on the agenda of critical media studies and to put media studies on the agenda of animal ethics researchers. Contributors examine the convergence of media and animal ethics from theoretical, philosophical, discursive,...
by Badri Narayan
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
This book studies how the act of migration is a motivating constituent in the production of popular culture in both the homeland and the destination. It looks at the formations of cultures in the process of identity-making of approximately 200 million Indians scattered across the world, from colonial...
Narratives of Mexican American Women
Emergent Identities of the Second Generation
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2003
Alma Garc'a offers a bold new interpretation of identity formation for second generation immigrants in America. The narratives of Mexican American women in higher education reveal their journeys of self-discovery, a process filled with tensions, contradictions, and ambiguities. Garc'a captures the...
by David Buchbinder
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
The late-twentieth-century anxiety about a ‘crisis in masculinity’ still persists today, particularly in English-speaking cultures. Studying Men and Masculinities offers an engaging and comprehensive overview of masculinity. Drawing on a wide range of cultural practices and texts from different...
Physical Culture, Ethnography and the Body
Theory, Method and Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
The corporeal turn toward critical, empirically grounded studies of the body is transforming the way we research physical culture, most evidently in the study of sport. This book brings together original insights on contemporary physical culture from key figures working in a variety of disciplines,...
Southern Heritage on Display
Public Ritual and Ethnic Diversity within Southern Regionalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
How ritualized public ceremonies affirm or challenge cultural identities associated with the American South
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"From the jazz funeral processions in the streets of New Orleans to the annual Natchez Pilgrimage in Mississippi and the Scottish Highland...
by Colin Hawes
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
In recent years, Chinese policymakers and corporate leaders have focused significant attention on the concept of corporate culture. This book will reveal the political, social and economic factors behind the enormous current interest in corporate culture in China and provide a wide range of case studies...
Accounting for Culture
Thinking Through Cultural Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2005
Many scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers in the cultural sector argue that Canadian cultural policy is at a crossroads: that the environment for cultural policy-making has evolved substantially and that traditional rationales for state intervention no longer apply.
The concept of cultural...
Out of the Basement
Youth Cultural Production in Practice and in Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Soulja Boy, Justin Bieber, and Tavi Gevinson are hardly representative of typical youth experiences, but their origins highlight many of the realities of youth doing independent creative work. Out of the Basement profiles the variety of youth cultural production in the twenty-first century, and asks...