Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Disability and Mothering
Liminal Spaces of Embodied Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Editors Lewiecki-Wilson and Cellio have put together the first book to focus on the intersecting spaces, both cultural and personal, of disability and mothering. Derived from the Latin for threshold, the word "liminal" calls attention to the book’s focus on the transitional moments and spaces where...
Migrant Marginality
A Transnational Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
This edited book uses migrant marginality to problematize several different aspects of global migration. It examines how many different societies have defined their national identities, cultural values and terms of political membership through (and in opposition to) constructions of migrants and migration....
Football and Accelerated Culture
This Modern Sporting Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
In Football and Accelerated Culture, Steve Redhead offers a new and challenging theorisation of global football culture, exploring the relationship between sport and culture in a rapidly shifting world. Incorporating cutting-edge concepts, from accelerated culture and claustropolitanism to non-postmodernity,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Latina/o popular culture has experienced major growth and change with the expanding demographic of Latina/os in mainstream media. In The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Pop Culture, contributors pay serious critical attention to all facets of Latina/o popular culture including TV, films, performance...
Chocolate and Corn Flour
History, Race, and Place in the Making of “Black” Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Located on Mexico's Pacific coast in a historically black part of the Costa Chica region, the town of San Nicolás has been identified as a center of Afromexican culture by Mexican cultural authorities, journalists, activists, and foreign anthropologists. The majority of the town's residents, however,...
Maulana Karenga
An Intellectual Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
In this book, the most prolific contemporary African American scholar and cultural theorist Molefi Kete Asante leads the reader on an informative journey through the mind of Maulana Karenga, one of the key cultural thinkers of our time. Not only is Karenga the creator of Kwanzaa, an extensive and...
A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness
Writings, 2000–2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness features essays and poems by Cherríe L. Moraga, one of the most influential figures in Chicana/o, feminist, queer, and indigenous activism and scholarship. Combining moving personal stories with trenchant political and cultural critique, the writer, activist,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
In recent decades the concept of kinship has been challenged and reinvigorated by the so-called “repatriation of anthropology” and by the influence of feminist studies, queer studies, adoption studies, and science and technology studies. These interdisciplinary approaches have been further developed...
Walk into Your Season
The Art of Cultural Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
The significance of Walk into Your Season is that it ponders whether a cultural worker can renew the role of free spaces of empowerment to address power differentials utilizing key contributors such as the traditions and language of a culture; the cultural workers potential to facilitate action and...
Media Power in Hong Kong
Hyper-Marketized Media and Cultural Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Studies of Hong Kong media primarily examine whether China will crush Hong Kong’s media freedom. This book however traces the root problem of Hong Kong media back to the colonial era, demonstrating that before the resumption of Chinese sovereignty there already existed a uniquely Hong Kong brand...
Consumers and Individuals in China
Standing Out, Fitting In
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Breaking new ground in the study of Chinese urban society, this book applies critical discourse analysis to ethnographic data gathered in Anshan, a third-tier city and market in northeast China. The book confronts the – still widespread – notion that Chinese consumers are not "real"...
by Patricia Ebrey
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This is a collection of essays by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, Patricia Buckley. In the essays she has selected for this fascinating volume, Professor Ebrey explores features of the Chinese family, gender and kinship systems as practices and ideas intimately connected to history...
Unsettling America
The Uses of Indianness in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Unsettling America explores the cultural politics of Indianness in the 21st century. It concerns itself with representations of Native Americans in popular culture, the news media, and political debate and the ways in which American Indians have interpreted, challenged, and reworked key ideas about...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Prior to the arrival of Europeans in the New World, Native Americans across the continent had developed richly complex attitudes and forms of expression concerning gender and sexual roles. The role of the "berdache," a man living as a woman or a woman living as a man in native societies,...