Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 6: Ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Transcending familiar categories of "black" and "white," this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture complicates and enriches our understanding of "southernness" by identifying the array of cultures that combined to shape the South. This exploration of southern ethnicities examines the...
Leisure and Power in Urban China
Everyday life in a Chinese city
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Leisure and Power in Urban China is the first comprehensive study of leisure activities in a medium size Chinese city. Hitherto, studies of Chinese leisure have focused on holidays, festivals and tourism. This, however, is a study of the kinds of leisure that take place on regular workdays in a local...
Marie Antoinette at Petit Trianon
Heritage Interpretation and Visitor Perceptions
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Marie Antoinette at Petit Trianon challenges common perceptions of the last Queen of France, appraising the role she played in relation to the events of French Revolution through an original analysis of contemporary heritage practices and visitor perceptions at her former home, the Petit Trianon.
Controversy...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
Location Technologies in International Context offers the first international account of location technologies (in an expanded sense) and brings together a range of contributions on these technologies and their various cultures of use within the Global South.
This collection asks: How, within...
Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu's Legacy
Settling Accounts and Developing Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu’s Legacy explores the achievements and limitations of a Bourdieusian approach to cultural analysis through original contributions from distinguished international scholars.
This edited collection offers sustained critical engagement, substantiated by new empirical...
Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media, Music, and Art
Performing Migration
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This volume analyzes innovative forms of media and music (art installations, television commercials, photography, films, songs, telenovelas) to examine the performance of migration in contemporary culture. Though migration studies and media studies are ostensibly different fields, this transnational...
French Feminisms
Gender And Violence In Contemporary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
In this text, Gill Allwood explores theories of masculinity emerging from French feminist theories of gender and from French feminist practice concerning violence towards women, highlighting both the commonalities and the specificities of the French case. She discusses the particular concern of French...
Music and Youth Culture in Latin America
Identity Construction Processes from New York to Buenos Aires
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Music is one of the most distinctive cultural characteristics of Latin American countries. But, while many people in the United States and Europe are familiar with musical genres such as salsa, merengue, and reggaetón, the musical manifestations that young people listen to in most Latin American...
Drawing from Life
Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Autobiography has seen enormous expansions and challenges over the past decades. One of these expansions has been in comics, and it is an expansion that pushes back against any postmodern notion of the death of the author/subject, while also demanding new approaches from critics.
Drawing from...
Chicago's New Negroes
Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
As early-twentieth-century Chicago swelled with an influx of at least 250,000 new black urban migrants, the city became a center of consumer capitalism, flourishing with professional sports, beauty shops, film production companies, recording studios, and other black cultural and communal institutions....
Crescent City Girls
The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
What was it like to grow up black and female in the segregated South? To answer this question, LaKisha Simmons blends social history and cultural studies, recreating children's streets and neighborhoods within Jim Crow New Orleans and offering a rare look into black girls' personal lives. Simmons...
by Dr Helen Davis
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2004
'This is the most lucid and engaged account of Stuart Hall's work. Meticulously, and with an exemplary generosity, Helen Davis patiently unravels the threads of Hall's intellectual history. The result is a most useful and thoughtful book, which could prove to be indispensable for students of cultural...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
The Making of English Popular Culture provides an account of the making of popular culture in the nineteenth century.
While a form of what we might describe as popular culture existed before this period, John Storey has assembled a collection that demonstrates how what we now think of as popular...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
The Sinophone framework emphasises the diversity of Chinese-speaking communities and cultures, and seeks to move beyond a binary model of China and the West. Indeed, this strikingly resembles attempts within the queer studies movement to challenge the dimorphisms of sex and gender.
Bringing...