Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Cultural Anthropology
Tribes, States, and the Global System
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
This introductory text introduces basic concepts in cultural anthropology by comparing cultures of increasing scale and focusing on specific universal issues throughout human history. Cultural materials are presented in integrated ethnographic case studies organized by cultural and geographic areas...
Cultural Heritage as Civilizing Mission
From Decay to Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
This book investigates the role of cultural heritage as a constitutive dimension of different civilizing missions from the colonial era to the present. It includes case studies of the Habsburg Empire and German colonialism in Africa, Asian case studies of (post)colonial India and the Dutch East Indies/Indonesia,...
by Giorgio Shani
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2007
Sikh Nationalism and Identity in a Global Age examines the construction of a Sikh national identity in post-colonial India and the diaspora and explores the reasons for the failure of the movement for an independent Sikh state: Khalistan. Based on a decade of research, it is argued that the failure...
International Politics and Performance
Critical Aesthetics and Creative Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
In recent years we have witnessed an increasing convergence of work in International Politics and Performance Studies around the troubled, and often troubling, relationship between politics and aesthetics. Whilst examination of political aesthetics, aesthetic politics, and politics of aesthetic practice...
Cultural Studies
Volume 5, Issue 2
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2005
This issue of Cultural Studies will be a general issue edited from the US, and will provide the usual mix of scholarly discourse and innovative forms from a radical point of view.
Civil Racism
The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion and the Crisis of Racial Burnout
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
The 1992 Los Angeles rebellion, also known as the Rodney King riots, followed the acquittal of four police officers who had been charged with assault and the use of excessive force against a Black motorist. The violence included widespread looting and destruction of stores, many of which were owned or...
Navigating the Transnational in Modern American Literature and Culture
Axes of Influence
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This study develops the important work carried out on American literature through the frameworks of transnational, transatlantic, and trans-local studies to ask what happens when these same aspects become intrinsic to the critical narrative. Much cultural criticism since the 1990s has sought to displace...
Passionate Revolutions
The Media and the Rise and Fall of the Marcos Regime
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
In the last three decades, the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos has commanded the close scrutiny of scholars. These studies have focused on the political repression, human rights abuses, debt-driven growth model, and crony capitalism that defined Marcos’ so-called Democratic Revolution in the Philippines....
Precarious Imaginaries of Beirut
A City's Suspended Now
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This book investigates a shared experience of time and space in the post-civil-war city of Beirut: “the suspended now”. Based on the close analysis of a large corpus of cultural objects; including visual art, literature, architecture and cinema; the book argues that last decades have witnessed...
by Carol Dyhouse
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
This compelling and stimulating book explores the gendered social history of students in modern Britain.
From the privileged youth of Brideshead Revisited, to the scruffs at 'Scumbag University' in The Young Ones, representations of the university undergraduate have been decidedly male. But...
Muncie, India(na)
Middletown and Asian America
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Muncie, Indiana, remains the epitome of an American town. Yet scholars built the image of so-called typical communities across the United States on an illusion. Their decades of studies ignored the racial, ethnic, and religious diversity and tensions woven into the American communities that Muncie...
Manliness and Its Discontents
The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
In a pathbreaking new assessment of the shaping of black male identity in the early twentieth century, Martin Summers explores how middle-class African American and African Caribbean immigrant men constructed a gendered sense of self through organizational life, work, leisure, and cultural production....
Woodstock Scholarship
An Interdisciplinary Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Since August 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair looms large when recounting the history and impact of the baby boom generation and the societal upheavals of the Sixties. Scholars study the sociological, political, musical, and artistic impact of the event and use it as a cultural touchstone when...
Facing the Other
The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Emmanuel Levinas is one of the key philosophers in the post-Heideggerian field and an increasingly central presence in contemporary debates about identity and responsibility. His work spans and encapsulates the major philosophical and ethical concerns of the twentieth century, combining the insights...