Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This volume offers a "southern," Pacific Ocean perspective on the topic of racial hybridity, exploring it through a series of case studies from around the Australo-Pacific region, a region unique as a result of its very particular colonial histories. Focusing on the interaction between "race"...
Nation-state and Minority Rights in India
Comparative Perspectives on Muslim and Sikh Identities
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
The blood-laden birth-pangs of the Indian "nation-state" undoubtedly had a bearing on the contentious issue of group rights for cultural minorities. Indeed, the trajectory of the concept ‘minority rights’ evolved amidst multiple conceptualizations, political posturing and violent mobilizations...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Presenting cutting-edge scholarship dedicated to exploring the emergence and articulation of modernity in colonial South Asia, this book builds upon and extends recent insights into the constitutive and multiple projects of colonial modernity. Eschewing the fashionable binaries of resistance and collaboration,...
Whose Memory? Which Future?
Remembering Ethnic Cleansing and Lost Cultural Diversity in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Scholars have devoted considerable energy to understanding the history of ethnic cleansing in Europe, reconstructing specific events, state policies, and the lived experiences of victims. Yet much less attention has been given to how these incidents persist in collective memory today. This volume...
Global Diasporas and Development
Socioeconomic, Cultural, and Policy Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
This volume discusses how diasporas have evolved and engaged in economic, social and cultural domains of their host and home countries across the globe. The volume is divided into six parts: Issues, Challenges and Development Experiences; Diaspora Finance and Economic Development; Knowledge Transfer...
Body Counts
The Vietnam War and Militarized Refugees
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2014
Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es) examines how the Vietnam War has continued to serve as a stage for the shoring up of American imperialist adventure and for the (re)production of American and Vietnamese American identities. Focusing on the politics of war memory and commemoration,...
Himalayan Frontiers of India
Historical, Geo-Political and Strategic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
The Himalaya, which is a great natural frontier for India, symbolises India’s spiritual and national consciousness. The Himalayan region displays wide diversity of cultural patterns, languages, ethnic identities and religious practices. Along the Himalayas converge the boundaries of South and Central...
Temporary Migration, Transformation and Development
Evidence from Europe and Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
In a world grappling with refugee crisis, political unrest and economies on the verge of collapse, temporary migration has become an increasingly common phenomenon.
This volume presents a comprehensive picture of the transformative and development potential of temporary transnational migration...
Continuity in Iranian Identity
Resilience of a Cultural Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
Despite changes in sovereignty and in religious thought, certain aspects of Iranian culture and identity have persisted since antiquity. Drawing on an exploration of history, religion and literature to define Iranian cultural identity and link the Persian past with more recent cultural and political...
India's Princely States
People, Princes and Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
This is an invaluable work looking into new areas relating to India's princely states. Based on an abundance of rarely used archival material, the book sheds new light on diversities related to the princely states such as health policies and practices, gender issues, the states’ military contribution...
Ecce Homo
The Male-Body-in-Pain as Redemptive Figure
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Images of suffering male bodies permeate Western culture, from Francis Bacon’s paintings and Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs to the battered heroes of action movies. Drawing on perspectives from a range of disciplines—including religious studies, gender and queer studies, psychoanalysis, art...
Africans In Colonial Louisiana
The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1992
Although a number of important studies of American slavery have explored the formation of slave cultures in the English colonies, no book until now has undertaken a comprehensive assessment of the development of the distinctive Afro-Creole culture of colonial Louisiana. This culture, based upon a...
Race, Class, and Power
Ideology and Revolutionary Change in Plural Societies
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Examining in detail the apparently inexorable polarization of society in such countries as Rwanda, Algeria, and South Africa, the author questions whether current theories correctly explain the past or offer adequate guides for the future. In their place he puts forward an alternative neo-Durkheimian...
Chicano Rap
Gender and Violence in the Postindustrial Barrio
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Powered by a driving beat, clever lyrics, and assertive attitudes, rap music and hip hop culture have engrossed American youth since the mid-1980s. Although the first rappers were African Americans, rap and hip hop culture quickly spread to other ethnic groups who have added their own cultural elements...