Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
by Dr Richard Johnson, Prof Deborah Chambers, Dr Parvati Raghuram
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2004
`This is a tour de force… It combines luminous discussion of the core conceptual issues of cultural studies, with a hard-headed, practical sense of how research in the field gets done. The result is a seriously smart, comprehensive survey of the whole terrain of cultural studies itself. This is...
The Chicana/o Cultural Studies Forum
Critical and Ethnographic Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
The Chicana/o Cultural Studies Forum brings together a diverse group of scholars whose work spans the interdisciplinary fields of Chicana/o studies and cultural studies. Editor Angie Chabram-Dernersesian provides an overview of current debates, locating Chicana/o cultural criticism at the intersections...
Culture and Social Behavior
The Ontario Symposium, Volume 10
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2005
Cross-cultural differences have many important implications for social identity, social cognition, and interpersonal behavior. The 10th volume of the Ontario Symposia on Personality and Social Psychology focuses on East-West cultural differences and similarities and how this research can be applied...
Law and Cultural Studies
A Critical Rearticulation of Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
New and unremitting violence linked to state, inter-state, and private actors has precipitated a renewal of social movements, many of which act in concert with human rights ethos and legal conceptions. Yet, cultural studies has so far had little engagement or institutional connection with these movements....
Queer Theory and Communication
From Disciplining Queers to Queering the Discipline(s)
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Get a queer perspective on communication theory!
Queer Theory and Communication: From Disciplining Queers to Queering the Discipline(s) is a conversation starter, sparking smart talk about sexuality in the communication discipline and beyond. Edited by members of The San Francisco Radical...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2004
The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader brings together thirty-six field-defining essays by the most prominent theorists of Latin American cultural studies. Written over the past several decades, these essays provide an assessment of Latin American cultural studies, an account of the field’s...
by Shuyu Kong
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Since the early 1990s the media and cultural fields in China have become increasingly commercialized, resulting in a massive boom in the cultural and entertainment industries. This evolution has also brought about fundamental changes in media behaviour and communication, and the enormous growth of...
by Kuan-Hsing Chen, Beng Huat Chua
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Asian Cultural Studies or Cultural Studies in Asia is a new and burgeoning field, and the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Journal is at its cutting edge. Committed to bringing Asian Cultural Studies scholarship to the international English speaking world and constantly challenging existing conceptions...
Psychosocial Studies
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
There is expanding global interest in the relationship between the psychological and the social. The bringing together of affect, emotion and feeling with social, political and cultural forces offers a creative, innovative and rich set of ways of understanding what Charles Wright Mills called the...
Cultural Disability Studies in Education
Interdisciplinary Navigations of the Normative Divide
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Over the last few decades disability studies has emerged not only as a discipline in itself but also as a catalyst for cultural disability studies and Disability Studies in Education. In this book the three areas become united in a new field that recognises education as a discourse between tutors...
by Lawrence Grossberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
Lawrence Grossberg is one of the leading figures in cultural studies internationally. In Cultural Studies in the Future Tense, he offers a powerful critique of the present state of cultural studies and, more broadly, of the intellectual left, especially in the Anglo-American academy. He develops a...
Scene Thinking
Cultural Studies from the Scenes Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
How is cultural activity shaped by the places where it unfolds? One answer has been found in the ‘scenes perspective’, a development within popular music studies that explains change and transformation within musical practices in terms of the social and institutional histories of scenes. Scene...
Odd Tribes
Toward a Cultural Analysis of White People
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2005
Odd Tribes challenges theories of whiteness and critical race studies by examining the tangles of privilege, debasement, power, and stigma that constitute white identity. Considering the relation of phantasmatic cultural forms such as the racial stereotype “white trash” to the actual social conditions...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
If today students of social theory read Jurgen Habermas, Michel Foucault and Anthony Giddens, then proper regard to the question of culture means that they should also read Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall and Slavoj Zizek. The Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory offers a concise, comprehensive...