Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
The Creative Industries
Culture and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
"Moving from age-old warnings about the influence of the cultural industry to a tentative embrace of a global creative society, Terry Flew's new book provides an excellent overview of this exciting field. Warmly recommended for students and policymakers alike."
- Mark Deuze, Indiana University**
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
The Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies offers an exceptionally clear overview of the analysis of identity in the social sciences, and in so doing seeks to develop a new agenda for identity-studies in the twenty-first century.
The key theories of identity, ranging from classical accounts...
The Construction of Whiteness
An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Race Formation and the Meaning of a White Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
This volume collects interdisciplinary essays that examine the crucial intersection between whiteness as a privileged racial category and the various material practices (social, cultural, political, and economic) that undergird white ideological influence in America. In truth, the need to examine...
Mapping the New African Diaspora in China
Race and the Cultural Politics of Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
When one thinks of African diasporas, it is likely that their mind will automatically drift to locations such as Europe and America. But how much is known about the African diaspora in East Asia and, in particular, within China, where race is such a politically sensitive topic?
Based on multi-sited...
by Whitney Davis
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Find original research and interpretive studies of the relations between homosexuality and the visual arts. Evidence for the role of homosexuality in artistic creation has often not survived, in part because the direct expression of homosexuality has often been condemned in Western societies. Gay...
Material Powers
Cultural Studies, History and the Material Turn
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This edited collection is a major contribution to the current development of a ‘material turn’ in the social sciences and humanities. It does so by exploring new understandings of how power is made up and exercised by examining the role of material infrastructures in the organization of state...
Stuart Hall
Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2006
Stuart Hall's work has been central to the formation and development of cultural studies as an international discipline. Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies is an invaluable collection of writings by and about Stuart Hall. The book provides a representative selection of Hall's enormously...
Yakama Rising
Indigenous Cultural Revitalization, Activism, and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
The Yakama Nation of present-day Washington State has responded to more than a century of historical trauma with a resurgence of grassroots activism and cultural revitalization. This pathbreaking ethnography shifts the conversation from one of victimhood to one of ongoing resistance and resilience...
Rapper, Writer, Pop-Cultural Player
Ice-T and the Politics of Black Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This collection of essays critically engages with factors relating to black urban life and cultural representation in the post-civil rights era, using Ice-T and his myriad roles as musician, actor, writer, celebrity, and industrialist as a vehicle through which to interpret and understand the African...
Transgender Identities (Open Access)
Towards a Social Analysis of Gender Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
In recent years transgender has emerged as a subject of increasing social and cultural interest. This volume offers vivid accounts of the diversity of living transgender in today's world. The first section, "Emerging Identities," maps the ways in which social, cultural, legal and medical...
Contesting Empire, Globalizing Dissent
Cultural Studies After 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
"Denzin and Giardina have brought together the works of leading cultural critics who have given cultural studies a global framework that meets our need to examine the governing strategies of the military, the economy, the media, and educational elites...This is a must-read for those who want...
The Body and Shame
Phenomenology, Feminism, and the Socially Shaped Body
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
The Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism, and the Socially Shaped Body investigates the concept of body shame and explores its significance when considering philosophical accounts of embodied subjectivity. Body shame only finds its full articulation in the presence (actual or imagined) of others...
Urban Spaces in Japan
Cultural and Social Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Urban Spaces in Japan explores the workings of power, money and the public interest in the planning and design of Japanese space. Through a set of vivid case studies of well-known Japanese cities including Tokyo, Kobe, and Kyoto, this book examines the potential of civil society in contemporary planning...
Social Work with Immigrants and Refugees
Legal Issues, Clinical Skills and Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
"This book is an optimal tool for instructors and students of graduate classes in social work and related disciplines."
--Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
"I applaud social work students, professors, and social workers who seek to serve and empower the immigrant...