Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Performing Mexicanidad
Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
Using interdisciplinary performance studies and cultural studies frameworks, Laura G. Gutiérrez examines the cultural representation of queer sexuality in the contemporary cultural production of Mexican female and Chicana performance and visual artists. In particular, she locates the analytical lenses...
The Body
Social and Cultural Dissections
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
This college-level handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of sociological and cultural perspectives on the human body. Organized along the lines of a standard anatomical textbook delineated by body parts and processes, this volume subverts the expected content in favor of providing...
Territories of Conflict
Traversing Colombia through Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Territories of Conflict offers a comprehensive view of the cultural and political landscapes of Colombia through in-depth analyses of citizenship, displacement, local and global cultures, grassroots movements, political activism, human rights, environmentalism, and media production. The volume investigates...
Changing Social Attitudes Toward Disability
Perspectives from historical, cultural, and educational studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Whilst legislation may have progressed internationally and nationally for disabled people, barriers continue to exist, of which one of the most pervasive and ingrained is attitudinal. Social attitudes are often rooted in a lack of knowledge and are perpetuated through erroneous stereotypes, and ultimately...
Race Lessons
Using Inquiry to Teach About Race in Social Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
We hold that the mission of social studies is not attainable, without attention to the ways in which race and racism play out in society—past, present, and future. In a follow up to the book, Doing Race in Social Studies (2015), this new volume addresses practical considerations of teaching about...
Social and Cultural Change in Central Asia
The Soviet Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Focusing on Soviet culture and its social ramifications both during the Soviet period and in the post-Soviet era, this book addresses important themes associated with Sovietisation and socialisation in the Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
As many observers have noted, the world is becoming increasingly visually mediated, with the rise of computers and the internet being central factors in the emergence of new tools and conventions. Exploring the social structure of visuality, this volume contains a collection of essays by internationally...
Cultural Feelings
Mood, Mediation and Cultural Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Cultural Feelings: Mood, Mediation and Cultural Politics sets out to examine the role of feelings and mood in the production of social and cultural experience. By returning to the work of Raymond Williams, and informed by recent ‘affect theory’, it treats feeling as a foundational term for cultural...
by Eve Stoddard, John Collins
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
From the Foundations in Global Studies series, this text offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to the study of the social and cultural aspects of global studies. After a brief introduction to global studies, the early chapters of the book survey the key concepts and...
Globalisation and the Middle Classes in India
The Social and Cultural Impact of Neoliberal Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
This book fills an important gap in the existing literature on economic liberalization and globalisation in India by providing much needed ethnographic data from those affected by neoliberal globalisation. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, it reveals the complexity of the globalisation...
Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora
Secularism, Religion, Representations
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Literary, cinematic and media representations of the disputed category of the ‘South Asian Muslim’ have undergone substantial change in the last few decades and particularly since the events of September 11, 2001. Here we find the first book-length critical analysis of these representations of...
by Tracy Luchetta, Patricia L Pardie
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Discover new information and perspectives on why today’s culture holds prejudice toward gay men and lesbians!
The Construction of Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay Men explores the pervasiveness and widespread social acceptance of heterosexism in the United States by analyzing existing social...
by David Morley
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Television, Audiences and Cultural Studies presents a multi-faceted exploration of audience research, in which David Morley draws on a rich body of empirical work to examine the emergence, development and future of television audience research. In addition to providing an introductory overview from...
Cultural Conundrums
Gender, Race, Nation, and the Making of Caribbean Cultural Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
Cultural Conundrums investigates the passions of race, gender, and national identity that make culture a continually embattled public sphere in the Anglophone Caribbean today. Academics, journalists, and ordinary citizens have weighed in on the ideological meanings to be found in the minutiae of cultural...