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Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History [3 volumes]
An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This three-volume work represents a leading reference resource for Asian American studies that gives students, researchers, librarians, teachers, and other interested readers the ability to easily locate accurate, up-to-date information about Asian ethnic groups, historical and contemporary events,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This volume discusses the development of cultural studies in India. It shows how inter-disciplinarity and cultural pluralism form the basis of this emerging field. It deals with contemporary debates and interpretations of post-colonial theory, subaltern studies, Marxism and post-Marxism, nationalism...
by Alex Cockain
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This book examines the condition of being a young person in China and the way in which changes in various dimensions of urban life have affected Chinese youths' quests to understand themselves.
The author examines social factors such as changes in the physical construction of urban neighbourhoods;...
Sport and Gender Identities
Masculinities, Femininities and Sexualities
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
This important new book brings together gender studies and sexuality studies to provide original and critical insights into processes of identity formation in a wide range of sport-related contexts. The authors draw on contemporary debates concerning gender and identity from a range of disciplines...
Moral Panics, Social Fears, and the Media
Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
The media have always played a central role in organising the way ideas flow through societies. But what happens when those ideas are disruptive to normal social relations? Bringing together work by scholars in history, media and cultural studies and sociology, this collection explores this role in...
American Indians and the American Imaginary
Cultural Representation Across the Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
American Indians and the American Imaginary considers the power of representations of Native Americans in American public culture. The book's wide-ranging case studies move from colonial captivity narratives to modern film, from the camp fire to the sports arena, from legal and scholarly texts to...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Offering a comprehensive overview of the current situation in the country, The Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia provides a broad coverage of social, cultural, political and economic development within both rural and urban contexts during the last decade. A detailed introduction places Cambodia within...
Israeli Nationalism
Social conflicts and the politics of knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
The question of nationalism centres around the political, social, and cultural ways by which the concept and practice of a nation is constructed, and what it means to its various bearers. This book examines the issue of Jewish-Israeli nationalism, combining a sociological study of national culture...
by Ellen Boccuzzi
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
With the acceleration of global migration, literature by migrant writers has emerged as a powerful medium for describing the ways in which global forces are experienced at the personal level. Migrant literature offers a compelling counter‐narrative to abstract visions of globalization, grounding...
Body, Migration, Re/constructive Surgeries
Making the Gendered Body in a Globalized World
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Bringing together an international range of case studies and interviews with individuals who have had genital re/construction, Body, Migration, Re/constructive Surgeries explores the socio-cultural meanings of clitoral re/construction following female genital cutting (FGC), hymen reconstruction, trans...
Childhood and Pethood in Literature and Culture
New Perspectives in Childhood Studies and Animal Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Bringing together new perspectives in childhood studies and animal studies, this bookis the first collection to critically address the manifold alignments and frequent co-constitutions of children and pets in our families, our cultures, and our societies. The cultural politics of power shaping relationships...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Disasters of the 21st century differ substantially from other kinds of hazards that previous societies have had to cope with because of the twin forces of globalization and the communications revolution. But what makes today’s disasters—industrial, technological, environmental, and socio-cultural—so...
by Pamela Odih
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Advertising and Cultural Politics in Global Times traces daringly transgressive convergences between cultural politics and global advertising media. It engages with a range of interpolations between cultural politics and advertising technologies including: the governmental rationality of neoliberal...
Intimacies and Cultural Change
Perspectives on Contemporary Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Exploring cultural transformations of intimacy in contemporary Mexico, Intimacies and Cultural Change examines the ways in which globalization and rapid cultural change have transformed the cultural meanings of couple relationships, sexuality, and personal life in Mexican society. Through a range...