Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Cultural Policy, Work and Identity
The Creation, Renewal and Negotiation of Professional Subjectivities
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
How have cultural policies created new occupations and shaped professions? This book explores an often unacknowledged dimension of cultural policy analysis: the professional identity of cultural agents. It analyses the relationship between cultural policy, identity and professionalism and draws from...
The Invention of Taste
A Cultural Account of Desire, Delight and Disgust in Fashion, Food and Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
The Invention of Taste provides a detailed overview of the development of taste, from ancient times to the present. At the heart of the book is an intriguing question: why did the sensory attribute of human taste become a social metaphor and aesthetic value for judging cultural qualities of art, fashion,...
New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies
Definition, Theory, and Accented Practices
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies. Volume 1: Definitions, Theory, and Accented Practices is a collection of essays that identifies a number of different approaches in cultural studies and in Italian cultural studies in particular. It highlights that history of cultural studies and new developments...
by Cheryl Suzack
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
In Indigenous Women’s Writing and the Cultural Study of Law, Cheryl Suzack explores Indigenous women’s writing in the post-civil rights period through close-reading analysis of major texts by Leslie Marmon Silko, Beatrice Culleton Mosionier, Louise Erdrich, and Winona LaDuke.
Working within...
Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian
Contested Representation in the Global Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Focusing on the enactment of identity in dance, Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian is a cross-cultural, cross-ethnic, and cross-national comparison of indigenous dance practices.
Considering four genres of dance in which indigenous people are represented--K'iche Maya traditional dance, powwow,...
Virtuous Vice
Homoeroticism and the Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2000
In this daring study of queer life and the public sphere, Eric O. Clarke examines the effects of inclusion within public culture. Departing from studies that emphasize homophobia and its mechanisms of exclusion, Virtuous Vice details how mainstream efforts to represent queers affirmatively continually...
by Gebrehiwot Gebreslassie Zesu
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Master's Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Cultural Studies - North African Studies, grade: Very good, , course: Social Anthropology with Concentration on Environmental Anthropology, language: English, abstract: The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, which is believed to be the largest of...
The Peoples Of Las Vegas
One City, Many Faces
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2005
Beneath the glitzy surface of the resorts and the seemingly cookie-cutter suburban sprawl of Las Vegas lies a vibrant and diverse ethnic life. People of varied origins make up the population of nearly two million and yet, until now, little mention of the city has been made in studies and discussion...
by Cynthia Levine-Rasky
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Whiteness Fractured examines the many ways in which whiteness is conceptualized today and how it is understood to operate and to effect social relationships. Exploring the intersections between whiteness, social class, ethnicity and psychosocial phenomena, this book is framed by the question of how...
Cultural Studies 1983
A Theoretical History
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
The publication of Cultural Studies 1983 is a touchstone event in the history of Cultural Studies and a testament to Stuart Hall's unparalleled contributions. The eight foundational lectures Hall delivered at the University of Illinois in 1983 introduced North American audiences to a thinker and discipline...
Phenomenologies of the City
Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Phenomenologies of the City: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture brings architecture and urbanism into dialogue with phenomenology. Phenomenology has informed debate about the city from social sciences to cultural studies. Within architecture, however, phenomenological inquiry has...
by Earl Wright II, Edward V. Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The Ashgate Research Companion to Black Sociology provides the most up to date exploration and analysis of research focused on Blacks in America. Beginning with an examination of the project of Black Sociology, it offers studies of recent events, including the ‘Stand Your Ground’ killing of Trayvon...
by Florian Mayer
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2002
Essay from the year 2001 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, grade: 1 (A), University of Leeds (Department for Communication and Cultural Studies), course: Communication & Cultural Studies, 26 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: After, what has been...
Poverty in Africa - Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2006
Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Cultural Studies - North African Studies, grade: 1.0, Institute of Technology, course: Cultural Studies, 8 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Africa, the third biggest continent consisting of 53 different countries, is the poorest in the...