Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books

Cover of Sidewalk
by Mitchell Duneier
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2000

An exceptional ethnography marked by clarity and candor, Sidewalk takes us into the socio-cultural environment of those who, though often seen as threatening or unseemly, work day after day on "the blocks" of one of New York's most diverse neighborhoods. Sociologist Duneier, author of Slim's...
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Race, Social Reform, and the Making of a Middle Class

The American Missionary Association and Black Atlanta, 1870-1900

by Joseph O. Jewell
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2007

Moral reform movements targeting racial minorities have long been central in negotiating the relationship between race and class in the United States, particularly in periods of large scale social change. Over a century ago, when the abolition of racial slavery, Southern Reconstruction, industrialization,...
Cover of Care, Cooperation and Activism in Canada's Northern Social Economy
by Jennifer Alsop, Matthew Beaudoin, Jean-Sébastien Boutet
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016

People across Canada’s North have created vibrant community institutions to serve a wide range of social and economic needs. Neither state-driven nor profit-oriented, these organizations form a relatively under-studied third sector of the economy. Researchers from the Social Economy Research Network...
Cover of Postmodernism and Popular Culture
by Angela McRobbie, Angela Mcrobbie
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003

Postmodernism and Popular Culture brings together eleven recent essays by Angela McRobbie in a collection which deals with the issues which have dominated cultural studies over the last ten years. A key theme is the notion of postmodernity as a space for social change and political potential. McRobbie...
Cover of Culture, Health and Sexuality
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015

The last twenty years have seen a growth in multi-disciplinary work in the area of sexuality, culture and health. What was once a set of specialist concerns has been steadily mainstreamed. Alongside this, a broader interest has developed in ‘social’ and 'cultural’ factors relating to sexuality...
Cover of Anthropological Futures
by Michael M. J. Fischer, Joseph Dumit
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2009

In Anthropological Futures, Michael M. J. Fischer explores the uses of anthropology as a mode of philosophical inquiry, an evolving academic discipline, and a means for explicating the complex and shifting interweaving of human bonds and social interactions on a global level. Through linked essays,...
Cover of Radical Utopianism and Cultural Studies

Radical Utopianism and Cultural Studies

On Refusing to be Realistic

by John Storey
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019

In Radical Utopianism and Cultural Studies, John Storey looks at the concept of utopianism from a cultural studies perspective and argues that radical utopianism can awaken the political promise of cultural studies. Between the Preface and the Postscript, there are seven chapters that explore...
Cover of Popular Culture in a Globalised India
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009

As India celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of its independence, much praise was lavished on its emergence as a major player on the global stage. Its economic transformation and geopolitical significance as a nuclear power are matched by its globally resonant cultural resources.  This book...
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Bangladesh Cinema and National Identity

In Search of the Modern?

by Zakir Hossain Raju
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014

Throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, cinema has been adopted as a popular cultural institution in Bangladesh. At the same time, this has been the period for the articulation of modern nationhood and cultural identity of Bengali Muslims in Bangladesh. This book analyses the relationship...
Cover of Global Manga

Global Manga

'Japanese' Comics without Japan?

by Casey Brienza
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016

Outside Japan, the term ’manga’ usually refers to comics originally published in Japan. Yet nowadays many publications labelled ’manga’ are not translations of Japanese works but rather have been wholly conceived and created elsewhere. These comics, although often derided and dismissed as...
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Studies in Urbanormativity

Rural Community in Urban Society

by Alexander R. Thomas, Brian Lowe, Polly Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013

The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status through an ideology of urbanormativity. Both structural...
Cover of Cultural Studies and Environment, Revisited
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013

The environment is perhaps most misunderstood as a static place, somewhere "out there," separated from the practices of our everyday lives. Given this assumption, environmental movements and concerns have remained mostly marginalized or denigrated in cultural studies publications, conferences,...
Cover of Lesbian Realities/Lesbian Fictions in Contemporary Spain
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011

Lesbian Realities/Lesbian Fictions in Contemporary Spain, edited by Nancy Vosburg and Jacky Collins, focuses exclusively on manifestations of lesbian cultures and identities in contemporary Spain. Bringing together key essays from a range of international scholars, this anthology of critical essays...
Cover of Representations of HIV/AIDS in Contemporary Hispano-American and Caribbean Culture
by Gustavo Subero
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016

Exploring the mechanisms and strategies used in different cultures across Hispano-America and the Caribbean to narrativise, represent and understand HIV/AIDS as a social and human phenomenon, this book examines a wide range of cultural, artistic and media texts, as well as issues of human phenomenology,...
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