Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Life and Times of Cultural Studies
The Politics and Transformation of the Structures of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2004
Moving world-systems analysis into the cultural realm, Richard E. Lee locates the cultural studies movement within a broad historical and geopolitical framework. He illuminates how order and conflict have been reflected and negotiated in the sphere of knowledge production by situating the emergence...
Cultural Sustainability in Rural Communities
Rethinking Australian Country Towns
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
There has been a recent expansion of interest in cultural approaches to rural communities and to the economic and social situation of rurality more broadly. This interest has been particularly prominent in Australia in recent years, spurring the emergence of an interdisciplinary field called 'rural...
New Body Politics
Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
In the increasingly multi-racial and multi-ethnic American landscape of the present, understanding and bridging dynamic cross-cultural conversations about social and political concerns becomes a complicated humanistic project. How do everyday embodied experiences transform from being anecdotal to...
by Mechthild Hart, Miriam Ben-Yoseph
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Discover different dimensions of the meaning of home across political, cultural, and geographic boundaries!
Psychological, Political, and Cultural Meanings of Home brings a unique multidisciplinary, multicultural approach to address the interconnection of diverse experiences with the meaning...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Social capital and ethnicity are crucial to young people’s understandings of their social world. The strong bonding networks often assumed in ethnic groups suggest that individuals may prefer to be bonded to each other according to shared socio-cultural factors such as shared histories, memories,...
Innovations in Delivering Culturally Sensitive Social Work Services
Challenges for Practice and Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Innovations in Delivering Culturally Sensitive Social Work Services: Challenges for Practice and Education is for human service professionals and educators who are seeking innovative ways to make their practice and service delivery more culturally appropriate and their education and training more...
Cultural Studies
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
"This book presents a magisterial overview of Cultural Studies, and of studies of culture more broadly. It synthesizes a bewildering range of writers and ideas into a comprehensible narrative. It’s respectful to the history of ideas and completely cutting edge. I learned a lot – you will...
by Gilbert B. Rodman
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Why Cultural Studies? is a rallying call for a reinvigoration of the project of cultural studies that provides a critical analysis of its meteoric rise to the academic fore and makes a convincing argument for the pressing need for a renewed investment in, and re-evaluation of, its core ideals.
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by Brian Longhurst, Greg Smith, Gaynor Bagnall
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
This updated, new edition of Introducing Cultural Studies provides a systematic and comprehensible introduction to the concepts, debates and latest research in the field. Reinforcing the interdisciplinary nature of Cultural Studies, the authors first guide the reader through cultural theory before...
Television Drama in Contemporary China
Political, social and cultural phenomena
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Due to high audience numbers and the significant influence upon the opinions and values of viewers, the political leadership in China attributes great importance to the impact of television dramas. Many successful TV serials have served as useful conduits to disseminate official rhetoric and mainstream...
Theorizing Cultural Work
Labour, Continuity and Change in the Cultural and Creative Industries
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
In recent years, cultural work has engaged the interest of scholars from a broad range of social science and humanities disciplines. The debate in this ‘turn to cultural work’ has largely been based around evaluating its advantages and disadvantages: its freedoms and its constraints, its informal...
Subalternity and Representation
Arguments in Cultural Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 1999
The term “subalternity” refers to a condition of subordination brought about by colonization or other forms of economic, social, racial, linguistic, and/or cultural dominance. Subaltern studies is, therefore, a study of power. Who has it and who does not. Who is gaining it and who is losing it....
Assisted Dying
An Ethnographic Murder Mystery on Florida's Gold Coast
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Assisted Dying is an ethnographically-based murder mystery that uses the unexplained deaths of elderly people on Florida's Gold Coast as a way of examining American cultural values. Diversity, immigration and the American Dream, aging, retirement, death, and dying are just some of the issues that...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
The field of cultural heritage is no longer solely dependent on the expertise of art and architectural historians, archaeologists, conservators, curators, and site and museum administrators. It has dramatically expanded across disciplinary boundaries and social contexts, with even the basic definition...