Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Bodies at War
Genealogies of Militarism in Chicana Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
In the wake of U.S. military intervention abroad and collapsing domestic economies, scholars have turned their attention to neoliberalism and militarization, two ideological and material projects that are often treated as coincident, though not interdependent. Bodies at War examines neoliberal militarism,...
by Victor Buchli
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
An Archaeology of the Immaterial examines a highly significant but poorly understood aspect of material culture studies: the active rejection of the material world. Buchli argues that this is evident in a number of cultural projects, including anti-consumerism and asceticism, as well as other attempts...
by Leong Yew
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Over the last two decades, Singapore has undergone a substantial degree of ‘Asianization’. Apart from participating in the Asian values debate of the 1990s, re-visioning itself as ‘New Asia’ and a global-Asian hub, and establishing Asian identities for the commodities it consumes and produces,...
Trajectories
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2005
Trajectories brings together cultural theorists not only from countries with a known historical critical tradition such as America, Canada and Australia but from the East-Asia locations of Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Philippines, India and Thailand. It constitutes a critical confrontation...
Verse Going Viral
China's New Media Scenes
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Verse Going Viral examines what happens when poetry, a central pillar of traditional Chinese culture, encounters an era of digital media and unabashed consumerism in the early twenty-first century. Heather Inwood sets out to unravel a paradox surrounding modern Chinese poetry: while poetry as a representation...
Race, Nation and Gender in Modern Italy
Intersectional Representations in Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
This book explores intersectional constructions of race and whiteness in modern and contemporary Italy. It contributes to transnational and interdisciplinary reflections on these issues through an analysis of political debates and social practices, focusing in particular on visual materials from the...
Museums in China
Power, Politics and Identities
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
From the earliest museums established by Western missionaries in order to implement religious and political power, to the role they have played in the formation of the modern Chinese state, the origin and development of museums in mainland China differ significantly from those in the West. The occurrence...
Cultural Studies and the Symbolic: Theory Studies, Presented at the Univeristy of Glasgow's Centre for Intercultural Studies: v. 1: Occasional papers in cassirer and cultural
Theory Studies, Presented at the Univeristy of Glasgow's Centre for Intercultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"Given the growing disenchantment, on all sides, with the 'high theory' of the 1970s and 1980s, and with the dominant master-trope of literary and cultural reflexion of the 1980s and 1990s, the extended metaphor or 'allegory', this volume offers a timely re-examination of what, according to Goethe,...
Living with Strangers
Bedsits and Boarding Houses in Modern English Life, Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Living with Strangers examines the history and cultural representation of bed-sitting rooms and boarding houses in England from the early twentieth century to the present. Providing a historical overview, the authors explore how these alternative domestic spaces came to provide shelter for a diverse...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Although issues of youth culture are frequently cited in classrooms and public forums, most encyclopedias of childhood and youth are devoted to history, human development, and society. A limitation on the reference bookshelf is the restriction of youth to pre-adolescence, although issues of youth...
Progressive Country
How the 1970s Transformed the Texan in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
During the early 1970s, the nation’s turbulence was keenly reflected in Austin’s kaleidoscopic cultural movements, particularly in the city’s progressive country music scene. Capturing a pivotal chapter in American social history, Progressive Country maps the conflicted iconography of “the...
by Andrew Ross
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 1996
In the wake of the highly fractious Culture Wars, conservatives in science have launched a backlash against feminist, multiculturalist, and social critics in science studies. Paul Gross and Norman Levitt’s book Higher Superstition, presented as a wake-up call to scientists unaware of the dangers...
Appalachia in Regional Context
Place Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
In an increasingly globalized world, place matters more than ever. Nowhere is that more true than in Appalachian studies -- a field which brings scholars, activists, artists, and citizens together around a region to contest misappropriations of resources and power and combat stereotypes of isolation...
Digital Queer Cultures in India
Politics, Intimacies and Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Sexuality in India offers an expression of nationalist anxieties and is a significant marker of modernity through which subjectivities are formed among the middle class. This book investigates the everyday experience of queer Indian men on digital spaces. It explores how queer identities are formed...