Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
UNESCO, Cultural Heritage, and Outstanding Universal Value
Value-based Analyses of the World Heritage and Intangible Cultural Heritage Conventions
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
This book explores the international legal framework developed by UNESCO to identify and protect world heritage and its implementation at the national level. Drawing on close policy analysis of UNESCO’s major documents, extensive professional experience at UNESCO, as well as in-depth analyses of...
Social Media and Minority Languages
Convergence and the Creative Industries
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
As a field in its own right, Minority Language Media studies is developing fast. The recent technological and social developments that have accelerated media convergence and opened new ways of access and exchange into spaces formerly controlled by media institutions, offer new opportunities, challenges...
Urbanisation, Citizenship and Conflict in India
Ahmedabad 1900-2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Urbanisation is rapidly changing the geographic and social landscape of India, and indeed Asia as a whole. Issues of collective violence, urban poverty and discrimination become crucial factors in the redefinition of citizenship not only in legal terms, but also in a cultural and socio-economic dimension....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
From the ritual object which functions as a substitute for the dead - thus acting as a medium for communicating with the ’other world’ - to the representation of death, violence and suffering in media, or the use of online social networks as spaces of commemoration, media of various kinds are...
by Claire Bracken
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
This book is about the future: Ireland’s future and feminism’s future, approached from a moment that has recently passed. The Celtic Tiger (circa 1995-2008) was a time of extraordinary and radical change, in which Ireland’s economic, demographic, and social structures underwent significant alteration.
Conceptions...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Featuring twenty-five key essays from the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (Traves/sia), this book surveys the most influential themes and concepts, as well as scouring some of the polemics and controversies, which have marked the field over the last quarter of a century since the Journal's...
by Toni Schindler Zimmerman
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Don't let hidden cultural expectations sabotage your therapeutic relationships!
Integrating Gender and Culture in Family Therapy Training offers positive strategies for teaching your students to understand the ways in which cultural expectations affect individuals, society, the therapeutic...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
This volume investigates cultural migrants: people who, from their own free will, move to another country because of their interest in the target language and culture. Chapters include studies on cultural migrants acquiring French, Italian, Spanish and English and consider linguistic, psycholinguistic,...
Sexualised Citizenship
A Cultural History of Philippines-Australian Migration
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
This book considers the intersections of race, gender and class in multicultural Australia through the lens of migration to the country. Focusing on Philippines-born migration, it presents the profile and history of this minority group through an examination of their print material culture over the...
by Professor Derek Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
"The political and academic worlds are fractured by two competing discourses: the universalism of human rights and cultural relativism. This fracture is represented by the deep separation of cultural analysis and theories of international politics. Derek Robbins in a brilliant interrogation of...
Cultural Rights and Justice
Sustainable Development, the Arts and the Body
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
This book provides an innovative contribution to the emerging field of culture and development through the lens of cultural rights, arguing in favour of a fruitful dialogue between human rights, development studies, critical cultural studies, and concerns about the protection and preservation of cultural...
Cultural Policy in South Korea
Making a New Patron State
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
This is the first English-language book on cultural policy in Korea, which critically historicises and analyses the contentious and dynamic development of the policy. It highlights that the evolution of cultural policy has been bound up with the complicated political, economic and social trajectory...
Cultural Studies and Political Economy
Toward a New Integration
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
This book addresses the notorious split between the two fields of cultural studies and political economy. Drawing on the works of Harold Innis, Theodor Adorno, Raymond Williams, Richard Hoggart, E.P. Thompson, and other major theorists in the two fields, Robert E. Babe shows that political economy...
Loca Motion
The Travels of Chicana and Latina Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
2006 Honorable Mention for MLA Prize in US Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies
In the summer of 1995, El Vez, the “Mexican Elvis,“along with his backup singers and band, The Lovely Elvettes and the Memphis Mariachis, served as master of ceremony for a ground-breaking...