Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
The Politics of Culture
Around the Work of Naoki Sakai
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Naoki Sakai is an important and prominent thinker in Asian and cultural studies and his work continues to make itself felt across a broad range of both national and disciplinary borders. Originally finding a home in the otherwise circumscribed field of Japan Studies, Sakai’s writings have succeeded...
Embroidering the Scarlet A
Unwed Mothers and Illegitimate Children in American Fiction and Film
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Embroidering the Scarlet A traces the evolution of the “fallen woman” from the earliest novels to recent representations in fiction and film, including The Scarlet Letter, The Sound and the Fury, The Color Purple, and Love Medicine, and the films Juno and Mother and Child. Interweaving...
Hip Hop Versus Rap
The Politics of Droppin' Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
'What is the real hip hop?'
'To whom does hip hop belong?'
'For what constructive purposes can hip hop be put to use?'
These are three key questions posed by hip hop activists in Hip Hop Versus Rap, which explores the politics of cultural authenticity, ownership, and uplift in...
Approaching the Hunger Games Trilogy: A Literary and Cultural Analysis
A Literary and Cultural Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
This book addresses Suzanne Collins's work from a number of literary and cultural perspectives in an effort to better understand both its significance and its appeal. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to the Hunger Games trilogy, drawing from literary studies, psychology, gender studies, media...
Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory
Reimagining a Field
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2001
These groundbreaking essays use critical theory to reflect on issues pertaining to modern Chinese literature and culture and, in the process, transform the definition and conceptualization of the field of modern Chinese studies itself. The wide range of topics addressed by this international group...
Urban Constellations
Spaces of Cultural Regeneration in Post-Industrial Britain
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
This book investigates the iconic architectural cultural spaces of the contemporary cityscape as engines of regeneration. Promising much to their fading locales, these spaces locate culture in the space where production once ruled in order to revitalise post-industrial urban provinces. With close...
Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop
Crises in Whiteness
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop examines white American male literature for its social commentary on the construction of whiteness in the United States. Whiteness has always been a contested racial identity in the U.S., one in a state of construction and reconstruction throughout...
Gender, Race, and American Science Fiction
Reflections on Fantastic Identities
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
This book focuses on the interplay of gender, race, and their representation in American science fiction, from the nineteenth-century through to the twenty-first, and across a number of forms including literature and film. Haslam explores the reasons why SF provides such a rich medium for both the...
Globalizing Japan
Ethnography of the Japanese presence in Asia, Europe, and America
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Globalizing Japan explores the social and cultural dimensions of Japan's global presence. Japan's expansion and presence as an economic giant is witnessed on an everyday basis. Both consciously and unconsciously, we regularly come into contact with Japan's industrial and cultural globalization, from...
The Meaning of Video Games
Gaming and Textual Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2008
The Meaning of Video Games takes a textual studies approach to an increasingly important form of expression in today’s culture. It begins by assuming that video games are meaningful–not just as sociological or economic or cultural evidence, but in their own right, as cultural expressions worthy...
In the Nature of Cities
Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2006
The social and material production of urban nature has recently emerged as an important area in urban studies, human/environmental interactions and social studies. This has been prompted by the recognition that the material conditions that comprise urban environments are not independent from social,...
by Thomas A. Hutton
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
The cultural economy forms a leading trajectory of urban development, and has emerged as a key facet of globalizing cities. Cultural industries include new media, digital arts, music and film, and the design industries and professions, as well as allied consumption and spectacle in the city. The cultural...
The Social Life of Materials
Studies in Materials and Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Materials play a central role in society. Beyond the physical and chemical properties of materials, their cultural properties have often been overlooked in anthropological studies: finished products have been perceived as 'social' yet the materials which comprise them are considered 'raw' or natural'....
My Life as a Night Elf Priest
An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
"Ever since the creators of the animated television show South Park turned their lovingly sardonic gaze on the massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft for an entire episode, WoW's status as an icon of digital culture has been secure. My Life as a Night Elf Priest digs deep beneath...