Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
The African Diaspora in India
Assimilation, Change and Cultural Survivals
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
This book explores the understudied and often overlooked subject of African presence in India. It focuses on the so-called Sidis, Siddis or Habshis who occupy a unique place in Indian history. The Sidis comprise scattered communities of people of African descent who travelled and settled along the...
by John Tomlinson
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Globalization is now widely discussed but the debates often remain locked within particular disciplinary discourses. This book brings together for the first time a social theory and cultural studies approach to the understanding of globalization.
The book starts with an analysis of the relationship...
Gay Tourism
Culture and Context
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The gay tourism industry-a progressive social force or a pull towards an oppressive status quo?
The pink tourism dollar is now recognized as a highly profitable niche of the tourism market. Gay Tourism: Culture and Context critically investigates the emergence of a commercial gay tourism industry...
by Maja Mikula
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
This is a student friendly resource for the rapidly developing field of cultural studies. Organized alphabetically, it provides a comprehensive selection of accessible definitions of key cultural studies terms, guides readers to critical reference for further reading and places cultural studies in disciplinary and interdisciplinary contexts.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
In the years since the death of Kim Jong-il and the formal acknowledgement of Kim Jong-un as head of state, the North Korean regime has made a series of moves to further augment and consolidate the ideological foundations of Kimism and cement the young leader’s legitimacy. Historical narratives...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
"A rich selection of readings that expose the shadowy underworld of critics, bloggers, tweeters and stylists who have become essential guides to the good life of cultural consumption... a long overdue examination of how cultural intermediaries work, and how their work supports the new capitalist...
Cultural Studies and Finance Capitalism
The Economic Crisis and After
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
While many discussions of the economic crisis of 2007-2008 have sought to explain the causes of the financial collapse, this volume looks to supplement these accounts by exploring possible alternatives for the post-crisis world in which we now live. However, rather than offering a strictly economic...
Exploring Nightlife
Space, Society and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
While the night has long been associated with crime and fear, over recent decades ‘nightlife’ has become increasingly associated with the creative economy, tourism, sociability, job growth, and urban regeneration. Debates about anti-social behaviour, morality, and safety continue to shape our...
Indonesia-Malaysia Relations
Cultural Heritage, Politics and Labour Migration
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Drawing on social media, cinema, cultural heritage and public opinion polls, this book examines Indonesia and Malaysia from a comparative postcolonial perspective. The Indonesia–Malaysia relationship is one of the most important bilateral relationships in Southeast Asia, especially because Indonesia,...
Subaltern Movements in India
Gendered Geographies of Struggle Against Neoliberal Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Social struggles in India target both the state and private corporations. Three subaltern struggles against development in Gujarat, India, succeeded, to varying degrees, due to legalism from below and translocal solidarity, but that success has been compromised by its gendered geographies.
Based...
Disaster Relief in the Asia Pacific
Agency and Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
A UN report recently found that the Asia Pacific is the world’s most disaster-prone region. Indeed, considering that the region accounts for more than half of the total number of disasters in the world, building capacity and resilience to mitigate the devastating impact of disasters is a pressing...
by Bi-yu Chang
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
In the struggles for political and cultural hegemony that Taiwan has witnessed since the 1980s, the focal point in contesting narratives and the key battlefield in the political debates are primarily spatial and place-based. The major fault line appears to be a split between an imposed identity emphasizing...
Women of the Kakawin World
Marriage and Sexuality in the Indic Courts of Java and Bali
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
In this fascinating study the lives and mores of women in one of the least understood but most densely populated areas of the world are unveiled through the eyes of generations of court poets. For more than a millennium, the poets of the Indic courts of Java and Bali composed epic kakawin poems in...
Prospects for the American Age
Sovereignty and Influence in the New World Order
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
The Prospects for the American Age, is about the new world order. The book consists of seven chapters that revolve around theory, history, emergence, current status and future of the world order. Drawing on his academic training and practical experience, Dr. Jamal Sanad Al-Suwaidi reveals the ultimate...