Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Our Children and Other Animals
The Cultural Construction of Human-Animal Relations in Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Focusing on the socialization of the human use of other animals as resources in contemporary Western society, this book explores the cultural reproduction of human-nonhuman animal relations in childhood. With close attention to the dominant practices through which children encounter animals and mainstream...
Production Studies, The Sequel!
Cultural Studies of Global Media Industries
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
Production Studies, The Sequel! is an exciting exploration of the experiences of media workers in local, global, and digital communities—from prop-masters in Germany, Chinese film auteurs, producers of children’s television in Qatar, Italian radio broadcasters, filmmakers in Ethiopia and Nigeria,...
by Keith Whitfield, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2013
"The array of topics covered is amazing, making this book a valuable, significant resource for many disciplines...This multidisciplinary review of the literature on minority aging presents the scholarship related to public health and 'social, behavioral, and biological concerns' of aged minorities...
by John Storey
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
From Popular Culture to Everyday Life presents a critical exploration of the development of everyday life as an object of study in cultural analysis, wherein John Storey addresses the way in which everyday life is beginning to replace popular culture as a primary concept in cultural studies.
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Australian Television
Programs, pleasures and politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1989
Media, communications and cultural studies form a rapidly growing part of secondary and tertiary education in Australia, yet there have been few books dealing specifically with Australian television. This is the first wide ranging study of television in Australia, and includes a coverage of the cultural...
The Bear Book
Readings in the History and Evolution of a Gay Male Subculture
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
The Bear Book brings together an impressive range of bear--usually big, hairy men who favor full-face beards and prefer to wear jeans and flannel shirts--viewpoints to explore this unique social and cultural phenomenon that stretches from America to western Europe to Australia! On the personal level,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
As organisations seek legitimacy in a fast-moving, interconnected and changing world, how do public relations help them to manage their identity, responsibilities and impact on society? In a more interactive society, organisations need to align their actions with social demands and values. If the...
Diversity, Standardization and Social Transformation
Gender, Ethnicity and Inequality in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Arranged around the themes of theorizing and policy-making, race, ethnicity and religion, gender, and class, inequality and welfare, this book addresses the question of whether the European Union tends towards diversification or standardization. It engages with issues of identity, citizenship and...
Making Multicultural Families in Europe
Gender and Intergenerational Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
This edited collection explores family relations in two types of 'migrant families' in Europe: mixed families and transnational families. Based on in-depth qualitative fieldwork and large surveys, the contributors analyse gender and intergenerational relations from a variety of standpoints and migratory...
Relocating Cultural Studies
Developments in Theory and Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Britain is no longer the sole organizing centre for cultural studies. The contributors to this volume demonstrate how cultural studies has diffused into other English-speaking countries and how its original concerns have been renegotiated and changed. The result is a landmark book which provides students with an unrivalled guide to the international phenomenon of cultural studies.
by Suzanne Gearhart, David Palumbo-Liu
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2005
Minor Transnationalism moves beyond a binary model of minority cultural formations that often dominates contemporary cultural and postcolonial studies. Where that model presupposes that minorities necessarily and continuously engage with and against majority cultures in a vertical relationship of...
Muslim Women, Transnational Feminism and the Ethics of Pedagogy
Contested Imaginaries in Post-9/11 Cultural Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Following a long historical legacy, Muslim women’s lives continue to be represented and circulate widely as a vehicle of intercultural understanding within a context of the "war on terror." Following Edward Said’s thesis that these cultural forms reflect and participate in the power...
Egypt's Culture Wars
Politics and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
This ground-breaking work presents original research on cultural politics and battles in Egypt at the turn of the twenty first century. It deconstructs the boundaries between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture drawing on conceptual tools in cultural studies, translation studies and gender studies to...
Filipino Studies
Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
After years of occupying a vexed position in the American academy, Philippine studies has come into its own, emerging as a trenchant and dynamic space of inquiry. Filipino Studies is a field-defining collection of vibrant voices, critical perspectives, and provocative ideas about the cultural, political,...