Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
by Martin Barker, Anne Beezer
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
"Reading Into Cultural Studies" revisits a selection of key texts central to the formation of cultural studies as a discipline and as a project. These texts address questions of power, ideology and the possibilities and limits of resistance. Each of the eleven essays in the collection renews...
Youth, Arts, and Education
Reassembling Subjectivity through Affect
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
How are the arts important in young people’s lives? Youth, Arts and Education offers a groundbreaking theory of arts education. Anna Hickey-Moody explores how the arts are ways of belonging, resisting, being governed and being heard.
Through examples from the United Kingdom and Australia,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Research on popular culture is a dynamic, fast-growing domain. In scholarly terms, it cuts across many areas, including communication studies, sociology, history, American studies, anthropology, literature, journalism, folklore, economics, and media and cultural studies. The Routledge Companion to...
The Quest for Gentility in China
Negotiations Beyond Gender and Class
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2007
The quest for gentility has shaped Chinese civilization and the formation of culture in China until the present day. This book analyzes social aspirations and cultural practices in China from 1550 to 1999, showing how the notion of gentility has evolved and retained its relevance in China from late...
Private Bodies, Public Texts
Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
In Private Bodies, Public Texts, Karla FC Holloway examines instances where medical issues and information that would usually be seen as intimate, private matters are forced into the public sphere. As she demonstrates, the resulting social dramas often play out on the bodies of women and African Americans....
Black Nationalism in the New World
Reading the African-American and West Indian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2002
From nineteenth-century black nationalist writer Martin Delany through the rise of Jim Crow, the 1937 riots in Trinidad, and the achievement of Independence in the West Indies, up to the present era of globalization, Black Nationalism in the New World explores the paths taken by black nationalism...
The Afro-Latin Diaspora
Awakening Ancestral Memory, Avoiding Cultural Amnesia
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2004
This book is Jameelah's contribution to avoiding Afro-Latin American cultural and historical amnesia. This book highlights the many contributions of these forgotten people of Latin America, including African and Afro-Latin American heroes and freedom-fighters, religious and cultural traditions, and current social issues of ethnic and cultural identity.
Américo Paredes
Culture and Critique
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Several biographies of Américo Paredes have been published over the last decade, yet they generally overlook the paradoxical nature of his life's work. Embarking on an in-depth, critical exploration of the significant body of work produced by Paredes, José E. Limón (one of Paredes's students and now...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
2018 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice Magazine
A vocabulary of Latina/o studies.
Keywords for Latina/o Studies is a generative text that enhances the ongoing dialogue within a rapidly growing and changing field. The keywords included in this collection represent established...
Dancing in Spite of Myself
Essays on Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 1997
In Dancing in Spite of Myself, Lawrence Grossberg—well known as a pioneering figure in cultural studies—has collected essays written over the past twenty years that have also established him as one of the leading theorists of popular culture and, specifically, of rock music. Grossberg offers an...
Psychoanalysis in Social Research
Shifting theories and reframing concepts
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
The use of psychoanalytic ideas to explore social and political questions is not new. Freud began this work himself and social research has consistently drawn on his ideas. This makes perfect sense. Social and political theory must find ways to conceptualise the relation between human subjects and...
Fukushima and the Arts
Negotiating Nuclear Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
The natural and man-made cataclysmic events of the 11 March 2011 disaster, or 3.11, have dramatically altered the status quo of contemporary Japanese society. While much has been written about the social, political, economic, and technical aspects of the disaster, this volume represents one of the...
African Cultural Heritage Conservation and Management
Theory and Practice from Southern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
For a long time, resource conservationists have viewed environmental conservation as synonymous with wilderness and wildlife resources only, oblivious to the contributions made by cultural and heritage resources. However, cultural heritage resources in many parts of the developing world are gradually...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
The Routledge History of Latin American Culture delves into the cultural history of Latin America from the end of the colonial period to the twentieth century, focusing on the formation of national, racial, and ethnic identity, the culture of resistance, the effects of Eurocentrism, and the process...