Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Cultural Heritage Management in China
Preserving the Cities of the Pearl River Delta
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Cultural Heritage Management in China presents a thematic examination of the development of cultural heritage management (CHM) in an Asian context. It challenges assumptions of the primacy of community-sponsored action and heritage authority based on Western-derived ideals and practices that fit with...
Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis
A Living Black Chicago History
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2007
Anti-black racism is a stark presence in Chicago, a fact illustrated by significant racial inequality in and around contemporary "global" city. Drawing his work as a civil rights advocate and investigator in Chicago, Street explains this neo-liberal apartheid and its resulting disparity...
Social and Gender Inequality in Oman
The Power of Religious and Political Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Looking at the social, political and legal changes in Oman since 1970, this book challenges the Islamic and tribal traditional cultural norms relating to marriage, divorce and women’s rights which guide social and legal practice in the modern Omani state. The book argues that despite the establishment...
Abject Performances
Aesthetic Strategies in Latino Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
In Abject Performances Leticia Alvarado draws out the irreverent, disruptive aesthetic strategies used by Latino artists and cultural producers who shun standards of respectability that are typically used to conjure concrete minority identities. In place of works imbued with pride, redemption, or...
Popular Music Fandom
Identities, Roles and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
This book explores popular music fandom from a cultural studies perspective that incorporates popular music studies, audience research, and media fandom. The essays draw together recent work on fandom in popular music studies and begin a dialogue with the wider field of media fan research, raising...
The Black Cultural Front
Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
The Black Cultural Front describes how the social and political movements that grew out of the Depression facilitated the left turn of several African American artists and writers. The Communist-led John Reed Clubs brought together black and white writers in writing collectives. The Congress of Industrial...
Finding Purple America
The South and the Future of American Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The new southern studies has had an uneasy relationship with both American studies and the old southern studies. In Finding Purple America, Jon Smith, one of the founders of the new movement, locates the source of that unease in the fundamentally antimodern fantasies of both older fields.
The...
Human Sexuality
Biological, Psychological, and Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Human Sexuality: Biological, Psychological, and Cultural Perspectives is a unique textbook that provides a complete analysis of this crucial aspect of life around the world. Utilizing viewpoints across cultural and national boundaries, and deftly weaving evolutionary and psychological perspectives,...
Shaping Indian Diaspora
Literary Representations and Bollywood Consumption away from the Desi
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
The Indian diaspora is the largest diasporic movement from Asia, with the Indian community numbering over twenty-five million around the world. Its large scale encompasses a kaleidoscopic community from disparate regions, languages, cultural heritages, religions, and traditions within the subcontinent....
Psychoanalysis Outside the Clinic
Interventions in Psychosocial Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
More than a hundred years after its founding, psychoanalysis remains influential and controversial far outside its core sphere of activity in the 'clinic'. In a wide range of cultural and social disciplines, psychoanalytic ideas are drawn on to explain human subjectivity and its relationship with the...
by Michael Obenaus
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2004
Seminar paper from the year 2000 in the subject Sociology - Gender Studies, grade: 1,3 (A), University of Glasgow (Department of Sociology and Anthropology), course: Feminist Issues in Sociological Theory and Analysis, language: English, abstract: We are born as either boys or girls, and we will be...
by J.K. Tina Basi
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
This book examines the concept of globalised identities and the way in which agency is exercised over identity construction by women working in India’s transnational call centre industry.
Drawing on qualitative empirical data and extensive original fieldwork, the book provides a nuanced analysis...
Housing in Post-Growth Society
Japan on the Edge of Social Transition
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
In a globalising world, many mature economies share post-growth characteristics such as low economic growth, low fertility, declining and ageing of the population and increasing social stratification. Japan stands at the forefront of such social change in the East Asian region as well as in the Global...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
This book examines social and natural environmental changes in present-day Laos and presents a new research framework for environmental studies from an interdisciplinary point of view. In Laos, after the Lao version of perestroika, Chintanakaan Mai, in 1986, for better or worse, rural development...