Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
by Ching-hwang Yen
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
The rise of the economic power of the ethnic Chinese, known also as overseas Chinese, Chinese overseas or Chinese diaspora, was a late 20th century phenomenon. It was partly the result of the rise of the Four Little Asian Dragons in the 1970s, and was speeded up by the tempo of globalization towards...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Macao, the former Portuguese colony in southeast China from the 1550s until its return to China in 1999, has a long and very interesting history of cultural interaction between China and the West. As an entity with independent political power and a unique social setting and cultural development, the...
China's New Creative Clusters
Governance, Human Capital and Investment
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Recognising that creativity is a major driving force in the post-industrial economy, the Chinese government has recently established a range of "creative clusters" – industrial parks devoted to media industries, and arts districts – in order to promote the development of the creative...
Desi Divas
Political Activism in South Asian American Cultural Performances
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Desi Divas: Activism in South Asian American Cultural Performances is the product of five years of field research with progressive activists associated with the School for Indian Languages and Cultures (SILC), South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), the feminist dance collective Post Natyam,...
Understanding Media Cultures
Social Theory and Mass Communication
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2002
Praise for the First Edition:
**`**I can't think of a book in media studies that handles so well the diversity of perspectives and issues that Stevenson addresses. Whether reconstructing Marxism or deconstructing postmodernism, tackling the pleasures of soap opera or the repetitive structures...
Writing Wrongs
The Cultural Construction of Human Rights in India
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
This book examines the ‘cultural apparatus’ of Human Rights in India today. It unravels discourses of victimhood, oppression, suffering and witnessing through a study of autobiographies, memoirs, reportage and media coverage, and documentaries.
Moving across multiple media and genres for...
Women, Law and Culture
Conformity, Contradiction and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This book explores cultural constructs, societal demands and political and philosophical underpinnings that position women in the world. It illustrates the way culture controls women's place in the world and how cultural constraints are not limited to any one culture, country, ethnicity, race, class...
by Bulent Diken, Carsten Bagge Laustsen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Sociology through the Projector takes issue with the question of how contemporary film can help answering the general, abstract but still urgent question: what is the social today? This book explains the performative relation to contemporary social theory in which cinema functions as a tool for social...
Reggae and Hip Hop in Southern Italy
Politics, Languages, and Multiple Marginalities
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
This book explores the significance of reggae and hip hop in Southern Italy from the beginning of the 1980s to the present. Focusing on groups and solo artists located predominantly in the Southern Italian regions of Apulia and Sardinia, it examines the production and distribution of their music,...
Geographies of Muslim Identities
Diaspora, Gender and Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
In recent years, geographies of identities, including those of ethnicity, religion, 'race' and gender, have formed an increasing focus of contemporary human geography. The events of September 11th, 2001 particularly illustrated the ways in which identities can be transformed across time and space...
Essential Essays, Volume 1
Foundations of Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
From his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and examining race and identity in the 1990s and early 2000s, Stuart Hall has been central to shaping many of the cultural and political debates of our time. Essential Essays—a landmark...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Studies of multimodality have significantly advanced our understanding of the potential of different semiotic resources—verbal, visual, aural, and kinetic—to make meaning and allow people to achieve various social purposes such as persuading, entertaining, and explaining. Yet little is known...
by Edmond J Coleman, Theo Sandfort
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Important new findings on sex and gender in the former Soviet Bloc!
Sexuality and Gender in Postcommunist Eastern Europe and Russia is a groundbreaking look at the new sexual reality in Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe after the fall of communism. The book presents the kind of candid...
Beyond Britain
Stuart Hall and the Postcolonializing of Anglophone Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Is Stuart Hall a Cultural Studies Scholar or a Postcolonial Scholar? Or is it better to engage with his work as an intellectual of both fields?
Postwar Britain witnessed the concurrent evolution of two new intellectual movements which have since become institutionalized as two major academic...