Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Challenging the Mandate of Heaven: Social Protest and State Power in China
Social Protest and State Power in China
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Social science theories of contentious politics have been based almost exclusively on evidence drawn from the European and American experience, and classic texts in the field make no mention of either the Chinese Communist revolution or the Cultural Revolution -- surely two of the most momentous social...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Religion has long been a powerful cultural, social, and political force in the Himalaya. Increased economic and cultural flows, growth in tourism, and new forms of governance and media, however, have brought significant changes to the religious traditions of the region in the twentieth and twenty-first...
Reconstructing Adult Masculinities
Part-time Work in Contemporary Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Over the past two decades, Japan’s socioeconomic environment has undergone considerable changes prompted by both a long recession and the relaxation of particular labour laws in the 1990s and 2000s. Within this context, "freeters", part-time workers aged between fifteen and thirty-four...
Visual Media in Indonesia
Video Vanguard
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
In the age of digital communication and global capitalism, people’s mental, social and natural environments are interconnected in complex and often unpredictable ways.
This book focuses on the visual media, one of the key factors in shaping the contemporary ecology of colliding environments....
The Disobedient Museum
Writing at the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
The Disobedient Museum: Writing at the Edge aims to motivate disciplinary thinking to reimagine writing about museums as an activity where resistant forms of thinking, seeing, feeling, and acting can be produced, and to theorize this process as a form of protest against disciplinary stagnation.
Drawing...
Death and Dying in India
Ageing and end-of-life care of the elderly
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Most aged in India are experiencing a highly protracted death in hospitals, entangled in tubes and machines. Such ‘medicalised death’ entails huge psychological, social and financial costs for both patients and their caregivers. There are also many who are dying in abject neglect. However, Government...
by Mona Carolina Frank
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, grade: A, University of Otago (Applied Management), course: Event Planning and Management, language: English, abstract: This research critically evaluates the value of events to cultural tourism from a cultural values...
by Dr Donald Simpson, Dr. Mark Cieslik
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
What is youth? How do we understand youth in its social and cultural context?
Mark Cieslik and Donald Simpson here provide a concise and readily accessible introduction to the interdisciplinary field of youth studies. Drawing upon the latest research and developments in the field, as well as...
Screening Asylum in a Culture of Disbelief
Truths, Denials and Skeptical Borders
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
This ethnographic book enhances our understanding of asylum screening, an area of immigration that is often overlooked and remains under-researched. Falsely perceived as a one-dimensional function of static state power, it is here revealed that asylum decisions at borders respond to a complex cultural...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
An enlightening, entertaining look at what the term lesbian really means-and what it means to be a lesbian
Twenty-First Century Lesbian Studies focuses on the field’s institutionalization into the humanities and social sciences, examining how the term lesbian is used in activist,...
Transformations of Gender and Race
Family and Developmental Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Transformations of Gender and Race will help you become a better therapist by arming you with new theories and practices that concern inclusiveness of identity, psyche, and culture in the therapy room. This book radically shifts current thinking in systemic theory and practice with individuals, children,...
Drama for Development
Cultural Translation and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
How do drama serials communicate development goals and achieve dramatic impact? What is involved in translating storylines, such as those from the BBC’s longest running radio soap opera, The Archers, for diverse local cultural contexts? Can drama serials bring about positive social change? This...
Becoming Other
From Social Interaction to SelfReflection
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
The research reported in this book is unapologetically Meadian. While the work of George Herbert Mead has been of widespread significance, and his name is often cited, there are in fact few empirical studies that have sought to rigorously instantiate his ideas. This is in part because his theory is abstruse...
New Perspectives on Detective Fiction
Mystery Magnified
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
This collection establishes new perspectives on the idea of mystery, as it is enacted and encoded in the genre of detective fiction. Essays reclaim detective fiction as an object of critical inquiry, examining the ways it shapes issues of social destabilization, moral ambiguity, reader complicity,...