Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
by Briony McDonagh
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape, 1700–1830 offers a detailed study of elite women’s relationships with landed property, specifically as they were mediated through the lens of their estate management and improvement. This highly original book provides an explicitly feminist historical...
by Paul Bowman, Professor of Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, UK
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
What do martial arts signify today? What do they mean for East-West cross cultural exchanges? How does the representation of martial arts in popular culture impact on the wide world? What is authentic practice? What does it all mean?
From Kung Fu to Jiujitsu and from Bruce Lee to The Karate...
Fashion Tales
Feeding the Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Since its beginnings in the middle of the 19th century, fashion has been narrated through multiple media, both visual and verbal, and for such different purposes as marketing and advertising, art, costume history, social research and cultural dissemination. In this light, fashion has represented an...
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Memoirs of Mo
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
During the last three years of his life, Modesto E. Ellano, Jr. (Mo) wrote this inspiring story of a troubled youth who eventually became a productive and fulfilled man as a university professor, instructing others in the subject and ethics of social work. Growing up in the Depression at a time when...
Latinx Studies
The Key Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts is an accessible guide to the central concepts and issues that inform Latinx Studies globally. It summarizes, explains, contextualizes, and assesses key critical concepts, perspectives, developments, and debates in Latinx Studies. At once comprehensive in coverage...
The Crisis of Cultural Intelligence
The Anthropology of CivilMilitary Operations
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Military and civilian organizations in the past have attempted to understand culture and the cultural environment of conflict zones through anthropology. While there is a small and growing number of studies examining the use of anthropology for counterinsurgency, no studies have compared the Anglo-Saxon...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
This book examines social aspects of humour relating to the judiciary, judicial behaviour, and judicial work across different cultures and eras, identifying how traditionally recorded wit and humorous portrayals of judges reflect social attitudes to the judiciary over time. It contributes to cultural...
Dreaming Mobility and Buying Vulnerability
Overseas Recruitment Practices in India
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
In the alarming contemporary context of widespread corruption and fraudulence in the overseas labour recruitment system in India, this book attempts to understand the institution of emigration governance and recruitment practices in the country with a focus on the unskilled and semi-skilled sectors....
Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in Laos
Perspective for Today's World
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Using the case study of Laos, a small landlocked country in Southeast Asia that has seen some of the world’s most brutal forms of poverty and violence, this book examines the power of traditional and indigenous conflict resolution systems as a tool for social justice. It explores how the conflict...
Interpreting the Chinese Diaspora
Identity, Socialisation, and Resilience According to Pierre Bourdieu
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Globalisation and migration have created a vibrant yet dysphoric world fraught with different, and sometimes competing, practices and discourses. The emergent properties of the modern world inevitably complicate the being, doing, and thinking of Chinese diasporic populations living in predominantly...
Gender and Sexuality in the Migration Trajectories
Studies between the Northern and Southern Mediterranean Shores
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The concept of “gender” has recently become one of the symbols of what many consider “a clash of civilizations” between the West and Muslim countries. Recent events highlight how gender issues are emblematic of the basic traits of a country's culture, and thus constitute some of the elements...
Transcending the Color Line
The Sociology of Black Experience in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
"Transcending the Color Line", by sociologist and professor Bobby E. Mills, PhD, represents a philosophical attempt to make sense out of American black collective experience. This collection of essays does not reflect traditional sociological perspectives and methodological considerations. Instead, the...
by Camilla A. Montoya, Julieta V. García, Veronica Carrera
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Silencing Gender, Age, Ethnicity and Cultural Biases in Leadership is an edited volume containing eight chapters, each a real-life account from a Latina in a leadership position in the United States. These women discuss how their professional goals may conflict with their culture’s expectations...
The Toda Landscape
Explorations in Cultural Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
The Toda people of the Nilgiris District in south India are one of the oldest indigenous groups in South Asia; they are also reportedly among the most studied and written-about in the region. While the field was dominated by Western scholars in the beginning, Indian researchers and writers began contributing...