Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Museums and Social Activism
Engaged Protest
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Museums and Social Activism is the first study to bring together historical accounts of the African American and later American Indian civil rights-related social and reform movements that took place on the Smithsonian Mall through the 1960s and 1970s in Washington DC with the significant but unknown...
International Tourism Development and the Gulf Cooperation Council States
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This book examines the challenges facing the development of tourism in the six member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This region, which largely comprises the Arabian Peninsula, possesses some of the fastest...
The New Latino Studies Reader
A Twenty-First-Century Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
The New Latino Studies Reader is designed as a contemporary, updated, multifaceted collection of writings that bring to force the exciting, necessary scholarship of the last decades. Its aim is to introduce a new generation of students to a wide-ranging set of essays that helps them gain a truer understanding...
Social Networking
Redefining Communication in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Social Networking: Redefining Communication in the Digital Age fulfills a pressing demand in social network literature by bringing together international experts from the fields of communication, new media technologies, marketing and advertising, public relations and journalism, business, and education.
In...
Profit and Pleasure
Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Profit and Pleasure, Second Edition is a classic intervention into the relationship between capitalism and sexual identity. Rosemary Hennessy boldly reorients queer theory toward an up-close analysis of the structures of consumption, labor, and commodification, revealing how sexual identity—in the...
International Social Work Practice
Case Studies from a Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
International Social Work Practice compares and contrasts divergent social work approaches in countries around the world, providing students with a unique perspective on social work as it is actually practised. Using case studies from frontline practitioners from across the globe, this innovative...
Media Franchising
Creative License and Collaboration in the Culture Industries
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
"Johnson astutely reveals that franchises are not Borg-like assimilation machines, but, rather, complicated ecosystems within which creative workers strive to create compelling 'shared worlds.' This finely researched, breakthrough book is a must-read for anyone seeking a sophisticated understanding...
Asian American Media Activism
Fighting for Cultural Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Choice Top 25 Academic Title
How activists and minority communities use media to facilitate social change and achieve cultural citizenship.
Among the most well-known YouTubers are a cadre of talented Asian American performers, including comedian Ryan Higa and makeup artist Michelle Phan....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
As the site of crossings of colonizers, settlers, merchants, and goods, island nations such as Taiwan have seen a rich confluence of cultures, where peoples and languages were either forced to mix or did so voluntarily, due largely to colonial conquest and their crucial role in world economy. Through...
Screen Saviors
Hollywood Fictions of Whiteness
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2003
Screen Saviors studies how the self of whites is imagined in Hollywood movies—by white directors featuring white protagonists interacting with people of another color.
This collaboration by a sociologist and a film critic, using the new perspective of critical "white studies," offers...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Global in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, Creolization as Cultural Creativity explores the expressive forms and performances that come into being when cultures encounter one another. Creolization is presented as a powerful marker of identity in the postcolonial creole societies of Latin America,...
Measuring Up
How Advertising Affects Self-Image
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The mute gestures of advertising images are frozen for posterity by photographers and illustrators, gestures that, for better or worse, perpetuate a certain aesthetic and eventually become emblematic of a period. The images of today display the values of a society that has more interest in the body...
by Salim Tamari, Mark LeVine
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2005
This important volume rethinks the conventional parameters of Middle East studies through attention to popular cultural forms, producers, and communities of consumers. The volume has a broad historical scope, ranging from the late Ottoman period to the second Palestinian uprising, with a focus on...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Containing new thinking and original surveys, Media & Cultural Theory brings together leading international scholars to address key issues and debates within media and cultural studies.
Through the use of contemporary media and film texts such as Bridget Jones’ Diary and The Lord of...