Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy brings together a range of international experts to critically analyze the ways that governmental actors and non-governmental entities attempt to influence the production and implementation of urban policies directed at the arts, culture, and creative activity....
Hegemony, Mass Media and Cultural Studies
Properties of Meaning, Power, and Value in Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
In the early part of the 20th century, state and corporate propagandists used the mass media to promote the valor and rightness of ascending U.S. hegemony on the global stage. Critics who challenged these practices of mass persuasion were quickly discredited by the emergent field of communication...
Media, Communication, Culture
A Global Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Media, Communication, Culture offers a bold and comprehensive analysis of developments in the field amidst the effects of postmodernism and globalization. James Lull, one of the leading scholars in the discipline, draws from a wide range of social and cultural theory, including the work of John B....
Cultural Legal Studies
Law's Popular Cultures and the Metamorphosis of Law
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
What can law’s popular cultures do for law, as a constitutive and interrogative critical practice? This collection explores such a question through the lens of the ‘cultural legal studies’ movement, which proffers a new encounter with the ‘cultural turn’ in law and legal theory. Moving...
by Graeme Turner
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
is a comprehensive introduction to the British tradition of cultural studies. Turner offers an accessible overview of the central themes that have informed British cultural studies: language, semiotics, Marxism and ideology, individualism, subjectivity and discourse. Beginning with a history of cultural...
Studio Studies
Operations, Topologies & Displacements
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Consider the vast array of things around you, from the building you are in, the lights illuminating the interior, the computational devices mediating your life, the music in the background, even the crockery, furniture and glassware you are in the presence of. Common to all these objects is that their...
by Susan B. Kaiser
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Bridging theory and practice, this accessible text provides an introduction to fashion from both cultural studies and fashion studies perspectives, and addresses the growing interaction between the two fields.
Cultural studies relies on fashion to exemplify change as well as continuity, examine...
Racism and Cultural Studies
Critiques of Multiculturalist Ideology and the Politics of Difference
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2002
In Racism and Cultural Studies E. San Juan Jr. offers a historical-materialist critique of practices in multiculturalism and cultural studies. Rejecting contemporary theories of inclusion as affirmations of the capitalist status quo, San Juan envisions a future of politically equal and economically...
Body Studies
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
In recent years, body studies has expanded rapidly, becoming an increasingly popular field of study within anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies. This groundbreaking textbook takes the topics and theories from these disciplines, and combines them into one single, easily accessible text for...
New Forms of Consumption
Consumers, Culture, and Commodification
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
Consumption as a field of cultural studies overlaps with theories of postmodernism, the social construction of self, commodification in late capitalism, and the role of mass media in daily life. New forms of consumption such as those facilitated by cyberspace, themed environments, the commodification...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
The idea of cultural reproduction was first developed by Bourdieu (1973) who sees the function of the education system as being to reproduce the culture of the dominant classes, thus helping to ensure their continued dominance. Through his concepts of cultural capital' and habitus' Bourdieu's influence...
Worlding Multiculturalisms
The Politics of Inter-Asian Dwelling
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Worlding multiculturalisms are practices that infuse our arbitrary cultural lives with new things from other cultures in poetic ways to enable us to dwell and be at home with the complexity of the world. In the context of the crisis of multiculturalism in the West and the growing obsolescence of state-based...
by Professor Graeme Turner
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
“An outstanding achievement... Graeme Turner writes with power and persuasion, and brilliantly explores what it is about celebrity today that should concern us all” - Sean Redmond, Deakin University “A key touchstone for celebrity studies. Turner thoughtfully illuminates the variety of production...
by Jodie Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The Festivalization of Culture explores the links between various local and global cultures, communities, identities and lifestyle narratives as they are both constructed and experienced in the festival context. Drawing on a wide range of case studies from Australia and Europe, festivals are examined...