Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Racism in the United States, Second Edition
Implications for the Helping Professions
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
This comprehensive text thoroughly reviews the theories and history of racism, the sociology of and the psychology of racism, intergroup relations and intergroup conflict, and how racism is manifested institutionally, between groups, and between people, providing a unique view of the connections between...
The Arab-Israeli Conflict in the Media
Producing Shared Memory and National Identity in the Global Television Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
The television industry has metamorphosised from a national and largely-monopolized sector to a commercial and global enterprise. This has profoundly altered the way 'historical truth' and shared memory are constructed and conveyed. Despite the tremendous impact of this development, it has yet to...
Muslim Women in Britain
De-Mystifying the Muslimah
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Perceptions of Muslim women in Western society have been shaped by historical and sociological conditions such as colonialism, patriarchy and Orientalism. In Muslim Women in Britain, Sariya Contractor seeks to reinstate the Muslimah as a storyteller who tells her own story.
An exploration of...
Critical Animal and Media Studies
Communication for Nonhuman Animal Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
This book aims to put the speciesism debate and the treatment of non-human animals on the agenda of critical media studies and to put media studies on the agenda of animal ethics researchers. Contributors examine the convergence of media and animal ethics from theoretical, philosophical, discursive,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Asian Popular Culture in Transition examines contemporary consumption practices in South Korea, China, India, and Japan, and both updates and extends popular culture studies of the region. Through an interdisciplinary lens, this collection of essays explores how recent advances and shifts in information...
Japan in Singapore
Cultural Occurrences and Cultural Flows
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
The Japanese impact on Southeast Asia has been profound, not only in terms of economic presence, but equally in terms of an increasingly visible cultural presence. Food, fashion, TV, film, religion, sport, popular music, ideas about management and social relationships and even local literatures have...
Bodies of Evidence : The Practice of Queer Oral History
The Practice of Queer Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Bodies of Evidence: The Practice of Queer Oral History is the first book to provide serious scholarly insight into the methodological practices that shape lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer oral histories. Each chapter pairs an oral history excerpt with an essay in which the oral historian...
Women, Work, and Globalization
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Women increasingly make up a significant percentage of the labor force throughout the world. This transformation is impacting everyone's lives. This book examines the resulting gender role, work, and family issues from a comparative worldwide perspective. Working allows women to earn an income, acquire...
Population Policy and Reproduction in Singapore
Making Future Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
This book examines the relationship between population policies and individual reproductive decisions in low-fertility contexts. Using the case study of Singapore, it demonstrates that the effectiveness of population policy is a function of competing notions of citizenship, and the gap between seemingly...
Disability and Mothering
Liminal Spaces of Embodied Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Editors Lewiecki-Wilson and Cellio have put together the first book to focus on the intersecting spaces, both cultural and personal, of disability and mothering. Derived from the Latin for threshold, the word "liminal" calls attention to the book’s focus on the transitional moments and spaces where...
Sex Trafficking in South Asia
Telling Maya's Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
This book is a critical feminist analysis of sex trafficking. Arguing that trafficking in girls and women is a product of the social construction of gender and other dimensions of power and status within a particular culture and at a particular historical moment, this book offers the necessary locally...
by John Hartley
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
An ambitious rendering of the digital future from a pioneer of media and cultural studies, a wise and witty take on a changing field, and our orientation to it
Investigates the uses of multimedia by creative and productive citizen-consumers to provide new theories of communication that accommodate...
Football and Accelerated Culture
This Modern Sporting Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
In Football and Accelerated Culture, Steve Redhead offers a new and challenging theorisation of global football culture, exploring the relationship between sport and culture in a rapidly shifting world. Incorporating cutting-edge concepts, from accelerated culture and claustropolitanism to non-postmodernity,...
Latinos in American Society
Families and Communities in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
It is well known that Latinos in the United States bear a disproportionate burden of low educational attainment, high residential segregation, and low visibility in the national political landscape. In Latinos in American Society, Ruth Enid Zambrana brings together the latest research on Latinos in...