Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
by Carlton Munson, Tricia Bent-Goodley
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Critical analyses of policies that significantly affect African-American families and communities!
African-American Social Workers and Social Policy is the first book of its kind to combine the voices of African-American social work professionals on social policy in one volume. You'll learn...
Walk into Your Season
The Art of Cultural Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
The significance of Walk into Your Season is that it ponders whether a cultural worker can renew the role of free spaces of empowerment to address power differentials utilizing key contributors such as the traditions and language of a culture; the cultural workers potential to facilitate action and...
The Korean Wave
Korean Media Go Global
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Since the late 1990s South Korea has emerged as a new center for the production of transnational popular culture - the first instance of a major global circulation of Korean popular culture in history. Why popular (or not)? Why now? What does it mean socially, culturally and politically in a global...
Neoliberalism and Culture in China and Hong Kong
The Countdown of Time
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
This book examines the period leading up to the Hong Kong handover in 1997 - the 'countdown of time', and by using iconic cultural symbols such as the countdown clock, the Hong Kong Museum exhibitions and cultural heritage sites, argues that China has undergone a transition to neoliberal state, in...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Unprecedented social change in China has intensified the contradictions faced by ordinary people. In everyday life, people find themselves caught between official and popular discourses, encounter radically different representations of China's past and its future, and draw on widely diverse moral...
Consumers and Individuals in China
Standing Out, Fitting In
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Breaking new ground in the study of Chinese urban society, this book applies critical discourse analysis to ethnographic data gathered in Anshan, a third-tier city and market in northeast China. The book confronts the – still widespread – notion that Chinese consumers are not "real"...
The Social Process of Globalization
Return Migration and Cultural Change in Kazakhstan
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
It is often argued that globalization fosters 'hybridity', as some cultural imports are accepted, while others are 'localized', and others still are rejected outright. Yet we know relatively little about the social processes and mechanisms involved in cultural globalization. This book offers an empirically...
Pederasts and Others
Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Examine how a community of support in Nineteenth-Century Paris became a blueprint for modern sexual identity!
A unique social history, Pederasts and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris is a valuable addition to the growing field of gay and lesbian studies....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage examines the social, cultural, political and economic value of popular music as history and heritage. Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, the volume explores the relationship between popular music and the past, and how interpretations...
Cultural Geographies
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Cultural geography is a major, vibrant subdiscipline of human geography. Cultural geographers have done some of the most important, exciting and thought-provokingly zesty work in human geography over the last half-century.
This book exists to provide an introduction to the remarkably diverse,...
A View from the Bottom
Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
A View from the Bottom offers a major critical reassessment of male effeminacy and its racialization in visual culture. Examining portrayals of Asian and Asian American men in Hollywood cinema, European art film, gay pornography, and experimental documentary, Nguyen Tan Hoang explores the cultural...
Crescent City Girls
The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
What was it like to grow up black and female in the segregated South? To answer this question, LaKisha Simmons blends social history and cultural studies, recreating children's streets and neighborhoods within Jim Crow New Orleans and offering a rare look into black girls' personal lives. Simmons...
Navigating Souths
Transdisciplinary Explorations of a U.S. Region
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The work of considering, imagining, and theorizing the U.S. South in regional, national, and global contexts is an intellectual project that has been going on for some time. Scholars in history, literature, and other disciplines have developed an advanced understanding of the historical, social, and...
The Machinery of Whiteness
Studies in the Structure of Racialization
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
In this follow up to his book, The Rule of Racialization—which considered the way class structure is formed in the U.S.—Steve Martinot now examines how the structures of racialization reside at the core of all social, cultural, and political institutions in the U.S. In The Machinery of Whiteness,...