Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
How Long? How Long?
African American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 1997
A compelling and readable narrative history, How Long? How Long? presents both a rethinking of social movement theory and a controversial thesis: that chroniclers have egregiously neglected the most important leaders of the Civil Rights movement, African-American women, in favor of higher-profile...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Originating in the 1820s and used for 150 years thereafter, qiaopi is the name given in Chinese to letters written home by Chinese emigrants to accompany remittances. Their key function was to preserve family ties. Although such correspondence focused principally on the provision of economic support,...
Asia.com
Asia Encounters the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
The internet is developing quicker in Asia than in any other region of the world. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the information society in an Asian context, and the impact of these technologies in Asia. These impacts are inevitably uneven and conditioned by issues of telecommunications...
Taiwan's Social Movements under Ma Ying-jeou
From the Wild Strawberries to the Sunflowers
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
In the spring of 2014, the Sunflower Movement’s three-week occupation of the Legislative Yuan brought Taiwan back to international media attention. It was the culmination of a series of social movements that had been growing in strength since 2008 and have become even more salient since the spring...
Women and Gender in Contemporary Chinese Societies
Beyond Han Patriarchy
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Recent attention to historical, geographic, and class differences in the studies of women and gender in China has expanded our understanding of the diversity and complexity of gendered China. Nevertheless, the ethnic dimension of this subject matter remains largely overlooked, particularly concerning...
Movement, Power and Place in Central Asia and Beyond
Contested Trajectories
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Central Asia is a region singularly marked by attempts to transform social life by transforming place. Drawing together established scholars and a new generation of historians, geographers and anthropologists, this volume brings empirical specificity and theoretical depth to debates about the politics...
by Christel N. Temple
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Literary Pan-Africanism: History, Contexts, and Criticism (2005) and Literary Spaces: Introduction to Comparative Black Literature (2007),have been some of the most influential models of contemporary Africana Studies-based literary criticism, responds to the demand for a core disciplinary source that...
Labor Movement
How Migration Regulates Labor Markets
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2006
Throughout the industrialized world, international migrants serve as nannies, construction workers, gardeners and small-business entrepreneurs. Labor Movement suggests that the international migration of workers is necessary for the survival of industrialized economies. The book thus turns the conventional...
Postcommunism from Within
Social Justice, Mobilization, and Hegemony
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
While the decline of communism in the late twentieth century brought democracy, political freedom, and better economic prospects for many people, it also produced massive social dislocation and engendered social problems that were far less pronounced under the old regimes. The fall of state socialism...
by Richard Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Nearly twenty years after the collapse of socialism, the countries of post-socialist Eastern Europe have experienced divergent trajectories of political development. This book looks at why this is the case, based on the assumption that societies, or social orders, can be distinguished by the extent...
Global Entertainment Media
Between Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
A critical cultural materialist introduction to the study of global entertainment media.
In Global Entertainment Media, Tanner Mirrlees undertakes an analysis of the ownership, production, distribution, marketing, exhibition and consumption of global films and television shows, with an eye...
by Richard Giulianotti, Professor Roland Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
This timely book provides an engaging, clear view of the interrelationships within key globalization processes and the international sport of football.
Intelligently combining the conceptual and methodological aspects of global studies with the specific cultural conditions of the 'beautiful...
by Ben Highmore
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
What are the qualities and properties that make something cultural? What does claiming something as cultural allow us to do?
Culture offers students a workable understanding of the category ‘culture’ and explores how the realm of the ‘cultural’ can be practically explored as a way of...
Reluctant Celebrity
Affect and Privilege in Contemporary Stardom
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
In this book, Lorraine York examines the figure of the celebrity who expresses discomfort with his or her intense condition of social visibility. Bringing together the fields of celebrity studies and what Ann Cvetkovich has called the “affective turn in cultural studies”, York studies the mixed...