Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Media, Modernity and Technology
The Geography of the New
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
From best-selling author David Morley, this book presents a set of interlinked essays which discuss and examine some of the key debates in the fields of media and cultural studies.
Spanning the last decade, this fascinating and readable book is based on interdisciplinary work on the interface...
The New Rich in China
Future rulers, present lives
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2008
Three decades of reform since 1978 in the People’s Republic of China have resulted in the emergence of new social groups which have included new occupations and professions generated as the economy has opened up and developed and, most spectacularly given the legacy of state socialism, the identification...
by Nell Irvin Painter
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
The color line, once all too solid in southern public life, still exists in the study of southern history. As distinguished historian Nell Irvin Painter notes, historians often still write about the South as though people of different races occupied entirely different spheres. In truth, although blacks...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Intellectual Property, Cultural Property and Intangible Cultural Heritage examines various notions of property in relation to intangible cultural heritage and discusses how these ideas are employed in rights discourses by governments and indigenous and local communities around the world.
There...
Transforming Society
Strategies for Social Development from Singapore, Asia and Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Social change affects all quarters of life and human society whether in individual neighbourhoods, communities or nations, or in the world as a whole – encompassing many issues of gender, age, social class and ethnicity. This book examines both the conceptual as well as operational aspects of social...
Mediating Faiths
Religion and Socio-Cultural Change in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Religion is living culture. It continues to play a role in shaping political ideologies, institutional practices, communities of interest, ways of life and social identities. Mediating Faiths brings together scholars working across a range of fields, including cultural studies, media, sociology, anthropology,...
Arab Cultural Studies
History, Politics and the Popular
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book seeks to both showcase and further develop innovative research and debates on contemporary Arab cultural production. Popular culture in the form of cinema, popular music, literature, visual media and cyber-cultures, both local and imported, enjoy a central role in Arab cultural life, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Taiwan has been hailed as a successful case of democratization. Compared with many other nations, the transition from authoritarian rule occurred in a rather orderly fashion. Group consciousness emerged as a reaction to the decades-long suppression of cultural diversity under martial law as different...
The Dressed Society
Clothing, the Body and Some Meanings of the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2008
It was traditionally said that 'clothes maketh the man'. But what codes and meanings are associated with dress in a society that consists of divisions between class, race, gender, family status and religion? Is social and cultural life still fundamentally themed by the clothes that we wear? If so,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Ours is the age of celebrity. An inescapable aspect of daily life in our media-saturated societies of the twenty-first century, celebrity is celebrated for its infinite plasticity and glossy seductions. But there is also a darker side. Celebrity culture is littered from end to end with addictions,...
Screening Culture, Viewing Politics
An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 1999
In Screening Culture, Viewing Politics Purnima Mankekar presents a cutting-edge ethnography of television-viewing in India. With a focus on the responses of upwardly-mobile, yet lower-to-middle class urban women to state-sponsored entertainment serials, Mankekar demonstrates how television in India...
Toward an Urban Cultural Studies
Henri Lefebvre and the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Toward an Urban Cultural Studies is a call for a new interdisciplinary area of research and teaching. Blending Urban Studies and Cultural Studies, this book grounds readers in the extensive theory of the prolific French philosopher Henri Lefebvre.
Social Life and Political Life in the Era of Digital Media
Higher Diversities
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Digital technology has vastly broadened and complexified social life, levelling opportunities for communication and producing a new awareness of the importance of diversity of social relations, as well as of life on the planet. This book explores the ways in which social media, by encouraging human...
The Culture of Cursilería
Bad Taste, Kitsch, and Class in Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2003
Not easily translated, the Spanish terms cursi and cursilería refer to a cultural phenomenon widely prevalent in Spanish society since the nineteenth century. Like "kitsch," cursi evokes the idea of bad taste, but it also suggests one who has pretensions of refinement and elegance without...