Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Britishness, Popular Music, and National Identity
The Making of Modern Britain
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
This book offers a major exploration of the social and cultural importance of popular music to contemporary celebrations of Britishness. Rather than providing a history of popular music or an itemization of indigenous musical qualities, it exposes the influential cultural and nationalist rhetoric...
To Come to a Better Understanding
Medicine Men and Clergy Meetings on the Rosebud Reservation, 1973–1978
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
To Come to a Better Understanding analyzes the cultural encounters of the medicine men and clergy meetings held on Rosebud Reservation in St. Francis, South Dakota, from 1973 through 1978. Organized by Father Stolzman, a Catholic priest studying Lakota religious practice, the meetings fit the goal...
Constructing Black Selves
Caribbean American Narratives and the Second Generation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
In 1965, the Hart-Cellar Immigration Reform Act ushered in a huge wave of immigrants from across the Caribbean—Jamaicans, Cubans, Haitians, and Dominicans, among others. How have these immigrants and their children negotiated languages of race and ethnicity in American social and cultural politics?...
Escape from New York
The New Negro Renaissance beyond Harlem
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In the midst of vast cultural and political shifts in the early twentieth century, politicians and cultural observers variously hailed and decried the rise of the “New Negro.” This phenomenon was most clearly manifest in the United States through the outpouring of Black arts and letters and social...
by David Hesmondhalgh
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
An undisputed classic, the Fourth Edition of this bestselling media studies text offers an unparalleled analysis of the cultural industries.
Bringing together a huge range of research, theory and key concepts, David Hesmondhalgh provides an accessible yet critical exploration of cultural...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This collection provides an in-depth and up-to-date examination of the concept of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the issues surrounding its value to society. Critically engaging with the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, the book also discusses local-level...
by Ornette D. Clennon
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
This book draws on case examples of contemporary black activism in South Manchester and contrasts them with events that surrounded C.L.R. James and his activism between 1935 and 1950. In doing so, the author considers what Brexit, the Labour Party and Theresa May’s audit on racism in the UK have...
Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities
Dancing on Empire's Stage
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities explores what happens when a national-cultural production is reproduced outside the immediate social, political and cultural context of its origin.
Whereas most previous studies have analysed Indian classical dance in...
East Asian Men
Masculinity, Sexuality and Desire
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
This book provides a fresh and contemporary take on the study of men and masculinity. It highlights new and exciting approaches to sexuality, desire, men and masculinity in East Asian contexts, focusing on the interconnections between them. In doing so, it re-examines the key concepts that underpin...
Leisure and Death
An Anthropological Tour of Risk, Death, and Dying
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
This anthropological study examines the relationship between leisure and death, specifically how leisure practices are used to meditate upon—and mediate—life. Considering travelers who seek enjoyment but encounter death and dying, tourists who accidentally face their own mortality while vacationing,...
U.S. Central Americans
Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
In summer 2014, a surge of unaccompanied child migrants from Central America to the United States gained mainstream visibility—yet migration from Central America has been happening for decades. U.S. Central Americans explores the shared yet distinctive experiences, histories, and cultures of 1.5-and...
Sustainable Modernity
The Nordic Model and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351765633, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
In the 21st century, Norway, Denmark and Sweden remain the icons of fair societies,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Cross-cultural psychology has come of age as a scientific discipline, but how has it developed? The field has moved from exploratory studies, in which researchers were mainly interested in finding differences in psychological functioning without any clear expectation, to detailed hypothesis tests...
Indian Transnationalism Online
New Perspectives on Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Present-day migration takes place in a world characterized by the compression of time and space, with cheaper air travel and the existence of new communication technologies - the internet in particular - making it easier to stay in contact with the places, people and cultures that one has left. This...