Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Being Middle-class in India
A Way of Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Hailed as the beneficiary, driving force and result of globalisation, India’s middle-class is puzzling in its diversity, as a multitude of traditions, social formations and political constellations manifest contribute to this project. This book looks at Indian middle-class lifestyles through a number...
by Ronald C. Fox
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Learn the latest practical-and bisexually affirmative-approaches to helping bisexual clients
Clinical work with bisexual clients has conceptually shifted beyond the exclusive emphasis on either straight or lesbian and gay issues. There are still, however, too few psychotherapists who provide...
Social Memory Technology
Theory, Practice, Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Memory is a fundamental aspect of being and becoming, intimately entwined with space, time, place, landscape, emotion, imagination and identity. Memory studies is a burgeoning field of enquiry drawing from a range of social science, arts and humanities disciplines including human geography, sociology,...
Trade and Exchange
Archaeological Studies from History and Prehistory
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2009
Long before the advent of the global economy, foreign goods were transported, traded, and exchanged through myriad means, over short and long distances. Archaeological tools for identifying foreign objects, such as provenance studies, stylistic analyses, and economic documentary sources reveal non-local...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This volume explores how migration is playing a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the fast growing and rapidly changing cities of Asia. Migration trends in Asia entered a new phase in the 1990s following the end of the Cold War which marked the advent of a renewed phase...
Democratization and Social Movements in South Korea
Defiant Institutionalization
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
South Korea provides an intellectual challenge in the fields of social movements and democracy in that intense mobilization and the strong influence of social movements have accompanied steady democratization for more than two decades, despite major theories having predicted otherwise.
This...
Islamic Civilization in South Asia
A History of Muslim Power and Presence in the Indian Subcontinent
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Muslims have been present in South Asia for 14 centuries. Nearly 40% of the people of this vast land mass follow the religion of Islam, and Muslim contribution to the cultural heritage of the sub-continent has been extensive. This textbook provides both undergraduate and postgraduate students, as...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The colonial legacy in the construction of the modern Indian state has left a deep imprint on contemporary Indians’ self-identity and self-determination. Borderland Politics in Northern India is a collection of essays, giving detailed accounts of the many different ways that people throughout India...
A Visual History of HIV/AIDS
Exploring The Face of AIDS film archive
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
The Face of AIDS film archive at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, consists of more than 700 hours of unedited and edited footage, shot over a period of more than thirty years and all over the world by filmmaker and journalist Staffan Hildebrand. The material documents the HIV/AIDS pandemic and includes...
Global Diasporas and Development
Socioeconomic, Cultural, and Policy Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
This volume discusses how diasporas have evolved and engaged in economic, social and cultural domains of their host and home countries across the globe. The volume is divided into six parts: Issues, Challenges and Development Experiences; Diaspora Finance and Economic Development; Knowledge Transfer...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Emotion, Affective Practices, and the Past in the Presentis a response to debates in the humanities and social sciences about the use of emotion. This timely and unique book explores the ways emotion is embroiled and used in contemporary engagements with the past, particularly in contexts such as...
Buddhist Monasticism in East Asia
Places of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
The area of Buddhist monasticism has long attracted the interest of Buddhist studies scholars and historians, but the interpretation of the nature and function of monasteries across diverse cultures and vast historical periods remains a focus for debate. This book provides a multifaceted discussion...
Body Counts
The Vietnam War and Militarized Refugees
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2014
Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es) examines how the Vietnam War has continued to serve as a stage for the shoring up of American imperialist adventure and for the (re)production of American and Vietnamese American identities. Focusing on the politics of war memory and commemoration,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
This provocative and often controversial volume examines concepts of ethnicity, citizenship and nationhood, to determine what constituted cultural identity in the Roman Empire. The contributors draw together the most recent research and use diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives from...