Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This cutting-edge research volume advances the widely accepted perspective that cultural factors are central elements in shaping trajectories, organizational forms, recruitment, protest strategies and ideologies of social movements. Hank Johnston brings together international experts in cultural analysis...
The Changing Face of Afro-Caribbean Cultural Identity
Negrismo and Negritude
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
The Changing Face of Afro-Caribbean Cultural Identity: Negrismo and Négritude looks primarily at Negrismo and Négritude, two literary movements that appeared in the Francophone and Hispanic Caribbean as well as in Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century. It draws on speeches and manifestos,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This volume examines the relations between popular culture production and export and the state in East and Southeast Asia including the urban centres and middle-classes of Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Thailand, and the Philippines. It addresses the shift in official...
by Haiqing Yu
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
This book examines the role played by the media in China’s cultural transformation in the early years of the 21st century. In contrast to the traditional view that sees the Chinese media as nothing more than a tool of communist propaganda, it demonstrates that the media is integral to China’s...
by Soodha Mungur
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, grade: none, , course: MA Enlish with Cultural studies, language: English, abstract: Globalization is a spatio-temporal process and 'the transtionalization of capitalism, interconnected to world economic system' . Gayatri...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Since the late nineteenth century, religious ideas and practices in Japan have become increasingly intertwined with those associated with mental health and healing. This relationship developed against the backdrop of a far broader, and deeply consequential meeting: between Japan’s long-standing,...
Thai Sex Talk
The Language of Sex and Sexuality in Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The Thai language has extraordinarily rich, varied, and multi-leveled vocabularies for sexual anatomy, sexual behaviors, sexual identities, and attitudes to sexuality. The authors of this in-depth study of twenty-one keywords deal directly and unflinchingly with the language of sex in Thailand in...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
In 1962, the Commonwealth Immigrants Act hastened the process of South Asian migration to postcolonial Britain. Half a decade later, now is an opportune moment to revisit the accumulated writing about the diasporas formed through subsequent settlement, and to probe the ways in which the South Asian...
Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage
Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and the Politics of Cultural Continuity in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage is an interdisciplinary exploration of the intersections between the study and management of physical sites and the reproduction of intangible cultural legacies. The volume provides nine case studies that explore different ways in which place is mediated...
Contemporary Social Issues in East Asian Societies
Examining the Spectrum of Public and Private Spheres
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
While the balance between private and public sectors are based primarily on the experiences of the wealthy societies in Western Europe and North America, the global reach and increased political weight of East Asian economies is bound to influence other societies as well. Contemporary Social Issues in...
The Public Image of the Immigrant in Italy
An Inquiry into Public Opinion of Immigrant Involvement in Crime and Immigrant Policy Related Issues
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
The original empirical research studies contained in this book represent a series of social science inquiries aimed at measuring public opinion of immigrant involvement in crime as well as opinions on certain aspects of immigrant policies in Italy. Each of the three original research empirical studies...
Heritage, Diaspora and the Consumption of Culture
Movements in Irish Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Using an interdisciplinary and transhistorical framework this book examines the cultural, material, and symbolic articulations of Irish migration relationships from the medieval period through to the contemporary post-Celtic Tiger era. With attention to people’s different uses of social space, relationships...
The Culturalization of Caste in India
Identity and Inequality in a Multicultural Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
In India, caste groups ensure their durability in an era of multiculturalism by officially representing caste as cultural difference or ethnicity rather than as unequal descent-based relations. Challenging dominant social theories of caste, this book addresses questions of how caste survives the system...
Latino Social Policy
A Participatory Research Model
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Examine alternative strategies to resolving important Latino social issues!
Latino Social Policy: A Participatory Research Model examines the failure of traditional research methods to address major social needs in Latino communities, promoting instead a participatory/action approach to research...