Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
A Cultural Approach to Emotional Disorders
Psychological and Aesthetic Interpretations
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
In her latest contribution to the growing field of emotion studies, Deidre Pribram makes a compelling argument for why culturalist approaches to the study of emotional "disorders" continue to be eschewed, even as the sociocultural and historical study of mental illness flourishes. The author ties...
Bridging Cultures
Cultural Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, grade: 75%, Queensland University of Technology, language: English, abstract: The aim of this essay is to discuss different theories of cultural intelligence (CI). It will first explain how the concept of CI evolved,...
Disability and Culture: The usefulness of Davis' argument about the relationship between the concept of normalcy and cultural production
Disability in Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, grade: 1:1 (First Class), , language: English, abstract: Disability is a natural part of the human condition. Almost everyone you cross paths with will possess some form of deviance from the socially enforced ideological...
After the Cosmopolitan?
Multicultural Cities and the Future of Racism
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2005
After the Cosmopolitan? argues that both racial divisions and intercultural dialogue can only be understood in the context of the urbanism through which they are realized.
All the key debates in cultural theory and urban studies are covered in detail:
the growth of cultural industries...
Prostitution and Beyond
An Analysis of Sex Workers in India
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2008
What is the diversity of perspectives on sex work in India today? This edited volume addresses this question through its sections on feminist discourse, ethnographic studies, socio-economic-legal-health frameworks and cultural reflections.
The first section explores the space for women in prostitution...
The Effects of Cultural Traditions on the Education of women
The Study of the Tumbuka People of Zambia
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2013 in the subject Women Studies / Gender Studies, grade: ''-', , course: Education, language: English, abstract: The strong hold that the cultural traditions has on the locals has further resulted in conflicts with modern schooling, which is viewed as...
Surveillance, Capital and Resistance
Theorizing the Surveillance Subject
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Surveillance, Capital and Resistance is a major contribution to current debates on the subjective experience of surveillance. Based on a large research project undertaken in a Northern City in the UK and focusing mainly on the use of surveillance in the context of policing and security, the book explores...
How to Have Theory in an Epidemic
Cultural Chronicles of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 1999
Paula A. Treichler has become a singularly important voice among the significant theorists on the AIDS crisis. Dissecting the cultural politics surrounding representations of HIV and AIDS, her work has altered the field of cultural studies by establishing medicine as a legitimate focus for cultural...
Japan's Household Registration System and Citizenship
Koseki, Identification and Documentation
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Japan’s Household Registration System (koseki seido) is an extremely powerful state instrument, and is socially entrenched with a long history of population governance, social control and the maintenance of social order. It provides identity whilst at the same time imposing identity upon everyone...
Heritage Revitalisation for Tourism in Hong Kong
The Role of Interpretive Planning
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Heritage tourism is a global multi-million-dollar phenomenon, influencing national, regional and local cultural identities. Hong Kong finds itself at the confluence of several post-colonial economic, political and social developments and with this comes a greater awareness of the need for more meaningful...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
India is the second largest country in the world with regard to population, the world’s largest democracy and by far the largest country in South Asia, and one of the most diverse and pluralistic nations in the world in terms of official languages, cultures, religions and social identities. Indians...
by Sara Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Blood Will Tell explores the ways in which writers, thinkers, and politicians used blood and vampire-related imagery to express social and cultural anxieties in the decades leading up to the First World War. Covering a wide variety of topics, including science, citizenship, gender, and anti-Semitism,...
The Cultural Politics of Human Rights
Comparing the US and UK
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2009
How does culture make a difference to the realisation of human rights in Western states? It is only through cultural politics that human rights may become more than abstract moral ideals, protecting human beings from state violence and advancing protection from starvation and the social destruction...
Public Art Encounters
Art, Space and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Public art is produced and ‘lived’ within multiple, interlaced and contested political, economic, social and cultural-symbolic spheres. This lively collection is a mix of academic and practice-based writings that scrutinise conventional claims on the inclusiveness of public art practice. Contributions...