Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
This book examines the influence of mobile media technology on the lives of young people in East and North Asia, South East Asia and Australia. It discusses the impact information communication technologies have today on social identity, well-being, participation and exclusion. It explores current...
Northeast India
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Northeast India is a multifaceted and dynamic region that is constantly in focus because of its fragile political landscape characterized by endemic violence and conflicts. One of the first of its kind, this reader on Northeast India examines myriad aspects of the region – its people and its linguistic...
Reforming food in post-Famine Ireland
Medicine, science and improvement, 1845–1922
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Reforming food in post-famine Ireland: Medicine, science and improvement, 1845–1922 is the first dedicated study of how and why Irish eating habits dramatically transformed between the famine and independence. It also investigates the simultaneous reshaping of Irish food production after the famine....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2019
How do racialized migrant mothers contest hegemonic racialized formations of citizenship? Bringing together leading scholars from international and multi-disciplinary perspectives, this book shows how migrant mothers realise and problematise their role in bringing up future citizens in modern societies,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Most early approaches to encouraging social development focused on economic and technical issues. This volume begins from the premise that economic and technical patterns are embedded in cultural patterns. These patterns of custom and belief are sometimes elaborate, and they can act as barriers to...
Cultural Heritage, Ageing, Disability, and Identity
Practice, and the development of inclusive capital
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Cultural Heritage, Ageing, Disability, and Identity examines the effects of disability and ageing on engagement with cultural heritage and associated cultural identity formation processes. Combining theory with detailed case study research, it unpicks both the current state of play and future directions.
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by Amanda Nell Edgar, Andre E. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
In The Struggle over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter, Amanda Nell Edgar and Andre E. Johnson examine the surprisingly complex relationship between Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter as it unfolds on social media and in offline interpersonal relationships. Exploring cultural influences...
Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology
2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
The thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology provides an unparalleled overview of sociological and related scholarship on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life. With 70 essays written by scholars from around the...
Crime, Deviance and Popular Culture
International and Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2019
This book explores the links between crime, deviance and popular culture in our highly-mediatised era, offering an insight into the cultural processes through which particular practices acquire a criminal or deviant status, and come to be seen as social problems. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach,...
Rights to Culture
Heritage, Language and Community in Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
This collection brings together original, small-scale, ethnographic research on minorities and communities contesting heritage, livelihood, language, and citizenship in Thailand. The case studies included here look at the rights of communities to manage their own cultural and natural resources across...
Contested Waters
A Social History of Swimming Pools in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
From nineteenth-century public baths to today's private backyard havens, swimming pools have long been a provocative symbol of American life. In this social and cultural history of swimming pools in the United States, Jeff Wiltse relates how, over the years, pools have served as asylums for the urban...
No Tea, No Shade
New Writings in Black Queer Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
The follow-up to the groundbreaking Black Queer Studies, the edited collection No Tea, No Shade brings together nineteen essays from the next generation of scholars, activists, and community leaders doing work on black gender and sexuality. Building on the foundations laid by the earlier volume, this...
Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time
The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
Founded in Baltimore in 1828 by a French Sulpician priest and a mulatto Caribbean immigrant, the Oblate Sisters of Providence formed the first permanent African American Roman Catholic sisterhood in the United States. It still exists today. Exploring the antebellum history of this pioneering sisterhood,...
Native Men Remade
Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai‘i
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
Many indigenous Hawaiian men have felt profoundly disempowered by the legacies of colonization and by the tourist industry, which, in addition to occupying a great deal of land, promotes a feminized image of Native Hawaiians (evident in the ubiquitous figure of the dancing hula girl). In the 1990s...