Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice
The Rhetorics of Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2010
Within both feminist theory and popular culture, establishing similarities between embodied practices rooted in different cultural and geo-political contexts (e.g. ‘African’ female genital cutting and ‘Western’ cosmetic surgery) has become increasingly common as a means of countering cultural...
Flexible Citizenship
The Cultural Logics of Transnationality
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Few recent phenomena have proved as emblematic of our era, and as little understood, as globalization. Are nation-states being transformed by globalization into a single globalized economy? Do global cultural forces herald a postnational millennium? Tying ethnography to structural analysis, Flexible...
The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies
Autonomy and Representation in the University
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Originating in the 1968 student-led strike at San Francisco State University, Asian American Studies was founded as a result of student and community protests that sought to make education more accessible and relevant. While members of the Asian American communities initially served on the departmental...
Social Work with Latinos
Social, Economic, Political, and Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
The focus on Latinos in the United States has generally overlooked key social-economic-political dimensions that are not only growing in importance, but may ultimately hold an important key to how well this group does in the immediate and distant future in the country. The approximate ten-year period...
by Duane Champagne, University of California, Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
This book defines the broad parameters of social change for Native American nations in the twenty-first century, as well as their prospects for cultural continuity. Many of the themes Champagne tackles are of general interest in the study of social change including governmental, economic, religious,...
by Allan Watson
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Recording studios are the most insulated, intimate and privileged sites of music production and creativity. Yet in a world of intensified globalisation, they are also sites which are highly connected into wider networks of music production that are increasingly spanning the globe. This book is the...
Cultural Studies and the 'Juridical Turn'
Culture, law, and legitimacy in the era of neoliberal capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
The relationship between culture and the law has become an emergent concern within contemporary Cultural Studies as a field, but the recent focus has been largely limited to the role played by cultural representations and identity politics in the legitimation of legal discourse and policies. While...
Sinologism
An Alternative to Orientalism and Postcolonialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Why, for centuries, have the West and the world continuously produced China knowledge that deviates from Chinese realities? Why, since the mid-nineteenth century, have Chinese intellectuals oscillated between commendation and condemnation of their own culture, and between fetishization and demonization...
by Ann Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2010
Philosophical debates around individualization and the implications for intimacy, reflexivity and identity have occupied a central part of social and cultural theorizing in the West in the last decade. In fact, late modernity has become conspicuously engaged with issues of intimacy, reflexivity and...
Identity and Cultural Diversity
What social psychology can teach us
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Identity and Cultural Diversity examines immigration and its effect on diversity from a social psychological perspective. Immigration increases cultural diversity and raises difficult questions of belonging, adaptation, and the unity of societies: questions of identity may be felt by people struggling...
International Handbook of Migration, Minorities and Education
Understanding Cultural and Social Differences in Processes of Learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Migrants and minorities are always at risk of being caught in essentialized cultural definitions and being denied the right to express their cultural preferences because they are perceived as threats to social cohesion. Migrants and minorities respond to these difficulties in multiple ways — as...
Transgressive Bodies
Representations in Film and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
In recent years the body has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, social sciences and humanities. Transgressive Bodies offers an examination of a variety of non-normative bodies and how they are represented in film, media and popular culture. Examining the non-normative body...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
“Undoubtedly the most comprehensive analysis of the role of culture and emergent practices in capacity building currently at hand. d’Estrée and Parsons have produced a commendable amalgamation and scrutiny of local, cultural, and Indigenous mediation practices in a number of contexts that empower...
Cultural Studies: Macht-Kultur-Identität
Einführung in die Geschichte und Methodologie der Cultural Studies
Language: German
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Methodologie und Methoden, Note: Pass, Universität Basel (Institut für Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Soziologie der Macht, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ziel dieser Proseminararbeit ist es, einen Überblick über die Entstehung und die Entwicklung...