Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Introducing Cultural Studies
A Graphic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2015
Cultural Studies signals a major academic revolution for the 21st century. But what exactly is it, and how is it applied? It is a discipline that claims not to be a discipline; it is a radical critical approach for understanding racial, national, social and gender identities. "Introducing Cultural...
The Orang Suku Laut of Riau, Indonesia
The inalienable gift of territory
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Land reform has been an indisputable part of Indonesian revolution. The consequent execution of development programmes for nation-building have provoked intense hostility over territorial rights. Global market forces in Indonesia have seen increasing flows of transnational investments, technology...
Indigenous Mestizos
The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919–1991
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2000
In the early twentieth century, Peruvian intellectuals, unlike their European counterparts, rejected biological categories of race as a basis for discrimination. But this did not eliminate social hierarchies; instead, it redefined racial categories as cultural differences, such as differences in education...
Where the Waters Divide
Neoliberalism, White Privilege, and Environmental Racism in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
This timely and important scholarship advances an empirical understanding of Canada’s contemporary “Indian” problem. Where the Waters Divide is one of the few book monographs that analyze how contemporary neoliberal reforms (in the manner of de-regulation, austerity measures, common sense policies,...
Introducing Cultural Studies
Learning through Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2007
"An outstanding entry level text aimed at those with little or no cultural studies knowledge... Innovative, creative and clever."
***- Times Higher Education ***
"The ideal textbook for FE and first year HE cultural studies students. Its quality and character allow the reader...
Crusoe's Footprints
Cultural Studies in Britain and America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
"Cultural Studies" has emerged in British and American higher education as a movement that challenges the traditional humanities and social science disciplines. Influenced by the New Left, feminism, and poststructualist literary theory, cultural studies seeks to analyze everday life and...
Cultural Encounters and Homoeroticism in Sri Lanka
Sex and Serendipity
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Ceylon, or Sri Lanka, was long known to travellers for its luxuriant landscapes, colourful temples and friendly inhabitants – the island once named Serendip. This book explores the sojourns of gay visitors from the late 1800s to the modern day, providing a history of homosexuality, travel and cultural...
by Carol Poore
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
"Comprehensively researched, abundantly illustrated and written in accessible and engaging prose . . . With great skill, Poore weaves diverse types of evidence, including historical sources, art, literature, journalism, film, philosophy, and personal narratives into a tapestry which illuminates...
Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Indigenous Studies
Native North America in (Trans)Motion
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
In recent years, the interdisciplinary fields of Native North American and Indigenous Studies have reflected, at times even foreshadowed and initiated, many of the influential theoretical discussions in the humanities after the "transnational turn." Global trends of identity politics, performativity,...
Men of Color
A Context for Service to Homosexually Active Men
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Men of Color provides those working in the social services with an assessment framework for identifying and understanding the developmental needs of gay and bisexual men of color. By adding an ethnic dimension to the literature on homosexual conduct and identity, this book helps service providers...
The Social in Question
New Bearings
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
With postmodernism has come the questioning of the very idea of 'the social'. Thinkers form across the social sciences and humanities now agree that this one foundational concept can no longer be taken for granted as an objective or real characteristic of the world. However, their uncertainty has...
by David Hesmondhalgh
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
"At once brilliant and accessible, it is without peer when it comes to detailing the big picture and complex nuances of how cultural industries work. Every student of the media should have this book on their shelf"
- Jennifer Holt, University of California
"Sometimes provocative,...
Documents of Life Revisited
Narrative and Biographical Methodology for a 21st Century Critical Humanism
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
The cultural and narrative turn has had a considerable impact upon research in the social sciences as well as in the arts and humanities, with Ken Plummer's Documents of Life constituting a central text in the turn towards to narrative, biographical and qualitative methodologies, challenging and changing...
by Vincent Miller
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
"This is an outstanding book. It is one of only a few scholarly texts that successfully combine a nuanced theoretical understanding of the digital age with empirical case studies of contemporary media culture. The scope is impressive, ranging from questions of digital inequality to emergent forms...