Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Globalization on the Ground
New Media and the Transformation of Culture, Class, and Gender in India
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Unlike élite middle-class Indians, ordinary Indian men are selective in their acceptance of new meanings introduced by cultural globalization. In Globalization on the Ground: Media and the Transformation of Culture, Class, and Gender in India, Steve Derné argues that the effects of globalization...
Assisted Reproduction Across Borders
Feminist Perspectives on Normalizations, Disruptions and Transmissions
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Today, it often seems as though Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) have reached a stage of normalization, at least in some countries and among certain social groups. Apparently some practices – for example in vitro fertilization (IVF) – have become standard worldwide. The contributors to...
The Politics of Integration
Law, Race and Literature in Post-War Britain and France
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
After almost seven decades, Britain and France, nations with divergent political cultures and heirs to contrasting philosophies of 'integration', have proclaimed the failure to integrate their post-war ethnic minorities: at this present time, the ‘Muslim’. The ‘argument’ of this book, therefore,...
Wounds of the Spirit
Black Women, Violence, and Resistance Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
In Wounds of the Spirit, Traci West employs first person accounts-from slave narratives to contemporary interviews to Tina Turner's autobiography-to document a historical legacy of violence against black women in the United States. West, a black feminist Christian ethicist, situates spiritual matters...
Women, Sport and Exercise in the Asia-Pacific Region
Domination, Resistance, Accommodation
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Although socio-cultural issues in relation to women within the fields of sport and exercise have been extensively researched, this research has tended to concentrate on the Western world. Women, Sport and Exercise in the Asia-Pacific Region moves the conversation away entirely from Western contexts...
The Subcultural Imagination
Theory, Research and Reflexivity in Contemporary Youth Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
The Subcultural Imagination discusses young adults in subcultures and examines how sociologists use qualitative research methods to study them. Through the application of the ideas of C. Wright Mills to the development of theory-reflexive ethnography, this book analyses the experiences of young people...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
A new vocabulary for African American Studies
As the longest-standing interdisciplinary field, African American Studies has laid the foundation for critically analyzing issues of race, ethnicity, and culture within the academy and beyond. This volume assembles the keywords of this field for...
Caste, Occupation and Politics on the Ganges
Passages of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This intriguing anthropological study investigates how the boatmen of Banaras have repositioned themselves within the traditional social organization and used their privileged position on the river to contest upper-caste and state domination. Assa Doron examines the evolution of the boatmen community,...
Teen Spirits
Music And Identity In Media Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Relating to both the practice of teaching media studies and also to theoretical questions within media and cultural studies, this study examines pop music, media studies and the micro-cultural politics of adolescence. It argues that media education has neglected pop music, and that, as something of...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Edited by Kris Rutten, Stefaan Blancke, and Ronald Soetaert, Perspectives on Science and Culture explores the intersection between scientific understanding and cultural representation from an interdisciplinary perspective. Contributors to the volume analyze representations of science and scientific...
Social Studies in the Storytelling Classroom
Exploring Our Cultural Voices and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
“Accessible, inspirational and practical plans that make storytelling a portal to multifaceted insights about culture, history, geography and identity.”
– Janice M. Del Negro, Ph.D., GSLIS Dominican University
Food and Multiculture
A Sensory Ethnography of East London
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
In this book, Alex Rhys-Taylor offers a ground-breaking sensory ethnography of East London. Drawing on the multicultural context of London, one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, he explores concepts such as gentrification, class antagonism, new ethnicities and globalization. Rhys-Taylor...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
This volume examines the global influence and impact of DIY cultural practice as this informs the production, performance and consumption of underground music in different parts of the world. The book brings together a series of original studies of DIY musical activities in Europe, North and South...
by Miquel Domènech
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
New Technologies and Emerging Spaces of Care provides the latest practice-oriented qualitative research and innovative conceptual discussions of how health and health care systems are currently dealing with complex transformations and varied reforms. Exploring and analysing the social and cultural...