Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Migration and Transformation:
Multi-Level Analysis of Migrant Transnationalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2012
People’s transnational ties and activities are acquiring ever greater importance and topicality in today’s world. The focus of this book lies in the complex and multi-level processes of migrant transnationalism in four transnational spaces: India-UK, Morocco-France and Turkey-Germany and Estonia-Finland....
by Dr Matthew Adams
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2007
'This is a superb book; beautifully written, lucid, and engaging, with illuminating critical discussions of the concept of reflexivity, psychoanalytic perspectives, and Foucaultian analysis, locating these theories in up-to-date research and discussions about class and gender. This book will be indispensable...
Baby Boomers of Color
Implications for Social Work Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Because researchers often treat baby boomers of color as belonging to one group, quality data on the individual status of specific racial populations is lacking, leading to insufficiently designed programs, policies, and services. The absence of data is a testament to the invisibility of baby boomers...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
This innovative publication maps out the broad and interdisciplinary field of contemporary European social theory. It covers sociological theory, the wider theoretical traditions in the social sciences including cultural and political theory, anthropological theory, social philosophy and social thought...
by H. Ned Seelye
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1995
The need for new approaches, methods, and techniques in cross-cultural training and intercultural education are virtually insatiable, especially for experiential activities. The emphasis in this book is on activities that foster the development of intercultural awareness and cross-cultural sensitivity,...
Exchanging Our Country Marks
The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The transatlantic slave trade brought individuals from diverse African regions and cultures to a common destiny in the American South. In this comprehensive study, Michael Gomez establishes tangible links between the African American community and its African origins and traces the process by which...
Mapping China and Managing the World
Culture, Cartography and Cosmology in Late Imperial Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
From the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE to the present, the Chinese have been preoccupied with the notion of ordering their world. Efforts to create and maintain order are expressed not only in China’s bureaucratic institutions and methods of social and economic organization but also in...
Politics of Chinese Language and Culture
The Art of Reading Dragons
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
An innovative text which adopts the tools of cultural studies to provide a fresh approach to the study of Chinese language, culture and society. The book tackles areas such as grammar, language, gender, popular culture, film and the Chinese diaspora and employs the concepts of social semiotics to...
Buddhist Manuscript Cultures
Knowledge, Ritual, and Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Buddhist Manuscript Cultures explores how religious and cultural practices in premodern Asia were shaped by literary and artistic traditions as well as by Buddhist material culture. This study of Buddhist texts focuses on the significance of their material forms rather than their doctrinal contents,...
Native Americans and the Christian Right
The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
In Native Americans and the Christian Right, Andrea Smith advances social movement theory beyond simplistic understandings of social-justice activism as either right-wing or left-wing and urges a more open-minded approach to the role of religion in social movements. In examining the interplay of biblical...
Technoculture and Critical Theory
In the Service of the Machine?
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
The author explores the work of major thinkers and cultural movements that have grappled with the complex relationship between technology, politics and culture. Subjects such as the Internet, cloning, warfare, fascism and Virtual Reality are placed within a broad theoretical context which explores...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
The impact of mass media on individuals and society is to a great extent based on human emotions. Emotions, in turn, are essential in understanding how media messages are processed as well as media’s impact on individual and social behavior and public social life.
Adopting an interdisciplinary...
Native Women and Land
Narratives of Dispossession and Resurgence
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
“What roles do literary and community texts and social media play in the memory, politics, and lived experience of those dispossessed?” Fitzgerald asks this question in her introduction and sets out to answer it in her study of literature and social media by (primarily) Native women who are writing...
Framing Fan Fiction
Literary and Social Practices in Fan Fiction Communities
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Gathering some of Kristina Busse’s essential essays on fan fiction together with new work, Framing Fan Fiction argues that understanding media fandom requires combining literary theory with cultural studies because fan artifacts are both artistic works and cultural documents. Drawing examples from...