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Safeguarding Intangible Heritage

Practices and Politics

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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018

The UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage came into force in 2006, framing the international and national practices and policies associated with intangible cultural heritage. This volume critically and reflexively examines these practices and policies, providing...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013

​This volume explores China’s cultural heritage ideology and policies from three interrelated perspectives: the State and World Heritage tourism; cultural heritage tourism at undesignated sites, and the cultural politics of museums and collections. Something of a cultural heritage designation...
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An Afrocentric Manifesto

Toward an African Renaissance

by Molefi Kete Asante
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013

Molefi Kete Asante's Afrocentric philosophy has become one of the most persistent influences in the social sciences and humanities over the past three decades. It strives to create new forms of discourse about Africa and the African Diaspora, impact on education through expanding curricula to be more...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007

This unique volume seeks both to historicize and to deconstruct the pervasive, almost ritualistic, association of Africa with forms of terrorism as well as extreme violence, the latter bordering on and including genocide. Africa is tendentiously associated with violence in the popular and academic...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012

This collection explores the contested meanings and diverse practices of social research in the context of contemporary theoretical debates in cultural and social theory, addressing fundamental questions facing those working in the social and human sciences today.
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by Mustafa Emirbayer, Matthew Desmond
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015

Proceeding from the bold and provocative claim that there never has been a comprehensive and systematic theory of race, Mustafa Emirbayer and Matthew Desmond set out to reformulate how we think about this most difficult of topics in American life. In The Racial Order, they draw on Bourdieu, Durkheim,...
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Crip Theory

Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability

by Robert McRuer
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006

Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and identities are represented as “normal” or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to...
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Hybrid Media Culture

Sensing Place in a World of Flows

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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013

The distinction between online and offline realities is becoming more and more difficult to sustain. As computer-mediated communication evolves and as interaction becomes more and more dependent on the Internet, social, cultural, and political aspects begin to get caught and entangled in the web of...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012

Southeast Asia has undergone innumerable far-reaching changes and dramatic transformations over the last half-century. This book explores the concept of power in relation to these transformations, and examines its various social, cultural, religious, economic and political forms. The book works...
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Brown Boys and Rice Queens

Spellbinding Performance in the Asias

by Eng-Beng Lim
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013

Honorable Mention for the 2015 Cultural Studies Best Book presented by the Association of Asian American Studies Winner of the 2013 CLAGS Fellowship Award for Best First Book Project in LGBT Studies A transnational study of Asian performance shaped by the homoerotics of orientalism,...
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by Mary Jane Logan McCallum
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014

When dealing with Indigenous women’s history we are conditioned to think about women as private-sphere figures, circumscribed by the home, the reserve, and the community. Moreover, in many ways Indigenous men and women have been cast in static, pre-modern, and one-dimensional identities, and their...
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Migrant Imaginaries

Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

by Alicia Schmidt Camacho
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2008

Winner of the 2009 Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association 2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Migrant Imaginaries explores the transnational movements of Mexican migrants in pursuit of labor and civil rights in the United States from the 1920s onward. Working through...
Cover of Best Practices for Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants
by Miriam Potocky
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2002

Social work practice with refugees and immigrants requires specialized knowledge of these populations, and specialized adaptations and applications of mainstream services and interventions. Because they are often confronted with cultural, linguistic, political, and socioeconomic barriers, these groups...
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Lesbians of Color

Social and Human Services

by Hilda Hidalgo
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013

Broaden your understanding of lesbians of color, their perspectives, and their needs from a human services point of view. Lesbians of Color: Social and Human Services helps you understand the ways in which lesbians of color perceive important issues related to their oppression and discrimination by...
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