Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora
Dublin, New Orleans, Paris
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Elisa Joy White investigates the contemporary African Diaspora communities in Dublin, New Orleans, and Paris and their role in the interrogation of modernity and social progress. Beginning with an examination of Dublin’s emergent African immigrant community, White shows how the community’s negotiation...
Against Meritocracy (Open Access)
Culture, power and myths of mobility
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Meritocracy today involves the idea that whatever your social position at birth, society ought to offer enough opportunity and mobility for ‘talent’ to combine with ‘effort’ in order to ‘rise to the top’. This idea is one of the most prevalent social and cultural tropes of our time, as...
by Kirsten Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
This book outlines a compelling new agenda for feminist theories of identity and social relations. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis with feminist epistemology, the author sets out a groundbreaking psychoanalytic social theory. Campbell's work offers answers to the important contemporary question of how...
Communicative Engagement and Social Liberation
Justice Will Be Made
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
This work addresses limitations in current approaches to rhetorical historiography and provides fresh philosophical ground that responds to these limitations. By integrating philosophical ideas, a philosophy of communicative engagement is formed and illustrated with descriptions of three women’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Economic growth in China has transformed both politics and society. Old orthodoxies are painfully being eroded in the drive for reform while new social and cultural tensions are coming to light. It has been argued that the cycles of reform and retreat since 1978 which culminated in the Tiananmen Square...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
A cultural studies textbook that deals with issues of methodology, as well as mapping out the history and theories and ideas in cultural studies. The book examines the work of Raymond Williams, Lacan and Hoggart, among Others, And Explores Notions Of Subculture, Psychoanalysis, Marxist thought, narrative,...
by Alan Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The Sociology of Healthcare, Second Edition explores the impact of current social changes on health, illness and healthcare, and provides an overview of the fundamental concerns in these areas. This new edition features a brand new chapter entitled End of Life which will help health and social...
Queen of the Virgins
Pageantry and Black Womanhood in the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Beauty pageants are wildly popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands, outnumbering any other single performance event and capturing the attention of the local people from toddlers to seniors. Local beauty contests provide women opportunities to demonstrate talent, style, the values of black womanhood, and...
Alien Encounters
Popular Culture in Asian America
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
Alien Encounters showcases innovative directions in Asian American cultural studies. In essays exploring topics ranging from pulp fiction to multimedia art to import-car subcultures, contributors analyze Asian Americans’ interactions with popular culture as both creators and consumers. Written by...
Making Sense of Race, Class, and Gender
Commonsense, Power, and Privilege in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Using arresting case studies of how ordinary people understand the concepts of race, class, and gender, Celine-Marie Pascale shows that the peculiarity of commonsense is that it imposes obviousness—that which we cannot fail to recognize. As a result, how we negotiate the challenges of inequality...
Hair Matters
Beauty, Power, and Black Women's Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Long hair in the 60s, Afros in the early 70s, bobs in the 80s, fuschia in the 90s. Hair is one of the first attributes to catch our eye, not only because it reflects perceptions of attractiveness or unattractiveness, but also because it conveys important political, cultural, and social meanings, particularly...
New Woman Hybridities
Femininity, Feminism, and International Consumer Culture, 1880–1930
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Since the 1970s, the literary and cultural politics of the turn-of-the-century New Woman have received increasing academic attention. Whether she is seen as the emblem of sexual anarchy, an agent of mediation between mass market and modernist cultures, or as a symptom of the consolidation of nineteenth...
Intersecting Diaspora Boundaries
Portuguese Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This collection of essays provides both critical and interdisciplinary means for thinking across diasporic travels within the Portuguese experience and its intersection with other peoples and cultures. The chapters are organized into four sections and offer rich, diverse, and insightful studies that...
Judging the Image
Art, Value, Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Art, value, law - the links between these three terms mark a history of struggle in the cultural scene. Studies of contemporary culture have thus increasingly turned to the image as central to the production of legitimacy, aesthetics and order. Judging the Image extends the cultural turn in legal...