Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
The Social Psychology of Everyday Politics examines the ways in which politics permeates everyday life, from the ordinary interactions we have with others to the sense of belonging and identity developed within social groups and communities. Discrimination, prejudice, inclusion and social change,...
Red Is Not the Only Color
Contemporary Chinese Fiction on Love and Sex between Women, Collected Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2001
The first English-language anthology of its kind, Red Is Not the Only Color offers a window into the uncharted terrain of intimate relations between Chinese women. As urban China has undergone rapid transformation, same-sex relations have emerged as a significant, if previously neglected, touchstone...
Hong Kong: Economic, Social, and Political Studies in Development, with a Comprehensive Bibliography
Hong Kong: Economic, Social, and Political Studies in Development, with a Comprehensive Bibliography
Economic, Social, and Political Studies in Development, with a Comprehensive Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This title was first published in 1979:
Brazil in Twenty-First Century Popular Media
Culture, Politics, and Nationalism on the World Stage
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
This volume examines some of the ways that Brazil has been represented and seeks to represent itself in popular media. It looks at social inequalities, racial divisions, and legacies of political restructuring as it illuminates the challenges and opportunities that the nation faces at present and...
Working the Navajo Way
Labor and Culture in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2005
Gaspar Perez de Villagra Award
The Diné have been a pastoral people for as long as they can remember; but when livestock reductions in the New Deal era forced many into the labor market, some scholars felt that Navajo culture would inevitably decline. Although they lost a great deal with the...
Cultural Memories
The Geographical Point of View
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
The revival of interest in collective cultural memories since the 1980s has been a genuinely global phenomenon. Cultural memories can be defined as the social constructions of the past that allow individuals and groups to orient themselves in time and space. The investigation of cultural memories...
Islam's Predicament with Modernity
Religious Reform and Cultural Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
Islam's Predicament with Modernity presents an in-depth cultural and political analysis of the issue of political Islam as a potential source of tensions and conflict, and how this might be peacefully resolved.
Looking at the issue of modernity from an Islamic point of view, the author examines...
Muslim Diaspora in the West
Negotiating Gender, Home and Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
In view of the growing influence of religion in public life on the national and international scenes, Muslim Diaspora in the West constitutes a timely contribution to scholarly debates and a response to concerns raised in the West about Islam and Muslims within diaspora. It begins with the premise...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
Vietnam is currently undergoing a metamorphosis from a relatively closed society with a centrally planned economy, to a rapidly urbanising one with a global outlook. These changes have been the catalyst for an exciting ferment of activity in popular culture. This volume contains contributions from...
Sex Trafficking in Southeast Asia
A History of Desire, Duty, and Debt
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
This book brings an important new perspective to the study of sex trafficking by considering the different types of social contracts which existed in the past that had sexual labour or activity as an inherent component. It outlines the nature of these social institutions – marriage, temporary marriage,...
Turbulent Times and Enduring Peoples
Mountain Minorities in the South-East Asian Massif
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Scattered across the South-East Asian massif, a few dozen ethnic groups (numbering around 50 million) maintain highly original cultural identities and political and economic traditions, against pressure from national majorities. They face the same challenges. The means by which social change has been...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This volume offers a "southern," Pacific Ocean perspective on the topic of racial hybridity, exploring it through a series of case studies from around the Australo-Pacific region, a region unique as a result of its very particular colonial histories. Focusing on the interaction between "race"...
The Puritan Culture of America's Military
U.S. Army War Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
This book explores Puritanism and its continuing influence on U.S. and military law in the Global War on Terror, exploring connections between Puritanism and notions of responsibility in relation to military crimes, superstitious practices within the military, and urges for revenge. Engaging with...
by Scott Flower
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Scholars of religion and policy makers may be surprised at the changes occurring on the second largest island of the world that straddles one of the most Christianised and least Christianised areas of the world. This book provides an accurate and deeper understanding of the nature of Islam in Papua...