Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
This edited collection is a cultural analysis of how law is shaped into procedure and principle by the conditions of everyday life. Law is constitutive of culture just as culture and cultural analyses shape, resist and interrogate legal regulation, exception and norms. So too does law have a dual...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
This new volume provides an interdisciplinary perspective on how intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, and culture shape the cultural psychology of immigrants. It demonstrates the influence transnational ties and cultural practices and beliefs play on creating the immigrant self. Distinguished...
by Immanuel Nama
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Sociology - Culture, Technology, Peoples / Nations, grade: 1,3, University of Passau (Professur für Amerikanistik / Cultural and Media Studies), language: English, abstract: This paper is focused on the cultural transfer of contemporary American fitness...
African American Women in the News
Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
African American Women in the News offers the first in-depth examination of the varied representations of Black women in American journalism, from analyses of coverage of domestic abuse and "crack mothers" to exploration of new media coverage of Michelle Obama on Youtube. Marian Meyers interrogates...
Intangible Cultural Heritage in Contemporary China
The participation of local communities
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This edited book examines the significance of intangible cultural heritage to local communities and the state in Hong Kong and China. Through ethnographic studies, the various chapters in this edited book argue for the role of the local community in the creation and conservation of the intangible...
Cultural Networks in Migrating Heritage
Intersecting Theories and Practices across Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
This book is a study of the role of cultural and heritage networks and how they can help institutions and their host societies manage the tensions and realise the opportunities arising from migration. In looking at past and emerging challenges of social inclusion and cultural dialogue, hybrid models...
Psychosocial Studies
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
There is expanding global interest in the relationship between the psychological and the social. The bringing together of affect, emotion and feeling with social, political and cultural forces offers a creative, innovative and rich set of ways of understanding what Charles Wright Mills called the...
by Mona Carolina Frank
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, grade: A, University of Otago (Applied Management), course: Event Planning and Management, language: English, abstract: This research critically evaluates the value of events to cultural tourism from a cultural values...
Transformations of Gender and Race
Family and Developmental Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Transformations of Gender and Race will help you become a better therapist by arming you with new theories and practices that concern inclusiveness of identity, psyche, and culture in the therapy room. This book radically shifts current thinking in systemic theory and practice with individuals, children,...
Navigating Power
Cross-Cultural Competence in Navajo Land
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Interactions among individuals representing culturally dissimilar and politically unequal groups are a ubiquitous feature of modern life. Navigating Power: Cross-Cultural Competence in Navajoland by Gelaye Debebe is concerned with how these interactions affect task coordination in organizational settings....
Writing Diaspora
South Asian Women, Culture and Ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Issues of cultural hybridity, diaspora and identity are central to debates on ethnicity and race and, over the past decade, have framed many theoretical debates in sociology, cultural studies and literary studies. However, these ideas are all too often considered at a purely theoretical level. In...
Through a Vegan Studies Lens
Textual Ethics and Lived Activism
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
Interest in the vegan studies field continues to grow as veganism has become increasingly visible via celebrity endorsements and universally acknowledged health benefits, and veganism and vegan characters are increasingly present in works of art and literature. Through a Vegan Studies Lens broadens...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Awareness of the significance of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) has recently grown, due to the promotional efforts of UNESCO and its Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003). However, the increased recognition of intangible heritage has brought to light its undervalued...
The Crisis of Cultural Intelligence
The Anthropology of CivilMilitary Operations
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Military and civilian organizations in the past have attempted to understand culture and the cultural environment of conflict zones through anthropology. While there is a small and growing number of studies examining the use of anthropology for counterinsurgency, no studies have compared the Anglo-Saxon...