Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
The Reception and Rendition of Freud in China
China’s Freudian Slip
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Although Freud makes only occasional, brief references to China and Chinese culture in his works, for almost a hundred years many leading Chinese intellectuals have studied and appropriated various Freudian theories. However, whilst some features of Freud’s views have been warmly embraced from the...
Studies in Urbanormativity
Rural Community in Urban Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status through an ideology of urbanormativity. Both structural...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
This inter-disciplinary volume of essays opens new points of departure for thinking about how Taiwan has been studied and represented in the past, for reflecting on the current state of ‘Taiwan Studies’, and for thinking about how Taiwan might be re-configured in the future.
As the study...
by Gustavo Subero
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Exploring the mechanisms and strategies used in different cultures across Hispano-America and the Caribbean to narrativise, represent and understand HIV/AIDS as a social and human phenomenon, this book examines a wide range of cultural, artistic and media texts, as well as issues of human phenomenology,...
Culture, Language and Identity
English–Tamil In Colonial India, 1750 To 1900
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
This volume examines the relationship between language and power across cultural boundaries. It evaluates the vital role of translation in redefining culture and ethnic identity. During the first phase of colonialism, mid-18th to late-19th century, the English-speaking missionaries and East India...
Bodies at War
Genealogies of Militarism in Chicana Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
In the wake of U.S. military intervention abroad and collapsing domestic economies, scholars have turned their attention to neoliberalism and militarization, two ideological and material projects that are often treated as coincident, though not interdependent. Bodies at War examines neoliberal militarism,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
2018 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice Magazine
A vocabulary of Latina/o studies.
Keywords for Latina/o Studies is a generative text that enhances the ongoing dialogue within a rapidly growing and changing field. The keywords included in this collection represent established...
by Victor Buchli
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
An Archaeology of the Immaterial examines a highly significant but poorly understood aspect of material culture studies: the active rejection of the material world. Buchli argues that this is evident in a number of cultural projects, including anti-consumerism and asceticism, as well as other attempts...
by Tracy Luchetta, Patricia L Pardie
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Discover new information and perspectives on why today’s culture holds prejudice toward gay men and lesbians!
The Construction of Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay Men explores the pervasiveness and widespread social acceptance of heterosexism in the United States by analyzing existing social...
Cultural Studies
Volume 3, Issue 2
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2005
First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Christian Karner
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Mixing theories of the everyday with a wide range of case studies, this book explains the 'character' of ethnicity, from being a political tool of exclusion, to a source of meaning and solidarity, and the relationship between culture, power and identity.
Combining theories of the everyday with...
Cultural Studies
10:1 Controversies in Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
An international journal committed to exploring the relationships between cultural practices and everyday life, economic relations, the material world, the State, and historical forces and contexts. It seeks to foster more open analytic, critical and political conversations by encouraging people to...
Afro Asia
Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African Americans and Asian Americans
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2008
With contributions from activists, artists, and scholars, Afro Asia is a groundbreaking collection of writing on the historical alliances, cultural connections, and shared political strategies linking African Americans and Asian Americans. Bringing together autobiography, poetry, scholarly criticism,...
Thinking Home
Interdisciplinary Dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Thinking Home challenges and extends the existing scholarship on the subject of 'home' in a period which has seen unprecedented levels of movement cross the globe. Sanja Bahun and Bojana Petric have collated essays that revisit existing ideas to introduce new ways of thinking on home, from the individual...