Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Heritage in the Digital Era
Cinematic Tourism and the Activist Cause
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
What happens to traditional conceptions of heritage in the era of fluid media spaces? ‘Heritage’ usually involves intergenerational transmission of ideas, customs, ancestral lands, and artefacts, and so serves to reproduce national communities over time. However, media industries have the power...
Mega-Events as Economies of the Imagination
Creating Atmospheres for Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Atmosphere, the elusive ambiance of a place, enables or hinders its mobility in global consumption contexts. Atmosphere connects to social imaginaries, utopian representational frames producing the culture of a city or country. But who resolves atmospheric contradictions in a place’s social and...
by Victor Karandashev
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
This volume presents a conceptual, historical, anthropological, and sociological review of how culture affects our experience and expression of romantic love. What is romantic love and how is it different from and similar to other kinds of love? How is romantic love related to sex and marriage in...
Chinese Social Media
Social, Cultural, and Political Implications
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
This book brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to address critical perspectives on Chinese language social media, internationalizing the state of social media studies beyond the Anglophone paradigm. The collection focuses on the intersections between Chinese language social media...
Chinese Migrants Abroad
Cultural, Educational, and Social Dimensions of the Chinese Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Fast-paced economic growth in Southeast Asia from the late 1960s until the mid-1990s brought increased attention to the overseas Chinese as an economically successful diaspora and their role in this economic growth. Events that followed, such as the transfer of Hong Kong and Macau to the People's...
Art, Culture and International Development
Humanizing social transformation
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Culture is not simply an explanation of last resort, but is itself a rich, multifaceted and contested concept and set of practices that needs to be expanded, appreciated and applied in fresh ways if it is to be both valued in itself and to be of use in practical development. This innovative book places...
Development and Social Policy
The Win-Win Strategies of Developmental Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
In recent years, government and policymakers around the world have shifted their attention away from money-oriented, supply-side economics to institutional economics and people-oriented social and economic development. Issues such as poverty reduction, win-win solutions and strategies in social policy...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
In many countries, particularly in the Global North, established forms of solidarity within communities are said to be challenged by the increasing ethnic and cultural diversity of the population. Against the backdrop of renewed geopolitical tensions – which inflate and exploit ethno-cultural,...
Kinship, population and social reproduction in the 'new Indonesia'
A study of Nuaulu cultural resilience
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Nuaulu people on the Indonesian island of Seram have displayed remarkable linguistic and cultural resilience over a period of 50 years. In 1970 their language and traditional culture was widely considered ‘endangered.’ Despite this, Nuaulu have not only maintained their animist identity and shown...
Environmental Adaptation and Eco-cultural Habitats
A coevolutionary approach to society and nature
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
In this challenging and highly original book, the author tackles the dynamic relationships between physical nature and societies over time. It is argued that within each eco-cultural habitat, the relationship between physical nature and society is mediated by specific entanglements between technologies,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
This book examines the making of heritage in contemporary Japan, investigating the ways in which particular objects, practices and institutions are ascribed public recognition and political significance. Through detailed ethnographic and historical case studies, it analyses the social, economic, and...
Development and Gender Capital in India
Change, Continuity and Conflict in Kerala
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
The Indian state of Kerala has invoked much attention within development and gender debates, specifically in relation to its female capital- an outcome of interrelated historical, cultural and social practices. On the one hand, Kerala has been romanticised, with its citizenry, particularly women,...
The Politics of Social Exclusion in India
Democracy at the Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Social exclusion and inclusion remain issues of fundamental importance to democracy. Both exclusion and inclusion relate to the access to participation in the public realm, public goods and services for certain groups of people who are minorities, marginalized and deprived. Democratization has led...
Academic Nations in China and Japan
Framed by Concepts of Nature, Culture and the Universal
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The descriptions Chinese and Japanese people attribute to themselves and to each other differ vastly and stand in stark contrast to Western perceptions that usually identify a 'similar disposition' between the two nations. Academic Nationals in China and Japan explores human categories, how academics...