Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Indigenous Social Work around the World
Towards Culturally Relevant Education and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
How can mainstream Western social work learn from and in turn help advance indigenous practice? This volume brings together prominent international scholars involved in both Western and indigenous social work across the globe - including James Midgley, Linda Briskman, Alean Al-Krenawi and John R....
Feminism and Migration
Cross-Cultural Engagements
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Feminism and Migration: Cross-Cultural Engagements is a rich, original, and diverse collection on the intersections of feminism and migration in western and non-western contexts. This book explores the question: does migration empower women? Through wide-ranging topics on theorizing feminism in...
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....
Tibetan Medicine in the Contemporary World
Global Politics of Medical Knowledge and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The popularity of Tibetan medicine plays a central role in the international market for alternative medicine and has been increasing and extending far beyond its original cultural area becoming a global phenomenon. This book analyses Tibetan medicine in the 21st century by considering the contemporary...
The Paranormal and Popular Culture
A Postmodern Religious Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Interest in preternatural and supernatural themes has revitalized the Gothic tale, renewed explorations of psychic powers and given rise to a host of social and religious movements based upon claims of the fantastical. And yet, in spite of this widespread enthusiasm, the academic world has been slow...
by Valerie Wee
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
The Ring (2002)—Hollywood’s remake of the Japanese cult success Ringu (1998)—marked the beginning of a significant trend in the late 1990s and early 2000s of American adaptations of Asian horror films. This book explores this complex process of adaptation, paying particular attention to the...
Korean American Women
Stories of Acculturation and Changing Selves
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Current models of acculturation in multicultural counseling literature are severely limited in describing how individuals deal with the complexity of culture change. The reasons for immigration, the historical period during which the immigration occurred, educational and socioeconomic levels, ethnic...
by Anthony Bogues
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Sylvia Wynter’s work is distinctively Caribbean. From her exciting and rigorous interventions of ‘folk culture’ and its profound meaning for the symbolic universe of Caribbean reality, creative writing and the nature of Caribbean culture, to her present genealogical critique of Western humanism,...
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...
by Rosie Cox, Victor Buchli
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Queering the Interior problematizes the familiar space of 'home'. It deploys a queer lens to view domestic interiors and conventions and uncovers some of the complexities of homemaking for queer people.
Each of the book's six sections focuses on a different room or space inside the home. The...
Suicide and Agency
Anthropological Perspectives on Self-Destruction, Personhood, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Suicide and Agency offers an original and timely challenge to existing ways of understanding suicide. Through the use of rich and detailed case studies, the authors assembled in this volume explore how interplay of self-harm, suicide, personhood and agency varies markedly across site (Greenland, Siberia,...
Supporter Ownership in English Football
Class, Culture and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2019
This book presents a fresh perspective on football fandom in England, going beyond existing debates surrounding the structural transformations English football has seen in recent decades, to consider the contested cultural ground upon which football fandom exists.
Supporter Ownership in English...
Family Violence and Men of Color
Healing the Wounded Male Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
"This innovative book examines an important, timely topicÖThe content will greatly enhance practitioners' and students' understanding and skills in working with men of color."
- Elaine P. Congress, DSW, Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service
"Family Violence and...
Therapeutic Interventions with Ethnic Elders
Health and Social Issues
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Provide effective services to ethnic elders with culturally competent training!
Therapeutic Interventions with Ethnic Elders: Health and Social Issues provides culture-specific information to health and social work professionals. You will explore distinctive qualities that are found in ten...