Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Affect in Relation
Families, Places, Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Decades of research on affect and emotion have brought out the paramount importance of affective processes for human lives.
Affect in Relation brings together perspectives from social science and cultural studies to analyze the formative, subject constituting potentials of affect and emotion....
Minority Rules
The Miao and the Feminine in China’s Cultural Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2000
Minority Rules is an ethnography of a Chinese people known as the Miao, a group long consigned to the remote highlands and considered backward by other Chinese. Now the nation’s fifth largest minority, the Miao number nearly eight million people speaking various dialects and spread out over seven...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
In contrast to much scholarship on cross-cultural encounters, which focuses primarily on contact between indigenous peoples and ’settlers’ or ’sojourners’, this book is concerned with migrant aspects of this phenomenon – whether migrant-migrant or migrant-host encounters – bringing together...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
This second edition of Understanding Chinese Society provides a comprehensive, readable, and well-grounded introduction to the key issues affecting contemporary China. A thorough analysis is undertaken not only of China’s family patterns, education system, status, hierarchy, and ethnic diversity,...
The Global Education Movement
Narratives of Distinguished Global Scholars
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
The pages of this book paint a portrait of thirteen scholars and their lifelong professional accomplishments in and contributions to teaching, service, and research in global international education around the world. Their extraordinary work contributed extensively to the development, direction and...
Deconstructing Race
Multicultural Education Beyond the Color-Bind
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How do socially constructed concepts of race dominate and limit understandings and practices of multicultural education? Since race is socially constructed, how do we deconstruct it? In this important book Mahiri argues that multicultural education needs to move beyond racial categories defined...
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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...
Cosmopolitan Sociability
Locating Transnational Religious and Diasporic Networks
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
This book approaches the concept of cosmopolitan sociability as a cultural or territorial rootedness that facilitates a simultaneous openness to shared human emotions, experiences, and aspirations.
Cosmopolitan Sociability critiques definitions of cosmopolitanism as a tolerance for cultural...
Invisibility Studies
Surveillance, Transparency and the Hidden in Contemporary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Invisibility Studies explores current changes in the relationship between what we consider visible and what invisible in different areas of contemporary culture. Contributions trace how these changes make their marks on various cultural fields and investigate the cultural significance of these developments,...
by Megan Watkins, Greg Noble, Catherine Driscoll
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Pedagogy is often glossed as the ‘art and science of teaching’ but this focus typically ties it to the instructional practices of formalised schooling. Like the emerging work on ‘public pedagogies’, the notion of cultural pedagogies signals the importance of the pedagogic in realms other than...
Gender and Masculinities
Histories, Texts and Practices in India and Sri Lanka
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Gender persists as a key site of social inequality globally, and within contemporary south Asian contexts, the cultural practices which make upmasculinities remain vital for understanding everyday life and social relations. Yet masculinities, and their discontents, are an understudied and often misrepresented...
Young Migrant Identities
Creativity and Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
In this day and age, much has been discussed as to what it means ‘to be an Arab’. However, this enlightening volume seeks instead to invite us deeper into young Arab–Australian men’s lives as we explore their vocational aspirations and working experiences within highly racialised and hierarchical...
Friendship and Diversity
Class, Ethnicity and Social Relationships in the City
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Do people make friends with those who are culturally and socially different to themselves? Friendship and Diversity explores the social relationships of adults and children living in highly diverse localities in London. The authors examine how social class and ethnic difference affects the friendships...
International Migrants in China's Global City
The New Shanghailanders
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
Long a source of migrants, China has now become a migrant destination. In 2016, government sources reported that nearly 900,000 foreigners were working in China, though international migrants remain a tiny presence at the national level. Shanghai is China’s most globalized city and has attracted...