Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books

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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013

Examining representations of speech disorders in works of literature, this first collection of its kind founds a new multidisciplinary subfield related but not limited to the emerging fields of disability studies and medical humanities. The scope is wide-ranging both in terms of national literatures...
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Culture and Child Protection

Reflexive Responses

by Marie Connolly, Yvonne Crichton-Hill, Tony Ward
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2005

Providing services that are culturally relevant is an ongoing challenge for practitioners, managers, and policy-makers within the social services. Culture and Child Protection is a concise exploration of the close links between social service practices and cultural values which offers a culturally sensitive...
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Cities Interrupted

Visual Culture and Urban Space

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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016

Cities Interrupted explores the potential of visual culture – in the form of photography, film, performance, architecture, urban design, and mixed media – to strategically interrupt processes of globalization in contemporary urban spaces. Looking at cities such as Amsterdam, Beijing, Doha,...
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Advertising and Public Memory

Social, Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Ghost Signs

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Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016

This is the first scholarly collection to examine the social and cultural aspects on the worldwide interest in the faded remains of advertising signage (popularly known as ‘ghost signs’). Contributors to this volume examine the complex relationships between the signs and those who commissioned...
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Religion, Narrative and Public Imagination in South Asia

Past and Place in the Sanskrit Mahabharata

by James Hegarty
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

The Sanskrit Mahabharata is one of the greatest works of world literature and pivotal for the understanding of both Hindu traditions and wider society in ancient, medieval and modern South Asia. This book presents a new synthesis of philological, anthropological and cognitive-linguistic method and...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015

Multiple Translation Communities in Contemporary Japan offers a collection of essays that (1) deepens the understanding of the cultural and linguistic diversity of communities in contemporary Japan and how translation operates in this shifting context and circulates globally by looking at some of...
Cover of Visions of Precarity in Japanese Popular Culture and Literature
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014

Recent natural as well as man-made cataclysmic events have dramatically changed the status quo of contemporary Japanese society, and following the Asia-Pacific war’s never-ending ‘postwar’ period, Japan has been dramatically forced into a zeitgeist of saigo or ‘post-disaster.’ This radically...
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Erotic Revolutionaries

Black Women, Sexuality, and Popular Culture

by Shayne Lee
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010

Why is there no 'pro-sex' contingency in black feminist scholarship? Why do so few African-American scholars expound on issues celebrating female sexual pleasure? Perhaps the answers to these questions reside within a discursive matrix of sexual repression commonly referred to as the politics of respectability,...
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The Cultural Study of Music

A Critical Introduction

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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012

What is the relationship between music and culture? The first edition of The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction explored this question with groundbreaking rigor and breadth. Now this second edition refines that original analysis while examining the ways the field has developed in the...
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Computer Games and New Media Cultures

A Handbook of Digital Games Studies

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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012

Digital gaming is today a significant economic phenomenon as well as being an intrinsic part of a convergent media culture in postmodern societies. Its ubiquity, as well as the sheer volume of hours young people spend gaming, should make it ripe for urgent academic enquiry, yet the subject was a research...
Cover of The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies
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Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014

The number of publications dealing with video game studies has exploded over the course of the last decade, but the field has produced few comprehensive reference works. The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies, compiled by well-known video game scholars Mark J. P. Wolf and Bernard Perron, aims...
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by Frans Mayra
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2008

An Introduction to Game Studies is the first introductory textbook for students of game studies. It provides a conceptual overview of the cultural, social and economic significance of computer and video games and traces the history of game culture and the emergence of game studies as a field of research. Key...
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Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy, Fifth Edition

A Handbook for the Mental Health Practitioner

by J. William Worden, PhD, ABPP
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018

Fourth Edition Named a 2013 Doody’s Core Title! Praise for the Fourth Edition: "In the fields of death education, research and counseling/psychology, surely Bill Worden is a giant...ALL of us, personally and professionally, are indebted to [him]. From his work we may be just a bit...
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Reconstructing Dixie

Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South

by Tara McPherson
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2003

The South has long played a central role in America’s national imagination—the site of the trauma of slavery and of a vast nostalgia industry, alternatively the nation’s moral other and its moral center. Reconstructing Dixie explores how ideas about the South function within American culture....
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