Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Between the Middle East and the Americas
The Cultural Politics of Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora traces the production and circulation of discourses about "the Middle East" across various cultural sites, against the historical backdrop of cross-Atlantic Mahjar flows. The book highlights the fraught and ambivalent...
Temporary Migration, Transformation and Development
Evidence from Europe and Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
In a world grappling with refugee crisis, political unrest and economies on the verge of collapse, temporary migration has become an increasingly common phenomenon.
This volume presents a comprehensive picture of the transformative and development potential of temporary transnational migration...
Russia's Youth and its Culture
A Nation's Constructors and Constructed
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Since the political whirlwinds of the mid-1980s and the fall of communism in 1991, Russia has undergone dramatic social change, much of which has escaped the attention of Western media.
In her new book, Hilary Pilkington applies the methods of cultural studies research to the study of Russian youth....
The Latino Body
Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
The Latino Body tells the story of the United States Latino body politic and its relation to the state: how the state configures Latino subjects and how Latino subjects have in turn altered the state. Lázaro Lima charts the interrelated groups that define themselves as Latinos and examines how these...
Invention Of Women
Making An African Sense Of Western Gender Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
The “woman question,” this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. A work that rethinks gender as a Western construction, The Invention of Women offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures. Author Oyeronke Oyewumi reveals an ideology...
Madness in Black Women’s Diasporic Fictions
Aesthetics of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2017
This collection chronicles the strategic uses of madness in works by black women fiction writers from Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Europe, and the United States. Moving from an over-reliance on the “madwoman” as a romanticized figure constructed in opposition to the status quo, contributors...
American Cultural Patterns
A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
A fully revised edition of the seminal classic
This classic study was originally written by Edward Stewart in 1972 and has become a seminal work in the field of intercultural relations. In this edition, Stewart and Milton J. Bennett have greatly expanded the analysis of American cultural patterns...
Theory Matters
The Place of Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies Today
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
This book demonstrates that theory in literary and cultural studies has moved beyond overarching master theories towards a greater awareness of particularity and contingency – including its own. What is the place of literary and cultural theory after the Age of Theory has ended?
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The recording industry has been a major focus of interest for cultural commentators throughout the twenty-first century. As the first major content industry to have its production and distribution patterns radically disturbed by the internet, the recording industry’s content, attitudes and practices...
Culture, Ethnicity and Migration After Communism
The Pontic Greeks
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
This book addresses the issue of emerging transnationalism in the conditions of post-socialism through focusing on migrants’ identity as a social construction resulting from their experience of the ‘transnational circuit of culture’ as well as from post-Soviet shifts in political and economic...
Self-Referentiality of Cognition and (De)Formation of Ethnic Boundaries
A Comparative Study on Korean Diaspora in Russia, China, the United States and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
This book develops a new approach towards the formation of the ethnic boundary as a complex interrelation between cognitive operations and ethnic/national boundaries formation process. Korean diaspora in China, Russia, the United States, and Japan illustrate how this process correlates with the nationalism...
Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain
Literature, Media and Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
In the light of the complex demographic shifts associated with late modernity and the impetus of neo-liberal politics, childhood continues all the more to operate as a repository for the articulation of diverse social and cultural anxieties. Since the Thatcher years, juvenile delinquency, child poverty,...
Transnational Borderlands in Women’s Global Networks
The Making of Cultural Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Transnational Borderlands: The Making of Cultural Resistance in Women's Global Networks investigates the implications of transnational feminist methodologies at multiple levels: collective actions, theory, pedagogy, discursive, and visual productions. It addresses a substantial gap in the field of...
Ethnic Literatures and Transnationalism
Critical Imaginaries for a Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
As new comparative perspectives on race and ethnicity open up, scholars are identifying and exploring fresh topics and questions in an effort to reconceptualize ethnic studies and draw attention to nation–based approaches that may have previously been ignored. This volume, by recognizing the complexity...