Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Liminal Landscapes
Travel, Experience and Spaces In-between
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Ideas and concepts of liminality have long shaped debates around the uses and practices of space in constructions of identity, particularly in relation to different forms of travel such as tourism, migration and pilgrimage, and the social, cultural and experiential landscapes associated with these...
Asia: Case Studies in the Social Sciences - A Guide for Teaching
Case Studies in the Social Sciences - A Guide for Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The material in this study is covered by Myron L. Cohen on religion and family organization in China; John R. Bowen on family, kinship, and Islam in Indonesia; Robert W. Hefner on hierarchy and stratification in Java; and Nancy Rosenberger on gender roles in Japan. Further material is provided by...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Recent theoretical and methodological innovations in the anthropological analysis of South Asian societies have introduced distinctive modifications in the study of Indian social structure and social change. This book, reporting on twenty empirical studies of Indian society conducted by outstanding...
Cultural Dynamics in a Globalized World
Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Depok, Indonesia, November 7-9, 2016: Topics in Arts and Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
The book contains essays on current issues in arts and humanities in which peoples and cultures compete as well as collaborate in globalizing the world while maintaining their uniqueness as viewed from cross- and interdisciplinary perspectives. The book covers areas such as literature, cultural studies,...
Exploring LGBT Spaces and Communities
Contrasting Identities, Belongings and Wellbeing
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
The phrase ‘LGBT community’ is often used by policy-makers, service providers, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people themselves, but what does it mean? What understandings and experiences does that term suggest, and ignore? Based on a UK-wide study funded by the Arts and Humanities...
Economic and Social Transformation in China
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
The Center for China Studies is among China’s most influential think-tanks, and its China Studies Reports are read at the highest levels of government. Now for the first time, the most important of these reports is collected in book form in English, providing a fascinating insight into the challenges...
by Gerard Goggin
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Gerard Goggin has produced an incisive and penetrating overview of the world according to mobiles. Covering sight, sound and status, plus a host of other issues, he provides a provocative analysis of how mobile communication gadgets come to play such a prominent role in our lives. Any scholar of New...
Porta Palazzo
The Anthropology of an Italian Market
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Porta Palazzo, arguably Western Europe's largest open-air market, is a central economic, social, and cultural hub for Italians and migrants in the city of Turin. Open-air markets like Porta Palazzo have existed for centuries in Europe; although their function has changed over time—traditional markets...
Gated Communities in China
Class, Privilege and the Moral Politics of the Good Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Moving beyond conventional accounts of gated communities and housing segregation, this book interrogates the moral politics of urban place-making in China’s commodity housing enclaves. Drawing on fieldwork and survey conducted in Shanghai, Pow critically demonstrates how gated communities are bound...
Latinos and the Economy
Integration and Impact in Schools, Labor Markets, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
At 15.4 percent of the population, Latinos are the largest minority group in the United States. They are a growing presence in all sectors of the economy, play an increasingly important role in government and politics, and are influential across a wide range of cultural domains. Despite the growing...
The East Asian Welfare Model
Welfare Orientalism and the State
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
For many politicians and observers in the West, East Asia has provided a broad range of positive images of the state's intervention in society. Neoliberals grew excited by popular welfare systems that cost little in expenditure and bureaucracy. Social-democrats thought they had found a model for social...
Managing Social Change and Social Policy in Greater China
Welfare Regimes in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
East Asia is at the heart of the global economic transformation, and the countries of the region are witnessing rapidly changing labour markets, alongside the pressure to cut production costs and lower taxes in order to become successful ‘competition states’. These changes have resulted in increased...
by Mari Osawa
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The present study analyzes the livelihood security system of contemporary Japan in international comparison from a historical and gender perspective. It posits ‘livelihood security systems’ rather than ‘welfare states’ or ‘welfare regimes’ as its object of analysis to enter the role of...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
This book offers new perspectives of transdisciplinary research, in methodological as well as theoretical respects. It provides insights in the two-fold bio-physical and the socio-cultural global embeddedness of local living conditions on the basis of selected empirical studies from Latin America,...