Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
by Terence Lee
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
This book explores this inherent contradiction present in most facets of Singaporean media, cultural and political discourses, and identifies the key regulatory strategies and technologies that the ruling People Action Party (PAP) employs to regulate Singapore media and culture, and thus govern the...
Genocide as Social Practice
Reorganizing Society under the Nazis and Argentina's Military Juntas
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Genocide not only annihilates people but also destroys and reorganizes social relations, using terror as a method. In Genocide as Social Practice, social scientist Daniel Feierstein looks at the policies of state-sponsored repression pursued by the Argentine military dictatorship against political...
Public Relations in India
New Tasks and Responsibilites
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Public Relations in India is a review of the history of Public Relations (PR) in the world and India and an in-depth critical analysis of the value of PR as an essential feature of the management function. The key focus of this book is what PR means for India and other developing countries in the...
Education at the Edge of Empire
Negotiating Pueblo Identity in New Mexico's Indian Boarding Schools
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
For the vast majority of Native American students in federal Indian boarding schools at the turn of the twentieth century, the experience was nothing short of tragic. Dislocated from family and community, they were forced into an educational system that sought to erase their Indian identity as a means...
by Christian van Gorder
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2008
This book explores issues of cultural tension that affect Muslim and Christian interaction within the Central Asian context. It looks at the ways that Christians have interacted with Central Asian Muslims in the past, and discusses what might need to be done to improve Muslim-Christian relations in...
Character Is Destiny
The Autobiography of Alice Salomon
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
In her autobiography, the remarkable feminist and social worker Alice Salomon recounts her transition in the 1890s from privileged idleness to energetic engagement in solving social problems. Salomon took the lead in establishing the profession of social work, and built a career as a social reformer,...
Imagining Japan in Post-war East Asia
Identity Politics, Schooling and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
In the decades since her defeat in the Second World War, Japan has continued to loom large in the national imagination of many of her East Asian neighbours. While for many, Japan still conjures up images of rampant military brutality, at different times and in different communities, alternative images...
Popular Postcolonialisms
Discourses of Empire and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Drawing together the insights of postcolonial scholarship and cultural studies, Popular Postcolonialisms questions the place of ‘the popular’ in the postcolonial paradigm. Multidisciplinary in focus, this collection explores the extent to which popular forms are infused with colonial logics, and...
by Andy Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2005
'Bennett provides a well organized, very readable and interesting discussion of a number of significant everyday cultural forms and I am confident student readers will find the book very valuable' - Barry Smart, University of Portsmouth
Culture and Everyday Life provides students with a comprehensive...
by Professor Keith Negus, Michael Pickering
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2004
'There have been few critical engagements with the concept of creativity in recent years, so the authors provide an important contribution in drawing attention to what is arguably at the heart of much of what we most value in culture'
- Douglas Kellner, University of California, Los Angeles
'In...
by Sara Ahmed
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own happiness conditional on the happiness of others: “I just want you to be happy”; “I’m happy if you’re happy.” Combining philosophy and...
Acts of Passion
Sexuality, Gender, and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The first volume to focus exclusively on lesbian performance work, Acts of Passion: Sexuality, Gender, and Performance draws on the experiences and expertise of a wide range of lesbian practitioners and theorists to explore the impact and influences of sexuality and gender on performance. It examines...
by Alan Sinfield
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Following a first edition that generated wide-spread debate, Cultural Politics – Queer Reading is a bold study of the future of critical theory and the role of gender, ethnicity and cultures within academic literary studies.
An illuminating introduction to the second edition revisits the...
Discovering the South
One Man's Travels through a Changing America in the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
During the Great Depression, the American South was not merely "the nation's number one economic problem," as President Franklin Roosevelt declared. It was also a battlefield on which forces for and against social change were starting to form. For a white southern liberal like Jonathan Daniels, editor...