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Suny the Sociology of Culture: Commonplaces: Community Ideology and Identity in American Culture (Paperback)

This book interprets popular American belief and sentiment about cities suburbs and small towns in terms of community ideologies. Based on in-depth interviews with residents of American communities it shows how people construct a sense of identity... more

Intersections in Communications and Culture: Performing Identity/Performing Culture: Hip Hop as Text Pedagogy and Lived Practice (Paperback)

Performing Identity/Performing Culture: Hip Hop as Text Pedagogy and Lived Practice is the first book-length ethnography of young people and their uses of hip hop culture. Originally published in 2001 this second edition is newly revised expanded and... more

Politics History and Culture: The Spectacular State : Culture and National Identity in Uzbekistan (Paperback)

An analysis of how Uzbekistans cultural and political elites engaged in a program of nation-building through culture particularly by staging spectacular mass events after the fall of the Soviet Union. more

Media Culture and Social Change in Asia: Popular Culture in Indonesia: Fluid Identities in Post-Authoritarian Politics (Paperback)

This book examines popular culture in Indonesia the world s most populous Muslim nation and the third largest democracy. It provides a full account of the key trends since the collapse of the authoritarian Suharto regime (1998) a time of great change... more

Routledge Research in Gender and Society: Gendering Global Transformations: Gender Culture Race and Identity (Paperback)

The authors collected in Gendering Global Transformations: Gender Culture Race and Identity probe the effects of global and local forces in reshaping notions of gender race class identity human rights and community across Africa and its Diaspora. The... more

Global Media Culture and Identity: Theory Cases and Approaches (Paperback)

This edited volume examines the ways that global media shapes relations between place culture and identity. Through the included essays Chopra and Gajjala offer a mix of theoretical reflections and empirical case studies that will help readers... more

Pre-owned Elusive Culture : Schooling Race and Identity in Global Times Paperback by Yon Daniel A. ISBN 0791444821 ISBN-13 9780791444825

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Gender in a Global/Local World: Post-Apartheid Same-Sex Sexualities: Restless Identities in Literary and Visual Culture (Paperback)

This book examines how same-sex sexualities are represented in several post-apartheid South African cultural texts drawing on a rich local archive of same-sex sexualities that includes recent fiction drama film photography and popular print culture.... more

Pre-Owned Globalization and Culture Change in the Pacific Islands (Exploring Cultures) Paperback

Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more

Cultural Frames Framing Culture: American Iconographic : National Geographic Global Culture and the Visual Imagination (Paperback)

A fascinating narrative of how a cultural institution can influence and embody public attitudes this book is the definitive account of an iconic magazine s unique place in the American imagination. In an era before affordable travel National Geographic... more

Comedia: Cut `n Mix: Culture Identity and Caribbean Music (Paperback)

First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. more

Culture Representation and Identity: Cultural Economy: Cultural Analysis and Commercial Life (Paperback)

This series is dedicated to an understanding of `cultural studies as an interdisciplinary project concerned with the analysis of meaning. It focuses attention on the importance of the contemporary `cultural turn in forging a rethink of the centrality... more

Routledge Islamic Studies: Muslim Diaspora: Gender Culture and Identity (Paperback)

Muslim Diaspora identifies those aspects of migratory experience that shatter or reinforce a group s attachment to its homeland and affect its readiness to adapt to a new country. The contributors to this collection examine many dimensions of life in... more

Politics Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain: Catholics and the Protestant Nation : Religious Politics and Identity in Early Modern England (Paperback)

This collection of original essays combines the interests of leading Catholic historians and leading historians of early modern English culture to pull Catholicism back into the mainstream of English historiography more

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture: The Poetics of National and Racial Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Paperback)

John D. Kerkering s study examines the literary history of racial and national identity in nineteenth-century America. Kerkering argues that writers such as DuBois Lanier Simms and Scott used poetic effects to assert the distinctiveness of certain... more

African Studies: From Africa to Brazil: Culture Identity and an Atlantic Slave Trade 1600-1830 (Paperback)

From Africa to Brazil traces the flows of enslaved Africans from identifiable points in the broad region of Africa called Upper Guinea to Amazonia Brazil. These two regions though separated by an ocean were made one by a slave route. Walter Hawthorne... more

Becoming Western : Stories of Culture and Identity in the Cowboy State (Paperback)

In the Cowboy State (also known as Wyoming) the Wild West has never died. The West has long been the favored repository of the East s cultural fantasies and in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries Eastern expectations and demands largely shaped... more

Modern French Identities: Albert Camus s The New Mediterranean Culture : A Text and its Contexts (Paperback)

This book was shortlisted for the R.H. Gapper prize 2011. On 8 February 1937 the 23-year-old Albert Camus gave an inaugural lecture for a new Maison de la culture or community arts centre in Algiers. Entitled La nouvelle culture méditerranéenne ( The... more

Building Nineteenth-Century Latin America: Re-Rooted Cultures Identities and Nations (Paperback)

How did culture and identity take root as the new nations and state institutions were being fashioned across Latin America after the wars of independence? These original essays tease out the power of print and visual cultures examine the impact of... more

Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture: German Memory Contests: The Quest for Identity in Literature Film and Discourse Since 1990 (Paperback)

Essays shedding light on the increasingly open cultural debate on the German past. Since unification in 1990 Germany has seen a boom in the confrontation with memory evident in a sharp increase in novels films autobiographies and other forms of public... more

Nationalism and Post-Colonial Identity: Culture and Ideology in India and Egypt (Paperback)

How have nations and nationhood become the dominant form of political organization today? What is the role of culture in nationalism? In what ways have the ideological development of nationalisms in the post-colonial world shaped understandings of... more

New Directions in Latino American Cultures: Redrawing the Nation: National Identity in Latin/O American Comics (Paperback)

This volume discusses the role of comics in the formation of a modern sense of nationhood in Latin America and the rise of a collective Latino identity in the USA. It is one of the first attempts - in English and from a cultural studies perspective -... more

Routledge Research in Culture Space and Identity: Comics as a Research Practice: Drawing Narrative Geographies Beyond the Frame (Paperback)

This book proposes a novel creative research practice in geography based on comics. It presents a transdisciplinary approach that uses a set of qualitative visual methods and extends from within the geohumanities across literary spatial studies comics... more

German Visual Culture: Representations of German Identity (Paperback)

This volume examines the multi-faceted nature of German identity through the lens of myriad forms of visual representation from the Middle Ages to the present. A broad spectrum of visual culture is considered - from painting to sculpture advertising to... more

Modern French Identities: Stains / Les taches: Communication and Contamination in French and Francophone Literature and Culture (Paperback)

This volume interrogates the meaning and function of the stain in French and Francophone literature and culture. The collection provides a theoretical framework for the significance of the stain across a wide range of disciplines and offers close... more

Nationalism and Identity: Culture and the Imagination in a Caribbean Diaspora (Paperback)

The nation-state of Trinidad and Tobago offers a unique case for the study of the forces and ideologies of nationalism. This book reveals how this ethnically diverse nation of people of African East Indian Syrian Chinese Portuguese French and English... more

Understanding Teenage Girls : Culture Identity and Schooling (Paperback)

This book focuses on social phenomenon that impact the lives of adolescent females of color. The authors highlight the daily challenges that African-American Chicana and Puerto Rican teenage girls face with respect to peer and family influences media... more

Names and Nunavut: Culture and Identity in the Inuit Homeland (Paperback)

...a thought-provoking book. Alia lays out the intricacies of Inuit naming so clearly describes the Arctic environment so vividly and conveys such a rich sense of Inuit values concerns and humour that readers are likely to hunger for more information... more

Long Run to Freedom : Sport Cultures and Identities in South Africa (Paperback)

Long Run to Freedom : Sport Cultures and Identities in South Africa more

Embodying identities : Culture differences and social theory (Paperback)

This book shapes a new language of social theory that allows people to embody their differences with a sense of dignity and self-worth enabling them to come to terms with the complexities of their lived identities in a post-modern globalised world. more

Scotland as We Know It: Representations of National Identity in Literature Film and Popular Culture (Paperback)

Spanning more than 100 years of cultural history this book examines the ways that representations of Scottish identity in Scotland and abroad have influenced and responded to the rapid changes of modernity since 1890. Popular representations of... more

Disability Culture and Identity (Paperback)

Disabilities Culture and Identity is a succinct and accessible presentation of current research on disability culture and identity. It is an ideal text for students and lecturers alike studying and working in the areas of Disability Studies and Social... more

Afro-Cuban Theology: Religion Race Culture and Identity (Paperback)

The first book to compare Cuban American and African American religiosity Afro-Cuban Theology argues that Afro-Cuban religiosity and culture are central to understanding the Cuban and Cuban American condition. Gonzalez interprets this saturation of the... more

Music Culture and Identity in Latin America: Argentine Queer Tango : Dance and Sexuality Politics in Buenos Aires (Paperback)

This book analyzes tango specifically queer tango and the role of musical practices and bodily expressions in social and cultural transformations in Buenos Aires. more

BAR International: Food Culture and Identity in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age (Paperback)

In the last twenty years historians and social scientists have seen a veritable explosion of research into food and its consumption and social context. And yet archaeology has been slow to catch on. This is all the more surprising since the bread and... more

Pop Music Culture and Identity: Reggae and Hip Hop in Southern Italy: Politics Languages and Multiple Marginalities (Paperback)

Reggae and Hip Hop in Southern Italy: Politics Languages and Multiple Marginalities more

Studies in Imperialism: Museums and Empire: Natural History Human Cultures and Colonial Identities (Paperback)

Museums and Empire is the first book to examine the origins and development of museums in six major regions if the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. more

Cambodian American Experiences: Histories Communities Cultures and Identities Paperback Jonathan Lee

Cambodian American Experiences: Histories Communities Cultures and Identities more