Cultural studies Books

The basic objective of agricultural research at ICARDA is to enhance producer and consumer welfare through increasing the productivity, stability, and profitability of agriculture. Improved practices must be technically,...

In social science terms, the `Arctic' is a relative, not an absolute concept, relating to several dimensions, such as constitutional and geographic status, remoteness, socioeconomic status, and demographic/anthropological...

The persistently increasing scale and complexity of government, of quasi­ public organizations, and of private organizations pose many problems in the economics of collective choice. Moreover, education as a quasi-public good...

The book is a collection of essays exploring the potential of multimedia to enrich and transform the planning field. By multimedia the authors refer to a broad range of new information and communication technologies (from film...

Nearly everyone agrees that life has changed in our technological society, whether the contrast is with earlier stages in Western culture or with non-Western cultures. "Modernization" is just one of various terms that have been...

The original essays collected here under the general title of The Knowledge Society were first commissioned for a conference held in the late fall of 1984 at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, West Germany. The conference in...

The prevailing view of scientific popularization, both within academic circles and beyond, affirms that its objectives and procedures are unrelated to tasks of cognitive development and that its pertinence is by and large...

0. 1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEMATIC This study is devoted to an examination of a concept of crucial significance for Soviet aesthetics - the concept of the aesthetic (esteticeskoe). Soviet aestheticians have for some...

Nachfolgend veroffentlichen veröffentlichen wir in deutscher Ubersetzung Übersetzung zwei Berichte tiber über die die im im April April 1958 in Moskau abgehaltene Tagung zur Frage der 'Widersprtiche': 'Widersprüche': ...

LORD CARRINGTON Secretary General, North Atla/ltic Treaty Orga/lisation In providing a foreword to this volume, I have to declare an interest. I was, and am still, an enthusiastic advocate of the idea of having a resident...

"BoxedMan - I'm gonna make a movie, why are you laughing?" is the story of Nicholas Pasyanos's declaration, commitment and eventual completion of this improbably farfetched journey.The Walter Mitty that lives in us all taunts us throughout our lives to...

This book will reconstruct and analyze the logic and frameworks surrounding positive evaluations of popular art in articles and books predominantly published in the United States and western Europe. It will also examine negative evaluations of the...

"Can science be funny?" takes a close look at an element of modern science communication that is as innovative as it is promising for the future: comedy!Readers are guided through vividly presented academic theory as well as exciting hands-on and best...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 5.25 (Schweizer Notengebung), Université de Fribourg - Universität Freiburg (Schweiz), Veranstaltung: Sozialanthropologie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Es soll...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 2,7, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Seit einigen Jahren gewinnen Social Media Angebote des Internets zunehmend an Beliebtheit und...

Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 1,3, Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln (Institut für Schulsport und Schulentwicklung), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die folgende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, ob der...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 1,5, Alice-Salomon Hochschule Berlin , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Bedeutung von Fußball für Millionen von Menschen ist unumstritten. Fußball hat etwas Magisches, er...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 2,7, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: „[...] Kampfsportarten wie zum Beispiel Judo oder Karate [haben] inzwischen selbst bei Jungen im...

Facharbeit (Schule) aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 15, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Schaltet man abends, um 20.15 Uhr, den Fernseher ein und „zappt" durch die verschiedenen Fernsehsender, so wird man mit großer...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 1,0, Hochschule Fulda (Fachbereich: Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die olympische Idee und die hier implizierte Vorstellung von Sport...

This book will be a valuable source of information for those concerned with rural and farm tourism, sustainable tourism and the marketing of "Calibri">local gastronomy. It presents cases with an international and ...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 2,0, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (Sportwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Sport und regionale Identität, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: „When you walk through a storm,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,3, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (Lehrstuhl für Soziologie II), Veranstaltung: Pierre Bourdieu im Kontext der Gesellschaftstheorie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract:...

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 1,7, Technische Universität München, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Integration von Menschen mit Behinderung in unsere Gesellschaft verbessert sich zunehmend. Insbesondere im...

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,0, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (Institut für Soziologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ausgehend von der kritischen Diskussion um die Unterscheidung von...

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Youth Mediations and Affective Relations explores dynamic and expansive possibilities of young people's affective lives as they engage with diverse social media in prolific and specific ways. It addresses the situated embodied and emotional experiences...

This original book explores the character of cultural governance of arts and cultural institutions in eight countries across five continents. Examining strategy and decision-making at an organisational level, this is the first empirical contribution on...

Women's Manga in Asia and Beyond offers a variety of perspectives on women's manga and the nature, scope, and significance of the relationship between women and comics/manga, both globally as well as locally. Based on the activities since 2009 of the...

This collection investigates modern imperialist practices and their management of hunger through its punctuated distribution amongst asymmetrically related marginal populations. Drawing on relevant material from Egypt, Ireland, India, Ukraine, and other...

This book uncovers how music experience-live and recorded-is changing along with the use of digital technology in the 2000s. Focussing on the Nordic region, this volume utilizes the theory of mentalization: the capacity to perceive and interpret what...

This book argues that the design of built spaces influences civic attitudes, including prospects for social equality and integration, in America. Key American architects and planners-including Frederick Law Olmsted, Frank Lloyd Wright, Robert Moses, and...

This book explores the roles of religion in the current refugee crisis of Europe. Combining sociological, philosophical, and theological accounts of this crisis, renowned scholars from across Europe examine how religion has been employed to call either...

This collection examines the nerd and/or geek stereotype in popular culture today. Utilizing the media-film, TV, YouTube, Twitter, fiction-that often defines daily lives, the contributors interrogate what it means to be labeled a "nerd" or "geek." While...

This edited collection offers the latest research into the reproduction of 'hegemonic' discourse and the ways in which the description and evaluation of social groups affects their ability to exercise cultural and political autonomy. The book examines...

This innovative study claims camp as a critical, yet pleasurable strategy for women's engagement with contemporary popular culture as exemplified by 30 Rock or Lady Gaga. In detailed analyses of lesbian cinema, postfeminist TV, and popular music, the...

This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the production of Turkish cultural policies in the context of globalization and of the circulation of knowledge and practices. Focusing on circulations, the book proposes an innovative approach to the...

This book provides a detailed analysis of the transnational web sphere that emerged at the height of the Eurozone crisis between 2011 and 2013. During these turbulent years, a diverse spectrum of professional communicators from the media and political...

This book analyzes both local and national House and Senate campaigns in the 2016 election to reveal how distinctive campaign dynamics have a collective national impact. Featuring detailed case studies of ten competitive House races and twelve...

This is the first book that sheds light on global game industries and cultural policy. The scope covers the emerging and converging theory and models on cultural industries and its development, and their connection to national cultural policy and...

This collection of essays aims to analyse the uncanny as a concept developed in the field of the arts, from a variety of perspectives axed in the literary field, in the media context, and in film studies, with references to contemporary thought. The book...

Zimdancehall is a musical movement in Zimbabwe that has grown significantly since 2010. The Zimdancehall Revolution brings together critical essays on various aspects of Zimdancehall culture by scholars from diverse disciplines...

​The recent and dramatic development of China's economy and international political muscle is especially pronounced in the country's video game industry. Now the largest of its kind in the world by gross revenue, the Chinese...

This book, the first of its kind, investigates the historical trajectory and current situation of popular journalism in the People's Republic of China. Taking a popular cultural perspective, the book redefines "popular journalism" as a particular...