Cultural Studies
"Urban Margins"Envisioning the Contemporary Global South
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"A Special Issue of Social Text" series; Takes up the question of marginality in contemporary urban cartographies in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa. This book explores the complex processes through which citizens produce and negotiate these marginalized landscapes and in turn are informed by them. With 2 illustrations. Paperback, 127 pages. Size: 224 x 171 mm. Weight: 264g.
Author: (Ali, Kamran Asdar, ed.)
ISBN: 0822366975
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 2008 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Victims of the Chilean Miracle"Workers and Neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era, 1973-2002
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Chile was the first major Latin American nation to carry out a complete neo-liberal transformation. This book examines the human underside of the Chilean economy, delineating the harsh inequities that persist in spite of growth, low inflation, and some decrease in poverty and unemployment. With 1 map. Paperback, 440 pages. Size: 235 x 154 mm. Weight: 635g.
Author: (Winn, Peter, ed.)
ISBN: 082233321X
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 2004 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"The Virilio Reader"
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"Blackwell Readers" series; A collection of Paul Virilio's writings translated from French, including a personal interview that the editor conducted with him at La Coupole in Paris. Maintaining the principle themes of war and cinema, the focus of the reflections is on the darker aspects of the future. With 0. Paperback, 224 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 488g.
Author: (Derian, James Der, ed.)
ISBN: 1557866538
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Date: 1998 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"W Stands for Women"How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender
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Argues that George W Bush has hijacked feminist language toward decidedly antifeminist ends. This book analyzes various aspects of Bush's persona, language, and policy to show how his administration has shaped a separate politics of gender. With 4 illustrations. Paperback, 280 pages. Size: 235 x 161 mm. Weight: 432g.
Author: (Ferguson, Michaele L., ed.)
ISBN: 0822340429
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 2007 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Weather, Climate, Culture"
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Throughout history, the weather has been both feared and revered for its powerful influence over living creatures. This work states that with the continuing rise in global warming and consequential change in weather patterns, our awareness of this topic has never been so important. With 10 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index. Paperback, 416 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 522g.
Author: (Orlove, Benjamin S., ed.)
ISBN: 1859736971
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Date: 2004 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Cultural Studies
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"What Makes Us Human?"
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Exploring the true nature of human nature, this title sheds light on how and why our ancestors produced such clever, talented, and unlikely progeny. With illustrations. Paperback, 272 pages. Size: 198 x 129 mm. Weight: 262g.
Author: (Pasternak, Charles, ed.)
ISBN: 1851685197
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Cultural Studies
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"Who Are the Scots"And, the Scottish Nation
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Two classic books are brought together here. With 12 maps, 32 plates. 2 rev ed. Paperback, 320 pages. Size: 186 x 146 mm. Weight: 385g.
Author: (Menzies, Gordon, ed.)
ISBN: 190293038X
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Date: 2002 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Women in Contemporary Culture"Roles and Identities in France and Spain
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"Lives of Great Explorers" series; Which female figures are proposed for our admiration? Who proposes them and what values do they represent? This study offers an analysis of such religious/cultural icons. It addresses contemporary roles and issues concerning women in contemporary France and Spain. Hardback, 192 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 563g.
Author: (Twomey, Lesley K., ed.)
ISBN: 1841500402
Publisher: Intellect Books
Date: 2000 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Women Voice Men"Gender in European Culture
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This volume contains a diverse selection of pieces that present views about men given by women. Some of the contributors write directly about men and how men see women, others prefer to view men at a distance, as a woman looking at men through the eyes of a female writer. Paperback, 112 pages. Size: 244 x 174 mm. Weight: 242g.
Author: (Slater, Maya, ed.)
ISBN: 1871516935
Publisher: Intellect Books
Date: 1997 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Writing Culture"The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography
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"A School of American Research Advanced Seminar" series; Places ethnography at the center of a fresh intersection of social history, interpretive anthropology, discourse theory, and textual criticism. This work analyzes classic examples of cultural description, from Goethe and Catlin to Malinowski, Evans-Pritchard, and Le Roy Ladurie, showing the persistence of allegorial patterns and rhetorical tropes. Paperback, 345 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 431g.
Author: (Clifford, James L., ed.)
ISBN: 0520057295
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
Date: 1986 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Youth Culture"Identity in a Postmodern World
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A collection of essays from experts in sociology and cultural studies, it looks at youth culture through subcultural identity. It attempts to bridge sociology and cultural studies in order to understand youth identity. It examines the social worlds of young people in their 'natural environments' such as suburban bedrooms and shopping malls. With 0. Paperback, 344 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 511g.
Author: (Epstein, Jonathan, ed.)
ISBN: 1557868514
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Date: 1998 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Youth Culture in Late Modernity"
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Poised between the commercialism of mass consumption and a questioning of prevailing social norms, youth cultures offer an insight into the social and cultural state of western societies. This book provides an exploration of such cultures, with all their implicit ironies and contradictions. With indexes, bibliography. Paperback, 208 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 340g.
Author: (Fornas, Johan, ed.)
ISBN: 0803988990
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Date: 1994 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"The Zizek Reader"
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"Blackwell Readers" series; Zizek's work is a mix of Hegel and Hitchcock, Schelling and science fiction, Kant and courtly love, Stalin and Stephen King, all of which is strongly seasoned with Lacanian psychoanalysis. This title includes a Preface by Zizek and an essay on cyberspace. It includes Culture, Woman and Philosophy. With 0. Paperback, 344 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 520g.
Author: (Wright, Edmund, ed.)
ISBN: 0631212019
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Date: 1999 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Young Femininity"Girlhood, Power and Social Change
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This text draws on international work to do with feminity, identity and youth cultures to explore how girlhood is defined and portrayed in contemporary theoretical and popular discourses, and to examine how young women from different social backgrounds and cultural contexts negotiate their gendered identities. Harris at Monash Uni. Paperback, 272 pages. Size: 216 x 138 mm. Weight: 72g.
Author: Aapola, Sinikka Gonick, Marnina Harris, Anita
ISBN: 0333965124
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Date: 2004 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Culture and Identity"Critical Theories
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"Politics and Culture Series" series; Paperback, 240 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 363g.
Author: Abbinnett, Ross
ISBN: 076196519X
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Date: 2003 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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