Kulturstudier

Vi möter våld i någon form dagligen, om inte som "offer" eller "förövare", så när vi läser tidningen, tittar på tv eller går på bio. Hela världen kan förefalla organiserad med utgångspunkt i våld. Med våld upprätthålls stater, ...

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This book provides an up-to-date, critical review of theoretical concepts connecting artists and urban development. It focuses on the multidimensionality of potential and actually observed interactions between artists and cities and their impacts ...

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The New York Times-bestselling author of Start With Why, Leaders Eat Last, and Together Is Better offers a bold new approach to business strategy by asking one question: are you playing the finite game or the infinite game? In The Infinite Game, S...

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Tillämpad kulturteori ger en introduktion till teorier och perspektiv som är viktiga för etnologisk kulturanalys och kulturforskning i stort. Genom en bred presentation av olika kulturteoretiska perspektiv får läsaren en god grund för att förstå l...

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The Handbook of Musical Identities explores three features of psychological approaches to musical identities and four real-life contexts in which musical identities have been investigated. The multidisciplinary breadth of the Handbook reflects the...

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In The Senses of Modernism, Sara Danius develops a radically new theoretical and historical understanding of high modernism. The author closely analyzes Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, and James Joyce'...

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In this book, Eleonora Redaelli investigates the arts in American cities, providing insight into urban cultural policy discourse through the lens of space. By unpacking the ways in which scholars and policymakers account for geographic configurati...

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THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Fire gave us power. Farming made us hungry for more. Money gave us purpose. Science made us deadly. This is the thrilling account of our extraordinary history - from insignificant apes to rulers of the world. Earth is 4...

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Taking a truly global perspective, this textbook presents concepts, theories and applications from the field of intercultural communication in a lively and easy-to-follow style. Covering all the essential topics, from immigration to intercultural ...

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In this eighth edition of his award-winning Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction, John Storey presents a clear and critical survey of competing theories of and various approaches to popular culture. Its breadth and theoretical unit...

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Mänsklighetens historia är i många avseenden en kulturmötenas historia. Inte sällan har kulturmöten orsakat mellanmänskliga miss¿förstånd och konflikter - men även fungerat som en outsinlig källa till samhällelig utveckling och relationsskapande. ...

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Vinnare av Guldspaden 2018! Sverige är ett av världens mest vindrickande länder, ändå vet vi försvinnande lite om det som skvalpar i glaset. Vad dagens vin består av är en väl förborgad hemlighet. Istället matas vi med bilden av det oförfalskade v...

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Why does democracy-as a word and as an idea-loom so large in the political imagination, though it has so often been misused and misunderstood? Setting the People Free starts by tracing the roots of democracy from an improvised remedy for a local G...

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THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Sapiens shows us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that ...

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Why does democracy-as a word and as an idea-loom so large in the political imagination, though it has so often been misused and misunderstood? Setting the People Free starts by tracing the roots of democracy from an improvised remedy for a local G...

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The Fashioned Body provides a wide-ranging and original overview of fashion and dress from an historical and sociological perspective. Where once fashion was seen as marginal, it has now entered into core economic discourse focused around ideas ab...

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The fourteen essays that comprise this volume concentrate on festival iconography, the visual and written languages, including ephemeral and permanent structures, costume, dramatic performance, inscriptions and published festival books that 'voice...

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Historien visar att politisk handling i hög grad bygger på politisk teori och filosofi. Kunskap om politisk filosofi är därför viktig för förståelsen av både den politiska historien och den dagsaktuella debatten. De politiska idéernas historia för...

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Step aside Hygge. Lagom is the new Scandi lifestyle trend taking the world by storm. This delightfully illustrated book gives you the lowdown on this transformative approach to life and examines how the lagom ethos has helped boost Sweden to the N...

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Genom kunskap om vad som är kulturellt betingat och vad som inte är det, har du möjighet att minska, eller till och med undvika, onödiga missförstånd. Boken Alla dessa kulturer ger dig de nödvändiga metoderna. Stimulera förmågan att förstå vad som...

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Renowned linguistic anthropologist Don Kulick first went to study the tiny jungle village of Gapun in New Guinea over thirty years ago to document how it was that their native language, Tayap, was dying. But you can't study a language without sett...

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'Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style is so important: complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige [...] is concerned with the UK's postwar, music-centred, white working-class su...

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This lively survey of 150 years of fashion covers everything from Haute Couture to the High Street. From Coco Chanel to Alexander McQueen, Breward explores fashion as a cultural phenomenon. Topics include fashion in film, the world of Vogue and ad...

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Varför studerar man på högskola? Det sägs ofta att utbildning är ett sätt att bli anställningsbar och få ett bra och välbetalt jobb. Men i en levande demokrati behövs medborgare som engagerar sig i mer än den egna karriären och inte nöjer sig med ...

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The definitive text on hair fashions through the ages is back. This revised edition has 16 new pages by fashion historian Caroline Cox to bring hair fashions up to the present day. The first to attempt a comprehensive historical survey of men's an...

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Idéhistoriker från Göteborg, Uppsala och Stockholm skildrar stadsmiljöer som på ett unikt sätt stimulerade kreativitet och skapande under olika tidsepoker Bl a behandlas renässansens Florens, upplysningstidens Paris och 1800-talets Berlin. Sverige...

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Full of writing, reports, and recommendations, The Monocle Guide to Better living is original, informative, entertaining, and comprehensive. This is not a book about glitz but rather an upbeat survey of products and ideas built to treasure and las...

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This richly illustrated book presents a selection of the rich and varied iconographic material from the Scandinavian Late Iron Age (AD 400-1050) depicting clothed human figures, from an archaeological textile and clothing perspective. The source m...

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Consuming History examines how history works in contemporary popular culture. Analysing a wide range of cultural entities from computer games to daytime television, it investigates the ways in which society consumes history and how a reading of th...

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Reports of the book's death have been greatly exaggerated. Books are flourishing in the Internet era-widely discussed and reviewed in online readers' forums and publicized through book trailers and author blog tours. But over the past twenty-five ...

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