Kulturstudier

Since the 1960s, many people around the world have challenged the idea that western perspectives are the only ones that count. This book examines the history of that challenge, outlining the ideas behind it, and showing the ways in which the histo...

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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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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. Med våld upprätthålls stater, grupphierarkier och individuella maktpositioner. Första upplagan...

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Basil Bernstein: The Thinker and the Field provides a comprehensive introduction to the work of Basil Bernstein, demonstrating his distinctive contribution to social theory by locating it within the historical context of the development of the soc...

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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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Waris Dirie (the name means desert flower) lives a double life - by day she is a famous model and UN spokeswoman on women's rights in Africa, at night she dreams of her native Somalia. Waris, one of 12 children, was born into a traditional family ...

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"Brandão Jönsson noterar, som den reporter han är, i första hand det konkreta han ser och hör. Och snart inser jag att en genuin livsnjutare för pennan." Göran Greider, Dagens Nyheter "Reportageboken Där solen aldrig går ned gör vär...

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A new edition of a popular introduction to all aspects of life in Britain. This version reflects on the ongoing fallout from the global financial and eurozone crises; the May 2015 General Election; the September 2014 referendum on Scottish indepen...

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This revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining 'Why Fiske Still Matters' for today's students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Ron Becker, Elana Levine, Darrell Newton and...

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European Memory in Populism explores the links between memory and populism in contemporary Europe. Focusing on circulating ideas of memory, especially European memory, in contemporary populist discourses, the book also analyses populist ideas in s...

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Fashion is everywhere. It is one of the main ways in which we present ourselves to others, signaling what we want to communicate about our sexuality, wealth, professionalism, subcultural and political allegiances, social status, even our mood. It ...

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"Norberg sveper över stora historiska och geografiska perspektiv, lite i samma tradition som Yuval Noah Harari eller Malcolm Gladwell. Det är välskrivet, fullt av lärdom och intellektuellt stimulerande" BTJ "Clear, colourful and con...

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Making Culture, Changing Society proposes a challenging new account of the relations between culture and society focused on how particular forms of cultural knowledge and expertise work on, order and transform society. Examining these forms of cul...

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Whether you work in a home office or abroad, business success in our ever more globalized and virtual world requires the skills to navigate through cultural differences and decode cultures foreign to your own. Renowned expert Erin Meyer is your gu...

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Stephen Castles provides a deeper understanding of recent 'migration crises' in this fascinating and highly topical work. The book links theory and methodology to real-world migration experiences, with a truly global perspective and in-depth analy...

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Social Literacies develops new and critical approaches to the understanding of literacy in an international perspective. It represents part of the current trend towards a broader consideration of literacy as social practices, and as its title sugg...

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Debatten om de akademiska institutionernas utveckling berikas ständigt med nya bidrag. Sällan diskuteras dock själva den idémässiga grunden för forskning och högre utbildning, alltså det som traditionellt har kallats för "universitetets idé&q...

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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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Våra leenden är ett ojämförligt socialt smörjmedel. Vid rätt tillfälle kan det rädda en social situation men ett elakt flin kan också utnyttjas som en välriktad attack. Vårt smil är helt enkelt känslomässig hårdvaluta! Här kommer den oumbärliga ha...

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Med den här boken vill författarna visa på intervjustudiens variationsrikedom. Även om intervju kan ses som en metod så finns det nämligen många olika sätt att genomföra en intervjustudie. Fyra intervjutyper beskrivs: den opartiska, den tolkande, ...

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'Counterculture' emerged as a term in the late 1960s and has been re-deployed in more recent decades in relation to other forms of cultural and socio-political phenomena. This volume provides an essential new academic scrutiny of the concept of 'c...

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Nordic Gothic traces Gothic fiction in the Nordic region from its beginnings in the nineteenth century, with a main focus on the development of Gothic from the 1990s onwards in literature, film, TV and new media. The volume gives an overview of No...

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Now in its fourth edition, this leading introduction to ethnography has been thoroughly updated and substantially rewritten. The volume offers a systematic introduction to ethnographic principles and practice, and includes a new chapter on 'Ethnog...

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Few books have addressed research for teachers to turn to as a resource for classroom practice but here Kumashiro draws on interviews with gay activists as a starting point for discussion of models of reading and challenging oppression.

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This international and interdisciplinary volume explores the relations between translation, migration, and memory. It brings together humanities researchers from a range of disciplines including history, museum studies, memory studies, translation...

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Although education researchers have drawn on the work of a wide diversity of theorists, a number of these have been of particular significance to education. While the likes of Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, John Dewey and Paulo Freire influenced prev...

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In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe from the invention of printing to the publication of the French Encyclopedie. The book opens with an assessment of differen...

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Introducing the first official Harry Potter knitting book - a deluxe guide to creating over 25 authentic Harry Potter knits based on the iconic films. Channel the magic of the Harry Potter films from the screen to your needles with the ultimate kn...

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The great International Expositions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought together the world's political, intellectual, and industrial leaders for the exchange of information and ideas. They also promoted specific cultural v...

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I skuggan av framtiden (1997) är en stimulerande och medryckande sammanfattning av främst det västerländska tänkandets utveckling på det i vidaste mening kulturella området från antiken till idag. Sven-Eric Liedman beskriver hur uppfattningen om t...

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