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Moral Engagement in Public Life
Theorists for Contemporary Ethics
Av Sharon L. Bracci, Clifford G. Christians
Häftad, 2002
537 kr
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Ethical evaluation of language and action has relied historically on the western, monocultural assumptions of classical ethical theory. But persistent contemporary critiques undermine the moral force of ethical agency as individualistic, autonomous, and rationalistic. Contributors to Moral …
Remembering Empire
Power, Memory, & Place in Postcolonial India
Av Karudapuram Supriya, Cameron McCarthy m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
329 kr
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Based on an ethnography of Fort St. George Museum in Chennai (formerly Madras), India, Remembering Empire explores the public and private politics of preserving the memory of the British period in the former seat of the British East India Company. K. E. Supriya shows how the preservation of …
Black Heart
The Moral Life of Recent African American Letters
Av Phillip M. Richards, Cameron McCarthy m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
352 kr
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Black Heart is a provocative and polemical critique of African American literary studies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Through a series of sharp and insightful essays on a wide range of critical thinkers, Phillip M. Richards traces what he sees as an erosion of moral reflection in …
Thinking with James Carey
Essays on Communications, Transportation, History
Av Jeremy Packer, Craig Robertson
Häftad, 2006
392 kr
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James Carey is arguably the founder of the critical cultural study of communication and media in the United States. This volume brings together top communication and media scholars to revisit and engage key themes in Carey’s groundbreaking work. This lively assortment of cutting-edge research …
Globalizing Cultural Studies
Ethnographic Interventions in Theory, Method, and Policy
Av Cameron McCarthy, Aisha S. Durham m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
411 kr
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The contributors to Globalizing Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Interventions in Theory, Method, and Policy take as their central topic the problematic status of «the global» within cultural studies in the areas of theory, method, and policy, and particularly in relation to the intersections of …
Geographies of Difference
The Social Production of the East Side, West Side, and Central City School
Av Edward Buendía, Nancy Ares m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
320 kr
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Geographies of Difference powerfully documents the multitude of socio-educational processes that construct differentiated students, educators, and educational practices within cities. Through a case study of a large metropolitan school district, this book identifies how the conversations and …
Forever Young
Essays on Young Adult Fictions
Av Chris Richards, Cameron McCarthy m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
393 kr
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This book explores ‘young adult’ fictions – stories about being young, staying young and sometimes never wanting to grow up. Looking at controversial novels by Francesca Lia Block, at sex and ‘race’ in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and at the online world of fans and censors, Chris Richards argues that …
Transnational Perspectives on Culture, Policy, and Education
Redirecting Cultural Studies in Neoliberal Times
Av Cameron McCarthy, Cathryn Teasley
Häftad, 2008
339 kr
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As multinational elites vie for economic and cultural dominance, neoliberal socio-economic policies are, in effect, not only reconfiguring political economies, but the ways in which culture is being produced and represented. In light of the global impact of these forms of domination, this …
Global Auteurs
Politics in the Films of Almodóvar, von Trier, and Winterbottom
Häftad, 2009
372 kr
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Global Auteurs employs auteur theory to examine the work of three contemporary and innovative directors: Pedro Almodóvar, Lars von Trier, and Michael Winterbottom.With extensive background information on the global film industry, and on auteur theory and its implications for ideological critique, …
Global Auteurs
Politics in the Films of Almodóvar, von Trier, and Winterbottom
Inbunden, 2009
1124 kr
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Global Auteurs employs auteur theory to examine the work of three contemporary and innovative directors: Pedro Almodóvar, Lars von Trier, and Michael Winterbottom.With extensive background information on the global film industry, and on auteur theory and its implications for ideological critique, …
Local Violence, Global Media
Feminist Analyses of Gendered Representations
Av Lisa M. Cuklanz, Sujata Moorti
Inbunden, 2009
1228 kr
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While there exists a wide range of material covering violence against women, very little scholarly attention has been paid to international media treatments of gendered violence. This volume addresses the gap by providing a broad overview of contemporary representations of gendered violence, …
Global Technography
Ethnography in the Age of Mobility
Av Grant Kien
Häftad, 2009
365 kr
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This book develops and employs a new methodology – Global Technography – to investigate wireless mobility from a sociological and cultural perspective. It illustrates that technologies are created to perform roles – to act – in everyday life, and this demands an ethnography that can track the …
Material Culture and Technology in Everyday Life
Ethnographic Approaches
Häftad, 2009
431 kr
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Focusing on the technoculture of everyday life, this book attempts to zero in on the simplicity and the habitual character of the interaction between humans and material objects, which is often assumed or taken for granted. Because objects are always meaningful in the pragmatic use to which they …
Material Culture and Technology in Everyday Life
Ethnographic Approaches
Inbunden, 2009
1269 kr
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Focusing on the technoculture of everyday life, this book attempts to zero in on the simplicity and the habitual character of the interaction between humans and material objects, which is often assumed or taken for granted. Because objects are always meaningful in the pragmatic use to which they …
Forever Young
Essays on Young Adult Fictions
Inbunden, 2008
1560 kr
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This book explores ‘young adult’ fictions – stories about being young, staying young and sometimes never wanting to grow up. Looking at controversial novels by Francesca Lia Block, at sex and ‘race’ in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and at the online world of fans and censors, Chris Richards argues that …
Performing Identity/Performing Culture
Hip Hop as Text, Pedagogy, and Lived Practice
Häftad, 2009
250 kr
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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 updated to reflect contemporary currents in …
Home with Hip Hop Feminism
Performances in Communication and Culture
Inbunden, 2014
1670 kr
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This book has won the 2015 Top Book Award from the NCA African American Communication and Culture Division (AACCD) of NCAHome with Hip Hop Feminism brings together popular culture and the everyday experiences of black women from the hip hop generation to highlight the epiphanic moments when the …
Home with Hip Hop Feminism
Performances in Communication and Culture
Häftad, 2014
288 kr
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This book has won the 2015 Top Book Award from the NCA African American Communication and Culture Division (AACCD) of NCAHome with Hip Hop Feminism brings together popular culture and the everyday experiences of black women from the hip hop generation to highlight the epiphanic moments when the …
Rebooting the Herman & Chomsky Propaganda Model in the Twenty-First Century
Häftad, 2013
450 kr
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Using the Herman & Chomsky «Propaganda Model» that was introduced in 1988, Goss offers a rigorous and accessible portrait of contemporary news media. Following a current survey of media ownership and news worker routines, in a series of case studies, he shows how recent news discourse has developed …
Communication Theories in a Multicultural World
Av Clifford G. Christians, Kaarle Nordenstreng
Häftad, 2014
485 kr
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This volume is an up-to-date account of communication theories from around the world. Authored by a group of eminent scholars, each chapter is a history and state-of-the-art description of the major issues in international communication theory. While the book draws on an understanding of …
Ethics of Intercultural Communication
Av Bo Shan, Clifford Christians
Häftad, 2015
519 kr
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The revolution in media technologies and the political upheavals intertwined with them demand a new media ethics. Given the power of global media corporations and the high-speed electronics of media technologies worldwide, more and more people are either brought together through dialogue and …
Talking Back to Globalization
Texts and Practices
Av Brian Michael Goss, Mary Rachel Gould m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
471 kr
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Globalization is one of the most widely circulated, high-stakes buzzwords of the past generation; yet discussion of the topic is often encased in paradox and contention over what globalization is, to whom and where it may (or may not) apply, and to what effect. In Talking Back to Globalization: …
Privileged Mobilities
Professional Migration, Geo-Social Media, and a New Global Middle Class
Av Erika Polson
Häftad, 2016
452 kr
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As corporations ramp up «workforce globalization» and young professionals increasingly pursue opportunities to work abroad, social entrepreneurs use online digital platforms to create offline social events where foreigners can meet face-to-face. Through ethnographic study of such groups in Paris, …
Privileged Mobilities
Professional Migration, Geo-Social Media, and a New Global Middle Class
Av Erika Polson
Inbunden, 2016
1670 kr
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As corporations ramp up «workforce globalization» and young professionals increasingly pursue opportunities to work abroad, social entrepreneurs use online digital platforms to create offline social events where foreigners can meet face-to-face. Through ethnographic study of such groups in Paris, …
Spaces of New Colonialism
Reading Schools, Museums, and Cities in the Tumult of Globalization
Av Cameron McCarthy, Koeli Moitra Goel m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1489 kr
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Spaces of New Colonialism is an edited volume of 16 essays and interviews by prominent and emerging scholars who examine how the restructuring of capitalist globalization is articulated to key sites and institutions that now cut an ecumenical swath across human societies. The volume is the product …
Spaces of New Colonialism
Reading Schools, Museums, and Cities in the Tumult of Globalization
Av Cameron McCarthy, Koeli Moitra Goel m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
674 kr
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Spaces of New Colonialism is an edited volume of 16 essays and interviews by prominent and emerging scholars who examine how the restructuring of capitalist globalization is articulated to key sites and institutions that now cut an ecumenical swath across human societies. The volume is the product …
Stepping Across
Four Interdisciplinary Studies of Education and Cultural Politics
Av Julia Eklund Koza, Cameron McCarthy m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
339 kr
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Stepping Across: Four Interdisciplinary Studies of Education and Cultural Politics is a collection of four studies of education, privilege, and power – each of which explores relationships between formal schooling and larger cultural contexts. Representing some of Koza’s most recent thinking, the …
Warrior Women of Television
A Feminist Cultural Analysis of the New Female Body in Popular Media
Av Dawn Heinecken, Cameron McCarthy m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
322 kr
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The Warrior Women of Television examines contemporary representations of the female action hero in three series: La Femme Nikita, Aeon Flux, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Detailed readings focus on the ways the structure and content of each series work to create specific understandings of the body …
Roots and Routes
Bosnian Adolescent Refugees in New York City
Av Jacqeline Mosselson, Cameron McCarthy m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
332 kr
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Roots and Routes is a poignant study of the social integration and identity formation of female refugee youth. Grounded in the practical experiences of adolescent Bosnian refugees living in New York City, the book gives voice to these youths’ experiences as they develop a sense of self in their …
Girl Wide Web
Girls, the Internet, and the Negotiation of Identity
Av Sharon R. Mazzarella, Sharon R. Mazzarella
Häftad, 2005
320 kr
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Given the rapidly growing presence of girls online, serious academic inquiry into the relationship between girls and the Internet is imperative. Girl Wide Web is an innovative collection of cutting-edge research exploring a wide sweep of issues related to the ways adolescent girls interact with the …
