Theorizing Culture

Author : Barbara Adam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135366810
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theorizing Culture written by Barbara Adam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly original and timely volume engages scholars from the breadth of social science and the humanities to provide a critical perspective on cultural forms, practices and identities. It looks beyond the postmodern debate to reinstate the critical dimension in cultural analysis, providing a "student-friendly" introduction to key contemporary issues such as the body, AIDS, race, the environment and virtual reality. Theorizing Culture is essential reading for undergraduate courses in cultural and media studies and sociology, and will have considerable appeal for students and scholars of critical theory, gender studies and the history of ideas.

Author : Barbara Adam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135366829
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theorizing Culture written by Barbara Adam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly original and timely volume engages scholars from the breadth of social science and the humanities to provide a critical perspective on cultural forms, practices and identities. It looks beyond the postmodern debate to reinstate the critical dimension in cultural analysis, providing a "student-friendly" introduction to key contemporary issues such as the body, AIDS, race, the environment and virtual reality. Theorizing Culture is essential reading for undergraduate courses in cultural and media studies and sociology, and will have considerable appeal for students and scholars of critical theory, gender studies and the history of ideas.

Author : Grant D. Bollmer
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1526453096
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theorizing Digital Cultures written by Grant D. Bollmer and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid development of digital technologies continues to have far reaching effects on our daily lives. This book explains how digital media—in providing the material and infrastructure for a host of practices and interactions—affect identities, bodies, social relations, artistic practices, and the environment. Theorizing Digital Cultures: Shows students the importance of theory for understanding digital cultures and presents key theories in an easy-to-understand way Considers the key topics of cybernetics, online identities, aesthetics and ecologies Explores the power relations between individuals and groups that are produced by digital technologies Enhances understanding through applied examples, including YouTube personalities, Facebook’s ‘like’ button and holographic performers Clearly structured and written in an accessible style, this is the book students need to get to grips with the key theoretical approaches in the field. It is essential reading for students and researchers of digital culture and digital society throughout the social sciences.

Author : Barbara Adam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134219547
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theorizing Culture: Critique written by Barbara Adam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Fiona Cameron
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage written by Fiona Cameron and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 2007 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theoretical and practical perspectives from a range of disciplines on the challenges of using digital media in interpretation and representation of cultural heritage.

Author : Gunther Hellmann
Publisher : Campus Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3593508826
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theorizing Global Order written by Gunther Hellmann and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its prominent place in contemporary political discourse and international relations, the idea of the "global order" remains surprisingly sketchy. Though it's easy to identify the nations and actors who comprise the major players, but pinning down concrete definitions can be more difficult. This book not only clarifies a number of related key terms--including the use of international versus global and system versus order--but also offers a variety of perspectives for theorizing global order.

Author : Mark Banks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134083513
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theorizing Cultural Work written by Mark Banks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-11 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, cultural work has engaged the interest of scholars from a broad range of social science and humanities disciplines. The debate in this ‘turn to cultural work’ has largely been based around evaluating its advantages and disadvantages: its freedoms and its constraints, its informal but precarious nature, the inequalities within its global workforce, and the blurring of work–life boundaries leading to ‘self-exploitation’. While academic critics have persuasively challenged more optimistic accounts of ‘converged’ worlds of creative production, the critical debate on cultural work has itself leant heavily towards suggesting a profoundly new confluence of forces and effects. Theorizing Cultural Work instead views cultural work through a specifically historicized and temporal lens, to ask: what novelty can we actually attach to current conditions, and precisely what relation does cultural work have to social precedent? The contributors to this volume also explore current transformations and future(s) of work within the cultural and creative industries as they move into an uncertain future. This book challenges more affirmative and proselytising industry and academic perspectives, and the pervasive cult of novelty that surrounds them, to locate cultural work as an historically and geographically situated process. It will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, cultural studies, human geography, urban studies and industrial relations, as well as management and business studies, cultural and economic policy and development, government and planning.

Author : Kapila D. Silva
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003856527
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theorizing Built Form and Culture written by Kapila D. Silva and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-08 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays, Theorizing Built Form and Culture: The Legacy of Amos Rapoport – a felicitation volume to celebrate the significance of Professor Amos Rapoport's lifelong scholarship – scholars from around the world discuss the analytical relevance, expansion, and continuing application of these contributions in developing an advanced understanding of mutual relationships between people and built environments across cultures. Professor Amos Rapoport has espoused an intellectual and theoretical legacy on environmental design scholarship that explains how cultural factors play a significant role in the ways people create and use environments as well as the way environments, in turn, influence people’s behavior. This volume presents a hitherto-not-seen, unique, and singular work that simultaneously articulates a cohesive framework of Rapoport’s architectural theories and demonstrates how that theoretical approach be used in architectural inquiry, education, and practice across environmental scales, types, and cultural contexts. It also acknowledges, for the very first time, how this theoretical legacy has pioneered the decolonizing of the Eurocentric approaches to architectural inquiry and has thus privileged an inclusive, cross-cultural perspective that laid the groundwork to understand and analyze non-Western design traditions. The book thus reflects a wide range of cross-cultural and cross-contextual range to which Professor Rapoport’s theories apply, a general notion of theoretical validity he always advocated for in his own writings. The volume is a paramount source for scholars and students of architecture who are interested in understanding how culture mediates the creation, use, and preservation of the built environment.

Author : Mike Featherstone
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780803984134
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Body written by Mike Featherstone and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1991-02 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This challenging volume reasserts the centrality of the body within social theory as a means to understanding the complex interrelations between nature, culture and society. The importance of a theoretical understanding of the body to social and cultural analysis of contemporary societies is demonstrated through specific case studies.

Author : Barbara Adam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113421961X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theorizing Culture: Critique written by Barbara Adam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.