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  • 1
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    Bourdieu on Religion : Imposing Faith and Legitimacy (2014)
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    ISBN: 9781845532857 , 9781317490883 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 192 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781317490883
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    Series Statement: Key Thinkers in the Study of Religion
    DDC: 306.6092
    RVK:
    HD 370
    Keywords: Religionssoziologie
    Abstract: Pierre Bourdieu was one of the most influential social theorists of our time. He developed a series of concepts to uncover the way society works and to challenge assumptions about what society is. His ideas illuminate how individuals and groups find value and meaning and so have rapidly come to be seen as hugely productive in analysing how religion works in society. 'Bourdieu on Religion' introduces students to Bourdieu's key concepts: cultural, social and symbolic capital; habitus and field; and his challenge to the structures of social inequality. This study will be invaluable to any student...
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  • 2
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    Material Powers : Cultural Studies, History and the Material Turn (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781134015160
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (455 pages)
    Series Statement: CRESC
    DDC: 303.3309
    RVK:
    MS 1290
    RVK:
    NQ 9300
    RVK:
    LC 10000
    RVK:
    HD 400
    RVK:
    LB 39000
    Keywords: Bergstraesser, Arnold ; Guardini, Romano ; Geschichte ; Macht ; Kolonialismus ; Sachkultur ; Materialismus ; Infrastruktur ; Großbritannien ; Frankreich ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This edited collection is a major contribution to the current development of a 'material turn' in the social sciences and humanities.  It does so by exploring new understandings of how power is made up and exercised by examining the role of material infrastructures in the organization of state power and the role of material cultural practices in the organization of colonial forms of governance.  A diverse range of historical examples is drawn on in illustrating these concerns - from the role of territorial engineering projects in seventeenth-century France through the development of the postal system in nineteenth-century Britain to the relations between the state and road-building in contemporary Peru, for example.  The colonial contexts examined are similarly varied, ranging from the role of photographic practices in the constitution of colonial power in India and the measurement of the bodies of the colonized in French colonial practices to the part played by the relations between museums and expeditions in the organization of Australian forms of colonial rule.  These specific concerns are connected to major critical re-examination of the limits of the earlier formulations of cultural materialism and the logic of the 'cultural turn'.The collection brings together a group of key international scholars whose work has played a leading role in debates in and across the fields of history, visual culture studies, anthropology, geography, cultural studies, museum studies, and literary studies.
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  • 3
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    Imagining the Pagan Past : Gods and Goddesses in Literature and History since the Dark Ages (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781135082550
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (264 pages)
    DDC: 299
    RVK:
    HG 436
    RVK:
    HG 432
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Heidentum ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Götter ; Mythos ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: Imagining the Pagan Past explores stories of Britain's pagan history. These tales have been characterised by gods and fairies, folklore and magic. They have had an uncomfortable relationship with the scholarly world; often being seen as historically dubious, self-indulgent romance and, worse, encouraging tribal and nationalistic feelings or challenging church and state. This book shows how important these stories are to the history of British culture, taking the reader on a lively tour from prehistory to the present. From the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, Marion Gibson explores the ways in which British pagan gods and goddesses have been represented in poetry, novels, plays, chronicles, scientific and scholarly writing. From Geoffrey of Monmouth to Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare to Seamus Heaney and H.G. Wells to Naomi Mitchison it explores Romano-British, Celtic and Anglo-Saxon deities and fictions. The result is a comprehensive picture of the ways in which writers have peopled the British pagan pantheons throughout history. Imagining the Pagan Past will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of paganism.
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  • 4
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    Feminist Postcolonial Theory : A Reader (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781136785207
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (767 pages)
    DDC: 305.4209
    RVK:
    HD 310
    RVK:
    EC 1874
    RVK:
    MS 3150
    Keywords: Postkolonialismus ; Feminismus
    Abstract: Feminism and postcolonialism are allies, and the impressive selection of writings brought together in this volume demonstrate how fruitful that alliance can be. Reina Lewis and Sara Mills have assembled a brilliant selection of thinkers, organizing them into six categories: "Gendering Colonialism and Postcolonialism/Radicalizing Feminism," "Rethinking Whiteness," "Redefining the 'Third World' Subject," "Sexuality and Sexual Rights," "Harem and the Veil," and "Gender and Post/colonial Relations." A bibliography complements the wide-ranging essays. This is the ideal volume for any reader interested in the development of postcoloniality and feminist thought.
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  • 5
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    Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781135090678
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (242 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    DDC: 306
    RVK:
    HD 300
    Abstract: This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture. The authors take their cue from the observation that art and popular culture enact memory and generate processes of memory. They do memory, and in this doing of memory new questions about the cultural dimensions of memory arise: How do art objects and artistic practices perform the past in the present? What is their relationship to the archive? Does the past speak in the performed past (or do we speak to it)? To what purpose do objects "recall"? And for whom do they recollect? Here authors combine a methodological focus on memory as performance with a theoretical focus on art and popular culture as practices of remembrance. The essays in the book thus analyze what is at stake in the complex processes of remembering and forgetting, of recollecting and disremembering, of amnesia and anamnesis, that make up cultural memory.
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  • 6
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    The Social Life of Nanotechnology (2013)
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    ISBN: 9780415899055 , 9781136258114 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 539 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781136258114
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
    DDC: 303.48/3
    RVK:
    TB 6400
    RVK:
    VE 9850
    RVK:
    ZN 3700
    RVK:
    AK 26700
    Keywords: Nanotechnologie ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Online-Publikation ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: This book addresses the interconnections and tensions between technological development, the social benefits and risks of new technology, and the changing political economy of a global world system as they apply to the emerging field of nanotechnologies. The basic premise, developed throughout the volume, is that nanotechnologies have an undertheorized and often invisible social life that begins with their constructed origins and propels them around the globe, across multiple localities, institutions and collaborations, through diverse industries, research labs, and government agencies and into the public sphere. The volume situates nano innovation and development as a modernist science and technology project in a tense and unstable relationship with a fractured, postmodern social world. The book is unique in incorporating and integrating studies of innovation systems along with a focus on the risks and consequences of a globally significant set of emerging technologies. It does this by examining the social and political conditions of their creation, production, emergence, and reception.
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  • 7
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    William Blake and the Digital Humanities : Collaboration, Participation, and Social Media (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781135135768
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (220 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    DDC: 302.231
    RVK:
    HL 1925
    Abstract: William Blake's work demonstrates two tendencies that are central to social media: collaboration and participation. Not only does Blake cite and adapt the work of earlier authors and visual artists, but contemporary authors, musicians, and filmmakers feel compelled to use Blake in their own creative acts. This book identifies and examines Blake's work as a social and participatory network, a phenomenon described as zoamorphosis, which encourages - even demands - that others take up Blake's creative mission. The authors rexamine the history of the digital humanities in relation to the study and dissemination of Blake's work: from alternatives to traditional forms of archiving embodied by Blake's citation on Twitter and Blakean remixes on YouTube, smartmobs using Blake's name as an inspiration to protest the 2004 Republican National Convention, and students crowdsourcing reading and instruction in digital classrooms to better understand and participate in Blake's world. The book also includes a consideration of Blakean motifs that have created artistic networks in music, literature, and film in the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries, showing how Blake is an ideal exemplar for understanding creativity in the digital age.
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  • 8
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    Locating Postcolonial Narrative Genres (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781135936303
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (243 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    DDC: 305.420952
    RVK:
    HP 1145
    Keywords: Englisch ; Postkoloniale Literatur ; Erzähltechnik ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This volume explores how postcolonial texts have determined the evolution or emergence of specific formal innovations in narrative genres. While the prominence of questions of cultural identity in postcolonial studies has prevented due attention to concerns of literary form and aesthetics, this book gives premium to the literary, aiming to delineate the evolution of specific narrative techniques as part of an emerging postcolonial aesthetics. Essays delineate elements of an emergent postcolonial narratology across a variety of seminal generic forms, such as the epic, the novel, the short story, the autobiography, and the folk tale, focusing on genre as a powerful tool for the historicizing of literature and orature within cultural discourses. Investigating the heuristic value of concepts such as mimicry, writing back, translation, negotiation, or subversion, the book considers the value of explanatory paradigms for postcolonial generic models. It also explores the status of postcolonial comparative aesthetics versus globalization studies and liberal concepts of the transnational, taking issue with the prominence of Western concepts of identity in discussions of postcolonial literature and the favoring of mimetic forms. This volume offers a unique contribution to the study of narrative genre in postcolonial literatures and provides valuable insight into the field of postcolonial studies on the whole.
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  • 9
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    Subcultures The Basics (2013)
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    ISBN: 9781134547630
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (193 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: The Basics
    Series Statement: EBL-Schweitzer
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Haenfler, Ross, 1974 - Subcultures
    DDC: 306.1
    RVK:
    HD 305
    Keywords: Subculture -- Case studies ; Subculture ; Youth -- Case studies ; Youth ; Electronic books ; Subkultur
    Abstract: Cover; Subcultures the Basics; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 What is a subculture?; 2 How do subcultures emerge and why do people participate?; 3 How do subcultures resist "mainstream" society … and are they successful?; 4 Who participates in subcultures?; 5 Who are the "authentic" participants and who are the "poseurs"?; 6 How does society react to subcultures?; 7 Have subcultures gone virtual? Global? Where do subculturists hang out?; 8 What happens to subculturists as they "grow up"?; Bibliography; Index
    Abstract: Subcultures: The Basics is an accessible, engaging introduction to youth cultures in a global context. Blending theory and practice to examine a range of subcultural movements including hip hop in Japan, global graffiti writing crews, heavy metal in Europe and straight edge movements in the USA, this text answers the key questions posed by those new to the subject, including:What is a subculture?How do subcultures emerge, who participates and why?What is the relationship between deviance, resistance and the 'mainstream'?How does society react to different subcultural movements?How has global media and virtual networking influenced subcultures?Is there a life 'after' subculture?Tracing the history and development of subcultures to the present day, with further reading and case studies throughout, this text is essential reading for all those studying youth culture in the contexts of sociology, cultural studies, media studies, anthropology and criminology
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  • 10
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    Edging Women Out : Victorian Novelists, Publishers and Social Change (2012)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781136290794
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (289 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature
    DDC: 305.983
    RVK:
    HL 1020
    RVK:
    HL 1021
    RVK:
    HL 1022
    RVK:
    HL 1331
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Englisch ; Soziale Situation ; Schriftstellerin ; Romanschriftstellerin ; Prestige ; Roman ; Soziologie ; Buchmarkt ; Verleger ; Romancier ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: Before about 1840, there was little prestige attached to the writing of novels, and most English novelists were women. By the turn of the twentieth century, "men of letters" acclaimed novels as a form of great literature, and most critically successful novelists were men. In the book, sociologist Gaye Tuchman examines how men succeeded in redefining a form of culture and in invading a white-collar occupation previously practiced mostly by women. Tuchman documents how men gradually supplanted women as novelists once novel-writing was perceived as potentially profitable, in part because of changes in the system of publishing and rewarding authors. Drawing on unusual data ranging from the archives of Macmillan and company (London) to an analysis of the lives and accomplishments of authors listed in the Dictionary of National Biography, she shows that rising literacy and the centralization of the publishing industry in London after 1840 increased literary opportunities and fostered men's success as novelists. Men redefined the nature of a good novel and applied a double standard in critically evaluating literary works by men and by women. They also received better contracts than women for novels of equivalent quality and sales. They were able to accomplish this, says Tuchman, because they were to a large extent the culture brokers - the publishers, publishers' readers, and reviewers of an elite art form. Both a sociological study of occupational gender transformation and a historical study of writing and publishing, this book will be a rich resource for students of the sociology of culture, literary criticism, and women's studies.
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  • 11
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    English with an Accent : Language, Ideology and Discrimination in the United States (2012)
    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780203348802
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (375 p.))
    Edition: 2 (Online-Ausg.)
    Series Statement: EBL-Schweitzer
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Lippi-Green, Rosina English with an accent
    DDC: 306.440973
    RVK:
    HF 610
    Keywords: Discrimination - United States ; Language and culture -- United States ; Language policy - United States ; Language policy -- United States ; Speech and social status - United States ; Speech and social status -- United States ; Discrimination -- United States ; English language - Political aspects - United States ; English language -- Political aspects -- United States ; English language - Social aspects - United States ; English language -- Social aspects -- United States ; English language - Variation - United States ; English language -- Variation -- United States ; Language and culture - United States ; Electronic books ; Amerikanisches Englisch ; Black English ; Hispanos ; Diskriminierung
    Abstract: Front Cover; English with an Accent; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: language ideology or science fiction?; 1. The linguistic facts of life; All spoken language changes; All spoken languages are equal in linguistic terms; Grammaticality does not equal communicative effectiveness; Written language and spoken language are historically, structurally, and functionally fundamentally different creatures; Variation is intrinsic to all spoken language at every level; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes
    Abstract: Suggested further reading2. Language in motion; Changes in progress; r-less in Manhattan; The Northern Cities Chain Shift (NCCS); Lexical variation; Variation in verb morphology: strong and weak verbs; Structured variation: the hidden life of language; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes; Suggested further reading; 3. The myth of non-accent; You've got one too; Perspective; The Sound House; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes; Suggested further reading; 4. The standard language myth; Standard (American) English; Words about words; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes
    Abstract: Suggested further reading5. Language subordination; A model of the language subordination process; Rejecting the gift: the individual's role in the communicative process; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes; Suggested further reading; 6. The educational system: fixing the message in stone; The setting of goals; Appropriacy arguments; The results of appropriacy argumentation; Good enough English; Teacher talk; Summary; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes; Suggested further reading; 7. Teaching children how to discriminate: (what we learn from the Big Bad Wolf); Storytellers, Inc
    Abstract: The ubiquitous mouseThe wolf's backstory; Talking the talk; Time and place; Disney feature films; Original study methodology; Getting the hang of Technicolor; Lovers and mothers; In short; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes; Suggested further reading; 8. The information industry; The voice of authority; Opinion, spin, propaganda; Bad is stronger than good; The 2008 presidential election; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes; Suggested further reading; 9. Real people with a real language: the workplace and the judicial system; The nutshell; The Civil Rights Act; The legal process
    Abstract: Discrimination in the workplaceSelected court cases; Appendix: the U.S. civil court structure; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes; Suggested further reading; 10. The real trouble with Black language; Grammar: resistance is futile; Style, authenticity, and race; Defying the definition; Anglo attitudes toward AAVE; African American attitudes toward AAVE; Where we at; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes; Suggested further reading; 11. Hillbillies, hicks, and Southern belles: the language rebels; Defining the South; The Southern Trough; Sounds like home to me; The map in the mind
    Abstract: Hostility with a smile
    Abstract: Since its initial publication, English with an Accent has provoked debate and controversy within classrooms through its in-depth scrutiny of American attitudes towards language. Rosina Lippi-Green discusses the ways in which discrimination based on accent functions to support and perpetuate social structures and unequal power relations. This second edition has been reorganized and revised to include: new dedicated chapters on Latino English and Asian American English discussion questions, further reading, and suggested classroom exercises, updated examples from the classroom, the judicial system, the media, and corporate culture a discussion of the long-term implications of the Ebonics debatea brand-new companion website with a glossary of key terms and links to audio, video, and images relevant to the each chapter's content. English with an Accent is essential reading for students with interests in attitudes and discrimination towards language
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  • 12
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    Trauma and Media : Theories, Histories, and Images (2011)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203863190
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (233 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    DDC: 302.23
    RVK:
    HD 300
    RVK:
    AP 13750
    RVK:
    CV 3500
    RVK:
    CV 9500
    RVK:
    CU 3040
    Keywords: Massenmedien ; Gewaltdarstellung ; Psychisches Trauma ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Fotografie
    Abstract: This book provides the first comprehensive account of trauma as a critical concept in the study of modern visual media, from Freud to the present day, explaining how contemporary trauma studies emerged from research on Holocaust representation in which the audiovisual testimony of survivors was posed as an authentic alternative to popular television and film dramatizations. It argues that the media coverage of 9/11 and the subsequent 'war on terror,' however, has revealed how the formation of communities of witness and commemoration around 'traumatic events' can perpetuate violence and inequality. The book explains how Benjamin, Adorno and Barthes, drawing from psychoanalysis, analyzed the roles of fantasy, ideology and collective identification in mass media, and began to understand trauma as an authentic experience of modernity. It proposes that the insights of these earlier theorists, along with more recent arguments by Derrida, Agamben and Zizek, continue to provide important perspectives on today's politics of mediated shock and terror.
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  • 13
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    Reading the Popular (2011)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203837252
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (246 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    DDC: 306
    RVK:
    AP 14350
    RVK:
    HG 129
    Keywords: Volkskultur ; Gesellschaft ; Alltagskultur ; Kapitalismus ; Massenkonsum ; Ästhetik ; Massenkultur ; Massenmedien
    Abstract: 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 Kevin Glynn, Jonathan Gray, and Pamela Wilson on the theme of 'Reading Fiske and Understanding the Popular'. Both underline the continuing relevance of this foundational text in the study of popular culture.Beneath the surface of the cultural artifacts that surround us - shopping malls, popular music, the various forms of television - lies a multitude of meanings and ways of using them, not all of them those intended by their designers. In Reading the Popular, John Fiske analyzes these popular "texts" to reveal both their explicit and implicit (and often opposite) meanings and uses, and the social and political dynamics they reflect.Fiske's "readings" of these cultural phenomena highlight the conflicting responses they evoke: Madonna may be promoted as a "boy toy", but young girls feel empowered by her ability to toy with boys; Chicago's Sears Tower may be a massive expression of capitalist domination, but it can also allow one to tower over the city. In each case it is the latter option that interests him, for this is where Fiske locates popular culture: it is the point at which people take the goods offered them by industrial capitalism (however oppressive they may seem) and turn them to their own creative, and even subversive, uses.Designed as a companion to Understanding Popular Culture, Reading the Popular gives the lie to theories that portray a mass audience that mindlessly consumes every product it is offered. Fiske's acute perception and lively wit combine to provide a truly democratic vision of popular culture, one that respects the awareness and the agency of the people who make it.
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    The Diaspora Strikes Back : Caribeño Tales of Learning and Turning (2010)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203894613
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (248 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Cultural Spaces
    DDC: 304.8/7295073
    RVK:
    HD 350
    Keywords: Rückwanderung ; Puerto Rico
    Abstract: In The Diaspora Strikes Back the eminent ethnic and cultural studies scholar Juan Flores flips the process on its head: what happens to the home country when it is being constantly fed by emigrants returning from abroad? He looks at how 'Nuyoricans' (Puerto Rican New Yorkers) have transformed the home country, introducing hip hop and modern New York culture to the Caribbean island. While he focuses on New York and Mayaguez (in Puerto Rico), the model is broadly applicable. Indians introducing contemporary British culture to India; New York Dominicans bringing slices of New York culture back to the Dominican Republic; Mexicans bringing LA culture (from fast food to heavy metal) back to Guadalajara and Monterrey. This ongoing process is both massive and global, and Flores' novel account will command a significant audience across disciplines.
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    The Victorian Reinvention of Race : New Racisms and the Problem of Grouping in the Human Sciences (2010)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203844984
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (258 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Modern British History
    DDC: 305.8
    RVK:
    HD 300
    RVK:
    NQ 9410
    Abstract: In mid-Victorian England there were new racial categories based upon skin colour. The 'races' familiar to those in the modern west were invented and elaborated after the decline of faith in Biblical monogenesis in the early nineteenth century, and before the maturity of modern genetics in the middle of the twentieth. Not until the early nineteenth century would polygenetic and racialist theories win many adherents. But by the middle of the nineteenth century in England, racial categories were imposed upon humanity. How the idea of 'race' gained popularity in England at that time is the central focus of The Victorian Reinvention of Race: New Racisms and the Problem of Grouping in the Human Sciences. Scholars have linked this new racism to some very dodgy thinkers. The Victorian Reinvention of Race examines a more influential set of the era's writers and colonial officials, some French but most of them British. Attempting to do serious social analysis, these men oversimplified humanity into biologically-heritable, mentally and morally unequal, colour-based 'races'. Thinkers giving in to this racist temptation included Alexis de Tocqueville when he was writing on Algeria; Arthur de Gobineau (who influenced the Nazis); Walter Bagehot of The Economist; and Charles Darwin (whose Descent of Man was influenced by Bagehot). Victorians on Race also examines officials and thinkers (such as Tocqueville in Democracy in America, the Duke of Argyll, and Governor Gordon of Fiji) who exercised methodological care, doing the hard work of testing their categories against the evidence. They analyzed human groups without slipping into racial categorization. Author Edward Beasley examines the extent to which the Gobineau-Bagehot-Darwin way of thinking about race penetrated the minds of certain key colonial governors. He further explores the hardening of the rhetoric...
    Abstract: of race-prejudice in some quarters in England in the nineteenth century - the processes by which racism was first formed.
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    Understanding Popular Culture (2010)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203837177
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (231 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    DDC: 306.4
    RVK:
    HD 210
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    AP 14350
    Abstract: 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 Kevin Glynn, Jonathan Gray, and Pamela Wilson on the theme of 'Reading Fiske and Understanding the Popular'. Both underline the continuing relevance of this foundational text in the study of popular culture.What is popular culture? How does it differ from mass culture? And what do popular "texts" reveal about class, race, and gender dynamics in a society? John Fiske answers these and a host of other questions in Understanding Popular Culture.When it was first written, Understanding Popular Culture took a groundbreaking approach to studying such cultural artifacts as jeans, shopping malls, tabloid newspapers, and TV game shows, which remains relevant today. Fiske differentiates between mass culture - the cultural "products" put out by an industrialized, capitalist society - and popular culture - the ways in which people use, abuse, and subvert these products to create their own meanings and messages. Rather than focusing on mass culture's attempts to dominate and homogenize, he prefers to look at (and revel in) popular culture's evasions and manipulations of these attempts.Designed as a companion to Reading the Popular, Understanding Popular Culture presents a radically different theory of what it means for culture to be popular: that it is, literally, of the people. It is not imposed on them, it is created by them, and its pleasures and meanings reflect popular tastes and concerns - and a rejection of those fostered by mass culture. With wit, clarity, and insight, Professor Fiske debunks the myth of the mindless mass audience, and demonstrates that, in myriad ways, popular culture thrives because that audience is more aware than anyone guesses.
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