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Theorizing Culture

Author : Barbara Adam,Stuart Allan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135366810

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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.

Theorizing Culture

Author : Barbara Adam,Stuart Allan
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1995-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780814706442

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An overview of cultural theory after postmodernism which provides a user-friendly introduction for students. Theorists assess the postmodernist project, mapping out the future terrain for a critical approach to cultural theory.

Theorizing Culture: Critique

Author : Barbara Adam,Stuart Allan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134219544

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First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Theorizing Digital Cultures

Author : Grant D. Bollmer
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781526453099

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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.

Theorizing Culture: Critique

Author : Barbara Adam,Stuart Allan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134219612

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Theorizing Culture: Critique by Barbara Adam,Stuart Allan Pdf

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage

Author : Fiona Cameron,Sarah Kenderdine
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X030110255

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Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage by Fiona Cameron,Sarah Kenderdine Pdf

Theoretical and practical perspectives from a range of disciplines on the challenges of using digital media in interpretation and representation of cultural heritage.

Theorizing Cultural Work

Author : Mark Banks,Rosalind Gill,Stephanie Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134083510

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Theorizing Cultural Work by Mark Banks,Rosalind Gill,Stephanie Taylor Pdf

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.

Anthropology and Social Theory

Author : Sherry B. Ortner
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822338645

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Anthropology and Social Theory by Sherry B. Ortner Pdf

The award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner draws on her longstanding interest in theories of cultural practice to rethink key concepts of culture, agency, and subjectivity.

Pierre Bourdieu and Cultural Theory

Author : Bridget Fowler
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803976267

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Pierre Bourdieu and Cultural Theory by Bridget Fowler Pdf

This is the first comprehensive description of Pierre Bourdieu's theory of culture and habitus. Within the wider intellectual context of Bourdieu's work, this book provides a systematic reading of his assessment of the role of `cultural capital' in the production and consumption of symbolic goods. Bridget Fowler outlines the key critical debates that inform Bourdieu's work. She introduces his recent treatment of the rules of art, explains the importance of his concept of capital - economic and social, symbolic and cultural - and defines such key terms as habitus, practice and strategy, legitimate culture, popular art and distinction. The book focuses particularly on Bourdieu's account of the nature of capit

Theorizing Global Order

Author : Gunther Hellmann
Publisher : Campus Verlag
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783593508825

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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.

Post-Theory, Culture, Criticism

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004334458

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Post-Theory, Culture, Criticism by Anonim Pdf

"Post-Theory, Culture, Criticism offers a collection of essays that provide provocative re-articulations of theory, culture and criticism. It contains distinguished and original work by a number of leading and emerging figures within cultural and critical theory and cultural studies who believe that all of the above is in urgent need of theoretical and practical exploration. In probing the feasibility and desirability of theory's re-articulation, the essays demonstrate that theory can only reinvent itself as worthwhile 'post-theory' through its own critical self-revaluation."--Jacket.

Theorizing Cultural Work

Author : Mark Banks,Rosalind Gill,Stephanie Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134083589

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Theorizing Cultural Work by Mark Banks,Rosalind Gill,Stephanie Taylor Pdf

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.

Historico-genetic Theory of Culture

Author : Günter Dux
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839415139

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Historico-genetic Theory of Culture by Günter Dux Pdf

The book focuses on the modern understanding of human life-forms as constructs that followed an evolutionary history. The author thus finds science confronted with two questions: firstly, how the transgression of the virtual threshold between natural and cultural history was possible, secondly, how the socio-cultural constructs were able to develop in the course of history the way they did. The discussion concentrates on the problem of determining a processual logic in the development of societal structures as well as in the development of cognition. The focus of attention is the historico-genetic reconstruction of cognition. The book was originally published in German as »Historisch-genetische Theorie der Kultur« (Weilerswist 2000: Velbrück).

Cultural Theory

Author : Philip Smith,Alexander Riley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781444358902

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Cultural Theory by Philip Smith,Alexander Riley Pdf

This second edition of Cultural Theory provides a concise introduction to cultural theory, placing major figures, traditional concepts, and contemporary themes within a sharp conceptual framework. Provides a student-friendly introduction to what can often be a complex field of study Updates the first edition in response to reader feedback and to the changing nature of the field Includes additional coverage of theorists from the classical period to include Nietzsche and DuBois Introduces entirely new chapters on race and gender theory, and the body Considers themes that have become more important in theoretical activity in recent years such as computers and virtual reality, cosmopolitanism, and performance theory Draws on theories and theorists from continental Europe as well as the English-speaking world

The Body

Author : Mike Featherstone,Mike Hepworth,Bryan S Turner
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1991-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 0803984138

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The Body by Mike Featherstone,Mike Hepworth,Bryan S Turner Pdf

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.