By identifying some of the distinctive commu nication practices in Chinese culture, and interpreting the dynamics, the authors offer a realistic and clear illustrati on of the specific characteristics of Chinese communication. '
This text offers a broad-ranging survey of social and cultural theory while issuing a challenge to contemporary cultural studies' emphasis on speculation, rather than observation. The authors invite readers to question their participation in both dominant and sub-cultural practices by providing perspectives on the everyday through ethnography, ......
This work explains what is understood by the term "new social movements", and provides a critical assessment of identity politics. It examines a range of issues including neo-tribalism associated with identity politics and alternative lifestyles, and challenges those who treat new social movements as instances of wider social change while often ignoring their more "local" and "dispersed" importance. The text questions what it means to adopt an identity that is organized around issues of expressivism and offers a series of non-reductionist ways of looking at identity politics. By analyzing expressive identities through issues of performance, spaces of identity and the "occasion", the author argues that the significance of identity politics and the changes it brings about within society are local, plural, situated adn topologically complex, challenging the still persistent singular idea of new social movements as historical agents of change.
`The book aptly describes, explores and hits the core of very complex issues around race, racism, culture, difference, dual identity, stereotypes, immigration and alienation... It is also very thought-provoking, raising questions about one's own ability to work more flexibly in the consulting room with clients of different backgrounds.... It is ......
A work which considers how, and under what conditions, women might become the makers and not just the bearers of meaning; how, in other words, women can tell instead of being told. It discusses recent women's films and changes occurring in traditional women's genres such as romances and melodrama.
A work which considers how, and under what conditions, women might become the makers and not just the bearers of meaning; how, in other words, women can tell instead of being told. It discusses recent women's films and changes occurring in traditional women's genres such as romances and melodrama.
A guide for western companies seeking to maximize their marketing success in Asia, which accounts for a quarter of the world economy and half of the world's population, but where cultural differences strongly influence consumer behaviour.
Brings together survivors and family members of victims of the Oklahoma City bombing. This work discusses the special stories of those who died, the pain endured by their families, and the struggles of the survivors a circle of grieving and hope that reaches far beyond the heartland.
This book provides an introduction to the historical and theoretical foundations of consumerism. It then moves on to examine the experience of consumption in the areas of space and place, technology, fashion, `popular' music and sport. Throughout, the author brings a critical perspective to bear upon the subject, thus providing a reliable and ......
