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This book is for teachers who want to develop practical media work and media literacy across the curriculum. A range of case studies are presented which show how digital media work can be produced in schools, drawing on children's own cultural knowledge. It also shows the benefits of such projects in terms of learning outcomes and increased self-esteem for a range of learners. With an integrated approach drawing together practice, theory and research, the book will help teachers to plan for and develop their own media projects in school. It offers advice on integrating media work across the cu

"This volume, based on a wide range of Urdu sources, highlights the pluralism and multiculturalism of qasbas in colonial Awadh. Moving away from an urban Lucknow-centric approach for colonial Awadh, the author studies qasbati identity, its inheritance of Indio-Persian culture, and syncretic culture. The book negotiates the connections of the local and the national in terms of political and cultural identity. So the interlinkages between the events and movements at the national level, the channels of communication, symbol and image-making in colonial India and in the qasbas of Awadh are portrayed history of the subcontinent." -- Publisher's description

Henry Jenkins at Authors@Google (video) Winner of the 2007 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award 2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Convergence Culture maps a new territory: where old and new media intersect, where grassroots and corporate media collide, where the power of the media producer and the power of the consumer interact in unpredictable ways. Henry Jenkins, one of America's most respected media analysts, delves beneath the new media hype to uncover the important cultural transformations that are taking place as media converge. He takes us i

Very little has yet been written about the cultural or economic contributions of woodcarving to people's livelihoods or the consequences of felling hardwood and softwood trees for the international woodcarving trade. Carving Out a Future is the first examination of this trade and its critical links to rural livelihoods biodiversity conservation forestry and the international trade regime. A range of case studies from Australia Bali IndiaAfrica and Mexico provides a lens for examining the critical issues relating to the significant impacts of woodcarving on forests conservation efforts the need

Is obsession with the Royal Family in Britain a fact of culture or an illusion of media culture? What interest do the European media display in their royal families? Does twenty-first century monarchy remain a political and ideological force - or is it just an economic commodity? Media, Monarchy and Power provides a radical insight into the cultural and political functioning of royalty in five countries. Blain and O'Donnell examine the bonds between monarchies and their 'subjects' or 'citizens', and the relationships between royal families, the media, and nation-states. Numerous case-studies f

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- The Violence of Culture: Countermemory and Niche Marketed Masculinity -- 1 Countermemory, Children, and Ignorance-Power -- 2 Converging Case Studies -- Christian Identity, Scriptures for America, and Pete Peters -- 3 Mainstream Roots -- 4 Biblical Memories and the Erotics of Domination -- 5 Nichemarketing the Apocalypse -- The Christian Right, Focus on the Family, and James Dobson -- 6 The Power of Soft-Sell Style -- 7 Remembering the Sixties as Pop Cultural Conspiracy -- 8 Nichemarketing the Family Homestead -- Conclusion -- 9 The Bowl, the Crossing Point, and the Moment After -- Notes -- Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources -- Index

Verlagsinfo: In the nineteenth century, the reading public expanded to embrace new categories of consumers, especially of cheap fiction. These new lower-class and female readers frightened liberals, Catholics and republicans alike. The study focuses on workers, women and peasants, and the ways in which their reading was constructed as a social and political problem, to analyse the fear of reading in nineteenth century France. The author presents a series of case-studies of actual readers, to examine their choices and their practices, and to evaluate how far they responded to (or subverted) attempts at cultural domination.

This volume is the first comprehensive examination of African American conservative thought and politics from the late eighteenth century to the present. The essays in the collection explore various aspects of African American conservatism, including biographical studies of abolitionist James Forten, clergymen Henry McNeal Turner and J.H. Jackson, and activists A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin. Thematic essays in the volume consider southern black conservatism in the late nineteenth century and after World War I, African American success manuals, Ellisonian cultural criticism, the Nation of Islam, and African Americans and the Republican Party after 1964. - Publisher.

This broad-ranging and clearly structured book critically overviews the many themes of social constructionism and its relevance to contemporary social and political issues. It brings together leading international contributors from across the social sciences, drawing on insights from psychology, sociology, politics, philosophy, cultural, gender and science studies. Major questions and topics explored in its critique and application of constructionist ideas include the theory and practice of scientific method, the development of social and political policy, the use of social science statistical methods, self-identity and the politics of collective identities, and technological advances in reproductive medicine.

"Theoretical analysis and historical survey of the evolution of Argentina's foreign policy since the early-19th century until the mid-1990s. Uses a sociological-historical approach to examine the origins of Argentina's foreign policies after independence and its evolution through the phases of inwardly oriented growth, the inter-war period, the Cold War, and the transition from 'Third Position' to Western alignment. Highlights interaction between domestic and international variables and the importance of cultural factors in shaping the dependent features of the country's foreign policies"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57

Cajun food has become a popular ""ethnic"" food throughout America during the last decade. This fascinating book explores the significance of Cajun cookery on its home turf in south Louisiana, a region marked by startling juxtapositions of the new and the old, the nationally standard and the locally unique. Neither a cookbook nor a restaurant guide, Cajun Foodways gives interpretation to the meaning of traditional Cajun food from the perspective of folklife studies and cultural anthropology. The author takes into account the modern regional popular culture in examining traditional foo

A clear and balanced presentation of the dilemmas associated with each of the four nations. A skillful cultural framework is provided in the first chapter, which serves as an overview. Foreign Affairs ||A fine study. Anderson's reputation as a scholar and a Latin Americanist will be enhanced when this study has time to make its imprint. American Political Science Review||This new volume provides an up-to-date survey of the Central American states involved in the current conflict. While several studies of the individual countries in the region have appeared, there have been no recent attempts a

This editorial introduces a themed section that focuses on the production of gender discourse and representations in the midst of tightening social and cultural control in China's entertainment industry and digital media landscape. In various ways, the two articles featured case studies that exemplify how the production of gender discourses and representations in this context emerges from the interplay of state control, the market, and the digital realm and unfolds against the rise of platform capitalism and techno-nationalism. Both articles center on the intricate and sometimes contradictory configurations of gender within China's state-market nexus.

The review draft outlines problem analyses of various contemporary cultural texts and old-time writings, forming our collective memory, published in the book Literatura grozi myśleniem (Literature May Make You Think) by Piotr Kołodziej. As the author argues, educational issues described by Kołodziej may interest not only teachers and academic methodologists. The didactic model presented by the researcher from Kraków is worth exploring by both students and representatives of diverse disciplines of Polish studies since Kołodziej shows what good methodology is, and consequently what good school – which educates young people humanistically – can be valued.

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This article examines the relationship between public services and the urban middling sort in provincial England from 1550 to 1640 through comparative case-studies of the finance and management of waterworks, the creation of new skilled roles and the cultural import of water systems in Bristol, Chester and Ipswich. It argues that the middling sort were vital in establishing public services and that water provision centred not only on its value as a material and financial resource, but also as an expanding source of patronage and social capital that shaped and entrenched the emergence of middling groups in society.