"In this volume, the economic, political and social consequences of the focus on 'culture' in contemporary theories of globalization are analyzed around the disparate fields of architecture, museum discourse, satellite television, dub poetry, carnival and sub-national theatre. T…
"En France comme dans nombre de pays ex-"communistes", les archives des partis communistes et des État "communistes" se sont largement ouvertes depuis une vingtaine d'années. La découverte et les analyses des Ego-documents (journaux intimes, correspondances, autobiographies de p…
Examining ideas ranging from world systems theory to postmodernism, Jonathan Friedman investigates the relations between the global and the local, to show how cultural fragmentation and modernist homogenization are equally constitutive trends of global reality.
"This book applies postcolonial theory to Russia by looking at it as a subaltern empire. It pushes postcolonial studies and constructivist international relations towards an uneasy dialogue, which produces tensions and reveals multiple blind spots in both approaches. A critical …
Ramy M.K. Aly's ethnography uncovers narratives of growing up in London, the codes of sociability at Shisha cafes and the sexual politics and ethnic self-portraits which make British-Arab men and women.
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Whether through government propaganda or popular transnational satellite television channels, Arab citizens encounter a discourse that reinforces a sense of belonging to their own state and a broader Arab world on a daily basis. Looking through the lens of nationalism theory, th…
"Jews of Eastern Europe have immigrated in large numbers to countries like Israel, the United States, and Germany. This migration across international borders has created challenges for Russian-speaking Jews as they forge their cultural, national, and ethnic identities. Gitelman…
Identity has become a core concept of the social and cultural sciences. Bringing together perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and literary criticism, this book offers a comprehensive and critical overview of its use.
