Libraries, Literatures, and Archives

Libraries, Literatures, and Archives
Author: Sas Mays
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2017-12-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9780815346845

Not only does the library have a long and complex history and politics, but it has an ambivalent presence in Western culture - both a site of positive knowledge and a site of error, confusion, and loss. Nevertheless, in literary studies and in the humanities, including book history, the figure of the library remains in many senses under-researched. This collection brings together established and up-and-coming researchers from a number of practices - literary and cultural studies, gender studies, book history, philosophy, visual culture, and contemporary art -with an effective historical sweep ranging from the time of Sumer to the present day. In the context of the rise of archive studies, this book attends specifically and meta-critically to the figure of the library as a particular archival form, considering the traits that constitute (or fail to constitute) the library as institution or idea, and questions its relations to other accumulative modes, such as the archive in its traditional sense, the museum, or the filmic or digital archive. Across their diversity, and in addition to their international standard of research and writing, each chapter is unified by commitment to analyzing the complex cultural politics of the library form.

Routledge Library Editions: Cultural Studies

Routledge Library Editions: Cultural Studies
Author: Various Authors
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1881
Release: 2021-05-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1315459965

This seven volume set reissues a collection of out-of-print titles covering a range of responses to modern culture. They include in-depth analyses of US and Australian popular culture, works on the media and television, macrosociology, and the media and ‘otherness’. Taken together, they provide stimulating and thought-provoking debate on a wide range of topics central to many of today’s cultural controversies.

Reading Home Cultures Through Books

Reading Home Cultures Through Books
Author: Kirsti Salmi-Niklander
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2022-02-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000538982

This wide-ranging, comparative, and multidisciplinary collection addresses the significance of books in creating the idea of home. The chapters present cases that reveal the affective and sensory dimensions of books and reading in the practice of everyday life of individuals, in communities, and in society. The complex relationship of books, reading, and home is explored through American and European case studies both in bourgeois and middle-class homes, and in working-class and immigrant families and communities with limited possibilities for reading. The volume combines the conceptions and representations of domesticity, the materiality of reading, and library as a place, drawing on book history and material culture studies as well as anthropology and sociology of the home.

Cultural Studies of Rights

Cultural Studies of Rights
Author: John Nguyet Erni
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2014-06-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317979346

At a time of global uncertainties and erosion of liberties, how will cultural studies clear a space for a parallel intellectual and political engagement with human rights practice? How will human rights thinking be liberated from its doctrinal approach to ethics and legal justice? This book forges an alliance between cultural studies and human rights scholarships, to help us better understand the changing and complex political context that continuously shapes contemporary violence. To date, interdisciplinary dialogue or institutional collaboration remains rare across the two domains, resulting in critical interpretive work appearing too vacuous at times and institutional legal work often trapped in doctrinalism. By opening a door for a new and engaging scholarship, this book will re-ignite debates and passions within communication and critical cultural studies in the search for global justice. This book was originally published as a special issue of Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies.

Cultural Adaptation in the Workplace

Cultural Adaptation in the Workplace
Author: Martha Tyler John
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2017-06-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351976699

B: Vocational Program Samples and Publications -- C: Survey Letter -- D: Interview Protocol -- E: Company Procedures Schema -- F: Company Procedures/Employee Corollary Schema -- G: Governmental Role in Cultural Adaptation Process -- Bibliography -- Index

Routledge Library Editions: Leisure Studies

Routledge Library Editions: Leisure Studies
Author: Various
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 3458
Release: 1992-07-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429512430

This set of 12 volumes, originally published between 1938 and 2001, amalgamates a wide breadth of research on Leisure Studies, including works on young people and leisure, the family, and political influence on the leisure industry. This collection of books from some of the leading scholars in the field provides a comprehensive overview of the subject how it has evolved over time, and will be of particular interest to students of sociology and leisure studies.

Routledge Library Editions: Cultural Studies

Routledge Library Editions: Cultural Studies
Author: Routledge
Publisher:
Total Pages: 6142
Release: 2016-09-02
Genre: Culture
ISBN: 9781138691452

This seven volume set reissues a collection of out-of-print titles covering a range of responses to modern culture. They include in-depth analyses of US and Australian popular culture, works on the media and television, macrosociology, and the media and 'otherness'. Taken together, they provide stimulating and thought-provoking debate on a wide range of topics central to many of today's cultural controversies.

Routledge Library Editions: Sports Studies

Routledge Library Editions: Sports Studies
Author: Various Authors
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 2424
Release: 2022-07-30
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1317679490

This set examines sport and leisure from a social science viewpoint. The volumes included, originally published between 1984 and 1991 take a cross-disciplinary approach to explore the social, political and cultural roles of sport in today's society. They cover issues as diverse as inequality, nationalism, gender, and commercialisation and engage with a range of academic disciplines including cultural studies, history, politics and sociology.