Native American reservations on the Northern Plains were designed like islands, intended to prevent contact or communication between various Native peoples.
This book represents a unique collaborative effort to bring together the multiple aspects of the semiotics of images into a coherent approach based on Greimasian and post-Greimasian theory.
It deals with the presentation and analysis of the humorous newspapers that appeared in Egypt since the beginning of the modern era, and they played a major role in resisting colonialism with their harsh sarcastic methods and their humorous approach to laughter.
Grammatical errors and orthographic mishaps are often played for laughs, but this subtle sanctioning by the sticklerocracy can have real social consequences too.
Native American reservations on the Northern Plains were designed like islands, intended to prevent contact or communication between various Native peoples.
Ursprünglich wurde der Vertrieb von Waren und Dienstleistungen über das Internet von der Erwartung begleitet, dass sich die Absatzkette verkürze und die Bedeutung der Intermediäre schwinden würde.
Jill Johnston began the 1960s as an influential dance columnist for the Village Voice and by the start of the next decade she was known as a keen observer of postmodern art and lesbian feminist life who challenged how dance, art, and women can and should be seen.
Albert Salomon (1891-1966), deutsch-jüdischer Soziologie und Herausgeber der Zeitschrift "Die Gesellschaft", war nach seiner Emigration 1935 Professor an der New School for Social Research in New York, wo er in alteuropäischer Tradition eine humanistische Soziologie begründete.
As police racism unsettles Britain's tolerant self-image, Black resistance to British policing details the activism that made movements like Black Lives Matter possible.
Cultural Studies, which has emerged as one of the most seminal and intellectual discourses of our times, occupies a strategic location intersecting humanities and social sciences.
Nathalie Weidhase conceptualises the female dandy as a figure that simultaneously embodies and disrupts postfeminist notions of femininity, including maintaining a physique conforming to contemporary beauty standards, constant self-surveillance and self-improvement, and the naturalisation of gender difference and heterosexuality.
This book provides a comprehensive account of Croatian animation history, as well as an analysis of background factors such as political and social circumstances and cultural heritage that influenced the great international success of Croatian animators between the 1960s and 1980s.
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary African Women highlights the achievements and progress being made by African women across a wide range of sectors in society.
The interest in the impact of television on children is due to the fact that watching television consumes more children's time than any other activity, except for sleeping.
Making Jazz in Contemporary Japan: A Passionate Search for Self-Expression explores the ways in which Japanese jazz musicians express themselves through their art-not to "e;japanize"e; jazz, but to assert one's creativity, passion, and capacity for self-expression-establishing it as an art form with its own sense of musicality and cultural, social, and economic concerns.
Ever since the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent, Mumbai-based Hindi cinema has been returning compulsively to the idea of Pakistan, sometimes as the desirable other, sometimes as the horrifying antagonist.
In this book, Benjamin Strosberg explores difficulties and anxieties inherent in studying, defining, and defending against anti-Semitism by tracing a concurrent difficulty in thinking about Jewishness, which has historically served as a limit case for central social categories such as outsider, religion, race, gender, and nation.
