Cultural and media studies

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Sounds American provides new perspectives on the relationship between nationalism and cultural production by examining how Americans grappled with musical diversity in the early national and antebellum eras.

Flashes of a Southern Spirit explores meanings of the spirit in the American South, including religious ecstasy and celebrations of regional character and distinctiveness.

Is it truth or fiction?

For 350 years, Protestantism was the dominant religion in America-and its influence spilled over in many directions into the wider culture.

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This book offers a novel perspective on consultation with indigenous peoples in projects of natural resource exploitation.

Globalisation stands as an indispensable lens through which to analyse current cultural, political, and social transformations.

In this compelling sequel, The Attention Economy: A Category Blueprint, takes an in-depth look into the dynamic world of marketing and advertising, unveiling the pivotal role that human attention measurement plays in the present and future landscape.

This book covers multiple cultural tourism aspects including among others, nature and rural conservation policy and conflicts, reflected in case studies, and ethnic minority heritage and their folklore traditions and performances, as well as tourism activities in the city areas.

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The Handbook of Diasporic Indian Writing in English is an essential reference to Indian literature.

This book explores the enduring significance of sacred landscapes in an increasingly globalized world, with a particular focus on the Christian sacred landscape and its connection to pilgrimage and rituals.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of graffiti culture in China, particularly through the example of graffiti in the Furong Tunnel at Xiamen University.

This book answers a need for pedagogic guidance and instruction in designing, implementing and evaluating global leadership as an academic subject.

This book delves into Trinidad and Tobago's development with a fresh lens.

As a toolkit for the issues and challenges of diversity and inclusion in defence and security organizations, this state-of-the-art book allows leaders, managers, practitioners, and personnel to examine international perspectives on the current research, best practices, lessons learned, and strategies for promoting greater teamwork, collaboration, trust, cohesion, and organizational performance.

This book discusses how hierarchical and collectivist cultures contribute to the challenges and opportunities in communication in health care.

This book addresses the limitations of dominant ways of thinking about and doing politics in Northern Ireland.

This book provides a detailed and carefully researched catalogue of over 140 manuscripts related to the Mevlevi Sufis in their formative period during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

As a toolkit for the issues and challenges of diversity and inclusion in defence and security organizations, this state-of-the-art book allows leaders, managers, practitioners, and personnel to examine international perspectives on the current research, best practices, lessons learned, and strategies for promoting greater teamwork, collaboration, trust, cohesion, and organizational performance.

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This book presents an essential contribution to approaches in the studies of film, literature, performance, translation, and other art forms within the Chinese cultural tradition, examining East-West cultural exchange and providing related intertextual dialogue.

This book focuses on online petitioning and crowdfunding platforms to demonstrate the everyday impact that digital communications have had on contemporary citizen participation.

This book examines contemporary Chinese transnational mobile practices with special focuses on the ethnographic exploration of the lives, experiences, views, and narratives of the Chinese mobile subjects in three ASEAN countries: Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, and their interactions with the ethnic Chinese communities in these countries.

This book discusses the urbanization of China and identifies four major features of ethnic minority mobility partners over the last twenty years: the three-stage peripheral-to-core transition pattern; the escalating decline of the urban minority population in the central region of China, particularly since 2000; the city agglomerations located in the eastern region of China, which have begun playing a leading role in minority urbanization, especially in the Yangtze and Pearl River Delta; and lastly, the continuous beneficiaries of supportive policies that have led metropolises, such as provincial capitals, to be shaped into important regional minority population concentrations in both China's western region and its autonomous areas.

The book contributes to the sparse academic literature on African and minority language media research.

This book focuses our attention on yet another community that has been scantily represented in Latino/a/x studies scholarship.

This is a collection of essays marking the 30th anniversary of the historic Cold War's formal conclusion in 1991.

The Campus Queen in Literature and Culture: Prom Queen Profiles explores the nuanced relationship between femininity and power and provides a scholarly framework for understanding the evolution of the prom queen's archetypal ubiquity.

Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, this book explains what made skin newsworthy in Victorian Britain.

Just war theory concerns the morality of engaging in warfare, the conduct in war and justice - including democratization and reconstruction - in the aftermath to end war.

In China, heritage projects are sprouting across the countryside carrying the promise of Xi Jinping's "e;Chinese dream"e; as a call for the great revival and rejuvenation of the nation.