Communication perspectives on popular culture

Table of Contents: “…The Family Business"; Chapter Four: Who's the Boss?; Chapter Five: In Space ... Our Worst Will Make Us Scream; Chapter Six: Music's Pervasive and Persuasive Role in Popular Culture; Chapter Seven: Reflection and Deflection; Chapter Eight: Public Relations Representations in Popular Culture; Chapter Nine: Critical Rhetoric and Popular Culture; Chapter Ten: "Prison is Bullshit"; Chapter Eleven: Polymediating the Post…”
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Democracy and the public space in Latin America by Avritzer, Leonardo

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Democracy and the public space in Latin America by Avritzer, Leonardo

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Solitudo : Spaces and Places of Solitude in Late Medieval and Early Modern Cultures. by Enenkel, Karl A. E.

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Nature in literary and cultural studies : transatlantic conversations on ecocriticism

Table of Contents: “…Nature in literary and cultural studies: defining the subject of ecocriticism -- an introduction --…”
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Transcommunality : from the politics of conversion to the ethics of respect

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Teaching across cultures : building pedagogical relationships in diverse contexts by Ikpeze, Chinwe

Table of Contents: “…Teaching as a cultural artifact -- Self-study : studying self and others -- Data collection and analysis -- Tensions in teaching across cultures -- Toward responsive pedagogy -- Building relationships in physical and virtual spaces -- Teaching in the third space -- Social and professional networks -- Teaching across cultures : perspectives and implications.…”
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Intellectual and Cultural Property Between Market and Community. by Macmillan, Fiona

Table of Contents: “…5.1 The Property Paradigm -- 5.2 The Market Paradigm and Investment Rights -- 5.3 Labour -- 5.4 The State, Politics and Geo-Politics -- 5.5 Creativity and Innovation -- 5.6 The Non-Propertized Space of Cultural Production -- 2 Hyperreality and the Non-Propertized Domain of Intellectual Space -- 1 Introduction: Imagining Intellectual Space -- 2 Intellectual Space, Intellectual Property and the Non-Propertized Zone -- 3 The Power of Property in Intellectual Space -- 4 Cultural Property/Heritage in Intellectual Space -- 5 While we're talking about the Romans ... -- 3 Heritage, Law and Community…”
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Culture, class, and race : constructive conversations that unite and energize your school and community by CampbellJones, Brenda, Keeny, Shannon, CampbellJones, Franklin

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Cultures of Glass Architecture. by Elkadi, Hisham

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Digital visual culture : theory and practice

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Cultural hybridity and the environment : strategies to celebrate local and Indigenous knowledge by Maclean, Kirsten

Table of Contents: “…-- 2.3: A critique of contemporary development theory -- 2.4: The sustainable development era -- 2.5: Sustainable development as participation -- 2.6: Sustainable development as knowledge(s) -- 2.7: Social and institutional learning for ecologically sustainable development -- 2.8: Environmental governance in Australia -- 2.9: Conclusion -- 2.10: Reference list -- Chapter 3: An applied peoples' geography as the basis of the framework for cultural hybridity -- 3.1: Chapter abstract -- 3.2: Power is an entangled and complex force -- 3.3: A critique of knowledge generation -- 3.3.1: A foray into the history and philosophy of science -- 3.3.2: Knowledge is connected to place -- 3.3.3: Situated knowledges move through networks -- 3.4: Governance scale is a relational social construct -- 3.5: Colonial discourses of nature -- 3.6: Conclusion -- 3.7: Reference list -- Part 2: Edge politics-in-action -- Chapter 4: Political landscapes -- 4.1: Chapter abstract -- 4.2: Regional Natural Resource Management in Australia -- 4.3: Regionalism in Victoria and the Northern Territory -- 4.4: Case study 1: threatened species in the landscape -- 4.5: Case study 2: fire in the landscape -- 4.6: Together, let's give our land a hand -- 4.6.1: The complexities of 'together-ness' -- 4.6.2: Varieties of Regionalism -- 4.6.3: A diversity of hands for Natural Resource Management in Australia -- 4.6.4: The view from the local -- 4.7: Conclusion -- 4.8: Reference list -- Chapter 5: Cultural landscapes -- 5.1: Chapter abstract -- 5.2: Case study narratives -- 5.3: Historical narratives -- 5.4: Contemporary realities -- 5.5: Difference and diversity across the landscape -- 5.6: Embedded powers across the landscape -- 5.7: Conclusion -- 5.8: Reference list -- Part 3: Local voices in the landscape -- Chapter 6: Spaces of environmental governance -- 6.1: Chapter abstract -- 6.2: Environmental governance is connected to place -- 6.3: The relational characteristics of environmental governance -- 6.4: The networked characteristics of environmental governance -- 6.5: The entangled characteristics of environmental governance -- 6.6: Conclusion -- 6.7: Reference list -- Chapter 7: Spaces of environmental management -- 7.1: Chapter abstract -- 7.2: Project success is synonymous with community involvement -- 7.3: Varieties of participation -- 7.4: Varieties of environmental management -- 7.5: Conclusion -- 7.6: Reference list -- Part 4: Knowledge networks across the landscape -- Chapter 8: Politics of knowledge -- 8.1: Chapter abstract -- 8.2: The power of place-based knowledge -- 8.3: Local community knowledge encompasses diverse knowledge cultures -- 8.4: Local community knowledge determines the success of environmental management projects -- 8.5: Conclusion -- 8.6: Reference list -- Chapter 9: Varieties of local knowledge -- 9.1: Chapter abstract -- 9.2: The potential of local community knowledge -- 9.3: Place-based characteristics of government knowledge -- 9.4: Knowledge cultures active in local environmental management and community development projects -- 9.5: Celebrating the limitations of local knowledge -- 9.6: The dangers of knowledge dichotomies -- 9.7: Conclusion -- 9.8: Reference list -- Part 5: Strategies for cultural hybridity -- Chapter 10: Practising cultural hybridity for the third space -- 10.1: Chapter abstract -- 10.2: Processes for an applied cultural hybridity -- 10.3: Practising an applied peoples' geography for cultural hybridity -- 10.3.1: Case study 1: principles for protecting and conserving threatened species habitat in Victoria -- 10.3.2: Case study 2: principles for managing fire in the southern Tanami, Northern Territory -- 10.4: Conceptualising processes for cultural hybridity -- 10.5: Creating spaces for cultural hybridity -- 10.6: Conclusion -- 10.7: Reference list -- Chapter 11: Working together to better manage country -- 11.1: Chapter abstract -- 11.2: Conceptual strategies for cultural hybridity -- 11.3: Practical strategies for cultural hyrbridity -- 11.3.1: Imagining formal institutions for social action.-11.3.2: Imagining projects for social action -- 11.3.3: Imagining the self as an arena for social action.-11.4: Reference list -- Glossary and Terms.…”
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The architecture of modern culture : towards a narrative cultural theory by Müller-Funk, Wolfgang, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. Culture and its narratives -- pt. 2. Space, time and the global -- pt. 3. …”
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American culture in the 1970s by Kaufman, Will

Table of Contents: “…Chronolgy of 1970s American culture -- Introduction: The intellectual context -- Fiction and poetry -- Television and drama -- Film and visual culture -- Popular music and style -- Public space and spectacle -- Conclusion: Rethinking the 1970s.…”
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Disability and popular culture : focusing passion, creating community and expressing defiance by Ellis, Katie, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: producerly disability -- Our moment in time : the transitory and concrete value of disability toys -- Contemporary beauty-ism -- Spaces of cultural mediation : the science fiction cinema of the third stage of disability -- Among the leading characters on television -- Enfreaking popular music : making us think by making us feel -- Controlling the body : sport, disability and the construction of ability -- Disability and spreadable media : access, representation and inspiration porn -- Conclusion : focusing passion, creating community, expressing defiance -- References -- Filmography.…”
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Cultures of mass tourism : doing the Mediterranean in the age of banal mobilities

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Visual digital culture : surface play and spectacle in new media genres by Darley, Andrew

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The quirks of digital culture by Beer, David, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…The Comforts and Discomforts of Connection The Comfort of a Smartphone; Bodies in Bubbles; The Comforts and Discomforts of Smartness; Social Media's Collective Backfiring; The Discomforting Power of Our Social Media Data; The Ideals and Tensions of Our Social Media Spaces -- Chapter 5. The Demands of On-demand Culture.…”
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Culture, relevance, and schooling : exploring uncommon ground

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Interventions into modernist cultures : poetry from beyond the empty screen by Parry, Amie Elizabeth, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Canonical modernisms, minor modernisms, and the cultural politics of fragmentation -- The historicity of the fragment: toward a critical comparativism -- "Completely painted over but painted full of empty spaces: Stein's American allegories and the end of progress -- "Learning a lesson in the superficial song lyrics": Hsia Yu's "underground" poetry -- "For the other overlapping time": Pound's ideogramic universalism and Cha's countermodernist translation -- The cultural uses of an interventionary poetics.…”
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Pliny's catalogue of culture : art and empire in the natural history by Carey, Sorcha

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Language as cultural practice : Mexicanos en el norte by Schecter, Sandra R.

Table of Contents: “…Foreword; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Framing Our Agenda; 2 Mexicanos in California and Texas; 3 Language as Cultural Identification; 4 Enacting Spanish Maintenance; 5 Narrative Production Across the Bilingual Continuum; 6 Doing School at Home; 7 Language Socialization in Theory and Practice; 8 Bilingualism in Time and Space; References; Author Index; Subject Index.…”
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Culture and paradiplomatic identity : instruments in sustaining eu policies. by Alina Stoica, Ioan Horga, Maria Manuela Tavares Ri

Table of Contents: “…Culture and paradiplomatic identity: instruments in sustaining EU policies -- Intellectuels et culture apres la seconde guerre mondiale -- Cultural and digital diplomacy efforts for independence in Scotland and Catalonia -- The European Union's digital diplomacy in the eastern partnership countries -- The EU-Russia 'uncommon' spaces stereotypes and growing Russophobia: does cultural diplomacy stand a chance in shaping the future EU-Russia relations? …”
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Adaptation and cultural appropriation : literature, film, and the arts

Table of Contents: “…Adaptation and Cultural Appropriation -- Adaptation in Theory -- Familiarity versus Contempt: Becoming Jane and the Adaptation Genre -- Pride and Promiscuity and Zombies, or: Miss Austen Mashed Up in the Affinity Spaces of Participatory Culture -- Where Did Your Adaptation Begin?…”
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Cities and urban cultures by Stevenson, Deborah

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Cultural Construction of Empire : the U.S. Army in Arizona and New Mexico. by Lahti, Janne

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A culture of light : cinema and technology in 1920s Germany by Guerin, Frances

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Tourism, culture and regeneration

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1. Towards a Cultural Planning Approach to Regeneration / Melanie K. …”
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Consumer culture theory

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 10 -- Patriotism as Creative (Counter- )Conduct of Russian Fashion Designers (Gurova) Chapter 11 -- Culinary communication practices: the role of retail spaces in producing field-specific cultural capital (Galalae, Emontspool and Omidvar) Part IV: Quoth the Raven Chapter 12 -- Duck, it's a Raven!…”
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The Cultures of Italian Migration. by Parati, Graziella

Table of Contents: “…Migrants, Subalterns, "Theorized-" and "No cost-" "Others": On the Role and the Abuse of the Representation of Migrants in the Current Study of South Asian Religious CulturesIndex; Contributors.…”
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Modernisation of Chinese Culture : Continuity and Change. by Rosker, Jana S.

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Hong Kong culture : word and image

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction -- Hong Kong on the Move: Creating Global Cultures; 1 -- Ten Years Later: 1997-2007 as History; 2 -- Power Plays: Alternative Performance Art and Urban Space in the Political Life of the City; 3 -- The Haunted City: Hong Kong and Its Urban Others; 4 -- Chinese English, English Chinese: Biliteracy and Translation; 5 -- Louise Ho and the Local Turn: The Place of English Poetry in Hong Kong; 6 -- From Xu Xi to the Chief Executive: Hong Kong in the Dock; 7 -- The "New" East Asia and Hong Kong Cinema.…”
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Promotional Culture and Convergence : Markets, Methods, Media. by Powell, Helen

Table of Contents: “…The Public Relations Perspective of Promotional Culture; Public relations as a promotional industry; Defining public relations.…”
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The Bible in/and popular culture : a creative encounter

Table of Contents: “…/ Noel Leo Erskine -- "Help me make it through the night" : narrating class and country music in the theology of Paul / Tex Sample -- Jesus of the moon : Nick Cave's Christology / Roland Boer -- Prophetic voices in graphic novels : the "comic and tragic vision" of apocalyptic rhetoric in Kingdom come and Watchmen / Terry Ray Clark -- Reading "pop-wise" : the very fine art of "making do" when reading the Bible in bro'Town / Steve Taylor -- Daemons and angels : the end of the world according to Philip Pullman / Tina Pippin -- Close encounters : the Bible as pre-text in popular culture / Laura Copier, Jaap Kooijman, and Caroline Vander Stichele -- Pop scripture : creating small spaces for social change / Erin Runions.…”
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The Culture of Women in Tech : an Unsuitable Job for a Woman. by Hardey, Mariann

Table of Contents: “…Cover; THE CULTURE OF WOMEN IN TECH; THE CULTURE OF WOMEN IN TECH: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF TABLES; PREFACE; Introduction; The Global Progression of Tech Diversity; Researching Global Tech Culture; Tech Clusters; Methodology; Combining Digital Research and Ethics; Participants: Workers in Tech Clusters; Organisation of the Book; 1. …”
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Culture control critique : allegories of reading the present by Beckman, Frida

Table of Contents: “…Allegory and representation -- Allegory and the present -- Space, allegory, control. Spatial preoccupations -- Celebrating ruins: The drowned world, The drought, The crystal world -- Filling the gaps: Crash, Concrete island, High rise -- Coming into allegory: Cocaine nights, Super-Cannes, Millennium people, Kingdom come -- Totalities, allegories and revolutions -- Cultural critique and form -- Time, allegory, control. …”
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Cultures@SiliconValley : Second Edition. by English-Lueck, J. A.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; PART ONE: A TECHNOLOGICAL PLACE; 1. Culture Version 2.x: An Amplified Community; 2. Compressing: Using Digital Devices to Reshape Space and Time; 3. …”
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Marxism and urban culture

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; I: MOBILIZING THE FILMIC CITY; 1 The Archive City; 2 Capital, Mobility, and Spatial Exclusion in Fernando León de Aranoa's Barrio (1998); II: THE HUMAN SENSES IN URBAN CONTEXTS; 3 Henri Lefebvre in Strasbourg; 4 Sensing Capital; III: CULTURES OF URBAN PROTEST; 5 Psychoprotest; 6 The Huelga de Dolores and Guatemalan University Students' "Happy and Wicked" Reproduction of Space, 1966-1969; IV: THE HOUSING QUESTION; 7 Residential Differentiation in the Vertical Cities of J.G. …”
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Tudor court culture

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Anna Riehl and Thomas Betteridge -- Courtly pride and Christian virtue : Thomas More's Utopia as a guide to speaking to Erasmus's "Half-Christian" "Turk" / Sam Wood -- Humanism and court culture in the education of Tudor royal children / Aysha Pollnitz -- The Tudor court : dust and desire / Thomas Betteridge -- "Where the prince lieth" : courtly space and the Elizabethan progresses / Peter Sillitoe -- Like a queen : the influence of the Elizabethan court on the structure of women-centered households in the early modern period / Jessica Malay -- Courtliness and poetry in Sidney, Lyly, and Greene / Ayako Kawanami -- "Never shall my sad eies againe behold those pleasures" : Aemilia Lanyer and her idealization of Tudor court life / Stefani Brusberg-Kiermeier -- Persuading the prince : Raleigh, Keymis, Chapman, and The second voyage to Guiana / Anna Riehl.…”
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Kayapó Ethnoecology and Culture. by Plenderleith, Kristina

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Kayap history and culture; The science of the Mbngkre; Contact before contact: typology of post-Colombian interaction with the Northern Kayap of the Amazon; Environmental and social implications of pre- and post-contact situations on Brazilian Indians; Time, space, and the interface of divergent cultures: the Kayap Indians of the Amazon face the future; The Kayap origin of night; The journey to become a shaman: a narrative of sacred transition of the Kayap Indians of Brazil.…”
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