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  • Television, Ethnicity and Cultural Change

    by Marie Gillespie ...
    Series series Comedia
    For 'ethnic minorities' in Britain, broadcast TV provides powerful representations of national and 'western' culture. In Southall - which has the largest population of 'South Asians' outside the Indian sub-continent - the VCR furnishes Hindi films, 'sacred soaps' such as the Mahabharata, and family videos of rites of passage, as well as mainstream American films. Television, Ethnicity and Cultural ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

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  • Intercultural Communication & Ideology

    SAGE Publications

    by Adrian Holliday ...
    Taking on issues normally left in the margins, Intercultural Communication and Ideology revises the way we think of intercultural communication by insisting that we consider its ideological component. In this brilliant and engaging book about culture and the interstices that comprise the grounds for our interactions, Adrian Holliday shows us the necessity for a cosmopolitan process that expands ... Read more

    $100.79 CAD

  • Multicultural Horizons

    Diversity and the Limits of the Civil Nation

    by Anne-Marie Fortier ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    The intensity of feeling that multiculturalism invariably ignites is considered in this timely analysis of how the ‘New Britain’ of the twenty-first century is variously re-imagined as multicultural. Introducing the concept of ‘multicultural intimacies’, Anne-Marie Fortier offers a new form of critical engagement with the cultural politics of multiculturalism, one that attends to ideals of mixing, ... Read more

    $126.41 CAD

  • Rethinking Religious Education and Plurality

    Issues in Diversity and Pedagogy

    by Robert Jackson ...
    How should schools deal with religions in matters of curriculum, procedure and policy?As Western society becomes increasingly multicultural in character, schools must reassess the provision of religious education and look at how they might adapt in order to accommodate students' diverse experiences of plurality. This book offers a critical view of approaches to the treatment of different religions ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • Intersectionality and Race in Education

    Edited by Kalwant Bhopal, John Preston ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    Education is a controversial subject in which difficult and contested discourses are the norm. Individuals in education experience multiple inequalities and have diverse identifications that cannot necessarily be captured by one theoretical perspective alone. This edited collection draws on empirical and theoretical research to examine the intersections of "race," gender and class, alongside other ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD

  • The Postcolonial Exotic

    Marketing the Margins

    by Graham Huggan ...
    Travel writing, it has been said, helped produce the rest of the world for a Western audience. Could the same be said more recently of postcolonial writing?In The Postcolonial Exotic, Graham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is attributed to postcolonial works within their cultural field. Using varied methods of analysis, Huggan discusses both the exoticist discourses that run ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Social Theory and Religion

    by James A. Beckford ...
    Many aspects of religion are puzzling these days. This 2003 book looks at ways of improving our understanding of religious change by strengthening the links between social theory and the social scientific study of religion. It clarifies the social processes involved in constructing religion and non-religion in public and private life. Taking illustrations of the importance of these boundaries from ... Read more

    $49.59 CAD

  • Possession, Power and the New Age

    Ambiguities of Authority in Neoliberal Societies

    by Matthew Wood ...
    Series series Theology and Religion in Interdisciplinary Perspective Series
    This book provides a new sociological account of contemporary religious phenomena such as channelling, holistic healing, meditation and divination, which are usually classed as part of a New Age Movement. Drawing on his extensive ethnography carried out in the UK, alongside comparative studies in America and Europe, Matthew Wood criticises the view that such phenomena represent spirituality in ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Debating Cultural Hybridity

    Multicultural Identities and the Politics of Anti-Racism

    Edited by Pnina Werbner, Tariq Modood ...
    Series series Postcolonial Encounters
    Why is it still so difficult to negotiate differences across cultures? In what ways does racism continue to strike at the foundations of multiculturalism?Bringing together some of the world's most influential postcolonial theorists, this classic collection examines the place and meaning of cultural hybridity in the context of growing global crisis, xenophobia and racism.Starting from the reality ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Children and Media in India

    Narratives of Class, Agency and Social Change

    by Shakuntala Banaji ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
    Is the bicycle, like the loudspeaker, a medium of communication in India?Do Indian children need trade unions as much as they need schools?What would you do with a mobile phone if all your friends were playing tag in the rain or watching Indian Idol? Children and Media in India illuminates the experiences, practices and contexts in which children and young people in diverse locations across India ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Education and Inequality in India

    A Classroom View

    by Manabi Majumdar, Jos Mooij ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    Universalization of primary education has been high on the policy agenda in India. This book looks at the reproduction of social inequalities within the educational system in India, and how this is contested in different ways. It examines whether the concept of `education for all’ is just a mechanically conceived policy target to chasing enrolment and attendance or whether it is a larger social ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Living the Global City

    Globalization as Local Process

    Edited by John Eade ...
    Politicians and academics alike have made globalization the key reference point for interpreting the 1990s. For many, globalization threatens both community and the nation-state. It appears to represent forces beyond human control. Living the Global City documents globalization's impact on everyday lives by drawing on research rather than rhetoric and arrives at a very different perspective. ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD