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The Culture Struggle
Author | : Michael Parenti |
Publsiher | : Seven Stories Press |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2011-01-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781609801205 |
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One of America’s most astute and engaging political analysts, Michael Parenti shows us that culture is a changing process and the product of a dynamic interplay between a wide range of social and political interests. Drawing from cultures around the world, Parenti shows that beliefs and practices are readily subjected to political manipulation, and that many parts of culture are being commodified, separated from their group or communal origins, to be packaged and sold to those who can pay for them. Folk culture is giving way to a corporate market culture. Art, science, medicine, and psychiatry can be used as instruments of cultural control, and even marriage, the "foundation of society," has been misused by heterosexuals across the centuries. Using vivid examples and riveting arguments throughout, ranging from the everyday to the esoteric, and penned with eloquence and irony, The Culture Struggle presents a collection of snapshots of our time.
Heritage and the Cultural Struggle for Palestine
Author | : Chiara De Cesari |
Publsiher | : Stanford Studies in Middle Eas |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1503600513 |
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In recent decades, Palestinian heritage organizations have launched numerous urban regeneration and museum projects across the West Bank in response to the enduring Israeli occupation. These efforts to reclaim and assert Palestinian heritage differ significantly from the typical global cultural project: here it is people's cultural memory and living environment, rather than ancient history and archaeology, that take center stage. It is local civil society and NGOs, not state actors, who are "doing" heritage. In this context, Palestinian heritage has become not just a practice of resistance, but a resourceful mode of governing the Palestinian landscape. With this book, Chiara De Cesari examines these Palestinian heritage projects--notably the Hebron Rehabilitation Committee, Riwaq, and the Palestinian Museum--and the transnational actors, practices, and material sites they mobilize to create new institutions in the absence of a sovereign state. Through their rehabilitation of Palestinian heritage, these organizations have halted the expansion of Israeli settlements. They have also given Palestinians opportunities to rethink and transform state functions. Heritage and the Cultural Struggle for Palestine reveals how the West Bank is home to creative experimentation, insurgent agencies, and resourceful attempts to reverse colonial violence--and a model of how things could be.
Critical Pedagogy the State and Cultural Struggle
Author | : Henry A. Giroux,Peter L. McLaren,Peter McLaren,McLaren Peter |
Publsiher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0791400360 |
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Schools have been traditionally defined as institutions of instruction, but the authors of this volume challenge that position in order to generate a new set of cultural categories and constructs through which the nature and process of schooling can be more appropriately understood. Giroux and McLaren develop a theory of schooling that takes into account not only the more traditional relationship between teaching and learning, but also the import of wider cultural dynamics such as language, mass culture, popular culture, the state, theories of readership, ethnographic research, and subcultural studies.
Culture Wars
Author | : James Davison Hunter |
Publsiher | : [New York] : BasicBooks |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1991-12-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015058009823 |
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"A riveting account of how Christian fundamentalists, Orthodox Jews, and conservative Catholics have joined forces in a battle against their progressive counterparts for control of American secular c"
A Life In The Struggle
Author | : George Lipsitz |
Publsiher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1995-02-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1566393213 |
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The life story of a grassroots, civil rights activist
Hip Hop Matters
Author | : S. Craig Watkins |
Publsiher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2006-08-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0807009865 |
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Avoiding the easy definitions and caricatures that tend to celebrate or condemn the "hip hop generation," Hip Hop Matters focuses on fierce and far-reaching battles being waged in politics, pop culture, and academe to assert control over the movement. At stake, Watkins argues, is the impact hip hop has on the lives of the young people who live and breathe the culture. He presents incisive analysis of the corporate takeover of hip hop and the rampant misogyny that undermines the movement's progressive claims. Ultimately, we see how hip hop struggles reverberate in the larger world: global media consolidation; racial and demographic flux; generational cleavages; the reinvention of the pop music industry; and the ongoing struggle to enrich the lives of ordinary youth.
Cultural Materialism
Author | : Marvin Harris |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Culture |
ISBN | : PSU:000009568204 |
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The best known, most often cited history of anthropological theory is finally available in paperback! First published in 1968, Harris's book has been cited in over 1,000 works and is one of the key documents explaining cultural materialism, the theory associated with Harris's work. This updated edition includes the complete 1968 text plus a new introduction by the author, which discusses the impact of the book and highlights some of the major trends in anthropological theory since its original publication. RAT, as it is affectionately known to three decades of graduate students, comprehensively traces the history of anthropology and anthropological theory, culminating in a strong argument for the use of a scientific, behaviorally-based, ethic approach to the understanding of human culture known as cultural materialism
Moving the Centre
Author | : Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo |
Publsiher | : Heinemann Educational Publishers |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : UVA:X002213121 |
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In this collection Ngugi is concerned with moving the centre in two senses - between nations and within nations - in order to contribute to the freeing of world cultures from the restrictive walls of nationalism, class, race and gender. Between nations the need is to move the centre from its assumed location in the West to a multiplicity of spheres in all the cultures of the world. Within nations the move should be away from all minority class establishments to the real creative centre among working people in conditions of racial, religious and gender equality. -- Back cover.