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Leisure Life: Myth, Modernity and Masculinity
ISBN: 9780415270731 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Leisure Life is a ground-breaking study of men and masculinity. Focusing on the social networks and leisure lifestyles of a particular group of working-class men - 'the lads' - Tony Blackshaw argues that traditional social collectivities such as class are being superseded. Instead, leisure life is now the central arena in which individuals assert their identities and confirm their belonging. For 'the lads', leisure time is the pivotal point in a fragmented life which not only allows them to fashion some sense of order in a world of endemic disorder but also provides opportunities for...
Leisure Life is a ground-breaking study of men and masculinity. Focusing on the social networks and leisure lifestyles of a particular group ...
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293,21 |
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Beyond Subculture: Pop, Youth and Identity in a Postcolonial World
ISBN: 9780415278140 / Angielski / Twarda / 8 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presenting a new approach to the study of youth culture and popular music, Beyond Subculture re-examines the link between music and subcultures and asks the question; in an ageing world, can pop music still be an automatic metaphor for youth culture? Using case studies and first-hand interviews with consumer and producers including Noel Gallagher and Talvin Singh, Rupa Huq investigates a series of musically-centred global youth cultures including hip-hop, electronic dance music and bhangra. With 'Generation X' becoming an increasingly redundant term, this book will... Presenting a new approach to the study of youth culture and popular music, Beyond Subculture re-examines the link between music and subcul... |
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757,61 |
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Beyond Subculture: Pop, Youth and Identity in a Postcolonial World
ISBN: 9780415278157 / Angielski / Miękka / 4 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presenting a new approach to the study of youth culture and popular music, Beyond Subculture re-examines the link between music and subcultures and asks the question; in an ageing world, can pop music still be an automatic metaphor for youth culture? Using case studies and first-hand interviews with consumer and producers including Noel Gallagher and Talvin Singh, Rupa Huq investigates a series of musically-centred global youth cultures including hip-hop, electronic dance music and bhangra. With 'Generation X' becoming an increasingly redundant term, this book will... Presenting a new approach to the study of youth culture and popular music, Beyond Subculture re-examines the link between music and subcul... |
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200,35 |
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Japanese Cybercultures
ISBN: 9780415279185 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Japan is rightly regarded as one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, yet the development and deployment of Internet technology in Japan has taken a different trajectory compared with Western nations. This is the first book to look at the specific dynamics of Japanese Internet use.
It examines the crucial questions: * how the Japanese are using the Internet: from the prevalence of access via portable devices, to the fashion culture of mobile phones * how Japan's "cute culture" has colonized cyberspace * the role of the Internet in different musical... Japan is rightly regarded as one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, yet the development and deployment of Internet technolog...
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488,72 |
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Japanese Cybercultures
ISBN: 9780415279192 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Japan is rightly regarded as one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, yet the development and deployment of Internet technology in Japan has taken a different trajectory compared with Western nations. This is the first book to look at the specific dynamics of Japanese Internet use.
It examines the crucial questions: * how the Japanese are using the Internet: from the prevalence of access via portable devices, to the fashion culture of mobile phones * how Japan's "cute culture" has colonized cyberspace * the role of the Internet in different musical... Japan is rightly regarded as one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, yet the development and deployment of Internet technolog...
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175,91 |
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Sport and National Identity in the Post-War World
ISBN: 9780415283007 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is the relationship between sport and national identity? What can sport tell us about changing perceptions of national identity?
Bringing together the work of established historians and younger commentators, this illuminating text surveys the last half-century, giving due attention to the place of sport in our social and political history. It Includes studies of: - English football and British decline - Englishness and sport - Ethnicity and nationalism in Scotland - Social change and national pride in Wales - Irish international football and Irishness - Sport and... What is the relationship between sport and national identity? What can sport tell us about changing perceptions of national identity?
Bringing toge... |
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830,92 |
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Tourism Studies and the Social Sciences
ISBN: 9780415287753 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Accusations have been made that tourism studies lacks a theoretical base. Such assertions are often based upon a lack of understanding of the relationship between the academic study of tourism and theories from the social sciences.
"Tourism Studies and the" "Social Sciences "provides students with a wider understanding of and grounding in the theories of the social sciences that tourism studies have been built upon. Specifically it will examine how the disciplines of economics, politics, geography, sociology, psychology and anthropology have contributed to our understanding of tourism.... Accusations have been made that tourism studies lacks a theoretical base. Such assertions are often based upon a lack of understanding of the relation...
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977,55 |
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Tourism Studies and the Social Sciences
ISBN: 9780415287760 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Accusations have been made that tourism studies lacks a theoretical base. Such assertions are often based upon a lack of understanding of the relationship between the academic study of tourism and theories from the social sciences.
"Tourism Studies and the" "Social Sciences "provides students with a wider understanding of and grounding in the theories of the social sciences that tourism studies have been built upon. Specifically it will examine how the disciplines of economics, politics, geography, sociology, psychology and anthropology have contributed to our understanding of tourism.... Accusations have been made that tourism studies lacks a theoretical base. Such assertions are often based upon a lack of understanding of the relation...
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249,23 |
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Consuming Sport: Fans, Sport and Culture
ISBN: 9780415288903 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Consuming Sport offers a detailed consideration of how sport is experienced and engaged with in the everyday lives, social networks and consumer patterns of its followers. It examines the processes of becoming a sport fan, and the social and moral career that supporters follow as their involvement develops over a life-course.
The book argues that while for many people sport matters, for many more, it does not. Though for some sport is significant in shaping their social and cultural identity, it is often consumed and experienced by others in quite mundane and everyday ways,... Consuming Sport offers a detailed consideration of how sport is experienced and engaged with in the everyday lives, social networks and consu...
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757,61 |
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Consuming Sport: Fans, Sport and Culture
ISBN: 9780415288910 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Consuming Sport offers a detailed consideration of how sport is experienced and engaged with in the everyday lives, social networks and consumer patterns of its followers. It examines the processes of becoming a sport fan, and the social and moral career that supporters follow as their involvement develops over a life-course.
The book argues that while for many people sport matters, for many more, it does not. Though for some sport is significant in shaping their social and cultural identity, it is often consumed and experienced by others in quite mundane and everyday ways,... Consuming Sport offers a detailed consideration of how sport is experienced and engaged with in the everyday lives, social networks and consu...
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259,00 |
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Education and Conflict: Complexity and Chaos
ISBN: 9780415297936 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First-place winner of the Society for Education Studies' 2005 book prize, Education and Conflict is a critical review of education in an international context. Based on the author's extensive research and experience of education in several areas afflicted by conflict, the book explores the relationship between schooling and social conflict and looks at conflict internal to schools. It posits a direct link between the ethos of a school and the attitudes of future citizens towards 'others'. It also looks at the nature and purpose of peace education and war education, and addresses... First-place winner of the Society for Education Studies' 2005 book prize, Education and Conflict is a critical review of education in an i... |
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928,67 |
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Religion, Education and Post-Modernity
ISBN: 9780415298704 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, the first to explore religious education and post-modernity in depth, sets out to provide a much needed examination of the problems and possibilities post-modernity raises for religious education.
At once a general introduction to this topic and a distinctive contribution to the debate in its own right, Religion, Education and Post-modernity explores and illuminates the problems, and possibilities opened up for religious education by postmodern thought and culture. The book describes the emergence of post-modernity, considers the impact of post-modernity on religion,... This book, the first to explore religious education and post-modernity in depth, sets out to provide a much needed examination of the problems and pos...
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757,61 |
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Education and Conflict: Complexity and Chaos
ISBN: 9780415304245 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First-place winner of the Society for Education Studies' 2005 book prize, Education and Conflict is a critical review of education in an international context. Based on the author's extensive research and experience of education in several areas afflicted by conflict, the book explores the relationship between schooling and social conflict and looks at conflict internal to schools. It posits a direct link between the ethos of a school and the attitudes of future citizens towards 'others'. It also looks at the nature and purpose of peace education and war education, and addresses... First-place winner of the Society for Education Studies' 2005 book prize, Education and Conflict is a critical review of education in an i... |
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234,56 |
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Body Knowledge and Control: Studies in the Sociology of Physical Education and Health
ISBN: 9780415306454 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today's society is obsessed with the body, its size, shape and healthiness. Governments, business and the popular media, spend and earn fortunes encouraging populations to get healthy, eat properly, exercise daily and get thin. But how are current social trends and attitudes towards the body reflected in the curriculum of schools, in the teaching of Physical Education and Health? How do teachers and health professionals influence young people's experiences of their own and others' bodies? Is health education liberating or merely another form of regulation and social control? Today's society is obsessed with the body, its size, shape and healthiness. Governments, business and the popular media, spend and earn fortunes en... |
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293,21 |
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Tourism, Diasporas and Space
ISBN: 9780415311243 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Diasporas result from the scattering of populations and cultures across geographical space and time. Transnational in nature and unbounded by space, they cut across the static, territorial boundaries more usually deployed to govern tourism. Tourism, Diasporas and Space explores the new challenges that diasporas pose to tourism discourse. The book introduces the main features and constructs of diasporas, and explores their implications for the consumption, production and practices of tourism. Three sets of mutually reinforcing relationships are explored: experiences of diaspora tourists, the...
Diasporas result from the scattering of populations and cultures across geographical space and time. Transnational in nature and unbounded by space, t...
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928,67 |
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Indigenous Knowledge and Ethics: A Darrell Posey Reader
ISBN: 9780415323635 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Darrell A. Posey, who died in 2001, was internationally known for his support of indigenous peoples and their natural habitats, and particularly for his pioneering work with the Kayapo people of Brazil. He was an organiser of the First International Congress of Ethnobiology which resulted in the Declaration of Belem: the first instance of an international scientific organisation recognizing an obligation to compensate native peoples for use of their knowledge and biological resources. In 1993, Posey received the United Nations Global 500 Award for Outstanding Achievement in Service to the...
Darrell A. Posey, who died in 2001, was internationally known for his support of indigenous peoples and their natural habitats, and particularly for h...
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757,61 |
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Cyberculture Theorists : Manuel Castells and Donna Haraway
ISBN: 9780415324304 / Angielski / Twarda / 161 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. David Bell's volume will introduce key ideas and concerns within cybertheory, then move on to discuss the major concepts developed by the three theorists --Donna Haraway, Sherry Turkle and Sean Cubitt, covering Haraway's foundational work on cyborgs, Sherry Turkle's contribution to debates about identity in cyberspace, and Sean Cubitt's development of cybertheory into the realm of aesthetics and visual culture.
David Bell's volume will introduce key ideas and concerns within cybertheory, then move on to discuss the major concepts developed by the three theori...
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464,29 |
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Cccs Selected Working Papers: Volume 2
ISBN: 9780415324410 / Angielski / Twarda / 1122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays focuses on the theoretical frameworks that informed the work of the Centre for Contemporary Culture Studies at the University of Birmingham, the methodologies and practices that the Centre developed for conducting academic research and examples of the 'grounded studies' carried out.
This collection of essays focuses on the theoretical frameworks that informed the work of the Centre for Contemporary Culture Studies at the Universit...
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1148,63 |
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Performing Russia: Folk Revival and Russian Identity
ISBN: 9780415326148 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines folk music and dance revival movements in Russia, exploring why this folk culture has come to represent Russia, how it has been approached and produced, and why memory and tradition, in these particular forms, have taken on particular significance in different periods. Above all it shows how folk "tradition" in Russia is an artificial cultural construct, which is periodically reinvented, and it demonstrates in particular how the "folk revival" has played a key role in strengthening Russian national consciousness in the post-Soviet period.
This book examines folk music and dance revival movements in Russia, exploring why this folk culture has come to represent Russia, how it has been app...
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928,67 |
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The Media and the Tourist Imagination: Converging Cultures
ISBN: 9780415326261 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tourism studies and media studies both address key issues about how we perceive the world. They raise acute questions about how we relate local knowledge and immediate experience to wider global processes and both play a major role in creating our map of national and international cultures. The Media and the Tourist Imagination adopts a multidisciplinary approach to explore the interactions between tourism and media practices within a contemporary culture in which the consumption of images has become increasingly significant. The contributions are divided between those written from media...
Tourism studies and media studies both address key issues about how we perceive the world. They raise acute questions about how we relate local knowle...
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259,00 |
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