Cultural studies : from theory to action / edited by Pepi Leistyna.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leistyna, Pepi.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social justice.

Social movements.

Culture--Study and teaching--Political aspects.

Culture.

Culture--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

xv, 579 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.

Contents:

Unity and changes in the ideology of political economy / S. Amin

The postcolonial aura: Third World criticism in the age of global capitalism / Arif Dirlik

Time and class / Zygmunt Bauman

Theoretical therapies, remote remedies: SAPs and the political ecology of poverty and health in Africa / Brooke G. Schoepf, Claude Schoepf & Joyce V. Millen

A new way of thinking in action: the Zapatistas in Mexico

a postmodern guerrilla movement? / Fernanda Navarro

Workers' resistance / Anita Chan

Life against gold / Ustun Reinart

The campus anti-sweatshop movement / Richard Apelbaum & Peter Dreier

The NGO-ization of grassroots politics / Sangeeta Kamat

Global media, neoliberalism, and imperialism / Robert McChesney

Theoretical orthodoxies: textualism, constructivism and the 'new ethnography' in cultural studies / David Morley

Disney, Southern Baptists, & children's culture: the Magic Kingdom as Sodom and Gomorrah? / Henry Giroux

Seeing ourselves, being ourselves: broadcasting Aboriginal television in Canada / Jennifer David

Zines / Stephen Duncombe

The Ho'okele netwarriors in the liquid continent / Kekula P. Bray-Crawford

Internet subcultures and political activism / Richard Kahn & Douglas Kellner

Staring back: self-representations of disabled performance artists / Rosemarie Garland Thomson

Noise from underground: punk rock's anarchic rhythms spur a new generation to political activism / Johnny Temple

Rethinking recognition / Nancy Fraser

The roots of international racism / Fidel Castro

Invention, memory, and place / Edward Said

White ethnic unconsciousness / Pepi Leistyna

Racial justice in a multi-ethnic society / Bhikhu Parekh

Where was the color in Seattle? looking for reasons why the great battle was so white / Elizabeth 'Betita' Martinez

Sharing the story of the movement: the Project Hip-Hop experience / Nancy Murray

World Conference against Racism: prospects and challenges / A.S. Narang

Women workers and capitalist scripts: ideologies of domination, common interests, and the politics of solidarity / Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Radicalizing feminism from the 'movement era' on / Joy James

Mana wahine theory: creating space for Maori women's theories / Leonie Pihama

Afghan women's long struggle: women working for freedom / Tahmeena Faryal

Minjung feminism: Korean women's movement for gender and class liberation / Miriam Ching Yoon Louie

Reconstructing masculinity in the locker room: the Mentors in Violence Prevention Project / Jackson Katz

The globalization of sexual identities / Dennis Altman

Black lesbians: passing, stereotypes and transformation / Jewelle Gomez

Trashing the clinic and burning down the beauty parlor: activism transmutes pitiable patients into feisty gender radicals / Pat Califia

At a turning point: organized labor, sexual diversity, and the new South Africa / Mazibuko K. Jara, Naomi Webster, and Gerald Hunt

Gay teens fight back: a new generation of gay youth won't tolerate harassment in their schools / Doug Ireland.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 520-554) and index.

ISBN:

0631224378

0631224386

OCLC:

54767628