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Transformations eBook Series

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  • Advertising and Consumer Citizenship

    Gender, Images and Rights

    by Anne M. Cronin ...
    Series series Transformations
    Using a variety of print advertisements, this exciting and provocative study explores how the consumer is created by advertisements in terms of:* Sex* Class* Race.It also explores the figure of the citizen and how this identity is produced by contemporary political discourses. Advertising and Consumer Citizenship will be essential reading for all those interested in the study of consumption, ... Read more

    PHP4,742.45

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  • Valences of Interdisciplinarity

    Theory, Practice, Pedagogy

    Edited by Raphael Foshay ...
    Series series Cultural Dialectics
    The modern university can trace its roots to Kant's call for enlightened self-determination, with education aiming to produce an informed and responsible body of citizens. As the university evolved, specialized areas of investigation emerged, enabling ever more precise research and increasingly nuanced arguments. In recent decades, however, challenges to the hegemony of disciplines have arisen, ... Read more

    PHP1,459.69

  • Pierre Bourdieu

    Key Concepts

    Edited by Michael Grenfell ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    The French social philosopher Pierre Bourdieu is now recognised as one of the major thinkers of the twentieth century. In a career of over fifty years, Bourdieu studied a wide range of topics: education, culture, art, politics, economics, literature, law, and philosophy. Throughout these studies, Bourdieu developed a highly specialised series of concepts that he referred to as his "thinking tools" ... Read more

    PHP3,070.30

  • Critical Discourse Analysis

    The Critical Study of Language

    by Norman Fairclough ...
    Bringing together papers written by Norman Fairclough over a 25 year period, Critical Discourse Analysis represents a comprehensive and important contribution to the development of this popular field.The book is divided into seven sections covering the following themes:language in relation to ideology and powerdiscourse in processes of social and cultural changedialectics of discourse, dialectical ... Read more

    PHP4,460.89

  • Strange Encounters

    Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality

    by Sara Ahmed ...
    Series series Transformations
    Examining the relationship between strangers, embodiment and community, Strange Encounters challenges the assumptions that the stranger is simply anybody we do not recognize and instead proposes that he or she is socially constructued as somebody we already know. Using feminist and postcolonial theory this book examines the impact of multiculturalism and globalization on embodiment and community ... Read more

    PHP4,287.06

  • Media/Theory

    Thinking about Media and Communications

    by Shaun Moores ...
    Series series Comedia
    From an established author with a growing international profile in media studies, Media/Theory is an accessible yet challenging guide to ways of thinking about media and communications in modern life.Shaun Moores draws on ideas from a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, and expertly connects the analysis of media and communications with key themes in contemporary social ... Read more

    PHP3,360.01

  • Erving Goffman

    by Greg Smith ...
    Series series Key Sociologists
    Decades after his death, the figure of Erving Goffman (1922–82) continues to fascinate. Perhaps the best-known sociologist of the second half of the twentieth century, Goffman was an unquestionably significant thinker whose reputation extended well beyond his parent discipline.A host of concepts irrevocably linked to Goffman's name – such as 'presentation of self', 'total institutions', 'stigma', ... Read more

    PHP3,997.36

  • An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture

    by Dominic Strinati ...
    An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture is widely recognized as an immensely useful textbook for students taking courses in the major theories of popular culture. Strinati provides a critical assessment of the ways in which these theories have tried to understand and evaluate popular culture in modern societies.Among the theories and ideas the book introduces are: mann culture, the ... Read more

    PHP3,823.54

  • Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary

    by Paul Rabinow, George E. Marcus, Tobias Rees, James D. Faubion ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In this compact volume two of anthropology’s most influential theorists, Paul Rabinow and George E. Marcus, engage in a series of conversations about the past, present, and future of anthropological knowledge, pedagogy, and practice. James D. Faubion joins in several exchanges to facilitate and elaborate the dialogue, and Tobias Rees moderates the discussions and contributes an introduction and an ... Read more

    PHP1,249.49

  • The Practice of Cultural Studies

    by Estella Tincknell, Richard Johnson, Deborah Chambers, Parvati Raghuram ...
    `This is a tour de force… It combines luminous discussion of the core conceptual issues of cultural studies, with a hard-headed, practical sense of how research in the field gets done. The result is a seriously smart, comprehensive survey of the whole terrain of cultural studies itself. This is a book on methods which readers will be able to make their own; and which -- uniquely in the genre -- ... Read more

    PHP6,094.99

  • BodySpace

    Destabilising Geographies of Gender and Sexuality

    Edited by Nancy Duncan ...
    BodySpace brings together some of the best known geographers writing on gender and sexuality today. Together they explore the role of space and place in the performance of gender and sexuality.The book takes a broad perspective on feminism as a theoretical critique, and aims to ground - and destabilize - notions of citizenship, work, violence, "race" and disability in their geographical contexts ... Read more

    PHP4,460.89

  • The Social Construction of Management

    by Nancy Harding ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
    **What is management and how do the people who become managers take on a managerial identity?How does text inform the manager's identity?**From cultural studies we understand that the relationship between text and reader is not passive but that each one works upon the other, and that text is active in forming the identity of the reader. This books is the first to analyse how many management ... Read more

    PHP3,765.59