Tag: Cultural

Free Download Guang Wu, "China 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution Revisited: Can It Happen Again? "
English | ISBN: 161209337X | 2011 | 126 pages | PDF | 4 MB
In many ways, this book is very different from almost all other books on this topic, not because this book does not depend on any individual case, personal sufferings, anecdotes and secret documents, but because its analysis and conclusions are different. For example, the analysis shows that Mao Zedong had no need to launch the Cultural Revolution to defeat Liu Shaoqi because Mao Zedong had many options; the Cultural Revolution was well-designed, well-prepared, well-organized, and well-controlled because . . ; Why the Cultural Revolution was so brutal because . . ; Most surprisingly, the analysis suggests that Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping might co-design the Cultural Revolution because . . Finally, this book discusses the pros for and cons against the reoccurrence of Cultural Revolution in the future.

Free Download Adrienne D. Warner, "Ethnic and Cultural Identity: Perceptions, Discrimination and Social Challenges "
English | ISBN: 1634838718 | 2015 | 265 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book provides the latest research in ethnic and cultural identity. The first chapter examines the relationship between ethnic identity, culture, body dissatisfaction and related disorder eating behaviors among diverse ethnic groups of adolescent and young female adults. The second chapter discusses migrants’ perceptions of intergroup relations and ethnic group statue in the host society. The third chapter provides an overview of research on perceived discrimination, which is considered the most severe stressor for minority individuals given its persuasive impact on health and well-being. The fourth and fifth chapters include discussions on the relationship between openness to experience, ethnocentrism, and ethnic prejudice, and the effects of language policy on ethnic minority language maintenance among a relatively newer community in Manchester. The sixth chapter examines how social, gendered, and economic forces have changed the ways in which family systems create and sustain a familial identity. The second half of the book includes a narrative analysis to explore how a sample of Muslim-identified women attributed meaning to the practice of veiling and the contexts by which women decided to – or not to -wear the hijab; a summary of the results of a qualitative study exploring the influence of discrimination on identity negotiation in transracial international adoptees; provides a review of established health risks to Latino-identifying persons in the United States and successful interventions with various samples; deconstructs the Latin lover stereotype; and finally, maps racial neoliberalism in U.S. popular culture.

Free Download Cross-Cultural Design. Methods, Practice, and Case Studies: 5th International Conference, CCD 2013, Held as Part of HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part I By Tsen-Yao Chang, Fang-Wu Tung (auth.), P. L. Patrick Rau (eds.)
2013 | 548 Pages | ISBN: 3642391427 | PDF | 38 MB
This is the first part of the two-volume set (LNCS 8023-8024) that constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cross-Cultural Design, held as part of the 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2013, held in Las Vegas, USA in July 2013, jointly with 12 other thematically similar conferences. The total of 1666 papers and 303 posters presented at the HCII 2013 conferences was carefully reviewed and selected from 5210 submissions. These papers address the latest research and development efforts and highlight the human aspects of design and use of computing systems. The papers accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the entire field of human-computer interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of application areas. This two-volume set contains 113 papers. The papers in this volume focus on the following topics: cross-cultural product design, cross-cultural design methods and techniques, international usability evaluation, and case studies in cross-cultural design.

Free Download Eleni Loukopoulou, "Up to Maughty London: Joyce’s Cultural Capital in the Imperial Metropolis "
English | ISBN: 0813062241 | 2017 | 356 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The effect of Dublin-and other cities such as Trieste, Zurich, and Paris-on James Joyce and his works has been studied extensively, but few Joyceans have explored the impact of London on the trajectory of his literary career. In Up to Maughty London, Eleni Loukopoulou offers the first sustained account of Joyce’s engagement with the imperial metropolis. She considers both London’s status as a matrix for political and cultural formations and how the city is reimagined in Joyce’s work.

Free Download Globalisation and Cultural Transformations among the Youth
Amena Mohsin, ASM Ali Ashraf
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1917733741 | 322 Pages | PDF | 1.88 MB

Free Download Visions of Order: The Cultural Crisis of Our Time by Richard M. Weaver
English | July 16, 2024 | ISBN: 1684515491 | 256 pages | EPUB | 0.88 Mb
An essential work from scholar and rhetorician Richard Weaver, a leading figure in the rise of the modern conservative intellectual movement.

Free Download Eddie Chambers, "Things Done Change: The Cultural Politics of Recent Black Artists in Britain "
English | ISBN: 9042034432 | 2012 | 299 pages | PDF | 39 MB
1980s Britain witnessed the brassy, multifaceted emergence of a new generation of young, Black-British artists. Practitioners such as Sonia Boyce and Keith Piper were exhibited in galleries up and down the country and reviewed approvingly. But as the 1980s generation gradually but noticeably fell out of favour, the 1990s produced an intriguing new type of Black-British artist. Ambitious, media-savvy, successful artists such as Steve McQueen, Chris Ofili, and Yinka Shonibare made extensive use of the Black image (or, at least, images of Black peo¬ple, and visuals evocative of Africa), but did so in ways that set them apart from earlier Black artists. Not only did these artists occupy the curatorial and gallery spaces nominally reserved for a slightly older generation but, with aplomb, audacity, and purpose, they also claimed previously unimaginable new spaces. Their successes dwarfed those of any previous Black artists in Britain. Back-to-back Turner Prize victories, critically acclaimed Fourth Plinth commissions, and no end of adulatory media attention set them apart.

Free Download Manuel Bragança, "The Long Aftermath: Cultural Legacie

Manuel Bragança, "The Long Aftermath: Cultural Legacies of Europe at War, 1936-2016 "

Free Download Practising Cultural Geographies: Essays in Honour of Rana P. B. Singh by Ravi S. Singh
English | EPUB | 2022 | 599 Pages | ISBN : 9811664137 | 145.5 MB
This festschrift honours Prof. Rana P.B. Singh who has dedicated his life to teaching and conducting research on cultural geography with a ‘dweller Indian perspective’. The book focuses on the cultural geographies of India, and to an extent that of South Asia. It is a rich collection of 23 essays on the themes apprised by him, covering landscapes, religion, heritage, pilgrimage and tourism, and human settlements.

Free Download Johannes Wessels, "Paul’s Approach to the Cultural Conflict in Corinth: A socio-historical study (7) "
English | ISBN: 3643907427 | 2017 | 296 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The problem of cultural conflict in congregations has been a serious challenge to the church throughout its history. Many approaches to tackling the problem of cultural intolerance and tensions have been quite pragmatic in nature, without the presence of a solid biblical foundation or pastoral model. In this book Paul’s approach as a slave-leader, emptying himself in analogy of Christ’s own kenosis, is thoroughly discussed and posed as a biblical approach and solution to handling this very complex and contentious issue in churches, especially in the context of Botswana. Dissertation. (Series: Theology in Africa, Vol. 7) [Subject: Religious Studies, Christanity Studies]