Claims on the City: Situated Narratives of the Urban captures a snapshot of the events, protests, and movements that disrupt a city's existing rhythms across cultures and nationalities and compels us to rethink our understanding of the urban. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the editors and contributors detail on-the-ground events and ......
An in-depth investigation of the complex relationships among food, culture, and society in Korea, Communicating Food in Korea presents diverse interpretations of food's economic, political, and sociocultural relevance. Grounded in a variety of disciplines, the chapters research the ways food intersects with social issues in Korean society.
This book takes a critical glance at the ritualized practices of death-corpse preparation, disposal, and aesthetic representation-and examines the workings of aesthetics that shape corpses, as well as the ways in which corpses spill over, resisting aestheticization.
Creative Practice Ethnographies examines how the collaboration between creative practice and ethnography enables scholars and practitioners to hone research strategies and methods within contemporary contexts. The authors use three heuristics-techniques, translations, and transmissions-to illustrate how this interdisciplinary strategy operates.
The book provides an overview of existing theoretical discussions and field research on the role of digital technology, the internet, and social media in social transformations, civic culture, and protests.
Locating Vulnerability and Resilience in the Philippines
This interdisciplinary collection examines the complex nature of disaster-typhoons, floods, earthquakes, and drought-in the Philippines. The contributors analyze the challenges of the country's internal heterogeneity of language, ethnicity, and class and its effect on responses to natural disaster.
The first collection to consider the fraught itineraries of Asian American immigrant histories and how they are inscribed in the production and dissemination of ideas about Asian American foodways.
The first collection to consider the fraught itineraries of Asian American immigrant histories and how they are inscribed in the production and dissemination of ideas about Asian American foodways.
Television Serialization, the Melodramatic Mode, and Socioemotionality
In Emotional Expressionism: Television Seriality, the Melodramatic Mode, and Socioemotionality, E. Deidre Pribram examines emotions as social relations through the lens of dramatic television serials as contemporary melodrama. She develops the concept of socioemotionality, addressing sociocultural forms of felt experience and exploring the role of ......
