recent PUBLICATIONS
Recent books and special journal collections showcasing the work of CAPSTRANS
staff and affiliates can be found below.
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Nilan, P. & Feixa, C. (eds) (2006) Global Youth? Hybrid Identities, Plural Worlds, Routledge; London & New York. ISBN: 978-0-415-37071-4
This innovative collection of studies by international youth researchers, critically addresses questions of ‘global’ youth, incorporating material from regions as diverse as Sydney, Tehran, Dakar and Manila, and advancing our knowledge about young people around the globe. Exploring specific local youth cultures whilst mediating global mass media and consumption trends, this book traces subaltern ‘youth landscapes’ and tells subaltern ‘youth stories’ previously invisible in predominantly western youth cultural studies and theorizing. The chapters here serve as a refutation of the colonialist discourse of cultural globalization.
Showcasing previously unpublished youth research from outside the English-speaking world alongside the work of well-known researchers such as Huq and Holden, these accounts of youth cultural practices highlight much that is predictably different, but also a great deal of common ground. This book goes inside creative cultural formation of youth identities to critically examine the global in the local. Bringing together an internationally diverse group of researchers, who describe and analyze youth cultures throughout Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and Oceania, this volume presents the first comprehensive review of global youth cultures, practices and identities, and as such is a valuable read for students and researchers of youth studies, cultural studies and sociology. |
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Samuel, Geoffrey (2006) Mind, Body and Culture: Anthropology and the Biological Interface. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York. xii + 192pp. ISBN-13: 9780521024945
Concerned with the aspects of human behaviour which have been traditionally described as cultural or social, the author draws on his background in physics to suggest a scientific approach involving a reconceptualization of many of our assumed concepts. Are culture, society and similar concepts from anthropology and sociology of any real use in making sense of human social life? How can we understand the relationship between the social group and the individual human beings, with their self-awareness and sense of personal identity, who make it up? Drawing on his background in physics, Dr Samuel suggests a scientific approach involving a reconceptualization of many of the concepts we take for granted. The multimodal framework, or MMF, derives from this approach. It incorporates many of the insights of social and cultural anthropology, particularly the work of Gregory Bateson and Victor Turner, as well as being influenced by recent developments in the philosophy of science and related fields. Finally, the book considers some of the implications of the MMF for biological approaches, and focuses on questions of brain structure and on evolutionary explanations for human social behaviour. |
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Edited by Tod Joseph Miles Holden and Timothy J. Scrase. ISBN-0-415-37155-4. Routledge 2006.
medi@sia is a path-breaking cross-disciplinary study that employs ethnographic methods and sociological and cultural perspectives to examine the uses and influences of various media in a large number of contexts inside and flowing out of Asia today.
The book introduces the concept of the media/tion equation where the compound of information technology (media) and its content (communication) are touched by and associated with the economics, politics, social organization, cultural practices and values in the everyday lives of users. The role of context - the complex spaces influenced by and with which media/tion transpires - is captured in 11 key studies of TV, film, music videos, popular song, romance novels, Internet bulletin boards, comics, brand characters, and advertising. Beyond the contexts of contemporary Asia - many of which have been neglected by conventional media an cultural studies - are the spaces in the world touched by the sweep of Asian-originated media flows. Through this perspective, medi@sia proffers a newer, antithetical "map" of globality: one that moves decidedly East to West.
Contributing to discourse in a large number of scholarly areas including globalization theory, media sociology, the anthropology of media cultural studies, communication studies, and Asia studies, medi@sia charts a new interdisciplinary area of inquiry within the current literature and, as such, establishes a precedent for future research. |
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