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Informationen zum Autor Robert F. Carley is Assistant Professor of International Studies at Texas A&M University, College Station. He most recent work appears in Rethinking Marxism and he is the author of Culture and Tactics: Gramsci, Race, and The Politics of Interpretation (Forthcoming) and Collectivities: Politics at the Intersections of Disciplines (Lexington, 2016). Klappentext Working from the idea that Sociology and Cultural Studies have developed distinct and valuable toolkits for understanding culture, Harden and Carley have brought together a collection of essays that address the ways in which the cultures around race, sex, and gender are mediated through or intersect with politics, society, and economy. Zusammenfassung Working from the idea that Sociology and Cultural Studies have developed distinct and valuable toolkits for understanding culture! Harden and Carley have brought together a collection of essays that address the ways in which the cultures around race! sex! and gender are mediated through or intersect with politics! society! and economy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Forward Part 2 Part 1: Theory Chapter 3 Defrocking the "High Priest of Modernity": Giddens, Erickson, and Agency Chapter 4 Power, Culture, and Hegemony: A Theoretical Exploration of Gesellschaft Chapter 5 The Unicorn is Dead: Postmodernism, Consumption, and the Production of the "Self" Chapter 6 Some Brief Notes Toward a Labor-Based Theory of Culture Part 7 Part 2: Gender and Sexuality Chapter 8 Gender Queer Productions and the Bridge of Cultural Legitimacy: "Realness" and "Identity" in Paris is Burning Chapter 9 Ambiguity Will Not Stand: An Exploratory Study of Transsexuality, and the Intimate Relationship between Sex, Race, Technology, Nature, and the "Nature" of Desire Part 10 Part 3: Globalization Chapter 11 Inter(sex)tions: Gender, Culture, and Globalization Chapter 12 Between Neighborhoods and Power: The Mediation of Joy by Argentinean "TV Conductors" Chapter 13 Modernity, Development, Hegemony: Social Change and Ethnic Assimilation in the Lower Rio Grande Valley Chapter 14 "Like the Wildest Creation of a Dream": Dialectics, Visualization Technologies, and Aesthetics in the Writings of Francis Younghusband, George Mallory, and the Members of the 1999 Mallory & Irvine Research Expedition Part 15 Part 4: Popular Culture Chapter 16 Racial Determinism in the Narrative Setting of Dungeons and Dragons Chapter 17 Heebsters: Community and Identity (Re)construction of Urban Jewish Hipsters Chapter 18 In Blog We Trust: An Antiphon Chapter 19 Conspicuous Charity...
