Co-opting culture
Subtitle: culture and power in sociology and cultural studies
By: edited by B. Garrick Harden and Robert Carley.
Contributors: Harden, B. Garrick, 1981-; Carley, Robert, 1973-
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780739125977; 9780739137048
Subjects: Culture; Race relations; Power (Philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Defrocking the "high priest of modernity :" Giddens, Erickson, and agency / Keith Kerr and Xi Chen; title: Power, culture, and hegemony : a theoretical exploration of Gesellschaft / B. Garrick Harden; title: The unicorn is dead : postmodernism, consumption, and the production of the "self" / Ryan Caldwell; title: Some brief notes toward a labor-based theory of culture / Robert Carley; title: Gender queer productions and the bridge of cultural legitimacy : "realness" and "identity" in Paris is burning / Ryan Caldwell; title: Ambiguity will not stand : an exploratory study of transsexuality, and the intimate relationship between sex, race, technology, nature, and the "nature" of desire / Robert Carley; title: Inter(sex)tions : gender, culture, and globalization / Wendy A. Burns-Ardolino; title: Between neighborhoods and power : the mediation of joy by Argentinean "TV conductors" / Pablo Castagno; title: Modernity, development, hegemony : social change and ethnic assimilation in the lower Rio Grande Valley / Jesse Garcia; title: "Like the wildest creation of a dream" / Christopher M. Sutch; title: Racial determinism in the narrative setting of dungeons and dragons / Ilan Mitchell-Smith; title: Heebsters : community and identity (re) construction of urban Jewish hipsters / Marcus Aldredge; title: In blog we trust : an antiphon / B. Garrick Harden; title: Conspicuous charity / Lindsay Anderson.