Category: Sociology

• Cambria Press Publication Review: Contents Tourism in Japan

  Congratulations to Philip Seaton (Tokyo University), Takayoshi Yamamura (Hokkaido University), Akiko Sugawa-Shimada (Yokohama National University), and Kyungjae Jang (Hokkaido University) on the outstanding review of their book, Contents Tourism in Japan: Pilgrimages to “Sacred Sites” of Popular Culture, in the journal Tourist Studies. The review praises the book, which includes 100 color images, noting that:…

  Cambria Press

  October 11, 2018

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Cambria Press, Culture, Sociology

  Akiko Sugawa-Shimada, Japan, Japanese popular culture, Kyungjae Jang, media studies, Philip Seaton, Takayoshi Yamamura, tourism, Tourist studies

• Cambria Press New Publication: State Terrorism and the Politics of Memory in Latin America

  Cambria Press is releasing a new book, State Terrorism and the Politics of Memory in Latin America, by Dr. Gabriela Fried Amilivia (associate professor of sociology at California State University Los Angeles). Watch Dr. Fried discuss the book during the publication launch at the LASA Congress in New York. Praise for the book: “This study is…

  Cambria Press

  February 9, 2016

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Cambria Press, History, International Studies, Latin American Studies, New Books, New Scholarly Books, Political Science, Sociology, university books

  dictatorship, Gabriela Fried Amilivia, human rights, memory, political justice, political kidnapping, politics of memory, social justice, state terror, State Terrorism and the Politics of Memory in Latin America, transitional justice, trauma, Uruguay disappeared

• #ISA2015 Essential Titles

  NEW TITLE: International Relations and the Arctic Increased global interest in the Arctic poses challenges to contemporary international relations, and many questions surround exactly why and how Arctic countries are asserting their influence and claims over their northern reaches and why and how non-Arctic states are turning their attention to the region. This first systematic…

  Cambria Press

  February 25, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, Asian Studies, Book Review, China, Chinese, Current Events, International Studies, Latin American Studies, Political Science, Sociology

  #IR, #ISA2015, academic publisher, Africa, Bangladesh, Biafra, Cambodia, Cambria Press, civil society, climate change, climate politics, depopulation, garment industry, garments and textiles industry, genocide, Global Digital Economy, global economy, Global Labor, International Relations, International Studies Association, ISA, Jamaica, Japan, Nigeria, politics of memory, socioeconomic, Sri Lanka

• #NWSA2014 Highlights: Groundbreaking Books for Women’s Studies

  #NWSA2014 attendees, are these groundbreaking books in women’s studies in your library? Make sure they are and take advantage of the 30% discount on all titles (now until November 30, 2014). Use web coupon code BA188. Unnatural Reproductions and Monstrosity: The Birth of the Monster in Literature, Film, and Media Andrea Wood and Brandy Schillace…

  Cambria Press

  November 13, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Africana Studies, Culture, History, Latin American Studies, Literature, MLA, New Scholarly Books, Performing Arts, Sociology, Theatre, Women’s Studies

  #NSWA2014, African American women, Afro-Cuban women, Andrea Wood, black women, Brandy Schillace, Cecilia Segawa Seigle, Chicana, Cristina Herrera, female, Japanese women, Kevin J. Wetmore, Linda H. Chance, Medea, modern play adaptations, monster, monstrosity, Ooku, Otherness, Shogun, Unnatural Reproductions

• Veterans Day Salute: Language and Gender in the Military

    Happy Veterans Day to America’s heroes! Highlighted today is Lt. Col. Edith Disler’s book Language and Gender in the Military. From the preface: “American military identity is part of American identity in that it influences the American masculine construct and has affected 26 million veterans and their families, as well as those who may…

  Cambria Press

  November 11, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Sociology, Women’s Studies

  academic publisher, armed forces, army, Cambria Press, Edith Disler, gender studies. linguistics, Huffington Post, masculine construct, military, US Air Force, veteran

• Why is Africa important to the rest of the world?

  President Barack Obama recently declared that the future stability of the world depends on African nations’ prosperity and self-reliance. Reinforcing this is Toyin Falola, leading authority in African studies, who stated that “scholars and policy makers have the obligation to show Africa and the world how to succeed.” This is why African studies continues to…

  Cambria Press

  October 27, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, ASA: African Studies Association, History, International Studies, Political Science, Sociology

  academic publisher, Africa, African, African Studies, Africanist, Barack Obama, Cambria African Studies Series, Cambria Press, Moses Ochonu, President Barack Obama, Toyin Falola, Vanderbilt University

• Cambria Press Book Highlight: Performance, Theatre, and Society in Contemporary Nicaragua

  An excerpt from Performance, Theatre, and Society in Contemporary Nicaragua: Spectacles of Gender, Sexuality, and Marginality: [An] example of a public performance of marginality that critically responds to the Nicaraguan regime’s theatricality of power is the performance of Shayra, a twenty-four-year-old gay transvestite man, in the fringe circus called King Cat in a modest barrio of Managua. Escaping years of…

  Cambria Press

  June 24, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Culture, Latin American Studies, New Scholarly Books, Performing Arts, Sociology, Theatre

  academic publisher, Alberto Guevara, barrio, Cambria Press, class exploitation, gender, homophobia, LGBT, machismo, Marginality, Nacaragua, political corruption, sexuality, socioeconomic, transgender, transvestite, violence

• Power, Gender, Social Class in Latin America

    At the recent 2014 LASA congress, a book which attracted much interest was Picturing Argentina: Myths, Movies, and the Peronist Vision by Currie Thompson. The book, which was published just in time for the LASA congress, is the inaugural title of the groundbreaking Cambria Studies in Latin American Literatures and Cultures series headed by…

  Cambria Press

  May 29, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Culture, Film Studies, History, International Studies, Latin American Studies, New Scholarly Books, Performing Arts, Political Science, Sociology

  Abuso de confianza, academic publisher, Afro-Argentine, Almafuerte, Angel Magaña, Argentina, Argentine film, Argentine history, Armando Bó, Arturo García Buhr, Así es la vida, Asunto terminado, Barrio gris, Beatriz Guido, Cadetes de San Martín, Cambria Press, Carlos Borcosque, Carlos Hugo Christensen, Carlos Schlieper, Cándida, Cinco Grandes del Buen Humor, comedy of remarriage, Cosas de mujer, Currie Thompson, Daniel Tinayre, Edición extra, El amor nunca muere, El cañonero de Giles, El conventillo de la Paloma, El crimen de Oribe, El cura Lorenzo, El fin de la noche, El grito sagrado, El hijo del crack, El pendiente, El que recibe las bofetadas, El vampiro negro, Enrique Carreras, Enrique Muiño, Enrique Santos Discépolo, Ernesto Arancibia, Escuela de campeones, Eva Duarte, Eva Peron, Evita, Fanny Navarro, Fernando Birri, film noir, Filomena Marturano, Francisco Mugica, Francisco Petrone, Fuego sagrado, Fuera de la ley, generación del 60, government film censorship, Guillermo Battaglia, Hombres a precio, Homero Manzi, Huella, Hugo del Carril, José Agustín Ferreyra, Juan Carlos Thorry, Juan Domingo Perón, Juan Duarte, Juan Manuel Fangio, Julio Saraceni, La bestia debe morir, La bestia humana, La cabalgata del circo, La casa del ángel, La guerra gaucha, La niña de fuego, La orquídea, La rubia del camino, La rubia Mireya, La Tigra, Latin America, Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Libertad Lamarque, Los hijos del otro, Los inundados, Los tres berretines, Lucas Demare, Luis Bayón Herrera, Luis César Amadori, Luis Moglia Barth, Luis Saslavsky, Luisito, Manuel Romero, Mario Soffici, marriage-divorce screwball, Mirtha Legrand, Niní Marshall, No abras nunca esa puerta, nouvelle vague, nuevo cine, Orestes Caviglia, Pampa bárbara, Pasaporte a Río, patria potestad, Paulina Singerman, Pelota de trapo, Peronism, Picturing Argentina, political cinema, Por buen camino, Prisioneros de la tierra, Puerta cerrada, Punto negro, Raúl Alejandro Apold, Roland Barthes, Román de la Campa, Sacachispas, screwball comedy, Se abre el abismo, Si muero antes de despertar, Su mejor alumno, Suburbio, Tire dié, Tita Merello, transvestite film, Vidalita, Viento norte, Yo conocí a esa mujer, Zully Moreno

• Latin American Studies catalog now up for LASA 2014

  The Latin American studies catalog is now up for LASA 2014! Download it now &/or pick one up at the Cambria Press booth (#209) in the LASA book exhibit hall next week in Chicago! Be sure to check out the new books in the series headed by: Román de la Campa (University of Pennsylvania): Cambria…

  Cambria Press

  May 13, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Africana Studies, anthropology, Culture, Current Events, Film Studies, History, International Studies, Latin American Studies, Literature, New Scholarly Books, Performing Arts, Political Science, Sociology, Theatre

  Afro-Cuban, Ana Lucia Araujo, Argentina, Argentine film, Eva Peron, John Clum, Juan Peron, LASA, LASA 2014, Latin America, Latin American history, Latin American literature, Latin American Performing Arts, Latin American theatre, Nicaragua, Román de la Campa, slavery, theatre and society

• AAS 2014 Highlight: Ooku, The Secret World of the Shogun’s Women

  Praise for Ooku, The Secret World of the Shogun’s Women: “A wonderfully detailed history of the shogunal harem in Japan … The study covers everything from job descriptions and employment procedures to struggles over money and power; and it does not shy away from discussion of the sex—or lack of it—at the heart of the Ooku’s raison…

  Cambria Press

  March 19, 2014

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, History, Literature, New Scholarly Books, Sociology, Women’s Studies

  academic publisher, bakufu, Cambria Press, Cecilia Segawa Seigle, concubine, Edo, Ejima affair, Genroku, harem, Hōei, Japan, Japanese, Japanese history, Japanese women, ladies-in-waiting, Linda Chance, midai, Ooku, orgy, otoshiyori, samurai, Shogun, Shōtoku, Tokugawa