Free Download Ana Filipa Vrdoljak, "The Cultural Dimension of Human Rights "
English | ISBN: 0199642125 | 2014 | 320 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 9 MB
The intersections between culture and human rights have engaged some of the most heated and controversial debates across international law and theory. As understandings of culture have evolved in recent decades to encompass culture as ways of life, there has been a shift in emphasis from national cultures to cultural diversity within and across states. This has entailed a push to more fully articulate cultural rights within human rights law.

Free Download Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan
English | May 9, 2023 | ISBN: 1324051957 | 304 pages | PDF | 1.09 Mb
Winner of the 2023 Cundill History Prize

Free Download Imanol Galfarsoro, "Multicultural Controversies: Political Struggles, Cultural Consumerism and State Management"
English | ISBN: 193454244X | 2014 | 204 pages | PDF | 5 MB
In this short but all-encompassing account of multiculturalism, Multicultural Controversies studies the emergence and development of multiculturalism as a concept mapped out through a variety of controversial discussions. Arguing that multiculturalism cannot be reduced just to the issues of emigration and religion, the author pursues a comprehensive approach reflecting a trans-disciplinary interest in the intersection of critical social theory and radical political philosophy with post-colonial studies, and examines the overall contexts (historical, socio-political, cultural and philosophical/speculative) in which multiculturalism emerges and develops as a concept.

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English | ISBN: 1032204532 | 2023 | 308 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Managing Disaster Risks to Cultural Heritage presents case studies from different regions in the world and establishes a framework for understanding, identifying, and analysing disaster risks to immovable cultural heritage.

Free Download David Dunér, "Human Lifeworlds: The Cognitive Semiotics of Cultural Evolution"
English | ISBN: 3631662858 | 2016 | 402 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
This book, which presents a cognitive-semiotic theory of cultural evolution, including that taking place in historical time, analyses various cognitive-semiotic artefacts and abilities. It claims that what makes human beings human is fundamentally the semiotic and cultural skills by means of which they endow their Lifeworld with meaning. The properties that have made human beings special among animals living in the terrestrial biosphere do not derive entirely from their biological-genetic evolution, but also stem from their interaction with the environment, in its culturally interpreted form, the Lifeworld. This, in turn, becomes possible thanks to the human ability to learn from other thinking beings, and to transfer experiences, knowledge, meaning, and perspectives to new generations.

Free Download Flexible India: Yoga's Cultural and Political Tensions by Shameem Black
English | December 19th, 2023 | ISBN: 0231206038 | 305 pages | True PDF | 2.18 MB
Yoga has offered the Indian state unprecedented opportunities for global, media-savvy political performance. Under Modi, it has promoted yoga tourism and staged mass yoga sessions, and Indian officials have proposed yoga as a national solution to a range of social problems, from reducing rape to curing cancer. But as yoga has gone global, its cultural meanings have spiraled far and wide. In Flexible India, Shameem Black travels into unexpected realms of popular culture in English from India, its diaspora, and the West to explore and critique yoga as an exercise in cultural power.

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English | ISBN: 0192872109 | 2024 | 320 pages | EPUB | 21 MB
Cultural Objects and Reparative Justice provides a comprehensive legal and historical analysis surrounding a highly debated current question: Where should cultural objects that were removed without consent be located? This book follows an innovative, interdisciplinary approach based in law, history, art history, anthropology, and archaeology and proposes a paradigm for reparations.

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English | 2021 | ISBN: 0367651912, 0367651904 | PDF | pages: 299 | 22.2 mb
Already dealing with disruptive market forces, the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) faced fundamental challenges resulting from the global health crisis, wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic. With catastrophic changes to cultural consumption, cultural organizations are dealing with short-, medium-, and long-term threats to livelihoods under lockdown.

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English | 2018 | ISBN: 1610353137 | EPUB | pages: 296 | 2.0 mb
Sacramento Bee journalist Sam McManis spent five years on the road trying to find the real California. He discovered that there is more than one California, but every different California is equally weird and wonderful. Worlds collide and commingle: the neo-hippies with the rednecked farmers; the urban sophisticates with the quirky desert dwellers; the Hollywood power brokers with the outsider artists. Brought together in a bouillabaisse of voices, Crossing California will make you see the state in an entirely new light.

Free Download Krum Krumov, "Cross-Cultural Psychology: Why Culture Matters (Hc) "
English | ISBN: 1623963176 | 2013 | 476 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Cross-Cultural Psychology: Why Culture Matters addresses both established and very recent research in cultural and comparative cross-cultural psychology. The book is written by Professor Krum Krumov of Sofia University in Bulgaria and Professor Knud S. Larsen from Oregon State University. The authors are long-term colleagues with extensive research experience in cultural, cross-cultural and international settings. The book starts with a discussion of the tentative nature of cultural information given the forces of globalization and communication integration. Weighing these issues still permits for some powerful conclusions about differences that matter as well as human universals based on our communalities. The reader is also provided with a through grounding in relevant research approaches and critical thinking that provides the basis for an evaluation of the research literature. Further, the book reports on what we know about the origin of culture, especially the forces of cultural transmission and the evidence for socio-cultural evolution. The impact of culture and psychology on human development is contrasted and evaluated. A chapter on language stresses the importance of evolutionary forces and the relationship to socio-culture. In turn that discussion sets the stage for reporting the relevant research on cognition that yields information on the impact of genetics, but also the affect of cultural evolution. A distinct contribution is the evaluation of human happiness and emotions. The book demonstrates tangible relationships to both the universal expressions of emotions, but also the impact of cultural values on well-being. A consideration of personality theory follows in the systematic and progressive discourse in the book. Research is reported on Western, Eastern and Indigenous conceptualizations and research approaches. The discussion on the self is considered next and the authors evaluate cultural, social and comparative cross-cultural dimensions. Finally, a discussion of sex and gender follows as associated with salient cross-cultural dimensions. The book concludes with a discussion of the affect of cultural values in organizational behavior and a consideration of the relationship between culture and human health.