Disciplinarity and Dissent in Cultural Studies

ISBN-13: 9780415913720 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 488 str.

Cary Nelson; Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar

Opis

As recently as the early 1990s, people wondered what was the future of cultural studies in the United States and what effects its increasing internationalization might have. What type of projects would cultural studies inspire people to undertake? Would established disciplines welcome its presence and adapt their practices accordingly? This text attempts to answer such questions. It is now clear that, while striking and innovative work is underway in many different fields, most disciplinary organizations and structures have been very resistant to cultural studies. Meanwhile, cultural studies has been subjected to repeated attacks by conservative journalists and commentators in the public sphere. Cultural studies scholars have responded not only by mounting focused critiques of the politics of knowledge but also by embracing ambitious projects of social, political, and cultural commentary, by transgressing all the official boundaries of knowledge in a broad quest for cultural understanding. This book tracks these debates and maps future strategies for cultural studies in academia and public life.

Spis treści

1 CULTURAL STUDIES AND THE POLITICS OF DISCIPLINARITY, An Introduction PART ONE: DISCIPLINARITY AND ITS DISCONTENTS DIVERSITY AND DISCIPLINARITY AS CULTURAL ARTIFACTS 2 DISCIPLINING ANTHROPOLOGY 3 LITERATURE AS CULTURAL STUDIES «American Poetry of the Spanish Civil War 4 CULTURAL HISTORY AND CULTURAL STUDIES TOWARD A GENEALOGY OF THE STATE OF CULTURAL STUDIES The Discipline of Communication and the Reception of Cultural Studies in the United States 6 INDIAN COUNTRY Negotiating the Meaning of Land in Native America 7 CULTURAL STUDIES AND THE CHALLENGE OF SCIENCE 8 DOUBLE TIME Durkheim, Disciplines, and Progress PART TWO: GOING PUBLIC, GOING GLOBAL, GOING HISTORICAL Cultural Studies in Transition 9 IS CULTURAL STUDIES INFLATED? The Cultural Economy of Cultural Studies in the United States 10 BETWEEN NATIONS AND DISCIPLINES 11 FROM NASA TO The 700 Club (WITH A DETOUR THROUGH HOLLYWOOD) Cultural Studies in the Public Sphere 12 CULTURAL POLITICS AND BLACK PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS 13 CULTURE AND THE CRISIS The Political and Intellectual Origins of Cultural Studies in the United States PART THREE: TOWARD WILD CULTURE 14 CULTURAL STUDIES IN A POSTCULTURE 15 HIGH CULTURE IN LOW PLACES Television and Modern Art, 1950 -1970 16 HOW TO USE A CONDOM Bedtime Stories for the Transcendental Signifier 17 THE FACE OF AMERICA AND THE STATE OF EMERGENCY 18 DAHMER S EFFECTS Gay Serial Killer Goes to Market

O autorze

Cary Nelson is Professor of English and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His books include such co-edited collections as Cultural Studies, Higher Education Under Fire and Madrid, 1937, all published by Routledge. DILIP PARAMESHWAR GAONKAR is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University.