Relocating Cultural Studies: Developments in Theory and Research

ISBN-13: 9780415075480 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 248 str.

Ian Taylor; Valda Blundell; John Shepherd

Opis

This collection constitutes a salutory demonstration that Britain no longer serves as the centre for cultural studies. Engaging the critical discourses of feminism, postmodernism and postcolonialism, the contributions explore the renegotiations and changes in cultural studies in the wake of its export from Britain. In particular, the volume shows how to understand the experiences of marginalized groups, including women and aboriginal peoples in postcolonial states. Questions about the ongoing globalization of capital and culture are linked to constructions of national, local and individual identities. The alternative relocations of cultural studies offered here manifest two not incommensurate trends: Some contributors consider how textual processes of representation articulate with exclusionary practices. Others keep alive a sense of politics in respect of institutional and policy debates. The result is an invigorated cultural studies which moves between theory and practice, gives primacy to tensions between extra-local centres of political and economic power, and considers lived experiences within their specific geo-cultural contexts.

Spis treści

introduction EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION; Part 1 WARS OF POSITIONS; Chapter 1 THE FORMATIONS OF CULTURAL STUDIES, Lawrence Grossberg; Chapter 2 USEFUL CULTURE, Tony Bennett; Chapter 3 SHIFTING BOUNDARIES, LINES OF DESCENT, Will Straw; Part 2 POWER AND EMPOWERMENT; Chapter 4 TRUE VOICES AND REAL PEOPLE, Elspeth Probyn; Chapter 5 WHY ARE THERE NO GREAT WOMEN POSTMODERNISTS?, Geraldine Finn; Part 3 CULTURAL STUDIES AND THE LOCAL; Chapter 6 POSTCARDS OF MY PAST, Gail Guthrie Valaskakis; Chapter 7 VALUE AND POWER IN MUSIC, John Shepherd; Chapter 8 WEATHERING THE NORTH, Jody Berland;

O autorze

Valda Blundell is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University, Ottawa,
John Shepherd is Director, School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University, Ottawa,
Ian Taylor is Professor in Sociology, Salford University.