Relocating cultural studies : developments in theory and research
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Relocating cultural studies : developments in theory and research
（International library of sociology）
Routledge, 1993
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
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: hbk ISBN 9780415075480
Description
Britain is no longer the sole organizing centre for cultural studies. The contributors to this volume demonstrate how cultural studies has diffused into other English-speaking countries and how its original concerns have been renegotiated and changed. The result is a landmark book which provides students with an unrivalled guide to the international phenomenon of cultural studies.
Table of Contents
- 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
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: pbk ISBN 9780415075497
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Part 1 Wars of Positions: 1. The formation of Cultural Studies: An American in Birmingham, Larry Grossberg 2. Useful Culture, Tony Bennett 3. Shifting Boundaries, Lines of Descent - Cultural Studies and Institutional Realignments, Will Straw. Part 2 Power and Empowerment: 4. True Voices and Real People - The "Problem" of the Autobiographical in Cultural Studies, Elspeth Probyn 5. Why are There No Great Women Postmodernists?, Geraldine Finn. Part 3 Cultural Studies and the Local: 6. Postcards of my past - The Indian as Artifact, Gail Guthrie Valaskakis 7. Value and Power in Music - An English-Canadian Perspective, John Shepherd 8. Weathering the North - Climate, Colonialism, and the Mediated Body, Jody Berland.
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