Culture : a reformer's science
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Culture : a reformer's science
Allen & Unwin, 1998
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Bibliography: p. 240-255
Includes index
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Description
A critical overview of cultural studies and the role of culture in social life. This account of the emergence of modern relations of culture and government explores the role of culture as a means of acting on the social. It also includes an assessment of the roles that intellectuals can play - as teachers, critics and policy analysts - in relation to the organization of contemporary cultural life.
Table of Contents
Series IntroductionAcknowledgementsIntroduction: For cultural studiesPART I Theory1 Towards a pragmatics for cultural studies2 Being 'in the true' of cultural studies3 Cultural studies: the Foucault effectPART II History4 Culture: A reformer's science5 The multiplication of culture's utility6 Regulated restlessness: museums, liberal government and the historical sciencesPART III Practice7 Culture, power, resistance8 Culture and policy9 Out in the open: reflections on the history and practice of cultural studiesEndnotesReferencesIndex
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