Relocating Cultural Studies

TRAMA

"Relocating Cultural Studies" constitutes a salutory demonstration that Britain no longer serves as the center for cultural studies. Engaging in critical discourses of feminism, postmodernism, and postcolonialism, the contributors explore the renegotiations and changes in cultural studies in the wake of its export from Britain. In particular, the volume shows how the class-dominated issues of earlier practitioners have given way to attempts to understand the lived 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. <BR> 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 local centers of political and economic power, and considers lived experiences within their geo-cultural contexts. It is a collection which can serve as an introduction to cultural studies, a critical re-evaluation of the earlier applications of cultural studies, and a compendium of current theoretical and research interests.

NOTE EDITORE

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.

SOMMARIO

Editors' Introduction Part I: 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 II 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 III: 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 Index Contributors

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780415075480
• Collana: International Library of Sociology
• Dimensioni: 8.5 x 5.5 in Ø 0.95 lb
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 248