scholarly journals Sociální teorie a kulturální studia: dva typy interdisciplinárního přístupu [Social Theory and Cultural Studies: Two Types of Interdisciplinary Approach]

2004 ◽  
Vol 40 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 49-66
Author(s):  
Jan Balon
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach

scholarly journals Long Hours, Uneasy Feelings: Parliamentary Work in Denmark, Finland and Sweden

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Mannevuo ◽  
Jenni M Rinne ◽  
Isak Vento
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Nordic Countries ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
Work Culture ◽  
Vicious Cycle ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Psychological Strain ◽  
Work Pressure ◽  
The World

AbstractPoliticians’ work pressure is gaining more attention in parliamentary studies. To participate in the discussion about governing under pressure, this article offers an interdisciplinary approach to investigate how representatives navigate within a flexible, limitless work culture. This article presents a new inquiry to re-examine contemporary political agency by combining cultural studies theories with empirical insights in Nordic countries. By analysing 52 semi-structured interviews with MPs in Denmark, Finland and Sweden, the study finds that politics attracts people who want to change the world, but these attributes may initiate a vicious cycle, taking the form of psychological strain.

scholarly journals CULTURE-BASED STUDIES’ TOPOGRAPHY IN THE MODERN FRENCH SOCIAL SCIENCE

2019 ◽  
pp. 14-17
Author(s):  
B. E. Nosenok
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
History Of Culture ◽  
Critical Turn ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
First Time

Cultural studies as a humanities researcher takes the place of an expert. The relevance of this topic is due to the lack of development of the issues of “culture-based studies” in Ukrainian culturology. There is a lack of translated into French or Ukrainian languages of French sources published since 1975. French culturological science, which developed after 1975, is almost not represented in Ukrainian culturology. The present stage of the development of French historiography, which lies at the heart of cultural history, and cultural studies, is associated with increased attention to social knowledge. This stage is characterized by the deployment of a “critical turn”, which proceeds from the following principles: the interdisciplinary approach, the significance of cultural expertise, the severity of publications and the multiplicity of their forms, multidisciplinarity. The “critical turn” affects the following spheres of knowledge: la Culturologie, les Études culturelles, les Sciences de la Culture. The article substantiates the relevance of the use of the concept of “culture-based studies” to the definition of processes that are unfolding within the framework of French humanities and are associated exclusively with the theoretical formations in the context of the social sciences. The purpose of the article is to outline a map of culture-based studies in the field of French humanitaristics. The methodology of the article is based on the application of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches to research in the field of culturology. Also, methodological developments in the field of “critical turn” and the achievements of the sociological circle and the interdisciplinary discussion club “Eranos” were applied. The scientific novelty of the article is to substantiate the appropriateness of the use of the concept of “culture-based studies” on the definition of processes that are unfolding within the framework of French humanitaristics and relate exclusively to theoretical formations in the context of social sciences. This concept to the field of Ukrainian culturology is introduced for the first time. Also, for the first time, the place and forms of culturology in French humanities were clarified. Conclusions. Working with a source base and methodology is one of the points that are compulsory on the way to the solution of the tasks, the main of which is the formation of the body of fundamental works for French history (including the history of culture) and historiography of the period since 1975 year to the present day. On the basis of this building, there is the prospect of building an alternative national cultural history project addressed to the vector of the French historiographical, historical-anthropological and cultural-related issues in the field of social knowledge. The article presents the arguments why it is appropriate to use the concept of “culture-based studies” in the context of conducting research in relation to French humanitaristics, in particular, the modern period of its development.

scholarly journals URBAN STUDIES IN THE CONTEXT OF THEORIES OF VISUAL PRACTICES

2017 ◽  
pp. 93-97
Author(s):  
A. M. Tormakhova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Monumental Architecture ◽  
The City

One of the leading trends in contemporary cultural studies is the appealto the field of visual. Thepurpose of the article is to investigate the range of problems associated withthe existence, functioning of various visual practices in the urban space and the disclosure of the specifics of communication carried out through their intermediation. In urban space, there are many forms, such as monumental architecture, urban sculpture, outdoor illumination, landscape art, street art, graffiti and others. These artifacts are the subject of cultural research within different disciplines - aesthetics, cultural studies, design, and art. It may be noted that in recentdecades, significant development gets such a direction as Urban Studies, in which the focus of research serves the city. The methodology of the study includes an appeal to an interdisciplinary approach that relies on the achievements of practical cultural studies, Urban studies,and aesthetics theory by Ukrainian and Western authors. Scientific novelty consists in analyzing the connection ofactual visual practices presented in the urban space and forming of Internet activity, which facilitates the mutual influence of these spheres one on another. The author noted that urban space is gradually becoming not only interactive, but also fully assuming the characteristics of WEB 2.0, which means active rethinking and transforming the environment, urban residents involvement in decision-making that becomes a norm of everyday life. City is a kind of text that reflects changing tastes, politicaland economic factors in visualform. Town and city public spaces play an important role in shaping the interaction within society. One of the pressing problems of practical cultural studies in general and urban areas in particular, should be integrated into organization of the urban environment and design the image of the city. The practical significance lies in the fact that the results of the research can beused in developing the urban sphere in particular and in actualizing the issue of organizing the urban environment and constructing the image of the city.

Aesthetic values as an object of research: from an Aesthetic to Cultural studies’ generalization

2021 ◽  
pp. 36-41
Author(s):  
Lydia Lyashenko
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Scientific Analysis ◽  
The One ◽  
Aesthetic Values

The purpose of the article is to prove the expediency and scientific, methodological, conceptual, and categorical potential of Cultural studies as a science that may offer an updated perspective for the study of the problem of aesthetic values. Methodology. Methods of scientific analysis, comparison, and generalization during the elaboration of the source base and the method of systematization are used to determine the traditional and innovative directions of research of the problem of aesthetic values. Scientific novelty. The article considers the interdisciplinary and generalizing potential of Cultural studies on the example of the problem of study aesthetic values. The existing tendency to move the analysis of problems of humanities from separate sciences to the plane of interdisciplinary is emphasized. It was accented on the novelty and relevance of such interdisciplinary research within Cultural studies. Conclusions. The approach of Cultural studies offers an increase in the scale of generalization from aesthetic to actually global, which combines the experience of studying scientific problems in the traditional and extended areas. Given the fact that on the one hand, all material and spiritual values which surround man were born from culture, because culture is the cumulative result of productive human activity, and, on the other hand, culture absorbs them, being phenomenon generalized, interdisciplinary approach of Cultural studies is able to suggest an updated perspective on this problem on the border of traditional and non-traditional sciences and through the improvement of its conceptual and categorical apparatus to offer new ways to study.

scholarly journals Evolution of correlation of terms sign and symbol in general semiotics, linguistics, and cultural studies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadiia Pashkova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Comparative Methods ◽  
The Other ◽  
Theoretical Conclusion ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Genetic Method ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
Linguistic Methods

The purpose of the article is to analyze the views on the relation between sign and symbol in modern linguistics and cultural studies and to formulate a theoretical conclusion in order to avoid misunderstandings in scientific works. The methodology is based on the application of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the central concepts of semiotics, linguistics, and cultural studies. In addition to general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis, a cultural-genetic method was used, as well as such linguistic methods as descriptive, comparative, methods of functional and conceptual-ideographic analysis. The scientific novelty of the study is that it first revealed the cause of differences in the interpretation of the relation between sign and symbol in traditional semiotics, modern linguistic and cultural studies, and formulated recommendations for their definition. Conclusions. It is proved that the opposition of sign and symbol in modern humanities is based on the special symbolism of the symbol, which distinguishes it from the other signs, classified by Ch. Pierce in traditional semiotics. Genetically, a symbol is a sign that has developed particular anthropogenic trait distinctions, contrasting with other signs, which nevertheless does not completely remove its sign properties and functions.

scholarly journals Editors’ Introduction: Cultural Studies and Intersectionality as Intellectual Practice

Lateral ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefanie A Jones ◽  
Eero Laine ◽  
Chris Alen Sula
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Dialectical Materialism ◽  
Critical Social Theory ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Social

As a “critical social theory,” intersectionality already lies at the roots of contemporary cultural studies, and the best work in cultural studies has the capacity for or is already engaging with intersectionality as method. This is work that accounts for the multifaceted nature of subjects, institutions, processes, and structures as it asks its questions about cultural objects, experience, ideology, history, or discourses. Intersectionality as, along with dialectical materialism, a core intellectual practice of cultural studies, offers expanded possibilities for political traction, relevance to the world and people’s lives, and transformative potential. We see models of such work throughout this issue, including with part two of a special forum on emergent analytics of critical humanities.

scholarly journals The Lack of Interdisciplinarity in Undergraduate Geography Teaching in Turkey

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Münür Bilgili
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Course Selection ◽  
Geography Teaching ◽  
Body Of Knowledge

The aim of this study is to understand and explore interdisciplinarity in geography and undergraduate geography courses in geography teaching departments in Turkey. There is a growing literature in science underscoring the importance of interdisciplinary approach and its beneficial outcomes. Increasing body of knowledge on social theory, on philosophical and theoretical movements and paradigms have made easier communication among disciplines which give rise to more perceptible interdisciplinarity specifically in social sciences and humanities.At the second part of the present study we focused on relationships between geography courses, interdisciplinary approach and course selection. Because in the study course selection is seen as the most important point to analyze and understand the extent to which whether interdisciplinarity finds a place in geography teaching. Lastly, it is given some conclusions by making suggestions.

scholarly journals Introduction – Plausible, Norms of Warfare: Reducing the Gap Between the Normative and the Empirical

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 193-202
Author(s):  
Ariel Colonomos ◽  
Richard Beardsworth
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Use Of Force ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Normative Analysis ◽  
Normative Knowledge

Abstract This special issue argues in favor of a new approach to the study of norms of warfare, which combines a normative analysis of ethical problems arising in war with an explanatory analysis of the use of force. Norms of warfare go as far back as Antiquity, and their study has followed a long historical path. In recent years, the ethics of war, mostly grounded in philosophy, has considerably expanded as a field. Notwithstanding such efforts to refine our normative knowledge of what should be just norms for the use of force, we argue that a more interdisciplinary approach is required to orient the study of the laws of war. In this Special Issue, proposals are made that, along with normative analysis, bring to the discussion not only disciplines such as political science and international relations, but also social theory, psychology and the neurosciences. We argue from a non-ideal perspective, that in order for norms to be just, they need to be ‘plausible’ for those who should abide by them. They also need to make sense in the context of democratic societies that favor a pluralistic debate on justice and ethics. Epistemically, we argue that, in order to understand if norms are plausible and just, reducing the gap between the normative and the empirical is required.

scholarly journals Representations of queer identity in David Lynch's film Mulholland Drive

2021 ◽  
pp. 87-92
Author(s):  
Alena Molodina
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
David Lynch ◽  
Queer Identity ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Mulholland Drive

The purpose of the article. This essay considers the queer identity as a modern tragic figure through a reading of David Lynch's 2001 film Mulholland Drive. Methodology. The article uses a comprehensive interdisciplinary approach using the methodological tools of cultural studies and queer theory based on structural-functional, semiotic-hermeneutic analysis, as well as Lacan's psychoanalytic concept of the subject. The scientific novelty. Within the framework of the humanities, in particular cultural studies, the analysis of the film by David Lynch "Mulholland Drive" in the context of queer theory is carried out for the first time. Conclusions. Since cinematography is a synthesis of various types of art, it embodies cultural phenomena and reproduces realities of life. Analysis of the peculiarities of the representation of queer identity in David Lynch's film Mulholland Drive through the prism of queer theory, in which identity is nothing more than a phenomenon that forms under the pressure of the dominant discourse and social order gives it the status of a cultural illusion or myth, demonstrates existing ideals. Cinema in the context of queer theory is self-reflective, autocratic, not indifferent. It can create a safe space - and at the same time be a protest action. The means by which the representation of a queer identity takes the place can be traced at all symbolic levels (material, index, iconic). At the material level, the grand plan is used as a sign in which all the characters in the film are related, without separating homosexual women visually. At the level of index status, the creation of the image of a homosexual couple is due to their profession. The heroines belong to the creative environment, in their relationship the dominant role is played by Diane. At the iconic level, images are constructed through their relationship with society. The heroines experience internal contradictions between their psychological state, natural nature, and social norms. The sexuality that is represented in the film contains a confrontation between the individual and the social. There is a tendency to normalize the image of queer identity in cinema, due to changes in the public consciousness. Based on the analysis, it was found that the film David Lynch reflects homosexuality as such, and not in the canonical models of traditional relationships.

scholarly journals Contribuições para descolonização do pensamento na Comunicação

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (27) ◽  
pp. 221
Author(s):  
Ohana Boy Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
World System ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
Ways Of Thinking

Para ampliar as perspectivas analíticas sobre o pensamento comunicacional brasileiro, trazemos neste artigo uma revisão bibliográfica acerca dos princípios da colonialidade, traçando uma trajetória que interliga os estudos atuais aos que o precederam, como os estudos pós-coloniais e culturais britânicos. Propomos com este trabalho uma breve recuperação do debate teórico do Grupo Modernidade/Colonialidade acerca da colonialidade do saber, do poder e do ser, buscando mostrar a importância dessa temática para a descolonização do pensamento no campo da Comunicação. Seguindo uma abordagem interdisciplinar, trazemos as discussões desse grupo apontando para a decolonialidade como horizonte epistemológico. Partindo de uma perspectiva crítica, ao problematizar o “sistema-mundo capitalista moderno/colonial”, procuramos apresentar uma descrição histórica e conceitual do pensamento decolonial, para construir novas formas de pensar a comunicação. Com essas contribuições sobre o empenho teórico-metodológico decolonial, concluímos que as transformações necessárias virão a partir da dissolução das estruturas coloniais, que conformam tanto a teoria quanto a prática da comunicação.Contributions to decolonization of thought in CommunicationAbstractIn order to broaden the analytical perspectives on Brazilian communicational thought, we present in this article a bibliographical review on the principles of coloniality, tracing a trajectory that links current studies to those that preceded it,such as postcolonial and British cultural studies. With this work, we propose a brief recovery of the theoretical debate of the Modernity/Coloniality Group about the coloniality of knowledge, power and being, seeking to show the importanceof this theme for the decolonization of thought in the field of Communication. Following an interdisciplinary approach, we bring the discussions of this group pointing to decoloniality as an epistemological horizon. From a critical perspective, when problematizing the “modern/colonial capitalist world-system”, we seek to present a historical and conceptual description of decolonial thinking, in order to build new ways of thinking about communication. With these contributions on the decolonial theoretical-methodological commitment, we conclude that the necessary transformations will come from the dissolution of colonial structures, which shape both the theory and the practice of communication.Keywords: Modernity/Coloniality; coloniality of knowledge; decoloniality.

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