The Emergence of Cultural Studies, 1945-65: Cultural Politics, Adult Education, and the English Question

1999 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
John Baxendale ◽  
Tom Steele
1999 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Woodhams

2009 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 77-93
Author(s):  
Jakob Egholm Feldt

Denne artikel vil følge Edward W. Saids begreb ”orientalisme” inden for et særligt områdestudium. Jødiske studier er ofte dybt politisk og etisk motiverede foruden at være etnisk motiverede i den forstand, at mange forskere er engagerede i jødisk kulturpolitik, ligesom Said var dybt engageret i palæstinensernes politiske sag. Mit spørgsmål vil således være: hvordan har jødiske studier, som områdestudium betragtet, modtaget orientalismebegrebet? Mine grundlæggende antagelser er: 1. Orientalismebegrebets familiaritet med kolonialisme og imperialisme er et problem for jødiske områdestudier, fordi common sense i feltet placerer studiet i en anden kontekst. 2. Problemet er ikke kun begrebsligt/fagligt, men også politisk, fordi jødiske områdestudier helt enkelt har en markant pro-zionistisk profil. Denne politisering er ikke kun ideologisk, men opleves af mange i feltet som eksistentiel/ontologisk pga. Holocaust, og derfor er en eller anden grad af zionisme doxa. Artiklen viser, at der findes tre skabeloner for orientalisme-receptionen i jødiske studier, som jeg kalder 1. Den kampusradikale, 2. Den postkoloniale og 3. Den historiske. Der argumenteres for, at Saids begreb orientalisme har medvirket til at opløse kultur- og socialanalytiske dikotomier i jødiske studier og dermed har ydet et væsentligt bidrag til området. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Jakob Egholm Feldt: Orientalism and Israel. Three templates for Orientalism in Jewish Studies This article analyses Edward Said’s concept of Orientalism in Jewish Studies. Jewish Studies are often highly politically, ethically and ethnically motivated, because many scholars are engaged in Jewish cultural politics just as Said was engaged in the Palestinian national cause. My question in this article is: How has the concept of Orientalism been received in Jewish Studies? My assump-tions are: 1. The familiarity between orientalism, colonialism and imperialism poses a problem for Jewish Studies, because common sense in the field places it in another context. 2. The problem is not only conceptual but also political, in as much as Jewish Studies have a significant Zionist profile. This politicization is not only ideological but also experienced as existential/ontological because of the Holocaust. Thus, a degree of Zionism is doxa in the field. The article shows that there are three models for using the concept of orientalism in Jewish Studies. I call them: the campus radical, the post-colonial, and the historical. I argue that Said’s concept of orientalism has contributed to dissolving analytical dichotomies in Jewish cultural studies and thus made a significant contribution to the field. Key words: Said, Israel, Zionism.


2003 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Threadgold

In this paper I have explored some of the histories which inevitably connect, but also differentiate, critical discourse analysis and cultural studies. I have argued that both are strongly influenced by the versions of critical theory which have been characterised as 'postmodernism' and 'poststructuralism' and that both could benefit not only from some serious engagement with the several disciplines from which their interdisciplinarity is derived but also from some further in depth exploration of the critical theory which informs them and which they have often 'translated' or 'co-opted' in reductionist ways. I have also argued that the claims sometimes made for critical discourse analysis are inflated and that without serious ethnographies and attention to the theorisation as well as research of contexts those claims cannot really be sustained. On the other hand 'resignification' or the cultural politics of CDA are important agendas and we need to do much more work on establishing exactly how social change can be effected through the kinds of work CDA could do. My conclusion is that we need to reframe and recontextualise the ways in which we define and perform CDA and that that will involve bringing cultural studies and critical discourse analysis together in productive new ways with other disciplinary and theoretical formations and with proper attention to the new and different global and local contexts in which we work.


2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elspeth Probyn

This article canvasses a broad range of fish representations across several disciplines. It asks what cultural studies can learn from scientific representation of fish, and argues that in turn cultural studies can be a nuanced understanding of the work of images. The objective of the article is to open debate about fish and their sustainability beyond discrete disciplines and/or ideologies. This, it is argued, is crucial if we are to go beyond a simplified cultural politics of fish. 


2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Harewood

This article examines the political project of Cultural Studies by calling for a re-examination of the cultural studies research practices. The metaphors used by cultural studies researchers are explored, as these demonstrate the ways in which researchers have sought to emphasize openness and fluidity. However, it is argued that the desire for openness is not enough; that without rigorous consideration of methodology Cultural Studies lays itself open to many of the academic research problems it seeks to challenge. The article therefore offers a rethinking of the metaphors of cultural studies research. The question is, what alternative metaphors do we have for imagining a cultural politics? (Hall, 1996, p. 288)


2000 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 77-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Mayo ◽  
Carmel Borg

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