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Disciplinarity and Dissent in Cultural Studies
Contributor(s): Nelson, Cary (Editor), Gaonkar, Dilip (Editor)
ISBN: 0415913721     ISBN-13: 9780415913720
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $35.10  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 1996
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Annotation: As recently as the early 1990s, people wondered what was the future of cultural studies in the United States and what effects its increasing internationalization might have. What type of projects would cultural studies inspire people to undertake? Would established disciplines welcome its presence and adapt their practices accordingly? "Disciplinarity and Dissent in Cultural Studies" answers such questions.
It is now clear that, while striking and innovative work is underway in many different fields, most disciplinary organizations and structures have been very resistant to cultural studies. Meanwhile, cultural studies has been subjected to repeated attacks by conservative journalists and commentators in the public sphere. Cultural studies scholars have responded not only by mounting focused critiques of the politics of knowledge but also by embracing ambitious projects of social, political, and cultural commentary, by transgressing all the official boundaries of knowledge in a broad quest for cultural understanding. This book tracks these debates and maps future strategies for cultural studies in academia and public life.
The contributors to "Disciplinarity and Dissent in Cultural Studies" include established scholars and new voices. In a series of polemic and exploratory essays written especially for this book, they track the struggle with cultural studies in disciplines like anthropology, literature and history; and between cultural studies and very different domains like Native American culture and the culture of science.
Contributors include Arjun Appadurai, Michael Denning, Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, Constance Penley, Andrew Ross, and Lynn Spigel.
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
- Art | Popular Culture
- Social Science | Media Studies
Dewey: 306.097
LCCN: 96000893
Physical Information: 1.06" H x 5.98" W x 8.8" (1.48 lbs) 488 pages
 
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First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.