PROLOGUE: Cultural Studies—The Way Forward

2005 ◽  
Vol 51 (3-4) ◽  
pp. v-x
Author(s):  
Rex Nettleford
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
The Way

scholarly journals Golosina canibal 2.0

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jimena Néspolo
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
New World ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Juan Jose Saer ◽  
Migration Experience ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
The Way

This article offers a reading of the novel El Entenado (1982) by Juan José Saer, analysing the way in which it is inserted within the author’s system and within the Argentinean literary canon. The Saerian heritage is resignified by cannibalism and its presence in cultural studies. ‘Cannibalism’ stresses a relativised opposition between interior and exterior by founding an exuberant de-colonial polysemy that challenges the stigma of savagery and barbarism with which classical historiography has characterised the New World. The cannibal cleavage of texts published after the year 2000 – texts singularly crossed by the migration experience – plays with a culture of knowledge and flavour, eating and being-eaten.

scholarly journals Coisas Obscuras: representações de meninas do ensino médio sobre lesbianidade(s)

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Talita Gonçalves MEDEIROS ◽  
Marcio CAETANO
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Southern Region ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
Critical Position ◽  
High School Girls ◽  
School Girls ◽  
School Space ◽  
The Way

O presente estudo possuiu como objetivo interrogar e compreender as representações sobre a(s) lesbianidade(s) produzidas por estudantes de uma escola agrícola da região sul do estado do Rio Grande do Sul. A pesquisa, orientada pelos Estudos Culturais Lesbofeministas, produziu seus dados a partir de “rodas de conversas” complementadas por anotações no “diário de campo”. Partindo das análises dos dados, podemos apontar que as estudantes possuem visões e entendimentos conceituais a respeito da(s) lesbianidade(s) e que esses já possuem um posicionamento crítico frente à forma como a mulher é retratada na sociedade. Entretanto, a temática “lesbianidade(s)” – não diferente da forma como as demais mulheres são retratadas na escola-, é atravessada pela invisibilidade histórico-escolar e quando visível, ancora-se em representações mediadas somente pela violência.Lesbianidade(s). Escola. Diálogo. Lesbofeminismo.Obscure Things: representations of high school girls about lesbianity(s)AbstractThe present study aimed to interrogate and understand the representations about the lesbianity (ies) produced by students of an agricultural school in the southern region of Rio Grande do Sul state. The research, guided by the Lesbofeminist Cultural Studies, produced its data through "circles of conversation" supplemented by notes of the "field diary". From the analysis of the data, we can point out that the students have conceptual visions and understandings about the lesbian(s) and that they already have a critical position regarding the way in which the woman is portrayed in society. However, the theme of "lesbianity (ies)" - not unlike the way other women are represented in school - is crossed by the invisibility at school space and, when visible, is anchored in representations mediated only by violence.Lesbianity (s).School. Dialogue. Lesbofeminismo

Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy (1982)

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 431-439
Author(s):  
Stephen Best
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Walter Ong ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Walter Ong published Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word in 1982, synthesizing his career-long concern with the impact of the shift from orality to literacy on various cultures. Scholars of African American literary and cultural studies were coming to redefine their field around the terms orality and literacy at around the same time that Ong published his book; but where Ong stressed historical change or the fall from orality to literacy, African Americanists tended to accent their mutual mediation. This article explores the way that African Americanists, in stressing mediation, return orality and literacy to the concerns of Ong’s ostensible field: media studies.

scholarly journals Beaches as borders and Beaches overcoming Borders: An Appeal of the Humanities for more Humanity

Oceánide ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 72-77
Author(s):  
Peter Osterreid
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Ivory Tower ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
High Culture ◽  
Practical Impact ◽  
The Way

This article investigates the cultural potential of the beach as a concrete place, a meaning-laden space, and finally as a metaphorical setting of idealistic vision. In conjunction with the politically heated dimension of beaches as borders to fugitives, the relevance that the humanities play in society is discussed placing particular emphasis on the role of cultural studies. Quite a number of cultural products both from the canon of high culture and from popular culture reaching wider audiences will be examined in the way they centre on the pivot of the beach. Cultural studies, it will turn out, is able to significantly contribute to discussions on morals and, beyond that, to the question of what attitudes in Western societies can be considered ethically acceptable. Thus, in contrast to many other academic disciplines, cultural studies is closely linked to reality and politics so that it is a discipline away from the ivory tower of academia because it deals with life and, most importantly, can have a practical impact on it.

scholarly journals Exploding the Cancer Myths: Brian Lobel’s Narrative Performance Ball

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 147
Author(s):  
Yeliz Biber Vangolu
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Medical Condition ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
Personal Account ◽  
The Social ◽  
Narrative Performance ◽  
The Way

In his personal account of cancer, Ball (2003), the performance artist, Brian Lobel, intently refuses to succumb to the myths about the illness, challenging the cancer narratives that have traditionally been based on a discourse of heroism or martyrdom. While his performance is, at times, sensational with a keen focus on sexuality and a determination to produce humour out of a grave matter, they invite criticism for the way cancer has been perceived and presented as a medical condition and for the social stigma attached to the disease. This paper addresses the numerous ways in which Lobel challenges the assumptions, expectations and taboos regarding cancer, cancer patients and survivors by examining his strategies in the light of cultural studies on cancer and humour theories.

scholarly journals Golosina canibal 2.0

2018 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jimena Néspolo
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
New World ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Argentine Literature ◽  
Juan Jose Saer ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
The Way

 An analysis of the presence of the topic "cannibal" in recent Argentine literature. This article offers a reading of the novel El Entenado (1982) by Juan José Saer, observing the way in which it is inserted within the system of the author 's work and within the Argentinean literary canon. The Saerian heritage is resignified from the figure of cannibalism and its presence in cultural studies. It is a matter of thinking of "cannibalism" as a theme where the opposition between the interior and exterior is relativized by founding an exuberant de-colonial polysemy that challenges the stigma of savagery and barbarism with which classical historiography has characterized the New World. The cannibal cleavage of texts published after the year 2000 -texts singularly crossed by the experience of the migration- makes dance in the pendulum of the culture the knowledge and the flavor, the eating and the being-eaten.

scholarly journals Ideology, Humanity, and Freedom in Ha Jin’s Waiting

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-21
Author(s):  
Hasnul Insani Djohar
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
Social Disorder ◽  
Global Capital ◽  
Dominant Society ◽  
Military Institution ◽  
Totalitarian Regimes ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Way

This paper examines how Ha Jin’s Waiting challenges the Maoist communist regime by depicting the protagonist, Lin, as struggling to fight for his rights to live freely. The Maoist regime successfully establishes “normalizing power” in a society to lead the protagonist to believe that the goal of his life is mainly for working hard for the military institution and the regime, instead of establishing his freedom. As a result, Lin loses his senses of humans, such as love and empathy, and lives with selfishness and ignorance as to the way the Maoist discourse teaches him through Mao’s red book. By engaging with cultural studies, this paper investigates how Jin’s Waiting challenges Maoist ideology by both celebrating and critiquing the idea of capitalism, which likely perpetuates communism. Thus, this paper discovers how Ha Jin’s novel challenges communist ideologies and totalitarian rules by illuminating social disorder and loses of sense of humanity. Indeed, individuals live under oppression and they are like a prisoner who is suffering from being judged and punished by totalitarian regimes and dominant society. Hence, the significance of this research is to help to reduce any forms of oppression experienced by many ethnic-Americans who have suffered from the totalitarian rulers that have ruled society, especially in the era of communism, colonialism, and global capital transnationalism.

scholarly journals Conservative Islam Turn or Popular Islam? an Analysis of the Film Ayat-ayat Cinta

2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-128
Author(s):  
Lukman Hakim
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Way

This paper offers a film and cultural studies analysis of the Indonesian religious film Ayat-ayat Cinta. It examines the way in which the film represents Islam in the context of the globalisation of the media industry, the wider cultural transformation and religious context in Indonesia. This paper argues that the film Ayat-ayat Cinta represents “popular Islam”, which resulted from the interaction between the santri religious variants and the film industry, capitalism, market forces and popular culture in Indonesia. Santri religious variants in this film are rooted in traditionalist, fundamentalist, modernist, and liberal Islam in Indonesia, and those Islamic groups which have undergone a process of conformity with capitalism and popular culture. As a result, the representation of Islam in this film is pluralist, tolerant, and fashionable.

The Birmingham School of Cultural Studies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Johnson Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
New Left ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Stuart Hall ◽  
The Many ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Way

The Birmingham School of Cultural Studies refers to the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS), which was housed at Birmingham University from 1964 to 2002. The shorthand “Birmingham School” refers to a site, a moment, a movement, and a method. Emerging alongside other intellectual and activist currents in the British New Left, it posed a radical democratic alternative to traditional higher education and the available methods and methodologies of communication and media studies. Centre researchers expanded the possible objects worthy of critical academic research—arguing it was imperative that we look at the products of the mass media or so-called popular arts—as well as the means through which those objects and their potential effects were understood. Central to the methodological approach espoused by CCCS scholars is the need to look at the way the meanings and values of cultural texts are articulated to and through a “cultural circuit”: A text emerges from a context, and its meanings are contingent on the frameworks of ideology and experience of both that context and audiences that read it. Under the leadership of Stuart Hall, and then Richard Johnson, the CCCS developed pathbreaking research into cultural politics more generally, looking at the way identities and subjectivity were developed, reinforced, and lived, and intersecting with emergent theories from and research in postcolonialism, poststructuralism, nationalism, feminism, gender and sexuality studies, science and technology studies, studies of race and ethnicity, and a variety of other subfields in the humanities and social sciences. Despite the closure of the Centre, these tendencies and emphases remain important, especially to the many academic monographs, journals, and conferences in cultural studies each year.

scholarly journals Dance Studies/Cultural Studies

2009 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gay Morris
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Social Intervention ◽  
Dance Studies ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Critical Moment ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Way

In the mid-1990s several articles appeared in the dance literature calling for a greater alliance between dance scholarship and cultural studies. More recently, dance scholarship has come to be labeled “dance studies,” suggesting that such a link has occurred. Since interdisciplinarity is a key element of cultural studies, it is appropriate to investigate interdisciplinarity in dance studies by examining dance's relationship to cultural studies. This genealogical task, though, is not as straightforward as it might seem. Cultural studies' relationship to the disciplines has not been stable over its half-century of existence. Interdisciplinarity, tied so closely to cultural studies' idea of its own freedom and political mission, has proved difficult to hang onto—so difficult, in fact, that today some consider the field to be in crisis. To complicate matters further, dance and cultural studies developed along different paths; consequently, interdisciplinarity within dance studies is not always conceptualized in the way it is in cultural studies. Cultural studies was initially meant as a political and social intervention that purposefully avoided creating theories of its own, while dance research, long tied to the disciplines of history and anthropology, not only adopted many of the theories and methods of these fields but also developed theories and methods of its own as an aid in analyzing the human body in motion. Where and how, then, do dance and cultural studies meet on the grounds of interdisciplinarity? This is not an idle question; cultural studies has had a major impact on arts and humanities scholarship, and as cultural studies reaches a critical moment of reexamination, new questions arise as to the role of interdisciplinarity, both in cultural studies and in the fields it has so profoundly influenced.

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