Political Studies and Cultural Studies

Politics ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Finlayson ◽  
James Martin
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Clear Distinction ◽  
The Political ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
Political Studies

This article reviews the contribution of the discipline of Cultural Studies to that of Politics. It suggests that the study of popular culture opens up the realm of politics in a way that challenges the traditional boundaries of the discipline. By treating culture as ‘ideology’, Cultural Studies directs attention to the sites in which meaning is produced and contested. This in turn undermines any clear distinction between politics and culture and consequently demands a broader approach to ‘the political’ than has traditionally been taken by political science.

Fighting for the Future

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Star Trek ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Political ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Moment

The first two seasons of the television series Star Trek: Discovery, the newest instalment in the long-running and influential Star Trek franchise, received media and academic attention from the moment they arrived on screen. Discovery makes several key changes to Star Trek’s well-known narrative formulae, particularly the use of more serialized storytelling, appealing to audiences’ changed viewing habits in the streaming age – and yet the storylines, in their topical nature and the broad range of socio-political issues they engage with, continue in the political vein of the franchise’s megatext. This volume brings together eighteen essays and one interview about the series, with contributions from a variety of disciplines including cultural studies, literary studies, media studies, fandom studies, history and political science. They explore representations of gender, sexuality and race, as well as topics such as shifts in storytelling and depictions of diplomacy. Examining Discovery alongside older entries into the Star Trek canon and tracing emerging continuities and changes, this volume will be an invaluable resource for all those interested in Star Trek and science fiction in the franchise era.

scholarly journals Paul Ricoeur, visual hermeneutics and political science: An ‘incompatible relation’?

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-26
Author(s):  
Nikos Kaplantzis
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Critical Hermeneutics ◽  
The Political ◽  
Visual Theory ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
Political Studies ◽  
Iconic Image ◽  
Opening And Closing ◽  
The Relationship

As a response to calls for political research to do more than refer to visuals and for visual research to focus on the political, this paper discusses a Ricoeurian narrative-communicative action approach to the construction of political space applied to images, even though, until today, very little attention has been given to Ricoeur’s conception of the relationship between hermeneutics and visual theory. An updated reworking of Paul Ricoeur's critical hermeneutics offers a better basis for reconstructing visual (political) studies by sharpening the focus on the ideas of embodied imaginary and iconic augmentation. Ricoeur offers an explicit connection to visual political studies in the direction of pointing out the ways in which images, scenes, and narratives attempt to convey ideology, balancing a hermeneutics of suspicion with a hermeneutics of faith, illustrating the aporias, the opening and closing of possibilities from iconic image to ideograph and identity.

scholarly journals Cultura popular, um conceito em construção: da tradição dos românticos e folcloristas à emergência política dos estudos culturais * Popular culture, a concept in construction: from the tradition of romantics and folklorists to the political emergence of cultural studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 238
Author(s):  
Ruben Maciel Franklin ◽  
Antonio Sérgio Pontes Aguiar
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultura Popular

O que é a cultura popular? Os autores partem dessa pergunta para explorar a formação do conceito de cultura como um problema analítico, político e social. Utilizando-se de uma discussão sociológica e histórica sobre a invenção da “cultura popular” no decorrer do século XIX, os autores percorrem os sentidos que esta foi adquirindo pela leitura dos folcloristas, como um meio de resguardar hábitos e costumes que diferiam da cultura erudita. Depois disso, explora-se o ambiente da Inglaterra do Pós-Segunda Guerra, intervindo em como o conceito de cultura popular foi sendo rearticulado de modo a percorrer a identidade das classes trabalhadoras e mesmo propor o advento de uma nova disciplina: os Estudos Culturais.

scholarly journals CONSTRUCTIVISM GOES QUANTUM: THE APPROACH REFORM

2016 ◽  
pp. 7-13
Author(s):  
T. A. Alekseeva ◽  
A. P. Mineev ◽  
A. V. Fenenko ◽  
I. D. Loshkariov ◽  
B. I. Ananyev
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ir Theory ◽  
Analytical Philosophy ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Political Studies ◽  
The Way

The article deals with the evolution of constructivist paradigm of international relations. The issue is of utmost importance in terms of the search for theoretical alternatives in the IR thinking. First, we are giving basic introduction of constructivism on the basis of historical and hermeneutical approaches. There is no doubt that the paradigm has faced different theoretical challenges and a lot of critics which has to be addressed. The authors reconsider some constructivist theories and notions in Alexander Wendt's works and the way Wendt tried to reinforce and reassure the constructivist paradigm. This allows us to claim that quantum turn in recent Wendt's work was almost inevitable. Second, the article attempts to answer a question whether the fundamentals of quantum physics are relevant when speaking about social and political processes. At first glance, quantum physics approach has nothing in common with the theory of politics and the theory of international relations. However, there are some grounds to believe that certain problem issues of the political science and IR theory are not deadlocks. In the second part of the article we use the unleashed and underestimated potential of analytical philosophy. To conclude, we believe that today there are more questions than answers but the quantum paradigm is expected to be the important part of the political studies and IR theory as well.

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