Jaafar Aksikas

Cultural Studies in Practice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Cultural Studies in Practice: Methods of Inquiry offers a guidebook to the central methods and methodologies in the field of contemporary Cultural Studies. It explores the central concepts and theories of the field and directly engages students with practice through classroom discussion, group work and short research projects. Topics covered include: The epistemological and methodological foundations of cultural studiesCombining methodologies in cultural studiesThe ethics of cultural researchSelf-reflexivity and autobiographyHistorical analysis and oral historyTextual analysisEthnography and fieldworkArchival Research Aimed at courses including Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature, American Studies, Popular Culture, Media Studies and much more it will enable advanced undergraduates and postgraduates to get to grips with the challenges of interdisciplinary research in this vibrant, challenging space.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield International
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2028
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783487318
• ISBN-10: 1783487313
• Artikelnr.: 47439931

Autorenporträt

By Jaafar Aksikas

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Cultural Studies: Radical Politics and the Analysis of the 'Social Whole'
2. The Place of Theory in Cultural Studies
3. The Uses of Critical, Materialist (Self)Reflexivity
4. The Uses and Challenges of a Multiplicity of Methods
5. Cultural Studies as Structural-Conjunctural Analysis
6. Cultural Studies as Radical Contextualism
7. The Ethical Dimensions of Cultural Research
8. The Research Process
9. Textual Analysis
10. People-Based Methods of Research
11. Critical Political Economy of Culture
Production-Based Approaches to Culture
12. Ideology Analysis
13. Materialist Dialectics
Conclusion
Further Reading
Bibliography
Index