Theorizing Culture (eBook, PDF)

An Interdisciplinary Critique After Postmodernism
Redaktion: Adam, Barbara; Allan, Stuart

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Produktbeschreibung

This highly original and timely volume engages scholars from the breadth of social science and the humanities to provide a critical perspective on cultural forms, practices and identities. It looks beyond the postmodern debate to reinstate the critical dimension in cultural analysis, providing a "student-friendly" introduction to key contemporary issues such as the body, AIDS, race, the environment and virtual reality.
Theorizing Culture is essential reading for undergraduate courses in cultural and media studies and sociology, and will have considerable appeal for students and scholars of critical theory, gender studies and the history of ideas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135366827
• Artikelnr.: 42831224

Autorenporträt

Barbara Adam, Stuart Allan

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Contributors
Theorizing culture: an introduction
Part I: Truth
reality and cultural critique
1. Culture
criticism and communal values: on the ethics of enquiry
2. Realism and its discontents: on the crisis of cultural representation in ethnographic texts
3. Reflexivity in academic culture
4. Theorizing the body's fictions
5. Culture
subjectivity and the real; or
psychoanalysis reading postmodernity
6. Adorno
Oakeshott and the voice of poetry
7. Representing AIDS: the textual politics of health discourse
8. News
truth and postmodernity: unravelling the will to facticity
Part II: Recasting cultural politics
9. The celebration of difference and the cultural politics of racism
10. Cultural studies
the university and the question of borders
11. Changing the culture of cultural studies
12. Nuclear family fall-out: postmodern family culture and the media
13. Remembering the future: the cultural study of memory
14. Imagining Nature: (re)constructions of the English countryside
15. Tyrell's Owl: the limits of the technological imagination in an epoch of hyperbolic discourse
16. Technological reality: cultured technology and technologized culture
17. The temporal landscape of global/izing culture and the paradox of postmodern futures
Index