Cultural studies : theory and practice /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Barker, Chris, 1955-
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : SAGE, 2012.
Edition:	4th ed.
Subjects:	Culture. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Note continued: Different racisms
The concept of ethnicity
Ethnicity and power
National Identities
The nation-state
Narratives of unity
The imagined community
Criticisms of Anderson
Diaspora and Hybrid Identities
The idea of diaspora
The Black Atlantic
Types of hybridity
The hybridity of all culture
Hybridity and British Asians
From s̀ojourners to settlers'
Switching cultural codes
Multiple identities
Intersections and boundary crossings
Weaving the patterns of identity
Race, Ethnicity, Representation
Savages and slaves
Plantation images
The criminalization of black Britons
Orientalism
Television and the representation of race and ethnicity
Whites only
Stereotyped representations
Signs of change
Menace to society
Assimilationist strategies
The ambiguities of representation
The new ghetto aesthetic
EastEnders
I'll Fly Away
Race and the Internet
The question of positive images
Postcolonial literature
Models of postcolonial literature
Domination and subordination
Hybridization and creolization
Summary
9. Sex, Subjectivity and Representation
Feminism and Cultural Studies
Patriarchy, equality and difference
Liberal and socialist feminism
Difference feminism
Black and postcolonial feminism
Poststructuralist feminism
Postfeminism
Sex, Gender and Identity
The science of sex
Women's difference
Irigaray and womanspeak
The social construction of sex and gender
Sex as a discursive construct
Sexed Subjects
Foucault: subjectivity and sexuality
Sex and the discursive construction of the body
The feminist critique of Foucault
Ethics and agency
Psychoanalysis, feminism and sexed subjectivity
Regulating sexuality
Chodorow: masculinity and femininity
Phallocentric psychoanalysis
Julia Kristeva: the semiotic and the symbolic
Judith Butler: between Foucault and psychoanalysis
The performativity of sex
Identification and abjection
Drag: recasting the symbolic
The discipline and the fiction of identity
Men and Masculinity
Problematic masculinity
The roots of male addiction
The betrayal of the modern man
Gender, Representation and Media Culture
Images of women
The bitch, the witch and the matriarch
Affirmation and denial
Women of Bollywood
The Taming of the Shrew
The problem of accuracy
Subject positions and the politics of representation
The slender body
The independent mother
Madonna's performance
Raunch culture
Gender in cyberspace
The question of audiences
Summary
10. Television, Texts and Audiences
Television as Text: News and Ideology
Putting reality together
The manipulative model
The pluralist model
The hegemonic model
Agenda setting
Gulf War news
Presentational styles
Social Media and News Reporting
Changes in conventional media
Twittering in Iran
Social media and the US presidential election
Comedy news
Television as Text: Soap Opera as Popular Television
Soap opera as a genre
Women and soap opera
Soap opera and the public sphere
The Active Audience
Encoding
decoding
The Nationwide audience
Watching Dallas
Online fans
Fandom
Ideology and resistance
Television Audiences and Cultural Identity
The export of meaning
Localizing the global
Audiences, space and identity
Family space and global space
The Globalization of Television
The political economy of global television
Synergy and television ownership
Deregulation and reregulation
Global Electronic Culture
Media imperialism
Regionalization
The global and the local
Global postmodern culture
Consumer culture
Hyperreality and TV simulations
Creative consumption
When TV'S Not on the Telly
Summary
11. Digital Media Culture
Digital Media
Digital divides
Cyberutopia
Information bomb
Cyberspace and Democracy
The democratic vision
Intertextual hypertext
Web 2.0 participation
Ẁe can be heroes'
Remix culture
Cyberactivism
Meme wars
The limitations to cyber democracy
Cyber capitalism
Intellectual property
Creative Commons
Democracy in the balance
Computer Gaming
Research paths
Addicted to games
Gaming and identity
Cyberspace race
Playing multiple identities
Cyberfeminism
Cyborg manifesto
Representation and regulation
Women on the Internet
The Global Economy of Cyberspace
The information economy
Private space
Convergence and the mobile phone
The mobile phone
Digital imperialism
Summary
12. Cultural Space and Urban Place
Space and Place in Contemporary Theory
Time-geography
Time-space
Space and place
The social construction of place
Gendered space
The multiple spaces of Lagos
Cities as Places
Rural cultural studies
The Chicago School
Criticisms of urban studies
Political Economy and the Global City
Capitalism and the urban environment
Global cities
The post-industrial global city
The Symbolic Economy of Cities
Cultural economics
The creative industries
The rise of the creative class
Privatizing public space
The public culture of private elites
Disney: fantasy and surveillance
The Postmodern City
Postmodern urbanization
Urban change: suburbs and edge cities
Urban unrest
Fortress LA
The excitement of the city
Cyberspace and the City
Electronic urban networks
The informational city
The virtual city
Electronic homes in global space
The City as Text
Classified spaces
The city which is not one
Summary
13. Youth, Style and Resistance
The Emergence of Youth
Youth as moratorium
Youth as a cultural classification
The ambiguity of youth
Trouble and fun
Youth Subcultures
Subterranean values
Magical solutions
Homologies
Motorbike boys
Resistance through rituals
The double articulation of youth
Skinheads and the reinvention of class
Signs of style
Critiques of subcultural theory
Youthful Difference: Class, Gender, Race
The self-damnation of the working class
Gendered youth
Another space for girls
Racialized youth
The artifice of black hair
Space: A Global Youth Culture?
Rapping and raving around the globe
Syncretic global youth
Global Youth Online
Japanese anime fandom
Pro-ana online communities
After Subcultures
Media spotlights
Media devils and subcultural hero(in)es
Postmodernism: the end of authenticity
Postmodern bricoleurs
Claims to authenticity
Distinctions of taste
Creative Consumption
Common culture
Resistance Revisited
Resistance is conjunctural
Resistance as defence
Inside the whale
Hiding in the light
Tactics and strategies
Banality in cultural studies
Resistance: the normative stance of cultural critics
Summary
14. Cultural Politics and Cultural Policy
Cultural Studies and Cultural Politics
Naming as cultural politics
Cultural Politics: The Influence of Gramsci
Winning hegemony
The role of intellectuals
Cultural studies as a political project
Gramscian texts
The Cultural Politics of Difference
New languages of cultural politics
The politics of articulation
No class-belonging
The c̀ut' in language
Difference, Ethnicity and the Politics of Representation
Invisibility and namelessness
Positive images
Multiculturalism and anti-racism
The politics of representation
Difference, Citizenship and the Public Sphere
Habermas and the public sphere
The democratic tradition
Radical democracy
Questioning Cultural Studies
The critique of cultural populism
A multiperspectival approach
The circuit of culture
The Cultural Policy Debate
Redirecting the cultural studies project
Governmentality
Culture and power
Foucault or Gramsci?
Policy and the problem of values
Shifting the command metaphors of cultural studies
The horizon of the thinkable
Criticism and policy
Neo-Pragmatism and Cultural Studies
Pragmatism and cultural studies
Richard Rorty: politics without foundations
Anti-representationalism
Anti-foundationalism
Contingency, irony, solidarity
Truth as social commendation
Forging new languages
Prophetic pragmatism
Private identities and public politics
The implications of pragmatism for cultural studies
Summary.