CULTURAL STUDIES IN PRACTICE

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

Jaafar Aksikas is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Columbia College Chicago. He is the President of the Cultural Studies Association and the series editor of Cultural Studies and Marxism.