CULTURAL STUDIES IN PRACTICE

By Jaafar Aksikas

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