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Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice de Chris Barker

Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice

Autor Chris Barker, Emma A. Jane
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 mai 2016

Descoperim în această a cincea ediție a volumului Cultural Studies un instrument pedagogic recalibrat, unde exercițiile aplicate și întrebările esențiale ghidează cititorul prin labirintul teoriei sociale contemporane. Studiile de caz propuse de Chris Barker și Emma A. Jane ancorează conceptele abstracte în realități imediate, explorând de la fenomenul fandom-ului anime și cultura remix, până la reprezentările de rasă și dinamica e-commerce-ului. Reținem că această ediție pune un accent deosebit pe ubiquitatea mediului digital, oferind grile de analiză pentru rețelele sociale și mecanismele de supraveghere moderne.

Structura cărții este organizată riguros, pornind de la fundamentele teoretice ale studiilor culturale — ideologie, reprezentare și discurs — și avansând spre complexitatea „cotiturii lingvistice” prin prisma lui Barthes, Derrida sau Foucault. Progresia editorială facilitează înțelegerea modului în care cultura înaltă și cea populară s-au întrepătruns, prăbușind granițele estetice tradiționale. Merită menționat că textul reușește să echilibreze moștenirea clasică a Școlii de la Birmingham cu teorii de ultimă oră, precum cele ale Donnei Haraway sau Judith Butler.

Această lucrare completează perspectiva oferită de Introducing Cultural Studies de Brian Longhurst, adăugând o analiză mult mai profundă a spațiului digital și a politicilor culturale actuale, pe care volumele introductive generale tind să le trateze succint. Față de alte contribuții ale lui Chris Barker, care includ lucrări de specialitate în psihologie clinică sau chiar enciclopedii tematice, Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice rămâne opera sa centrală în științele sociale, rafinată de-a lungul a două decenii pentru a răspunde exigențelor curriculare moderne.

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ISBN-13: 9781473919440
ISBN-10: 1473919444
Pagini: 760
Dimensiuni: 186 x 232 x 37 mm
Greutate: 1.47 kg
Ediția:Fifth Edition
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Sage Publications Ltd
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Este ghidul autoritar pentru orice student la sociologie, comunicare sau studii culturale. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere clară a modului în care cultura ne modelează identitatea și deciziile, beneficiind de un aparat critic actualizat ce include dezbaterile digitale recente. Este o resursă esențială pentru a naviga critic prin complexitatea societății contemporane, de la algoritmi la politici de gen.

Despre autor

Chris Barker este un cercetător cu o vastă experiență academică în cadrul University College London, specializat în intersecția dintre psihologie și sociologie. Expertiza sa în mediul universitar este reflectată în claritatea cu care expune teorii complexe în volumul Cultural Studies. Deși palmaresul său include și lucrări de popularizare a științei sau studii în psihologia clinică, Barker s-a impus la nivel internațional prin capacitatea de a sintetiza curente intelectuale diverse într-un discurs coerent. În această ediție, colaborează cu Emma A. Jane pentru a aduce o perspectivă proaspătă asupra fenomenelor digitale și a culturii populare.

Descriere scurtă

"This book presents a magisterial overview of Cultural Studies, and of studies of culture more broadly. It synthesizes a bewildering range of writers and ideas into a comprehensible narrative. It’s respectful to the history of ideas and completely cutting edge. I learned a lot – you will too."
- Professor Alan McKee, University of Technology Sydney  

"The role of culture in spatial, digital and political settings is a vital aspect of contemporary life. Barker and Jane provide an excellent introduction to Cultural Studies’ relationship to these core issues, both through a clear explanation of key concepts and thinkers, alongside well chosen examples and essential questions."
- Dr David O'Brien, Goldsmiths, University of London

With over 40,000 copies sold, Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice has been the indispensable guide to studying culture for generations of students. Here is everything students need to know, with all the key concepts, theories and thinkers in one comprehensive, authoritative yet accessible resource.

Teaching students the foundations of cultural studies - from ideology, representation and discourse to audiences, subcultures and cultural policy - this revised edition:
  • Fully explores the ubiquity of digital media culture, helping readers analyse issues surrounding social media, surveillance, cyber-activism and more
  • Introduces students to all the key thinkers they’ll encounter, from Stuart Hall and Michel Foucault to Judith Butler and Donna Haraway
  • Balances the classics with cutting edge theory, including case studies on e-commerce, the self-help industry, the transgender debate, and representations of race
  • Embraces popular culture in all of its diversity, from drag kings and gaming, to anime fandom and remix cultures
  • Is re-written throughout with a new co-author, making it a more enjoyable read than ever. 
Unmatched in coverage and used world-wide, this is the essential companion for all students of cultural studies, culture and society, media and cultural theory, popular culture and cultural sociology.

Recenzii

It is a pleasure to welcome a new edition of Cultural Studies, the most comprehensive, dispassionate and insightful treatment of this turbulent field. With Emma A. Jane’s additions, new topics are opened up with a sure-footed adventurousness that is both scholarly and thought-provoking, adding a distinctive update to a reliable resource.

This book presents a magisterial overview of Cultural Studies, and of studies of culture more broadly. It synthesises a bewildering range of writers and ideas into a comprehensible narrative. It’s respectful to the history of ideas and completely cutting edge. I learned a lot – you will too.
The role of culture in spatial, digital and political settings is a vital aspect of contemporary life. Barker and Jane provide an excellent introduction to Cultural Studies’ relationship to these core issues, both through a clear explanation of key concepts and thinkers, alongside well chosen examples and essential questions.
The 5th edition of Cultural Studies by Chris Barker and Emma A. Jane has been carefully and reflectively updated to keep abreast of the ongoing kaleidoscopic changes in culture and cultural theory. Particularly noteworthy is the heavily updated chapter on digital media and the section on digital youth culture, where new terms and theories are presented. The book is very pedagogical in its use of bullet-points, summaries, and questions which provoke critical reflection. I fully endorse this new edition of the book and warmly recommend it as an extremely valuable teaching and learning resource!

Cuprins

PART ONE: CULTURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Cultural Studies
Concerning this Book
The Parameters of Cultural Studies
Key Concepts in Cultural Studies
The Intellectual Strands of Cultural Studies
The New Cultural Studies Project
Central Problems in Cultural Studies
Questions of Methodology
Chapter 2: Questions of Culture and Ideology
Culture with a Capital C: The Great and the Good in the Literary Tradition
Culture is Ordinary
Richard Hoggart: The Uses of Literacy
Edward Thompson: The Making of the English Working Class
Raymond Williams and Cultural Materialism
High Culture/ Low Culture: Aesthetics and the Collapse of Boundaries
Culture and the Social Formation
The Question of Ideology
Chapter 3: Culture, Meaning, Knowledge: The Linguistic Turn in Cultural Studies
Barthes and Mythology
Derrida: Textuality and Differance
Foucault: Discourse, Practice and Power
Post-Marxism and the Discursive Construction of the 'Social'
Language and Psychoanalysis: Lacan
Language as Use: Wittgenstein and Rorty
Discourse and the Material
Chapter 4: Biology, the Body and Culture
The Problem of Reductionism
The Capabilities of Science
The Cultured Body
Genetic Engineering
The Evolved Body of Biology
Evolutionary Culture
Biology and Culture: The Case of Emotions
Meme Theory
PART TWO: THE CHANGING CONTEXT OF CULTURAL STUDIES
Chapter 5: A New World Disorder?
Economy, Technology and Social Class
Globalization
The State, Politics and New Social Movements
Chapter 6: Enter Postmodernism
Defining the Terms
Modernism and Culture
Modern and Postmodern Knowledge
The Promise of Postmodernism (or Modernity as an unfinished Project?)
Postmodern Culture
After Postmodernism
PART THREE: SITES OF CULTURAL STUDIES
Chapter 7: Issues of Subjectivity and Identity
Subjectivity and Identity
The Fracturing of Identity
Agency and the Politics of Identity
Anti-Essentialism, Feminism and the Politics of Identity
Chapter 8: Ethnicity, Race and Nation
Race and Ethnicity
National Identities
Diaspora and Hybrid Identities
Race, Ethnicity and Representation
Chapter 9: Sex, Subjectivity and Representation
Feminism and Cultural Studies
Sex, Gender and Identity
Sexed Subjects
Men and Masculinity
Gender, Representation and Media Culture
Chapter 10: Television, Texts and Audiences
Television Today
Television as Text: News and Ideology
Social Media and News Reporting
Television as Text: Soap Opera as Popular Televsion
Television Storytelling in the Twenty-First Century
The Active Audience
Television Audiences and Cultural Identity
The Globalization of Televsion
Global Electronic Culture
When TV isn't on Television
Chapter 11: Digital Media Culture
A Digital Revolution
Digital Media 101
Digital Divides
Cyberspace and Democracy
The Cultural Politics of Information
The Global Information Economy
Chapter 12: Cultural Space and Urban Place
Space and Place in Contemporary Theory
Cities as Places
Political Economy and the Global City
The Symbolic Economy of Cities
The Postmodern City
Cyberspace and the City
The City as Text
Chapter 13: Youth, Style and Resistance
The Emergence of Youth
Youth Subcultures
Youthful Difference: Class, Gender and Race
Space: A Global Youth Culture?
Global Youth Online
After Subcultures
Creative Consumption
Resistance Revisited
Digital Youth Culture
Chapter 14: Cultural Politics and Cultural Policy
Cultural Studies and Cultural Politics
Cultural Politic: The Influence of Gramsci
The Cultural Politics of Difference
Difference, Ethnicity and the Politics of Representation
Difference, Citizenship and the Public Sphere
Questioning Cultural Studies
The Cultural Policy Debate
Neo-Pragmatism and Cultural Studies
GLOSSARY

Notă biografică

Chris Barkeris a teacher and researcher with over 25 years experience. He has worked in a number of schools and universities in both England and Australia. He is currently Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia. Chris is the author of six previous books that are linked together by an interest in culture, meaning and communication. At present he is exploring questions of emotion in contemporary cultural life.