Cultural Theory

Four-Volume Set
ISBN: 978-1-84860-705-7
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, 1648 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 3210 g

Reihe: Sage Benchmarks in Culture and Society

This four volume collection brings together papers from a range of different journals from different fields, sub-disciplines and disciplines that address the central problem of the relation between culture and society. In doing so, it frames understandings of experience, text, meaning, power, stratification, identity, representation, practice, discourse, materiality, image, technology, and the many other concepts and categories in the context of this fundamental interrelationship. Although the themes of culture and society provide the broad parameters of these four volumes, Cultural Theory makes visible some of the different objects of theoretical discourse that different schools of thought and theoretical paradigms have thrown before us. The four volumes traverse the disciplines of, amongst others, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, literary theory, media and communication studies, and science and technology studies, to provide a sense of the development and extension of cultural theory from initial and longstanding questions about power and agency, ordinary and popular cultural practice, and representation to ones about the body, sensory experience and identity to the changing natural and built environment and questions about global humanity and justice to developments in the global cultural economy concerning information, technology and value. Throughout this collection, the editor offers a coherent, complex, and multiply inflected narrative which is both grounded in the substantive histories of the field and oriented to some of its most exciting and forward looking ideas and prospects.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oswell, David

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

VOLUME 1: LEGACIES AND INNOVATIONS
Beginnings
The Uses of Literacy and the Cultural Turn - Stuart Hall
Base and Superstructure in Marxist Theory - Raymond Williams
Orientalism Reconsidered - Edward Said
Culture and Communication: Toward an ethnographic critique of media consumption in the transnational media system - Ien Ang
Useful Culture - Tony Bennett
Neoliberal Newspeak - Pierre Bourdieu and Loïc Wacquant
Clifford Geertz and the Strong Program: The human sciences and cultural sociology - Jeffrey C. Alexander
Power and Agency
The Problem of Ideology: Marxism without guarantees - Stuart Hall
The Orthopsychic Subject: Film theory and the reception of Lacan - Joan Copjec
Post-Marxism without Apologies - Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe
Political Power beyond the State: Problematics of government - Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose
Power after Hegemony: Cultural studies in mutation - Scott Lash
Representation, Popular Culture, and Everyday Life
Fiction and Its Phantoms: A reading of Freud's Das Unheimliche (The "Uncanny") - Héléne Cixous
After Representation - Ian Hunter
Too-blue: Colour-patch for an expanded empiricism - Brian Massumi
The Aristocracy of Culture - Pierre Bourdieu
On the Oppositional Practices of Everyday Life - Michel de Certeau
VOLUME 2: IDENTITY, EXPERIENCE AND BODY
Collectives and Classification
The Social Space and the Genesis of Groups - Pierre Bourdieu
Sexual Difference and Collective Identities: The New Global Constellation - Seyla Benhabib
The Commitment to Theory - Homi Bhabha
Humans, Animals, Machines - Kate Soper
The Gendered Ontology of Multitude - Mary Hawkesworth
Can Immanence Explain Social Struggles? - Ernesto Laclau
Race Ends Here - Paul Gilroy
Identity, Style, and Performance
Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An essay in phenomenology and feminist theory - Judith Butler
Femininity as Performance - Valerie Walkerdine
Skin Head Sex Thing: Racial difference and the homoerotic imaginary - Kobena Mercer
The Toilet Paper: Femininity, class and mis-recognition - Beverley Skeggs
On Ethics and Feminism: Reflecting on Levinas' ethics of non-(in)difference - Vikki Bell
On 'The Necessity and "Impossibility" of Identities': The politics and ethics of 'new ethnicities' - Brett St Louis
Bodies, Objects and Experiencing the World
Feminism, Film Theory and the Bachelor Machines - Constance Penley
Social Cinema Scenes - Nirmal Puwar
The History of Sensibilities: Of the standard of taste in mid-eighteenth century England and the circulation of smells in post-revolutionary France - David Howes and Marc Lalonde
What if it didn't All Begin and End with Containment? Toward a leaky sense of self - Erin Manning
Getting Real: Technoscientific practices and the materialization of reality - Karen Barad
The Nature of Prozac - Mariam Fraser
A Relativistic Account of Einstein's Relativity - Bruno Latour
VOLUME 3: ENVIRONMENT AND GLOBAL HUMANITY
Spaces and Environments
Politics and Space/Time - Doreen Massey
Spaces of Identity - David Morley and Kevin Robins
The Political Mobilization of Nature in Seventeenth-Century French Formal Gardens - Chandra Mukerji
Testing Powers of Engagement: Green Living Experiments, the Ontological Turn and the Undoability of Involvement - Noortje Marres
Technological Zones - Andrew Barry
Urbanisation
European Cities, the Informational Society, and the Global Economy - Manuel Castells
The Urbanization of Empire: Megacities and the laws of chaos - Mike Davis
People as Infrastructure: Intersecting fragments in Johannesburg - Abdul Maliq Simone
Ordering Insecurity: Social Polarization and the Punitive Upsurge - Loïc Wacquant
Cosmopolitan Knowledge and the Production and Consumption of Sexualized Space: Manchester's gay village - Jon Binnie and Beverley Skeggs
Urbanism and City Spaces in the Work

Über Autor(innen)

Oswell, David
David Oswell is Director of Research in the internationally renowned Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of Pleasure Principles: Explorations in Politics, Sexuality and Ethics (Lawrence & Wishart, 1993), Television, Childhood and the Home: A History of the Making of the Child Television Audience in Britain (Oxford University Press, 2002), Culture and Society: An Introduction to Cultural Studies (SAGE, 2006), The Sociology of Childhood (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) and various articles in academic journals and edited collections. His current research is focused on culture, governmentality, and the built, natural and immaterial environment.