Cultural Studies

Chris Barker is 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.Emma A. Jane is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is currently involved in two major research projects: one on gendered cyberhate, and another on the ethics of cognitive enhancement or ‘smart drugs’. Prior to commencing her academic career, Emma spent nearly 25 years working in the Australian print, electronic, and on-line media. She has written seven previous books including a novel, Deadset, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Asia and the South Pacific for Best First Novel in 1997.

• PART ONE: CULTURE AND CULTURAL STUDIESChapter 1: An Introduction to Cultural StudiesConcerning this BookThe Parameters of Cultural StudiesKey Concepts in Cultural StudiesThe Intellectual Strands of Cultural StudiesThe New Cultural Studies ProjectCentral Problems in Cultural StudiesQuestions of MethodologyChapter 2: Questions of Culture and IdeologyCulture with a Capital C: The Great and the Good in the Literary TraditionCulture is OrdinaryRichard Hoggart: The Uses of LiteracyEdward Thompson: The Making of the English Working ClassRaymond Williams and Cultural MaterialismHigh Culture/ Low Culture: Aesthetics and the Collapse of BoundariesCulture and the Social FormationThe Question of IdeologyChapter 3: Culture, Meaning, Knowledge: The Linguistic Turn in Cultural StudiesBarthes and MythologyDerrida: Textuality and DifferanceFoucault: Discourse, Practice and PowerPost-Marxism and the Discursive Construction of the ′Social′Language and Psychoanalysis: LacanLanguage as Use: Wittgenstein and RortyDiscourse and the MaterialChapter 4: Biology, the Body and CultureThe Problem of ReductionismThe Capabilities of ScienceThe Cultured BodyGenetic EngineeringThe Evolved Body of BiologyEvolutionary CultureBiology and Culture: The Case of EmotionsMeme TheoryPART TWO: THE CHANGING CONTEXT OF CULTURAL STUDIESChapter 5: A New World Disorder?Economy, Technology and Social ClassGlobalizationThe State, Politics and New Social MovementsChapter 6: Enter PostmodernismDefining the TermsModernism and CultureModern and Postmodern KnowledgeThe Promise of Postmodernism (or Modernity as an unfinished Project?)Postmodern CultureAfter PostmodernismPART THREE: SITES OF CULTURAL STUDIESChapter 7: Issues of Subjectivity and IdentitySubjectivity and IdentityThe Fracturing of IdentityAgency and the Politics of IdentityAnti-Essentialism, Feminism and the Politics of IdentityChapter 8: Ethnicity, Race and NationRace and EthnicityNational IdentitiesDiaspora and Hybrid IdentitiesRace, Ethnicity and RepresentationChapter 9: Sex, Subjectivity and RepresentationFeminism and Cultural StudiesSex, Gender and IdentitySexed SubjectsMen and MasculinityGender, Representation and Media CultureChapter 10: Television, Texts and AudiencesTelevision TodayTelevision as Text: News and IdeologySocial Media and News ReportingTelevision as Text: Soap Opera as Popular TelevsionTelevision Storytelling in the Twenty-First CenturyThe Active AudienceTelevision Audiences and Cultural IdentityThe Globalization of TelevsionGlobal Electronic CultureWhen TV isn′t on TelevisionChapter 11: Digital Media CultureA Digital RevolutionDigital Media 101Digital DividesCyberspace and DemocracyThe Cultural Politics of InformationThe Global Information EconomyChapter 12: Cultural Space and Urban PlaceSpace and Place in Contemporary TheoryCities as PlacesPolitical Economy and the Global CityThe Symbolic Economy of CitiesThe Postmodern CityCyberspace and the CityThe City as TextChapter 13: Youth, Style and ResistanceThe Emergence of YouthYouth SubculturesYouthful Difference: Class, Gender and RaceSpace: A Global Youth Culture?Global Youth OnlineAfter SubculturesCreative ConsumptionResistance RevisitedDigital Youth CultureChapter 14: Cultural Politics and Cultural PolicyCultural Studies and Cultural PoliticsCultural Politic: The Influence of GramsciThe Cultural Politics of DifferenceDifference, Ethnicity and the Politics of RepresentationDifference, Citizenship and the Public SphereQuestioning Cultural StudiesThe Cultural Policy DebateNeo-Pragmatism and Cultural StudiesGLOSSARY

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.