Internationalizing Cultural Studies - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631236244 ISBN 13: 9780631236245

Publisher: WB, 2004

Synopsis

Internationalizing Cultural Studies is an unprecedented resource that introduces and consolidates cultural studies literature from diverse locales and intellectual traditions.

• Contains forty-four contemporary essays that introduce and pluralize cultural studies work from diverse locales and intellectual traditions
  
• Covers regions the world over, including Asia, Europe, and Africa
  
• Organizes material around key themes such as race and ethnicity, transnationalism, gender and sexual cultures, media production and consumption, urban life, popular practices, techno-cultures, and visual cultures
  
• Includes expert introductions from an international panel of editors, and facilitates customization of content for course use

About this title

Book Description:

Internationalizing Cultural Studies is an unprecedented resource that introduces and pluralizes cultural studies work from diverse locales and intellectual traditions. The anthology collects important writings from different regions of the world, with particular attention to transnationally transportable and contextually specific works in the field. The book clarifies how the active and proliferating practices of cultural studies in various regions of the world are taken up, circulated, used, valued, and taught. It is also a challenge to practitioners - in the West and beyond - to begin to discuss and use a broader canvas of work with a view to re-defining cultural studies as a truly global intellectual movement. Organized around key themes that frame disciplinary discussion - Race, Ethnicity, and Nation; Globalization/Transnationalism; Gender and Sexual Cultures; Media Production and Consumption; Cities and the Urban Imaginary; Popular Practices; Techno-cultures; Performing Cultures; and Visual Cultures - the anthology features ample introductory material by an expert group of editors, enabling teachers to customize their teaching according to regions of the world, key thinkers, and theoretical trends. By de-centering the field, Internationalizing Cultural Studies gives shape, for the first time in one volume, to a poly-vocal discipline from within and without.

From the Back Cover:

Internationalizing Cultural Studies is an unprecedented resource that introduces and consolidates existing key and important writings in cultural studies literature from different regions of the world. The editors have designed the readings to challenge practitioners in the West and beyond to redefine cultural studies as a truly global movement.

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• Contains 44 contemporary essays that introduce diverse intellectual traditions of cultural studies

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• Includes lively and accessible introductions from an international panel of expert editors

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• Features worldwide coverage, including Asia, Europe, and Africa

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• Organizes material around key themes to aid disciplinary discussion – including race and ethnicity, transnationalism, gender and sexual cultures, media production and consumption, urban life, popular practices, technocultures, and visual cultures

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• Offers shape – for the first time in one volume – to this complex and diverse field

About this edition

• Publisher: WB
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0631236244
• ISBN 13: 9780631236245
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 718
• Editor: Abbas Ackbar