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This timely volume provides a framework for understanding the cultural turn in terms of the classical legacy, contemporary cultural theory, and cultural analysis. It reveals the significance of Marxist humanism, Georg Simmel, the Frankfurt School, Stuart Hall, and the Birmingham School, Giddens, Bauman, Foucault, Bourdieu and Baudrillard. Readers receive a dazzling, critical survey of some of the primary figures in the field. However, the book is much more than a rough guide tour through the ‘great figures’ in the field. Through an analysis of specific problems, such as transculturalism, transnationalism, feminism, popular music, and cultural citizenship, it demonstrates the relevance of cultural sociology in elucidating some of the key questions of our time.
Reconceptualizing Representation and Identity: Issues of Transculturalism and Transnationalism in the Intersection of Feminism and Cultural Sociology
Reconceptualizing Representation and Identity: Issues of Transculturalism and Transnationalism in the Intersection of Feminism and Cultural Sociology
Introduction
Issues of representation and the construction of identity can be seen as organizing principles for exploring intersecting debates in the area of feminism, sociology and cultural studies. Many feminists have made an intellectual shift from the disciplinary constraints of sociology to the unapologetically interdisciplinary terrain of cultural studies. The interdisciplinary matrix of cultural studies has provided a framework within which feminist, postmodernist and postcolonial theoretical debates have coalesced. The trandisciplinary context of cultural studies incorporating sociology, critical ethnography, film, literature and cultural politics has provided a dynamic, intellectual nexus for those working ...
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