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Understanding Culture offers an accessible and comprehensive overview of the field of cultural studies whilst also proposing a different way of `doing' cultural studies. It focuses on the ways in which cultural objects and practices serve as both a means of ordering people's lives and as markers of that ordering. The book reviews the state of the discipline of cultural studies and suggests a new theoretical and methodological orientation drawing on the work of: Foucault; scepticism, Wittgenstein; Harvey Sacks and John Law; uses insights from a variety of sources to examine the complex ways in which meanings are manufactured as lives are ordered in particular social settings: personal life, education, health, the city and law; and pre
Introduction: Cultural Studies with Just a Hint of Foucault
Introduction: Cultural Studies with Just a Hint of Foucault
Yes, this is another Cultural Studies book influenced by Michel Foucault, but he does not block the sun. He may pop his head up occasionally in the following pages, and his ghost trips across our words, no doubt about it, but Foucault here is, in the main, a quiet background figure. We suggest this ‘quiet background’ Foucaultian influence on our book has three aspects.
First, we owe a debt to some existing books that use Foucault in one way or another to address, at least in some respects, the ground of the discipline, or disciplines, or inter-or intra-or anti-disciplinary groupings, known as Cultural Studies. The debt is more and ...
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