This chapter discusses the changing economic, social, and political context of cultural studies. It covers topics like the transition from Fordism to post-Fordism; the reconfiguration of social classes and rise of the service class; patterns of globalization and cultural flows; debates around cultural imperialism; new social movements and life politics; and the impacts of climate change and new technologies. The chapter examines how these shifts are challenging traditional concepts and creating a "new world disorder" for cultural studies to analyze.

1. Cultural Studies
Theory and Practice
5th Ed.
Part 2: The Changing Context of Cultural Studies
Chapter 5: A NEW WORLD DISORDER?
Chris Barker
Emma A. Jane
Presented by Dr. Pamela Hampton-Garland

2. Chapter 5: A New World Disorder? Continued
Economy, Technology and Social Class
Fordism and Keynesianism
Post-Fordism
Reorganizing Labour
Neo-Fordism
‘New Times’

3. Chapter 5: A New World Disorder? Continued
Post-industrial society and the reconfiguration
of class identities
The rise of the service class
Disorganized Capitalism
Organized Capitalism
Deconcentration and Deindustrialization
Patterns of Consumption
Post modernization

4. Chapter 5: A New World Disorder? Continued
The question of Determinization
Affluenza?
e-Capitalism, iCommerce and
Freelabour.com
Empowerment, Addiction and Affect
Netslaves and Cyberdrool

5. Chapter 5: A New World Disorder? Continued
GLOBALIZATION
The Dynamism of Modernity
Global Economic Flows
Global Cultural Flows
Disjunctive Flows

6. Chapter 5: A New World Disorder? Continued
Homogenization and Fragmentation
Cultural Imperialism and its Critics
Hybridity and Complex Cultural Flows
Glocolizaton
Creolization
Globalization and Power
Modernity as Loss

7. Chapter 5: A New World Disorder? Continued
Global Climate Change
Cultural Studies and Climate Change
Climate Change, Agency and Conspiracy Culture
THE STATE, POLITICS AND NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of
History?
Form and Competence
Autonomy
Legitimation
The End of History?

8. Chapter 5: A New World Disorder? Continued
New Social Movements
Displacing Class?
Life-Politics
Symbolic Communities