Part 1 Cultural Studies Theory & Practice Barker & Jane 5th Ed.
1. Chris Barker
Emma A. Jane
Presented by Dr. Pamela Hampton-Garland
Cultural Studies
Theory and Practice
5th Ed.
Part One: Culture and Cultural Studies
2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Cultural
Studies
Concerning this Book
Selectivity
Language-Game of Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies as Politics
The Parameters of Cultural Studies
The Center for Contemporary Cultural
Studies
Disciplining Cultural Studies
Criticizing Cultural Studies
3. Key Concepts
Culture and Signifying Practices
Representation
Materialism and Non-Reductionism
Articulation
Power
Ideology
Texts and Readers
Subjectivity and Identity
4. The Intellectual Strands of Cultural
Studies
Marxism: the centrality of class
Capitalism
Marxism and Cultural Studies
Culturalism and Structuralism
Culture is Ordinary
Structuralism
Deep Structures of Language
Culture as “Like a Language”
5. The Intellectual Strands of Cultural
Studies (continued)
Poststructuralism and Postmodernism
Derrida: the instability of language
Foucault: discursive practices
Anti-Essentialism
Postmodernism
Psychoanalysis and Subjectivity
The Freudian Self
The Oedipus Complex
6. The Intellectual Strands of Cultural
Studies (continued)
The politics of difference
Feminism
Race, ethnicity and hybridity
Postcolonial theory
7. Central Problems in Cultural Studies
Language and the Material
Textual Character of Culture
The Location of Culture
Is cultural change possible and if yes; how?
Rationality and its Limits
The Character of Truth
8. Key Methodologies in Cultural
Studies
Ethnography
Problem of Representation
Netnography
Cyberspace approaches (social media, etc.)
Textual
Semiotics
Narrative
Deconstructionism
Reception Studies
Place of Theory
9. Chapter 2: Questions of Culture and
Ideology
Culture with a Capital C” The Great and the Good
in Literary Tradition
Leavisism
Culture is Ordinary
The anthropological approach to culture
Culturalism: Hoggart, Hartley, Thompson, Williams
Richard Hoggart: The uses of literacy
John Hartley: The uses of digital literacy
Edward Thompson: The making of the English working
class
Raymond Williams: Cultural Materialism
10. High Culture/Low Culture: Aesthetics
and the Collapse of Boundaries
A question of quality
Robert Allen: Aesthetic Discourse on Soap Operas
Form and Content
Vulgarity and Trash
Ideological Analysis
The Problem of Judgment
Mass Culture: Popular Culture
Culture as Mass Deception
Criticisms of the Frankfurt School
Creative Consumption
Popular Culture: Evaluation of … and the Politics
of….
11. Culture and the Social Formation
Marxism and the Metaphor of Base and
Superstructure
The foundations of Culture
12. Culture as a Social Formation
(contined)
Culture as Class Power
The specificity of Culture
Williams: Totality and the variable distances of
practices
Relative Autonomy and the Specificity of Cultural
Practices
Althusser and the social formation
Relative autonomy
13. Culture as a Social Formation
(contined)
Articulation and the Circuit of Culture
Two Economies
14. The Question of Ideology
Marxism and False Consciousness
Althusser and Ideology
Ideological State Apparatuses
The Double Character of Ideology
Althusser and Cultural Studies
Gramsci, Ideology and Hegemony
Cultural and Ideological Hegemony
Ideology and Popular Culture
The Instability of Hegemony
Gramscian Cultural Studies
15. The Question of Ideology (continued)
The Problems of Hegemony and Ideology
Hegemony and Fragmentation
Hegemony and Power
Progressive Hegemony
Ideology as Power
Ideology as Misrecognition
What is Ideology
16. Chapter 3: Culture, Meaning, Knowledge:
The Linguistic Turn in Cultural Studies
Saussure and Semiotics
Signifying Systems
Cultural Codes
Barthes and Mythology
Myth Today
Polysemic Signs
Poststructuralism and Intertextuality
Derrida: Textuality and Differ`ance
Nothing but signs
Difference
Derrida’s Postcards
Strategies of Writing
Deconstruction
Derrida and Cultural Studies
17. Chapter 3: Culture, Meaning, Knowledge: The
Linguistic Turn in Cultural Studies (continued)
Foucault: Discourse, Practice and Power
Discursive Practices
Discourse and Discipline
The Productivity of Power
The Subjects of Discourse
Post-Marxism and the Discursive Construction of
the Social
Deconstructing Marxism
The articulated Social
18. Chapter 3: Culture, Meaning, Knowledge: The
Linguistic Turn in Cultural Studies (continued)
Language and Psychoanalysis: LACAN
The Mirror Phase
The symbolic Order
The Unconscious as ‘Like a Language’
Problems with LACAN
Language as Use: Wittgenstein and Rorty
Wittgenstein’s Investigations
Language as a Tool, Language-Games, Lyotard and
Incommensurability
Rorty and the Contingency of Language
Anti-Representationlism, Truth as Social Commendation,
Describing and Evaluating, and Culture as Conversation
19. Chapter 3: Culture, Meaning, Knowledge: The
Linguistic Turn in Cultural Studies (continued)
Discourse and the Material
Indissolubility
Languages for purposes
20. Chapter 4: Biology, the Body and
Culture
The Problem of Reductionism
Forms of Reduction
Holism
The Capabilities of Science
Languages for Purposes
The Cultured Body
A Body of Theory
The Medical Body
Genetic Engineering
The ethical controversy
Research within cultural studies
Cognitive Enhancement
21. Chapter 4: Biology, the Body and
Culture (continued)
The Evolved Body of Biology
Natural Selection and the Place of Genes
Evolutionary Culture
Evolutionary Psychology
The Evolved Brain
Some Implications for Cultural Studies
Neurophilosophy and the Law
22. Chapter 4: Biology, the Body and
Culture (continued)
Biology and Culture: The Case of Emotions
Understanding Emotion
Evolution and Emotion
The Emotional Brain
Cognition, Culture and Emotion
The Cultural Construction of Emotion
The Circuit of Emotion
Emotion as Experience
Identity and Emotion
The Happiness Movement
Philosophy and the Pursuit of Happiness
Culture and Happiness; Cultural Studies, Happiness and
Power
Meme Theory _ Internet Memes
Editor's Notes
Selectivity – Hinged in Language as Cultural Studies – Ethnography of Lived Experiences – rather than one voice
Based around work in Britain, U.S., Europe, and Australia… Not Latin America, Africa, or Asia
Work is selected because of its relevance in defining and establishing the notions that undergird many of the theories of culture espoused in modern educational spaces.
Parameters – CS is hinged in its formation or ways of knowing, through language, actions, defining objects in way that become common, and the social activities that determine concepts, ideas and concerns. CS is determined by a regulated way of communicating ideas, beliefs and norms within a society and societies at large.
The first CCCS is based at Birmingham University in the UK in the 1960s, but since the founding many practitioners and centers have formed throughout the world with the sole purpose being to understand lived experiences of diverse cultures from varied lenses including archeologically, linguistically, sociologically, politically, and historically just to name a few approaches. CS is often criticized because of its limitations of voice, scientific lens, diverse methodologies, and perceived understanding of the other through the lenses of majority cultural representations of European norms and all others as measuring against such defined norms.
Shared process of Meaning Production = Signifying Practices
How meanings are constructed and by whom - Representation
Ensuring that cultural texts and meanings are not reduced to its economic value avoiding making meanings of culture through a lens of economic or political value – Materialism and Non- Reductionism
Concept of communicating relationships in moment that is understandable – man, married, white, tall, etc.
Enslaving and Empowering – Power
Hegemony – Ideological naming and reproducing of concepts to subordinate one group to another – women (weaker, stay at home, mother’s, nurturers, etc.)
Varied meanings per the lens of the reader of the texts, in time and distance to the texts or group
Defining of oneself in relation to the meanings we make of the world around us
Frank & Queenie Leavis _ Leavisism: Defining and defending the best of culture represented by the canon of good works
Criticizing the worst of mass culture represented by advertising, films, and popular fiction
Culture is Ordinary) both the known meanings and direction in which its members make meaning of different symbols, events and create traditions. The Whole Way of Life (both arts’ and the values, norms and symbolic goods of everyday life
Anthropological _ constructions by groups in defining and making meaning of events and symbols that become uniformly accepted by the Whole of the in Group or Culture.