Cultural Studies Theory and Practice 5th Ed.

1. Chris Barker
Emma A. Jane
Presented by Dr. Pamela Hampton-Garland
Cultural Studies
Theory and Practice
5th Ed.
Part 3

2. Part 3:
Sites of Cultural Studies
 Chapter 7: ISSUES OF SUBJECTIVITY AND IDENTITY
 SUBJECTIVITY AND IDENTITY
 Personhood as a Cultural Production
 Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism
 Self-Identity as a Project
 Social Identities
 THE FRACTURING OF IDENTITY
 The Enlightenment Subject
 The Sociological Subject
 The Postmodern Subject
 Social Theory and the Fractured Subject
 The Historical Subject of Marxism
 Psychoanalysis and Subjectivity
 Feminism and Difference
 Language and Identity
 The Foucauldian Subject

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 The Articulated Self
 Anti-Essentialism and Cultural Identity
 The Articulation of Identities
 Sites of Interaction
 Post Humanism
 AGENCY AND THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY
 The Question of Agency
 Foucault and the Problem of Agency
 Giddens and Structuration Theory
 The Duality of Structure
 The Concept of Agency
 Agency as Making a Difference
 Choice and Determination
 Modes of Discourse
 Originality
 Innovation and Charge

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 Anti-Essentialism, Feminism and the Politics of
Identity
 Biology as Discourse
 Sex and Gender
 Is a Universal Feminism Possible?
 The Project of Feminism
 Creating ‘New Languages’
 Challenging the Critique of Identity
 Strategic Essentialism
 Universalism as Discourse
 ‘Practical’ vs. ‘Symbolic’ Politics

5. Part 3:
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 Chapter 8: ETHNICITY, RACE AND NATION
 RACE AND ETHNICITY
 Racialization
 Different Racisms
 The Concept of Ethnicity
 Ethnicity and Power
 NATIONAL IDENTITIES
 The Nation-State
 Narratives of Unity
 The Imagined Community
 Criticisms of Anderson

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 DIASPORA AND HYBRID IDENTITIES
 The Idea of a Diaspora
 The Black Atlantic
 Types of Hybridity
 The Hybridity of All Culture
 Hybridity and British Asians
 From ‘Sojourners to Settlers’
 Switching Cultural Codes
 Multiple Identities
 Intersections and Boundary Crossings
 Weaving the Patterns of Identity

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 RACE, ETHNICITY, REPRESENTATION
 Savages and Slaves
 Plantation Images
 The Criminalization of Black Britons
 Islam
 American Extremists,
 Muslim Moderates,
 Domestic Muslims,
 Muslim Women in the Media,
 Funny Jihad

8. Part 3:
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 Television and the Representation of Race and Ethnicity
 Whites Only,
 Stereotyped Representations,
 Signs of Change,
 Menace to Society,
 Assimilationist Strategies,
 Post-Race?,
 The Ambiguities of Representation,
 The New Ghetto Aesthetic,
 EastEnders,
 I’ll Fly Away,
 Little Mosque on the Prairie,
 Representation = MisRepresentation?

9. Part 3:
Sites of Cultural Studies Continues
 Cyberspace and Race
 The World White Web
 Race and the Biotechnical Turn
 The Politics of Skin Colour
 The Question of Positive Images
 Bad Muslim/Good Muslim
 Postcolonial Literature
 Models of Postcolonial Literature
 Domination and Subordination
 Hybridization and Creolization

10. Part 3:
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 Chapter 9: SEX, SUBJECTIVITY AND
REPRESENTATION
 FEMINISM AND CULTURAL STUDIES
 Patriarchy, Equality and Difference
 Feminist ‘waves’
 The Limits of the ‘Wave’ Metaphor
 Liberal and Socialist Feminism
 Difference Feminism
 Black and Postcolonial Feminism
 Postsructuralist Feminism
 Feminist Gains
 Postfeminism
 The more things change, the more they stay the same
 Everyday Sexism
 Street Harassment

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 SEX, GENDER AND IDENTITY
 Sex, science and culture
 Breaking Down the Binary
 Gender Division and Culture
 Sex, Gender and Language
 A Third Gender
 Sex and Spectrums
 Testosterone
 Sex and the Brain
 So are there ANY differences between Females and Males
 Reconciling Nature and Nurture
 Women’s Difference
 Irigaray and Womanspeak
 The Social Construction of Sex and Gender
 Sex as a Discursive Construct

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 SEXED SUBJECTS
 Foucault: Subjectivity and Sexuality
 Sex and the Discursive Construction of the Body
 The Feminist Critique of Foucault
 Ethics and Agency
 Psychoanalysis, Feminism and Sexed Subjectivity
 Regulating Sexuality
 Chodorow: Masculinity and Femininity
 Phallocentric Psychoanalysis
 Julia Kristeva: The Semiotic and the Symbolic

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 Judith Butler: Between Foucault and Psychoanalysis
 The Performativity of Sex
 Identification and Abjection
 Drag: Recasting and Symbolic
 The Discipline and the Fiction of Identity
 Queer Theory
 Alphabet Soup
 ‘The Transgender Tipping Point’
 Terms in Transition
 Transphobic Feminists?

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 MEN AND MASCULINITY
 Problematic Masculinity
 The Roots of Male Addiction
 The ‘Betrayal’ of the Modern Man
 GENDER, REPRESENTATION AND MEDIA CULTURE
 Images of Women
 The Bitch, the Witch and the Matriarch
 Affirmation and Denial
 Women of Bollywood
 The Taming of the Shrew
 Gendered Toys
 Colour Coding
 Barbie
 Adventure Time
 The Problem of Accuracy

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 Subject Positions and the Politics of Representation
 The Slender Body
 Leaning in to Capitalism
 Madonna’s Performance
 Raunch Culture
 Sex Positive Feminism
 Lady Gaga
 Gaga and Madonna
 Gagalogy
 Is ‘it’ a Woman or a Man?
 Gaga Feminism
 Not So gaga over Gaga
 Gender in Cyberspace
 Cyborg Manifesto
 Gendered Cyberhate
 Feminist Digilantism
 The Question of Audiences

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 Chapter 10: TELEVISION, TEXT: NEWS AND
IDEOLOGY
 TELEVISION TODAY
 Bad Television, Good Television
 TELEVISION AS TEXT: NEWS AND IDEOLOGY
 Putting Reality Together
 The Manipulative Model
 The Pluralist Model
 The Hegemonic Model
 Agenda Setting
 Gulf War News
 Al Jazeera
 Institutional Culture
 Presentational Styles

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 SOCIAL MEDIA AND NEWS REPORTING
 Changes in Conventional Media
 Twitter and Iran
 A Digital President
 BuzzFeed Investigates
 Ambient Journalism and Accidental News Junkies
 Infotainment
 Real Fake News
 Greenscreen Deconstruction
 TELEVISION AS TEXT: SOAP OPERA AS POPULAR
TELEVISION
 Soap Opera as a Genre
 Women and Soap Opera
 Soap Opera and the Public Sphere
 Jane the Virgin

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 TELEVISION STORY-TELLING IN THE 21ST CENTURY
 Temporal Teasing
 Reality Television
 Reality 101
 Subgenres of Reality TV
 Constructed Reality
 The Case Against Reality Television
 The Case for Reality Television
 Keeping Up with the Kardashians’s Pop Cultural Impact
 THE ACTIVE AUDIENCE
 Encoding-Decoding
 The Nationwide Audience
 Watching Dallas
 Online Fans
 Fandom
 Bronies
 Antifandom
 Ideology and Resistance

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 TELEVISION AUDIENCES AND CULTURAL
IDENTITY
 The Export of Meaning
 Localizing the Global
 Audiences, Space and Identity
 Family Space and Global Space
 THE GLOBALIZATION OF TELEVISION
 The Television and Developing Nations
 The Political Economy of Global Television
 Synergy and Television Ownership
 Deregulation and Reregulation
 Rethinking Regulation

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 GLOBAL ELECTRONIC CULTURE
 Media Imperialism
 Regionalization
 The Global and the Local
 Global Postmodern Culture
 Consumer Culture
 Hyperreality and TV Simulations
 Creative Consumption
 WHEN TV ISN’T ON TELEVISION
 An Audio-Visual Buffet
 Convergence Culture
 Digital Streaming
 Box Sets and Bingeing
 THE DEATH OF TELEVISION
 The Tyranny of TV Ratings
 From Product Placement to Digital Insertion
 The Continuing Relevance of Studying Television’s Cultural Politics

21. Part 3:
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 Chapter 11: DIGITAL MEDIA CULTURE
 A DIGITAL REVOLUTION
 Bowing Down to Your Expertise
 DIGITAL MEDIA 101
 www.happybirthday.com
 The Network Society
 Web Versions
 Nets, Webs and Grids
 What Makes Digital Technology so Revolutionary?
 Techno Utopias and Dystopias
 ‘You have no Sovereignty where we gather’
 Cyberspace
 Big e-Brother
 Techno Panic?
 Digital Dualism
 The Ordinary Internet
 We don’t ‘do things on the internet’, we just do things

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 DIGITAL DIVIDES
 Digital Citizenships
 Access Barriers
 Social Status and Patterns of Usage
 Power Laws
 CYBERSPACE AND DEMOCRACY
 The Demonic Vision
 Intertextual Hypertext
 Passionate Public Spaces
 Agonism Online
 Cyberactivism
 The blogosphere
 Slacktivism
 Hybrid Social Movements
 Blackouts
 Fan Activists
 Meme Wars

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 The Limitations to Cyber Democracy
 Cyber Capitalism and Democracy
 Intellectual Property
 Creative Commons
 China
 Hate Sites
 Social Media and Radicalization
 Democracy in the Balance
 THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF INFORMATION
 An Information Overload
 Search Culture
 The Internet Ate my Brain
 The Right to be Forgotten

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 An Information Deficit
 Filter Bubbles
 Internet Autism
 Cloaking
 The Web is a Deep and Also Sometimes Dark
 I Spy with my little eye, some things Beginning with ‘s’…
 Dataveillance
 Edward Snowden
 Enemies of the Internet
 Sousveillance
 THE GLOBAL INFORMATION ECONOMY
 The Information Economy
 Convergence and the mobile phone
 Mobile Culture
 The Mobile Web

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 The Corporate Colonization of Cyberspace
 Googled
 Economic Surveillance
 Digital Imperialism
 Labour and ICT’s
 Playbour
 Labour and the Network Society
 Environmental Issues
 Lethal Gadgets
 The Internet of Things
 Digital Footprints
 If the Internet is Broken, can it be Fixed

26. Part 3:
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 Chapter 12: CULTURE SPACE AND URBAN
PLACE
 SPACE AND PLACE IN CONTEMPORARY
THEORY
 Time-Geography
 Time-Space
 Space and Place
 The Sociospatial Approach
 The Social Construction of Place
 Gendered Space
 The multiple of spaces of Lagos
 CITIES AS PLACES
 Rural Cultural Studies
 The Chicago School
 Criticisms of Urban Studies

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 POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE GLOBAL CITY
 Capitalism and the Urban Environment
 Global Cities
 The Post-Industrial Global City
 THE SYMBOLIC ECONOMY OF CITIES
 Cultural Economics
 Spatializing Culture
 The Creative Industries
 The Rise of the Creative Class
 Privatizing Public Space
 The Public Culture of Private Elites
 Disney: Fantasy and Surveillance

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 THE POSTMODERN CITY
 Postmodern Urbanization
 Urban Change: Suburbs and Edge Cities
 Urban Unrest
 Fortress LA
 The Excitement of the City
 CYBERSPACE AND THE CITY
 Electronic Urban Networks
 The Information City
 Electronic Homes in Global Space
 THE CITY AS TEXT
 Classified paces
 The City Which is Not One

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 Chapter 13: YOUTH, STYLE AND RESISTANCE
 THE EMERGENCE OF YOUTH
 Youth as a Moratorium
 Youth as a Cultural Classification
 The Ambiguity of Youth
 Trouble and Fun
 Endless Youth
 YOUTH SUBCULTURES
 Subterranean Values
 Magical Solutions
 Homologies
 Motorbike boys
 Resistance Through Rituals
 The Double Articulation of Youth
 Skinheads and the Reinvention of Class
 Signs of Style
 Critiques of Subcultural Theory

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 YOUTHFUL DIFFERENCE: CLASS, GENDER, RACE
 The Self-Damnation of the Working Class
 Gendered Youth
 Another Space for Girls
 Riot Grrrls
 Racialized Youth
 The Artifice of Black Hair
 SPACE: A GLOBAL YOUTH CULTURE
 Global Rap and Rave
 Syncretic Global Youth
 AFTER SUBCULTURES
 The Post-Subcultural Space of Social Media Platforms
 Media Spotlights
 Media Devils and Subcultural Hero(in)es

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 Postmodernism: the End of Authenticity
 Postmodern Bricoleurs
 Claims to Authenticity
 Distinctions of Taste
 CREATIVE CONSUMPTION
 Common Culture
 RESISTANCE REVISITED
 Resistance is Conjunctural
 Resistance as Defense
 Inside the Whale
 Hiding in the Light
 Tactics and Strategies
 Banality in Cultural Studies
 Resistance: The Normative Stance of Cultural Critics

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 DIGITAL YOUTH CULTURE
 Digital Music and Really ‘Album-y’ Albums
 Crunching Music’s Numbers
 Pro-Ana Online Communications
 Japanese Anime Fandom
 Gamer Cultures
 Research Paths
 Addicted to Games?
 Gaming and Identity
 Playing Multiple Identities
 Representations and Regulation Online
 Gaming and Gender
 Gamergate
 Remix Culture
 Bad Lip Reading
 The Internet is Made for Cats
 The Mysteries of YouTube Millionaires, Unboxing and ‘first
person toy porn’
 Fame2.0

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 Chapter 14: CULTURAL POLITICS AND CULTURAL
POLICY
 CULTURAL STUDIES AND CULTURAL POLITICS
 Naming as Cultural Politics
 CULTURAL POLITICS: THE INFLUENCE OF
GRAMSCI
 Winning Hegemony
 The Role of Intellectuals
 Cultural Studies as a Political Project
 THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF DIFFERENCE
 New languages of Cultural Politics
 The Politics of Articulation
 No Class-Belonging
 The ‘Cut’ in Language

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 DIFFERENCE, ETHNICITY AND THE POLITICS OF
REPRESENTATION
 Invisibility and Namelessness
 Positive Images
 Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism
 The Politics of Representation
 DIFFERENCE, CITIZENSHIP AND THE PUBLIC
SPHERE
 Habermas and the Public Sphere
 The Democratic Tradition
 Radical Democracy
 QUESTIONING CULTURAL STUDIES
 The Critique of Cultural Populism
 A Multiperspectival Approach
 The Circuit of Culture

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 THE CULTURAL POLICY DEBATE
 Redirecting the Cultural Studies Project
 Governmentality
 Culture and Power
 Foucault or Gramsci?
 Policy and the Problem of Values
 Shifting the Command Metaphors of Cultural Studies
 The horizon of the Thinkable
 Criticism and Policy

36. Part 3:
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 NEO-PRAGMATISM AND CULTURAL STUDIES
 Pragmatism and Cultural Studies
 Richard Rorty: Politics without Foundations
 Anti-Representationalism
 Anti –Foundationalism
 Contingency: Irony, Solidarity
 Truth as Social Commendation
 Forging New Languages
 Prophetic Pragmatism
 Private Identities and Public Politics
 The Implications of Pragmatism for Cultural Studies