Questions of Method in Cultural Studies
Published on 8. May 2008
336 pages
978-1-4051-5223-5 (ISBN)
Description
Question of Method in Cultural Studies brings together agroup of scholars from across the social sciences and humanities toconsider one of the most vexing issues confronting the proverbial'anti-discipline' of cultural studies.
* * Covers such topics as the media, feminism, and politics
* Identifies what methods have prevailed in the interdisciplinarypursuit of cultural studies
* Examines the relationship between cultural studies andtraditional disciplines, the politics of knowledge, and spatial andtemporal models
* Probes the possibility of method in explicit terms for scholarsand students in media, communications, sociology and alliedfields.
Reviews / Votes
"A multi-disciplinary intellectual masterpiece that explores thediscourses of space, time and objects; the politics of knowledge;and the relationship between cultural studies and traditional aswell as emergent disciplines.... Innovative and thought-provoking."(Discourse Studies, October 2008) "White and Schwoch take on the challenge of delineatingcultural studies methodology in this highly engaging collection.Leading scholars in the field scrutinize defining issues in theoryand practice with penetrating insight. In seeking to forge a commonground for the field, this offers a major breakthrough."Denise Bielby, University of California at Santa Barbara"White and Schwoch take on the challenge of delineating cultural studies methodology in this highly engaging collection. Leading scholars in the field scrutinize defining issues in theory and practice with penetrating insight. In seeking to forge a common ground for the field, this offers a major breakthrough." Denise Bielby, University of California at Santa BarbaraMore details
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Persons
Mimi White is Professor of Radio/TV/Film at NorthwesternUniversity. She is author of Tele-Advising: TherapeuticDiscourse in American Television (1992) and co-author ofMedia Knowledge (with James Schwoch and Susan Reilly,1992).
James Schwoch holds a permanent faculty appointment atNorthwestern University, where he conducts research on mediahistory, diplomacy and international relations, science andtechnology studies, and research methodologies. He is the author ofThe American Radio Industry and Its Latin American Activities,1900-1939 (1990).
Content
Notes on Contributors..
Acknowledgments..
1. Introduction: The Questions of Method in Cultural Studies.(James Schwoch and Mimi White).
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Part I: Space/Time/Objects.
Introduction..
2. From the Ordinary to the Concrete: Cultural Studies and thePolitics of Scale. (Anna McCarthy)3. Raymond Williams'Culture and Society as Research Method. (John Durham Peters).
4. "Read thy self." Text, Audience, and Method inCultural Studies. (John Hartley).
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Part II: Production and Reception: The Politics ofKnowledge.
Introduction..
5. Cultural Studies of Media Production: Critical IndustrialPractice. (John Caldwell).
6. Feminism and the Politics of Method. (Joke Hermes).
7. Taking Audience Research into the Age of New Media: OldProblems and New Challenges. (Andrea Press and SoniaLivingstone).
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Part III: Cultural Studies and Selected Disciplines:Anthropology, Sociology, Ethnomusicology, Popular MusicStudies.
Introduction.
8. Mixed and Rigorous Cultural Studies Methodology--an Oxymoron?(Micaela di Leonardo).
9. Is Globalization Undermining the Sacred Principles ofModernity? (Pertti Alasuutari).
10. Engagement through Alienation: Parallels of Paradox in WorldMusic and Tourism in Sarawak, Malaysia. (Gini Gorlinski)11. For theRecord: Interdisciplinarity, Cultural Studies and the Search forMethod in Popular Music Studies. (Tim Anderson).
Index.
