Cultural studies & political theory / edited by Jodi Dean.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dean, Jodi, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture--Study and teaching--United States.

Culture.

Political science--United States.

Political science.

Culture--Study and teaching.

United States.

Physical Description:

362 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Cultural studies and political theory

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2000.

Summary:

This ambitious collection of work at the intersection of cultural studies and contemporary political theory brings together leading thinkers from both traditions. The contributors to Cultural Studies and Political Theory expand definitions of politics in light of transformations in globally networked, consumer-driven, mediated technoculture. Comprehending the production of the political is crucial at a time when the political and the cultural can no longer be decoupled and when we cannot know in advance who "we" are. By gathering the work of theorists who are redefining approaches to politics and culture, Jodi Dean establishes a set of directives for theoretical work at a new crossroads.

Contents:

Introduction : the interface of political theory and cultural studies / Jodi Dean

Warring maneuvers. The will, capital punishment, and cultural war / William E. Connolly

The subject of true feeling : pain, privacy, and politics / Lauren Berlant

Cultural politics : political theory and the foundations of democratic order / Barbara Cruikshank

Academic politics and social change / George Lipsitz

Shifting culture. The song remains the same : communitarianism's cultural politics / Mark Reinhardt

The governmentality of discussion / Paul A. Passavant

The cultural turn in Marxism / Judith Grant

Action or distraction? cultural studies in the United States / Paul Apostolidis

Generating politics. Democracy and national fantasy : reflections on the Statue of Liberty / Linda Zerilli

Imagined immunities / Priscilla Wald

Race and the romance of American nationalism in Martin Luther King, Norman Mailer, and James Baldwin / George Shulman

Making of the unwanted colonies : (un)imagining desire / Aida A. Hozic

Haunting affiliations. Real American dreams (can be nightmares) / Kathleen Stewart

Wild things / Thomas L. Dumm

The politics of the "family" / Michael J. Shapiro

Declarations of independence / Jodi Dean.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-349) and index.

ISBN:

0801436028

0801485789

OCLC:

43985276