Theorizing culture : an interdisciplinary critique after postmodernism / edited by Barbara Adam, Stuart Allan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adam, Barbara, 1945-

Allan, Stuart, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture.

Postmodernism--Social aspects.

Postmodernism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This highly original and timely volume engages scholars from the breadth of social science and the humanities to provide a critical perspective on cultural forms, practices and identities. It looks beyond the postmodern debate to reinstate the critical dimension in cultural analysis, providing a ""student-friendly"" introduction to key contemporary issues such as the body, AIDS, race, the environment and virtual reality.Theorizing Culture is essential reading for undergraduate courses in cultural and media studies and sociology, and will have considerable appeal for students and s

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Theorizing culture an introduction; 1 Culture criticism and communal values on the ethics of enquiry; 2 Realism and its discontents on the crisis of cultural representation in ethnographic texts; 3 Reflexivity in academic culture; 4 Theorizing the body's fictions; 5 Culture subjectivity and the real or psychoanalysis reading postmodernity; 6 Adorno Oakeshott and the voice of poetry; 7 Representing AIDS the textual politics of health discourse; 8 News truth and postmodernity unravelling the will to facticity

9 The celebration of difference and the cultural politics of racism10 Cultural studies the university and the question of borders; 11 Changing the culture of cultural studies; 12 Nuclear family fall out postmodern family culture and the media; 13 Remembering the future the cultural study of memory; 14 Imagining Nature re constructions of the English countryside; 15 Tyrell's Owl the limits of the technological imagination in an epoch of hyperbolic discourse; 16 Technological reality cultured technology and technologized culture

17 The temporal landscape of global izing culture and the paradox of postmodern futuresIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-36681-0

1-138-16478-X

1-315-07240-8

1-135-36682-9

0-203-13701-9

1-280-40806-5

9786610408061

9781315072401

OCLC:

475874439