Futures of the Study of Culture : Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Challenges / Doris Bachmann-Medick, Jens Kugele, Ansgar Nünning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bachmann-Medick, Doris.

Contributor:

Bachmann-Medick, Doris, Editor.

Kugele, Jens, Editor.

Nünning, Ansgar, Editor.

Series:

Concepts for the Study of Culture (CSC)

Concepts for the Study of Culture (CSC) ; 8

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (IX, 310 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

How can we approach possible but unknown futures of the study of culture? This volume explores this question in the context of a changing global world. The contributions in this volume discuss the necessity of significant shifts in our conceptual and epistemological frameworks. Taking into account changing institutional research settings, the authors develop pathways to future cultural research, addressing the crucial concerns of the cultural and social worlds themselves. The contributions thereby utilize contact zones within a wide range of disciplines such as cultural anthropology, sociology, cultural history, literary studies, the history of science and bioethics as well as the environmental and medical humanities. Examining emerging inter- and transdisciplinary points of reference, the volume invites scholars in the humanities and social sciences to take part in a conversation about theories, methods, and practices for the future study of culture.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface and Acknowledgements

Contents

Futures of the Study of Culture: Some Opening Remarks

Collaborative Research in the Study of Culture

Taking Responsibility for the Future: Ten Proposals for Shaping the Future of the Study of Culture into a Problem-Solving Paradigm

The "Future Sense" and the Future of the Study of Culture

Pre-Post-Apocalyptic Culture: The Future(s) of the Humanities

The Global Eye or Foucault Rewired: Security, Control, and Scholarship in the Twenty-first Century

Richard Grusin No Future: The Study of Culture in the Twenty-first Century

Beyond the Colonial Shadow? Delinking, Border Thinking, and Theoretical Futures of Cultural History

The Society of Singularities

After Literature: The Geographies, Technologies, and Epistemologies of Reading and Writing in the Early Twenty-first Century

The Integrative Potentials of Arts-based Research for the Study of Culture: A Reflection on The Lagoon Cycle by Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison

After Hybridity: Grafting as a Model of Cultural Translation

Liquid Spaces in Modern Historiography

Culture in the Marketplace

Cultural History, Science Studies, and Global Economy: New and Future Approaches

Normativity and Culture in the Context of Modern Medicine: A Prospective Vision of an Elective Affinity

Multispecies Futures and the Study of Culture

Future Trading Zones for the Study of Culture: An Interview with Peter L. Galison

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783110669398

3110669390

OCLC:

1191864299