The Future of Cultural Analysis : A Critical Inquiry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aydemir, Murat.

Contributor:

Roei, Noa.

Kuryel, Aylin.

Thinius, Alex.

Sturm, Jules.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture--Research.

Culture.

Culture--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2025.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Across the humanities and the social sciences, “cultural analysis” is a vibrant research practice. Since its introduction in the 1990s, its main principles have remained largely the same: interdisciplinarity, political urgency, a heuristic use of concepts, the detailed analysis of objects of culture, and an awareness of the scholar’s situatedness in the present. But is the practice still suited to the spiraling of social, political, and environmental crises that mark our time? Drawing on experiences in research, teaching, activism, and the creative arts, contributors explore what cultural analysis was back then, what it is now, and what it may be by 2034. In a shifting conjuncture, contributors strike notes of discomfort, defiance, and irony—as well as a renewed sense of urgency and care.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Introduction: Cultural Analysis, circa 2034

Noa Roei, Murat Aydemir, and Aylin Kuryel

Part One: Speaking and Silenced Objects

1. Cultural Analysis: Critical Encounters in Time, Space, and Thought

Mieke Bal

2. Cultural Analysis as Reading for the Object

Esther Peeren

3. Notes toward a Decolonial Praxis of Cultural Analysis: Exemplarity and Listening as Other

Divya Nadkarni and Alex Thinius

4. Objects in the Making: Cutting through Analysis in Art Education

Jules Sturm

Part Two: Traveling Concepts, Theories, Methods

5. Cultural Analysis: A Global South Critical Approach

Paulina Aroch Fugellie

6. Traveling Concepts and Conjunctural Analysis: Concepts Gone Bad

Murat Aydemir

7. Cultural Analysis as Reportage

Joost de Bloois

8. Gathering, Framing, and the Temporality of Cultural Analysis

Ernst van Alphen

Part Three: Interdisciplinary Spaces

9. Institutional Travels: Spaces for Cultural Analysis

Noa Roei

10. From Situated Knowledge to Intensional Field Theory

Jeff Diamanti

11. Cultural Analysis at a Tipping Point

Seb Wigdel-Bowcott

Part Four: Social Relevance and Intervention

12. From Social Relevance to Public Intervention: Cultural Analysis in and out of the Classroom

Aylin Kuryel

13. Toward a Decolonial Classroom: Resituating Cultural Analysis as Pedagogical Intervention

Aslı Özgen

14. Crises, Social Relevance, and Critical Discomfort: Shooting Ourselves in the Foot

Alvaro Lopez

15. Parochialism as Method: Pejorative, Partage, Pastoral

Niall Martin

Afterword

Aylin Kuryel, Noa Roei, and Murat Aydemir

Index.

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-078309-0

1-003-70622-3

1-04-078908-0

90-485-5980-4

9781003706229

OCLC:

1463226698