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    Introducing Cultural Studies: A Graphic Guide

    By Ziauddin Sardar and Borin Van Loon

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    Cultural Studies signals a major academic revolution for the 21st century. But what exactly is it, and how is it applied? It is a discipline that claims not to be a discipline; it is a radical critical approach for understanding racial, national, social and gender identities. "Introducing Cultural Studies" provides an incisive tour through the minefield of this complex subject, charting its origins in Britain and its migration to the USA, Canada, France, Australia and South Asia, examining the ideas of its leading exponents and providing a flavour of its use around the world. Covering the ground from Gramsci to Raymond Williams, postcolonial discourse to the politics of diaspora, feminism to queer theory, technoculture and the media to globalization, it serves as an insightful guide to the essential concepts of this fascinating area of study. It is essential reading for all those concerned with the quickening pulse of old, new and emerging cultures.
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    Release dateMar 14, 2015
    ISBN9781848319660
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    Ziauddin Sardar

    Ziauddin Sardar was born in Pakistan and grew up in Hackney. A writer, broadcaster and cultural critic, he is one of the world's foremost Muslim intellectuals and author of more than fifty books on Islam, science and contemporary culture, including the highly acclaimed Desperately Seeking Paradise. He has been listed by Prospect magazine as one of Britain's top 100 intellectuals. Currently he is the Director of Centre for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies at East West University, Chicago, co-editor of the quarterly Critical Muslim, consulting editor of Futures, a monthly journal on policy, planning and futures studies, and Chair of the Muslim Institute in London. www.ziauddinsardar.com ZIAUDDIN SARDAR is an internationally renowned writer, futurist, and cultural critic. Author of some 30 books, he was recently appointed editor of Futures: The Journal of Policy, Planning and Future Studies. He has been actively involved in the futures movement for over two decades and is an executive board member of the World Futures Studies Federation.

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    • 2/5
      As a basic overview of cultural studies, this does its job. But as a comic book, I think it's an epic failure; the text is pretty standard issue criticism in terms of its tone and level of excitement (read: little to none) and rather than helping to simplify or clarify the concepts, the comic aspects make this more jumbled, confusing, and difficult to read.
    • 4/5
      This is an introduction to Cultural Studies, an "anti-discipline" that originated from the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham in 1964. This book introduces some of the theories of its founding fathers, who each had slightly conflicting ideas, but centred their study on power structures in society, and the working class. There was an explicit emphasis here on the purpose of cultural studies being to initiate social change. Most of the early figures in the field were on the "New Left", which formed in order to distance themselves from Marx, though many Marxist ideas have had a heavy influence on them. Since then, cultural studies has spread across the world, and taken on different priorities in different places, according to where the inequalities in power are perceived to be. For example in America and elsewhere there has been interest in Black culture, while colonialism and post-colonialism have been major themes in India. More recently, Feminism and Queer theory etc have jumped on the cultural studies band-wagon, with disagreements between those who emphasise race or class for example.As an "anti-discipline", Cultural Studies has sought to distance itself from traditional academic disciplines, in that it does not have a defined methodology, rather it borrows bits from here and there, and more or less "anything goes". This isn't to say that there are no common methods to cultural studies, as there is an emphasis on "discourse", or "discursive analysis", the aim of which is to expose structures of knowledge or power within their social and historical context. How this is gone about is what is left to the individual. Where cultural studies seems particularly relevant is looking at the effect of globalisation, as this is really accelerating with the rise of modern technology, and is having a huge influence on the homgenisation of culture, and the loss of traditional culture. But as there are so many areas in which cultural studies has looked, we only get a brief introduction to each of these here. While this book does give a fair hearing to each of the different areas, it does acknowledge that much of what is written in cultural studies is little more than people banging the drum for their own personal cause, with less academic rigour than political bias. A list of further reading at the back is supplied which provides recommendations on some of the best works that are worth reading though. Overall this was an interesting introduction to cultural studies, and helps make sense of a lot of the jargon and concepts that are commonly used by cultural studies people who write in the press. The illustrations here are weaker than some other books in this series.

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