Understanding Culture : Cultural Studies, Order, Ordering.
Title:
Understanding Culture : Cultural Studies, Order, Ordering.
Author:
Kendall, Gavin.
ISBN:
9781412932622
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (193 pages)
Contents:
Covers -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Cultural Studies with Just a Hint of Foucault -- Chapter 1 - Surveying the Field of Cultural Studies -- Chapter 2 - The Notion of Ordering as an Organising Principle for Cultural Studies -- Chapter 3 - Building a Method for Cultural Studies as the Study of Ordering -- Chapter 4 - Ordering Through the Cluture of Government - a Colonial Example -- Chapter 5 - Ordering Through the Culture of Law and Regulation -- Chapter 6 - Ordering Through the Culture of Everyday Life -- Chapter 7 - Ordering Through Routinisation - Technique, Technology and Self -- Conclusion: Reshaping Cultural Studies -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
Understanding Culture offers an accessible and comprehensive overview of the field of cultural studies whilst also proposing a different way of `doing' cultural studies. It focuses on the ways in which cultural objects and practices serve as both a means of ordering people's lives and as markers of that ordering. The book reviews the state of the discipline of cultural studies and suggests a new theoretical and methodological orientation drawing on the work of: Foucault; scepticism, Wittgenstein; Harvey Sacks and John Law; uses insights from a variety of sources to examine the complex ways in which meanings are manufactured as lives are ordered in particular social settings: personal life, education, health, the city and law; and pre.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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