The Practice of cultural studies - Johnson, Richard; Chambers, Deborah; Raghuram, Parvati; Tincknell, Estella (London Sage Publications, 2004)
Part I Groundings -- Introduction -- 1 Cultural studies and study of culture : diciplines and dialogues --Asking the cultural question-seven different agendas -- Historical contexts of the cultural agenda -- Cultural studies and social movements -- Dominant misrepresentation and popular agency -- Finding a philosophy? cultural studies, feminist philosophy and hermeneutics -- Relations to other academics disciplines -- Explaining transdisciplinary for method -- Transdisciplinary strategies -- Conclusion -- 2 Multiplying methods : from pluralism to combination -- Methodological pluralism or a method? -- Objects and strategies of cultural research -- Cultural circuits : cultural studies meets hermeneutics -- Conclusion : combined and multiple methods? -- 3 Method and the researching self -- 'Inside culture' : cultural research as a cultural circuit -- Objectivism, self and other -- from standpoint to positionalities -- Making claims to truth :conventions and truthfulness -- Is truth only a convention then? -- Reflexivity versus the confessional -- Realizing reflexivity : social, spatial, temporal and cultural aspects -- Dialogue and difference -- Accountability and responsibilities -- Conclusion : the logic of combination -- 4 The research process : moments and strategies -- Choosing and developing a topic -- Starting -- managing time -- Working with others : supervisors and peers -- Reviewing the literature, mapping the field -- Developing research proposals -- General models of researching -- Starting fron a source not data? -- Sources and questions -- Research, analysis, and textuality -- Contextualization and creating a distance -- Writing as a moment-functions and forms -- Diversity in the writing process : planning and writing -- writing and the autobiographical voice -- Writing ethics and politics : authorial power and its deployment -- Conclusion -- Part II Settings -- Introduction -- 5 Theory in the practice of research -- Theory , fear and loathing -- Theory as opposed to practice -- Theory and practice as praxis -- Theory and the empirical -- Reading for theory as a method -- The argument so far -- Theory as abstraction -- Levels of abstraction -- Kinds of abstraction : strengths and limits -- Conclusion : theorizing as a practice -- 6 Make space!Spacial dimensions in cultural research -- Bringing place and space into focus -- Complicated spatialities -- Theoritical tools for researching spatiality -- Spatiality as a metaphor for power -- Virtual spaces, technologized places -- Comlpex places -- Bringing it all together again : transdiciplinary integrations -- conclusion : the return of abstraction -- 7 Time please!Historical perspectives -- Thinking about time -- Writing cultural histories part I : radical popular histories -- Writing cultural histories patr II : history's cultural turn -- The argument so far : history and cultural studies-convergence and tension -- Public representations of the past and popular memory -- Thinking historically : historicizing theory -- Historicizing the present -- Conclusion -- 8 Culture, Power and economy -- Cultural studies versus political economy : failures of dialogue -- Baselines : separating power and culture -- Ideology analysis -- Representation and the limits of ideology critique -- Power and culture : expanding the agenda -- Where does power lie? The popular and the dominant -- Starting elsewhere : economies as culturally embedded -- Economies as representation and discourses -- Cultural and economic circuits : overlap, interdependence, identity? -- The question of consumption -- Cultural conditions of economic systems -- Changing determinations : the economy as culture -- Conclusion -- Part III Readings -- Readings and meetings -- readings as method, method as reading -- Plan of part III -- 9 Reading popular narratives : from structure to context -- Structural readings : textual strategies -- Structural readings : contextualizing strategies -- Beyond structuralism : post structuralist approaches -- Combining methods -- Conclusion -- 10 Reading texts of or for dominance -- Reading texts of dominance : a possible reading path -- Why (not) texts? The value of approach to an analysis of anti-terrorism -- How much text? Which texts? Dialogue and dominance -- Opening the text, starting the dialogue -- Elaborating a (theoretically informed ) reading -- Moral absolutes, the other and unconscious processes -- Making a reading convincing -- 11 Reading fictions reading histories -- Fiction and / or history -- Cultural materialism : rereading literature -- New historicism and historical discourse -- Staging and silencing : explicit and implicit meanings -- Elementary , my dear Foucault -- Beyond a (national) boundary : post-colonial encounters -- Conclusion -- Part IV Meetings -- Introduction -- Researching others : from autobiography to ethnography -- The auto/ethno continuum as a process -- The auto/ethno continuum as range of methods -- The indispensability of meetings in cultural research -- Pathways in ethnographic and auto/biographical research : two checklists -- Checklist 1: Interviews -- Checklist 2: Memory work -- Conclusion and some limits of auto/ethno continuum -- 13 Representing the other : interpretation and cultural readings -- Analysis as dialogue -- Multiple readings, multiple theories -- Reading for actor's meanings -- Reading for cultural structures and processes -- Working the other way : individualizing conventional forms -- making yourself in and against the school -- reading for structure and context -- The four dialogues of analysis : a checklist -- Representing the other : dialogic implications -- Representing across power : particular strategies -- Conclusion -- 14 Remarking methods : from audience research to studying subjectives -- Indiscipline and combination -- Studying media audiences : promises unfillied? -- Researching subjectivities : reflexive selves, discursive subjects -- Conclusion : remarking methods.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-271) and index.
Keywords: Culture -- Study and teaching