Many cultural studies practitioners oppose forging disciplinary boundaries for the field. However, it is hard to see how this can be resisted if cultural studies wants to survive by attracting degree students and funding (as opposed to being only a postgraduate research activity). In that context, Bennett (1998) offers his ‘element of a definition’ of cultural studies:
- Cultural studies is an interdisciplinary field in which perspectives from different disciplines can be selectively drawn on to examine the relations of culture and power.
- The forms of power that cultural studies explores are diverse and include gender, race, class, colonialism, etc. Cultural studies seeks to explore the connections between these forms of power and to develop ways of thinking about culture and power that can be utilized by agents in the pursuit of change.
- The prime institutional sites for cultural studies are those of higher education, and as such, cultural studies is like other academic disciplines. Nevertheless, it tries to forge connections outside of the academy with social and political movements, workers in cultural institutions, and cultural management.
With this in mind, we may consider the kinds of concepts and concerns that regulate
cultural studies as a discursive formation or language-game. Each of the concepts intro-duced here is developed at greater length throughout the book and can also be referred
to in the Glossary.
Genesis of cultural studies
This stream of research has appeared in Britain in the 1960s in Birmingham, in 1964, Richard Hoggart founded the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (en) (CCCS). Besides its founder, usually associated with this stream: Stuart Hall (successor of Richard Hoggart head of CCCS), Charlotte Brunsdon, Phil Cohen, Angela McRobbie, David Morley, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams.
In the 1970s, cultural studies are introduced to the United States where they are related to the French Theory, term used to describe the work of philosophers such as Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault.
Since the 1990s, cultural studies internationalize. Many currents appear in Europe: Kulturwissenschaft (de) in Germany, the cultural analysis (in) the Netherlands, etc.
Jean-Claude Passeron is one of the first to introduce cultural studies work in France has contributed to the translation and wrote the preface of the book culture of the poor (The Uses of Literacy) by Richard Hoggart .dropoff window But it was recently that cultural studies are beginning to take off in France, despite the appropriation of French Theory by American cultural studies.
Genesis of cultural studies
This stream of research has appeared in Britain in the 1960s in Birmingham, in 1964, Richard Hoggart founded the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (en) (CCCS). Besides its founder, usually associated with this stream: Stuart Hall (successor of Richard Hoggart head of CCCS), Charlotte Brunsdon, Phil Cohen, Angela McRobbie, David Morley, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams.
In the 1970s, cultural studies are introduced to the United States where they are related to the French Theory, term used to describe the work of philosophers such as Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault.
Since the 1990s, cultural studies internationalize. Many currents appear in Europe: Kulturwissenschaft (de) in Germany, the cultural analysis (in) the Netherlands, etc.
Jean-Claude Passeron is one of the first to introduce cultural studies work in France has contributed to the translation and wrote the preface of the book culture of the poor (The Uses of Literacy) by Richard Hoggart .dropoff window But it was recently that cultural studies are beginning to take off in France, despite the appropriation of French Theory by American cultural studies.
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