A politics of the emergent: Cultural studies in South Africa
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The emergence of cultural studies in South Africa was closely related to the appearance of new forms of knowledge globally and the call for learning skills to be tailored to the demands of the job market during the late 1980s to the late 1990s. After 2000, there is a shift in African cultural studies from the politics of resistance towards a new focus on the emergent with an emphasis on transnational frameworks as well as a reformulated analysis of race in the aftermath of resistance politics.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2006
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Cultural studies and politics in India today
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Cultural Studies need to be reinvented for India as it is still an infant discipline in India and with Bollywood films being the mainstay of cultural studies, it is not very clear which sector of life it should take up for study. The presence of god-men, actors, theatricality, images, fasting vows, and family drama in the arena of electoral mobilizations cannot be penetrated by disciplinary political theory, necessitating the establishment of a Political Cultural Studies.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2006
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Reflections on the development of cultural studies in Japan
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Cultural studies in Japan were born out of the aim to reclassify knowledge and challenge the existing symbolic hierarchies in academia. An important new development in cultural studies in Japan is Cultural Typhoon, which seeks to avoid institutionalization and create an alternative academic public sphere alongside broadened cultural practices, social activities and political interventions.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2006
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