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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450297603321

Autore

Kendall Gavin

Titolo

Understanding culture [[electronic resource] ] : cultural studies, order, ordering / / Gavin Kendall and Gary Wickham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, c2001

ISBN

0-7619-6515-7

1-280-37001-7

9786610370016

1-4129-3262-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WickhamGary <1951->

Disciplina

306/.071

Soggetti

Culture - Philosophy

Culture - Study and teaching

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 StudiesReferences; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This text offers an overview of the field of cultural studies whilst also proposing a different way of doing cultural studies. It focuses on the ways that cultural objects serve as a means of ordering people's lives and as markets of that ordering.