Theorizing culture : an interdisciplinary critique after postmodernism / / edited by Barbara Adam, Stuart Allan

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : New York University Press, , 1995
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Disciplina: 306
• Soggetto topico: Culture; Postmodernism - Social aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: AdamBarbara <1945-> AllanStuart <1962->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Theorizing culture an introduction; 1 Culture criticism and communal values on the ethics of enquiry; 2 Realism and its discontents on the crisis of cultural representation in ethnographic texts; 3 Reflexivity in academic culture; 4 Theorizing the body's fictions; 5 Culture subjectivity and the real or psychoanalysis reading postmodernity; 6 Adorno Oakeshott and the voice of poetry; 7 Representing AIDS the textual politics of health discourse; 8 News truth and postmodernity unravelling the will to facticity ; 9 The celebration of difference and the cultural politics of racism10 Cultural studies the university and the question of borders; 11 Changing the culture of cultural studies; 12 Nuclear family fall out postmodern family culture and the media; 13 Remembering the future the cultural study of memory; 14 Imagining Nature re constructions of the English countryside; 15 Tyrell's Owl the limits of the technological imagination in an epoch of hyperbolic discourse; 16 Technological reality cultured technology and technologized culture ; 17 The temporal landscape of global izing culture and the paradox of postmodern futuresIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: This highly original and timely volume engages scholars from the breadth of social science and the humanities to provide a critical perspective on cultural forms, practices and identities. It looks beyond the postmodern debate to reinstate the critical dimension in cultural analysis, providing a ""student-friendly"" introduction to key contemporary issues such as the body, AIDS, race, the environment and virtual reality.Theorizing Culture is essential reading for undergraduate courses in cultural and media studies and sociology, and will have considerable appeal for students and s
• Titolo autorizzato: Theorizing culture
• ISBN: 1-138-16478-X; 1-315-07240-8; 1-135-36682-9; 0-203-13701-9; 1-280-40806-5; 9786610408061
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450256903321
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