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

• Autore: Kendall Gavin
• Pubblicazione: London, : SAGE, c2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 p.)
• Disciplina: 306/.071
• Soggetto topico: Culture - Philosophy; Culture - Study and teaching
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: WickhamGary <1951->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Understanding culture
• ISBN: 0-7619-6515-7; 1-280-37001-7; 9786610370016; 1-4129-3262-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450297603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II