Table Of ContentA Companion to Cultural Studies
Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies
Advisory editor: David The0 Goldberg, University of Calzfornia, Irvine
This series aims to provide theoretically ambitious but accessible volumes
devoted to the major fields and subfields within cultural studies, whether as
single disciplines (film studies) inspired and reconfigured by interventionist
cultural studies approaches, or from broad interdisciplinary and multidisciplin-
ary perspectives (gender studies, race and ethnic studies, postcolonial studies).
Each volume sets out to ground and orientate the student through a broad range
of specially commissioned articles, and also to provide the more experienced
scholar and teacher with a convenient and comprehensive overview of the latest
trends and critical directions. An overarching Companion to Cultural Studies will
map the territory as a whole.
1. A Companion to Film Theory
Edited by lroby Miller and Robert Stam
2. A Companion to Postcolonial Studies
Edited by Henry Schwarx and Sangeeta Ray
3. A Companion to Cultural Studies
Edited by Toby Miller
Forthcoming:
A Companion to Race and Ethnic Studies
Edited by David The0 Goldberg and John Solomos
A Companion to North American Indian Studies
Edited by Ward Churchill
A Companion to Gender Studies
Edited by Philomena Essed, Audrey Kobayashi, and David The0 Goldberg
A Companion to Media Studies
Edited by Angharad Valdivia
A Companion to Art Theory
Edited by Paul Smith and Carolyn Wilde
A Companion to Cultural Studies
Edited by
Toby Miller
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Cont ents
List of Contributors X
1 What it is and what it isn’t: Introducing. . Cultural Studies 1
Toby Miller
Part I: Disciplines 21
Interdisciplinarity 23
Mark Gibson and Alec McHoul
Is there a Cultural Studies of Law? 36
Rosemary Coombe
The Renewal of the Cultural in Sociology 63
Randy Martin
Sociology, Cultural Studies, and Disciplinary Boundaries 79
Frank Webster
Notes on the Traffic between Cultural Studies and
Science and Technology Studies 101
Marianne de Laet
Political Economy within Cultural Studies 116
Richard Maxwell
Cultural Studies and Philosophy: An Intervention 139
Douglas Kellner
“X” never, ever marks the spot: Archaeology and Cultural Studies 154
Silke Morgenroth
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10 The Unbalanced Reciprocity between
Cultural Studies and Anthropology 169
George E. Marcus
11 Media Studies and Cultural Studies: A Symbiotic Convergence 187
John Nguyet Erni
Part II: Places
215
12 Comparative Cultural Studies Traditions:
Latin America and the US 217
George Yudice
13 Can Cultural Studies Speak Spanish? 232
Jorge Mariscal
14 Australasia 246
Graeme Turner
15 Peripheral Vision: Chinese Cultural Studies in Hong Kong 259
Eric Kit-wai MU
16 Decentering the Centre: Cultural Studies in Britain and its Legacy 275
Ben Carrington
17 European Cultural Studies 298
Paul Moore
Part Ill: Issues
315
18 Let’s Get Serious: Notes on Teaching Youth Culture 3 17
Justin Lewis
19 Looking Backwards and Forwards at Cultural Studies 331
Paul Smith
20 Close Encounters: Sport, Science, and Political Culture 341
C. L. Cole
21 Intellectuals, Culture, Policy: The Practical and the Critical 3 57
Tony Bennett
22 Listening to the State: Culture, Power, and
Cultural Policy in Colombia 375
Ana Maria Ochoa Gautier
23 Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk 391
Andrea Fraser
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24 The Scandalous Fall of Feminism and the “First Black President” 407
Melissa Deem
25 Rap and Feng Shui: On Ass Politics, Cultural Studies,
and the Timbaland Sound 43 0
Jason King
26 Fashion 454
Sarah Berry
27 Cultural Studies and Race 47 1
Robert Stam
28 Globalization and Culture 490
Toby Miller and Geoflrey Lawrence
29 “Cricket, with a Plot”: Nationalism, Cricket,
and Diasporic Identities 510
Suvendrini Perera
Part IV: Sources 529
30 Bibliographical Resources for Cultural Studies 53 1
Toby Miller
Index 553
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Contributors
Tony Bennett is Professor of Sociology at the Open University, where he is also
Director of the Pavis Centre for Social and Cultural Research. His recent
publications include The Birth of the Museum (1995), Culture: A Reformer’s
Science (19 98) and, as co-author, Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday
Cultures (1 999).
Sarah Berry is author of Screen Style: Fashion and Femininity in 1930s Holh-
wood and has published articles on interactive media, fashion, and film. She
works as an information architect and interactive media developer.
Ben Carrington teaches sociology and cultural studies at the University of
Brighton, UK.
C. L. Cole is an Associate Professor of kinesiology, sociology, and women’s
studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her teaching and
research investigate sexuality, citizenship, and the production of deviant bodies
in post-Second World War America. She is also working on two new projects:
the new urban health culture, which takes San Francisco as its central case; and
transsexuals and sporting bodies, which uses the Gay Games as its case study.
Rosemary Coombe occupies the Canada Research Chair in Law, Communica-
tion, and Cultural Studies at York University. She is the author of The Cultural
L$e of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation and the Law (1998).
Currently she is working on issues involving indigenous knowledge, human
rights, and the politics of globalizing intellectual property laws.
Melissa Deem is an Assistant Professor in Women’s Studies and Rhetoric at the
University of Iowa. Her work has been published in Public Culture and Critical
Studies in Mass Communication. She is currently writing a book which maps the
contemporary political discourses of and about feminism in the United States, as
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well as establishes the contemporary relevance of various anomalous feminist
rhetorical practices dating to about 1968, the period commonly referred to as
second wave feminism.
Marianne de Laet is an anthropologist of science and technology, with a
background in the sociology of scientific knowledge. Her research concerns
technology transfer, appropriate technology, and intellectual property issues
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especially as they play out in developing countries and in big science and
engineering projects. She is currently a Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer
in the Humanities at the California Institute of Technology.
John Nguyet Erni is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communica-
tion, University of New Hampshire, where he teaches media and cultural
studies. He is the author of Unstable Frontiers: Technomedicine and the Cultural
Politics of “Curing” AIDS (1994), Epidemic Imaginary in a Southeast Asian City:
HIV/AIDS, Empirical Worlds, Postcolonial Readings (forthcoming), and special
issue editor of “Becoming (Postcolonial) Hong Kong,” Cultural Studies (forth-
coming). In addition, he has published in various journals, among them Cultural
Studies, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Identities: Global Studies in
Culture and Power, Science as Culture, Sexualities, Praxis, and Hong Kong Cultural
Studies Bulletin. His research and teaching focus on the intersections of culture,
media, biomedical health, cities, gender and sexual politics, and Asian modern-
ity. In 2000-1 he is Visiting Associate Professor at the City University of Hong
Kong.
Andrea Fraser is a New York-based artist whose work is identified with
Institutional Critique. Since 1984 she has produced performances, videos,
installations, and publications with museums and foundations throughout the
United States, Europe, and Latin America. She is currently working on a
collection of her essays and scripts.
Ana Maria Ochoa Gautier is currently Professor in the Anthropology Depart-
ment of the Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos in Cuernavaca,
Mexico. Until last year she was researcher at the Instituto Colombiano de
Antropologia in Bogota, Colombia. Her work is on cultural policy and on the
music industry in Latin America.
Mark Gibson teaches Cultural Studies at Murdoch University in Western
Australia. He has published around the theme of “post-Cold War” political
formations in popular culture, and is currently completing a project on the
history of the concept of power in Cultural Studies.
Douglas Kellner is George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at
UCLA and is author of many books on social theory, politics, history, and
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