Cultural studies
}}Cultural studies is a politically engaged postdisciplinary academic field that explores the dynamics of especially contemporary culture (including the politics of popular culture) and its social and historical foundations. Cultural studies researchers generally investigate how cultural practices relate to wider systems of power associated with, or operating through, social phenomena. These include ideology, class structures, national formations, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, and generation. Employing cultural analysis, cultural studies views cultures not as fixed, bounded, stable, and discrete entities, but rather as constantly interacting and changing sets of practices and processes. The field of cultural studies encompasses a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives and practices. Although distinct from the discipline of cultural anthropology and the interdisciplinary field of ethnic studies, cultural studies draws upon and has contributed to each of these fields.
Cultural studies was initially developed by British Marxist academics in the late 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, and has been subsequently taken up and transformed by scholars from many different disciplines around the world. Cultural studies is avowedly and even radically interdisciplinary and can sometimes be seen as anti-disciplinary. A key concern for cultural studies practitioners is the examination of the forces within and through which socially organized people conduct and participate in the construction of their everyday lives.
Cultural studies combines a variety of politically engaged critical approaches drawn including semiotics, Marxism, feminist theory, ethnography, post-structuralism, postcolonialism, social theory, political theory, history, philosophy, literary theory, media theory, film/video studies, communication studies, political economy, translation studies, museum studies and art history/criticism to study cultural phenomena in various societies and historical periods. Cultural studies seeks to understand how meaning is generated, disseminated, contested, bound up with systems of power and control, and produced from the social, political and economic spheres within a particular social formation or conjuncture. The movement has generated important theories of cultural hegemony and agency. Its practitioners attempt to explain and analyze the cultural forces related and processes of globalization.
During the rise of neoliberalism in Britain and the US, cultural studies both became a global movement, and attracted the attention of many conservative opponents both within and beyond universities for a variety of reasons. A worldwide movement of students and practitioners with a raft of scholarly associations and programs, annual international conferences and publications carry on work in this field today. Distinct approaches to cultural studies have emerged in different national and regional contexts. Provided by Wikipedia
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61by Westcoat, EirikContributors: “...Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies (UI)...”
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62by Knútsdóttir, VeraContributors: “...Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies (UI)...”
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63by Isenmann, Vanessa MonikaContributors: “...Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies (UI)...”
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64by Birgisdóttir, HelgaContributors: “...Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies (UI)...”
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65by Ingvarsson, HaukurContributors: “...Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies (UI)...”
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66by Ceolin, MartinaContributors: “...Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies (UI)...”
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68by Holm, Hilma, Ivarsdottir, Erna V, Olafsdottir, Thorhildur, Thorolfsdottir, Rosa, Eythorsson, Elias, Norland, Kristjan, Gisladottir, Rosa, Jonsdottir, Gudrun, Unnsteinsdottir, Unnur, Sveinsdottir, Kristin E, Jonsson, Benedikt A, Andresdottir, Margret, Arnar, Davíð Ottó, Arnthorsson, Asgeir O, Birgisdottir, Kolbrún, Bjarnadottir, Kristbjorg, Bjarnadottir, Solveig, Bjornsdottir, Gyda, Einarsson, Gudmundur, Eiriksdottir, Berglind, Gardarsdottir, Elisabet Eir, Gíslason, Þórarinn, Gottfreðsson, Magnús, Gudmundsdottir, Steinunn, Gudmundsson, Julius, Gunnarsdottir, Kristbjorg, Helgadottir, Anna, Helgason, Dadi, Hinriksdottir, Ingibjorg, Ingvarsson, Ragnar Freyr, Jonasdottir, Sigga S, Jónsdóttir, Ingileif, Karlsdottir, Tekla H, Kristinsdottir, Anna M, Kristinsson, Sigurður Yngvi, Kristjansdottir, Steinunn, Löve, Þorvarður Jón, Lúðvíksdóttir, Dóra, Masson, Gisli, Norddahl, Gudmundur, Olafsdottir, Thorunn, Ólafsson, Ísleifur, Rafnar, Thorunn, Runólfsdóttir, Hrafnhildur L., Saemundsdottir, Jona, Sigurbjornsson, Svanur, Sigurdardottir, Kristin, Sigurðsson, Engilbert, Sigurðsson, Martin Ingi, Sigurdsson, Emil L, Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur, Sveinbjornsson, Gardar, Thorarensen, Emil A, Thorbjornsson, Bjarni, Thorsteinsdottir, Brynja, Tragante, Vinicius, Ulfarsson, Magnus O, Stefansson, Hreinn, Gislason, Thorsteinn, Kristjansson, Mar, Palsson, Runolfur, Sulem, Patrick, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Thorgeirsson, Gudmundur, Gudbjartsson, Daniel F, Stefansson, KariContributors: “...Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies...”
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69by Sigurjónsdóttir, Sigríður, Nowenstein, Iris, Þorvaldsdóttir, Þorbjörg, Guðmundsdóttir, DagbjörtContributors: “...Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies (UI)...”
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70by Toivanen, Reetta, Fabritius, NoraContributors: “...Area and Cultural Studies...”
Published in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability (2020)
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71by Toivanen, Reetta JohannaContributors: “...Area and Cultural Studies...”
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72by Tarsi, MatteoContributors: “...Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies (UI)...”
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74by Toivanen, ReettaContributors: “...Area and Cultural Studies...”
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77by Benediktsdóttir, Ásta KristínContributors: “...Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies (UI)...”
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78by Drude, Sebastian, Ingason, Anton, Kristinsson, Ari Páll, Arnbjörnsdóttir, Birna, Sigurðsson, Einar Freyr, Rögnvaldsson, Eiríkur, Nowenstein, Iris, Sigurjónsdóttir, SigríðurContributors: “...Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies (UI)...”
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79by Hachikubo, Akihiro, Yanagawa, Katsunori, Tomaru, Hitoshi, Lu, Hailong, Matsumoto, RyoContributors: “...Kyushu Univ, Fac Social & Cultural Studies, Nishi Ku, Fukuoka 8190395, Japan....”
Published in Energies (2015)
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80by Toivanen, Reetta, Virtanen, Pirjo Kristiina, Eronen, Jussi T., Guttorm, Hanna, Helle, Inari, Korhonen-Kurki, Kaisa, Lammensalo, LindaContributors: “...Area and Cultural Studies...”
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