Gavin Kendall

Understanding Culture

Cultural Studies, Order, Ordering

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Understanding Culture offers an accessible and comprehensive overview of the field of cultural studies whilst also proposing a different way of `doing' cultural studies. It focuses on the ways in which cultural objects and practices serve as both a means of ordering people's lives and as markers of that ordering. The book reviews the state of the discipline of cultural studies and suggests a new theoretical and methodological orientation drawing on the work of: Foucault; scepticism, Wittgenstein; Harvey Sacks and John Law; uses insights from a variety of sources to examine the complex ways in which meanings are manufactured as lives are order… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Wickham, Gary M

ISBN: 978-1-4129-3262-2
EAN: 9781412932622
Produktnummer: 13932435
Verlag: SAGE Publications
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
Seitenangabe: 192 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 830 KB
Auflage: First Edition

Über den Autor

Born in London, Gavin Kendall was educated at Cambridge, Manchester and London Universities, and before moving to QUT, lectured for six years at Lancaster University. His books include The Sociology of Cosmopolitanism; State, Democracy and Globalization; Understanding Culture; and Using Foucault's Methods.