Culture/power/history: A Reader in Contemporary Social TheoryNicholas B. Dirks, Geoff Eley, Sherry B. Ortner Princeton University Press, 1994 - 621 pages The intellectual radicalism of the 1960s spawned a new set of questions about the role and nature of "the political" in social life, questions that have since revolutionized nearly every field of thought, from literary criticism through anthropology to the philosophy of science. Michel Foucault in particular made us aware that whatever our functionally defined "roles" in society, we are constantly negotiating questions of authority and the control of the definitions of reality. Such insights have led theorists to challenge concepts that have long formed the very underpinnings of their disciplines. By exploring some of the most debated of these concepts--"culture," "power," and "history"--this reader offers an enriching perspective on social theory in the contemporary moment. |
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... popular media — lies across and beyond the established boundaries of disciplinary discussion . We see ourselves as contributing to an emerging politics of knowledge in this respect , in a time of exciting and contentious intellectual ...
... Popular Culture ( London and New York : Marion Boyars Publishers , 1986 ) , 115-26 , by permission of Marion Boyars Publishers . Culture / Power / History · INTRODUCTION • NICHOLAS B. xiv .PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS .
... popular culture in which people strive to define their identities , their boundaries , their self - respect , their " space " against the established order — and more well- defined social movements that claim to represent " the people ...
... popular after Levi - Strauss tends to be . Insofar as a subject was recognized or postulated within this framework at all , it was a radically decentered subject , often drawing from the psychoanalytic theories of Lacan . The subject ...
... popular cultural forms , such as folktales and festi- vals , in which traditions of opposition and alternative visions of the world are kept alive ( Stallybrass and White 1986 ) . There is resistance , in other words , in places we ...
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