Cultural Studies

PART ONE: CULTURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Cultural Studies
Concerning this Book
The Parameters of Cultural Studies
Key Concepts in Cultural Studies
The Intellectual Strands of Cultural Studies
The New Cultural Studies Project
Central Problems in Cultural Studies
Questions of Methodology
Chapter 2: Questions of Culture and Ideology
Culture with a Capital C: The Great and the Good in the Literary Tradition
Culture is Ordinary
Richard Hoggart: The Uses of Literacy
Edward Thompson: The Making of the English Working Class
Raymond Williams and Cultural Materialism
High Culture/ Low Culture: Aesthetics and the Collapse of Boundaries
Culture and the Social Formation
The Question of Ideology
Chapter 3: Culture, Meaning, Knowledge: The Linguistic Turn in Cultural Studies
Barthes and Mythology
Derrida: Textuality and Differance
Foucault: Discourse, Practice and Power
Post-Marxism and the Discursive Construction of the ¿Social¿
Language and Psychoanalysis: Lacan
Language as Use: Wittgenstein and Rorty
Discourse and the Material
Chapter 4: Biology, the Body and Culture
The Problem of Reductionism
The Capabilities of Science
The Cultured Body
Genetic Engineering
The Evolved Body of Biology
Evolutionary Culture
Biology and Culture: The Case of Emotions
Meme Theory
PART TWO: THE CHANGING CONTEXT OF CULTURAL STUDIES
Chapter 5: A New World Disorder?
Economy, Technology and Social Class
Globalization
The State, Politics and New Social Movements
Chapter 6: Enter Postmodernism
Defining the Terms
Modernism and Culture
Modern and Postmodern Knowledge
The Promise of Postmodernism (or Modernity as an unfinished Project?)
Postmodern Culture
After Postmodernism
PART THREE: SITES OF CULTURAL STUDIES
Chapter 7: Issues of Subjectivity and Identity
Subjectivity and Identity
The Fracturing of Identity
Agency and the Politics of Identity
Anti-Essentialism, Feminism and the

Chris Barker is a teacher and researcher with over 25 years experience. He has worked in a number of schools and universities in both England and Australia. He is currently Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia. Chris is the author of six previous books that are linked together by an interest in culture, meaning and communication. At present he is exploring questions of emotion in contemporary cultural life.