Blue Is Hot, Red Is Cold

Doing Reverse Cultural Studies in Africa

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2407970
AutoresKeyan G Tomaselli, Keyan Tomaselli (0000-0002-2995-0726, autor de correspondencia)
Año2001
Volumen1
Número3
Páginas283-318
Fecha de publicación2001-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCulture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/153270860100100301
OpenAlexW1970488915
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas17

This article is a theorized diary of three field trips to a remote part of South ern Africa. It develops a reflexive argument for a reverse cultural studies in discussing problems in fieldwork, globalization, academic access, and research accountability. Academy-bound scholarship claiming to be study ing the popular is questioned. An argument is made for an empirical space in cultural studies for a greater acknowledgement of fieldwork done in the Third and Fourth Worlds vis-à-vis theory development in the Western metropoles. The narrative aims to forge a space in the global publications industry for kinds of cultural studies done in Africa, in which detail is as important as theory, in which human agency is described and recognized, and in which voices from the field, our subjects of observation, are engaged by researchers as their equals in human dignity and thus as pro ducers of knowledge. Theoreticism is questioned

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