John Storey
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3609231 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John Storey |
| PRENOMES | John |
| SOBRENOME | Storey |
| ASSINATURA | STOREY J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Sunderland |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 59 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 144 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
What Makes Cultural Studies Political
Raymond Williams, in a foundational moment for cultural studies, defined culture as a realized signifying system (1981, 12), arguing that culture defined in this way is fundamental to the shaping and holding together of all ways of life, insisting that it should be seen as essentially involved in all forms of social activity (ibid., 13).As he further explained, the social organisation of culture, as a realised signify ing system, is embedded in a…
Culturalism into cultural studies
In this chapter I shall consider the work produced in the late 1950s and early 1960s by Richard Hoggart, Raymond Williams, E.P. Thompson, and Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel. This body of work, despite certain differences between its authors, constitutes the founding texts of culturalism. As Hall (1978) was later to observe, ‘Within cultural studies in Britain, “culturalism” has been the most vigorous, indigenous strand’ (19). The chapter will end …
Postmodernism
Postmodernism is a term current inside and outside the academic study of popular culture. It has entered discourses as different as pop music journalism and Marxist debates on the cultural conditions of late or multinational capitalism. As Angela McRobbie (1994) observes, Postmodernism has entered into a more diverse number of vocabularies more quickly than most other intellectual categories. It has spread outwards from the realms of art history …
The politics of the popular
I have tried in this book to outline something of the history of the relationship between cultural theory and popular culture. In the main I have tended to focus on the theoretical and methodological aspects and implications of the relationship, as this, in my opinion, is the best way in which to introduce the subject. 1 However, I am aware that this has been largely at the expense of, on the one hand, the historical conditions of the production …
Culture and nature
It is from our working with nature that we derive our concept of culture. Its origins can be seen in words like agriculture and cultivation. And yet without culture we would have no concept of nature. We might think we know what we mean when we refer to nature, but we are never referring to a thing-in-itself but to a cultural construct. While nature is materiality; it is through culture that we experience it, understand it, and make it signify. I…
The ‘culture and civilization' tradition
The popular culture of the majority has always been a concern of powerful minorities. Those with political power have always thought it necessary to police the culture of those without political power, reading it ‘symptomatically’ (see Chapter 6 ) for signs of political unrest; reshaping it continually through patronage and direct intervention. In the nineteenth century, however, there is a fundamental change in this relationship. Those with powe…
What is popular culture?
Cultural Theory and Popular Culture is an introduction in that it tries to be accessible in terms of subject matter, but it is also an introduction in the sense that it introduces something new. That is to say, although all the work discussed here has a previous existence, it is not a body of work that previously existed as a tradition of cultural theory and popular culture. The originality of this book is to bring this work together as a way of …
Gender and sexuality
‘One of the most striking changes in the humanities in the 1980s has been the rise of gender as a category of analysis’ ( Showalter, 1990 : 1). This is the opening sentence in Elaine Showalter&s;s introduction to a book on gender and literary studies. There can be no doubt that without the emergence of feminism (second wave) in the early 1970s this sentence could not have been written. It is feminism that has placed gender on the academic agenda.…
Marxisms
Marxism is a difficult and contentious body of work. But it is also more than this: it is a body of revolutionary theory with the purpose of changing the world. As Marx (1976b ) famously said: ‘The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it’ (65). This makes Marxist analysis political in a quite specific way. But this is not to suggest that other methods and approaches are apolitical; on the contrary,…
The materiality of popular culture
This chapter will examine popular culture as material culture. However we define it, a great deal of popular culture takes material form. Even a few random examples should make this point: mobile phones, clothes, wedding rings, greetings cards, toys, bicycles, CDs (discs and players), DVDs (discs and players), cars, games consoles, televisions, radios, sporting equipment, computers, computer tablets (including the iPad), magazines, books, cinemas…
Structuralism and post-structuralism
Structuralism, unlike the other approaches discussed here, is, as Terry Eagleton (1983) points out, ‘quite indifferent to the cultural value of its object: anything from War and Peace to The War Cry will do. The method is analytical, not evaluative’ (96). Structuralism is a way of approaching texts and practices that is derived from the theoretical work of the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. Its principal exponents are French: Louis Althuss…
‘Race', racism and representation
In this chapter I shall examine the concept of ‘race’ and the historical development of racism in England. I shall then explore a particular regime of racial representation, Edward Said&s;s analysis of Orientalism. I shall use Hollywood&s;s account of America&s;s war in Vietnam, and its potential impact on recruitment for the first Gulf War as an example of Orientalism in popular culture. The chapter will conclude with a section on ‘whiteness’ an…
Class and class struggle
In a book on cultural theory and popular culture why concern ourselves with social class? One answer is to say that class has always been a concern of this book; what has changed is that it now has its own chapter. Another is to say that although it is an ‘economic’ category, it is always lived culturally and one of the places where we recognize its existence is popular culture. Put simply, popular culture is a key site for the recognition and se…
Psychoanalysis
In this chapter I shall explore psychoanalysis as a method of reading texts and practices. This means that although I shall to a certain extent explain how psychoanalysis understands human behaviour, this will be done only as it can be extended to cultural analysis in cultural studies. Therefore, I shall be very selective in terms of which aspects of psychoanalysis I choose for discussion.
Cultural Theory and Popular Culture
In this tenth edition of his award-winning introduction, John Storey presents a clear and critical survey of competing theories of, and various approaches to, popular culture. Its breadth and theoretical unity, exemplified through popular culture, means that it can be flexibly and relevantly applied across a number of disciplines. Retaining the accessible approach of previous editions and using appropriate examples from the texts and practices of…
Spectres of Pessimism
What I have called radical utopianism was an important concept for two of the founding figures of British cultural studies, E. P. Thompson and Raymond Williams.1 In 1976, in the revised edition of William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary, Thompson introduced into English Miguel Abensour’s concept of the “education of desire.”2 This has had a profound impact on what has become known as utopian studies but has had hardly any influence on cultural …
Consuming Utopia
Consuming Utopia builds on critical insights into consumption and utopianism developed in two previous books by the author to elaborate what it means to read utopian fiction (including dystopian and anti-utopian) from the critical perspective of cultural studies. With a critical focus on social practices of reading rather than on the text itself, John Storey advances a timely and relevant contribution to existing debates on utopian fiction, offer…
Cultural Theory and Popular Culture
In this ninth edition of his award-winning introduction, John Storey presents a clear and critical survey of competing theories of, and various approaches to, popular culture. Its breadth and theoretical unity, exemplified through popular culture, means that it can be flexibly and relevantly applied across a number of disciplines. Retaining the accessible approach of previous editions and using appropriate examples from the texts and practices of…
The Happy Place That Exists Nowhere
Contrary to dominant debates about Utopia, I do not think it matters whether Thomas More actually believed that ‘communism’ was the solution to social inequality and injustice; what I think is important is that the book raises the question of a different type of society. As I argue in the second part of my article, the power of Utopia, like all radical utopianism, derives not from the production of blueprints; rather, it comes from the stimulatio…
Cultural Theory and Popular Culture
In this eighth edition of his award-winning Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction, John Storey presents a clear and critical survey of competing theories of and various approaches to popular culture. Its breadth and theoretical unity, exemplified through popular culture, means that it can be flexibly and relevantly applied across a number of disciplines. Retaining the accessible approach of previous editions, and using appropriate …
Theories of Consumption
Theories of Consumption
Cultural Studies, British
British cultural studies works with an inclusive definition of culture. That is, it is a “democratic” project in the sense that, rather than study only what Matthew Arnold, in Culture and Anarchy (1867), called “the best which has been thought and said,” British cultural studies is committed to examining all that has been thought and said. To put it simply, culture is how we live nature (including our own biology): It is the shared meanings we ma…
The Routledge Companion to Leadership
The Routledge Companion to
Routledge Companion to Leadership
Living with enterprise in an enterprise economy
Changes in organizational structures, logics and employment practices in the media industries – critically the outsourcing of labour, whereby employees become freelance workers – supply an ideal context in which to explore the extent to which, and the ways in which, ideological and structural pressures encourage workers to accept the logic and imperatives of enterprise. An important and influential body of literature identifies the ‘enterprising …
The Means of Management Control
In the understanding of managerial control over work, the labour process literature has been very influential. Recent critical contributions from the sociological tradition have, however, served to so fragment the underlying perspective that its coherence is now threatened. This paper seeks to demonstrate how a dialectical analysis can lay the basis for a viable amended approach. The need for a dialectical framework has often been urged - illustr…
Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture
A revised and updated new edition of this best-selling introduction to the study of contemporary popular culture. The book presents an accessible introduction to the range of theories and methods which have been used to study contemporary popular culture. Doing this, it also provides a map of the development of cultural studies through discussion of its most influential approaches. Organised around a series of case studies, each chapter focuses o…
From Popular Culture to Everyday Life
From Popular Culture to Everyday Life presents a critical exploration of the development of everyday life as an object of study in cultural analysis, wherein John Storey addresses the way in which everyday life is beginning to replace popular culture as a primary concept in cultural studies. Storey presents a range of different ways of thinking theoretically about the everyday; from Freudian and Marxist approaches, to chapters exploring topics su…
The ground beneath my feet’
This paper examines the erosion of autonomy among research and development ( R & D ) engineers in a global information technology company and the ways in which they responded. Over a 14‐year period, we examine the changing regime of control as knowledge workers in this firm are increasingly subjected to increased project and portfolio management interventions. Drawing on extended interviews, we consider the propensity of such knowledge workers to…
Cultural Theory and Popular Culture
In this ninth edition of his award-winning introduction, John Storey presents a clear and critical survey of competing theories of, and various approaches to, popular culture. Its breadth and theoretical unity, exemplified through popular culture, means that it can be flexibly and relevantly applied across a number of disciplines. Retaining the accessible approach of previous editions and using appropriate examples from the texts and practices of…
The social life of opera
This article explores the changing status of opera and seeks to challenge the idea that opera is `essentially' an elite cultural practice. I begin by considering the increasing social visibility of opera in contemporary UK and US society. I then examine the history of opera in terms of its invention in the late 16th century and its development as popular commercial entertainment in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Next, I explore how opera was …
Coping With World Class Manufacturing
This article reports on a study of shopfloor ‘coping’ behaviour in an engineering company which had launched a major ‘World Class Manufacturing’ (WCM) initiative. The article unpacks the meaning of WCM and shows how its impact varied markedly between different manufacturing cells. More centrally, it reveals a significant gap between managerial understanding and attitudes to the new manufacturing and the response found among a significant proporti…
Love’s best habit
The article critically examines how people use media when in romantic relationships. By ‘use’ we mean two things: the use of media discourses and the use of media technologies. The main findings are based on analysis of 42 discursive questionnaires and 14 semi-structured interviews consisting of almost 20 hours of recorded material
Inventing opera as art in nineteenth-century Manchester
There can be little doubt that in recent times opera has gained an increasing social visibility. This can be illustrated in a number of different ways; for example, by the fairly extensive use of opera in advertising and on film soundtracks. At a more general level, one could point to opera stars performing with pop stars, opera stars hosting variety shows and opera stars performing at major sporting events. Are these (and other) changes somethin…
There's No Success Like Failure
The Means of Management Control
Andrew Friedman has responded to my article `The Means of Management Control' by criticising its treatment of the labour process literature. He also contends that my alternative formulation is flawed in three regards: it is simultaneously functionalist and empiricist and is allegedly dismissive of the concept of `managerial strategy'. But Friedman's critique is built on an assemblage of misinterpretation and distortion. He repeatedly reconstitute…
Organizations, Management, and Control
Managerial Prerogative and the Question of Control
In both Marxist and non-Marxist scholarship there has been a remarkable neglect of the managerial control of labour. John Storey’s analysis of the modern labour process shows that managerial control is in fact more precarious than has been so far recorded. This book, first published in 1983, reassesses the Braverman theory of the inexorable degradation of work, and demonstrates the need to go beyond not only Braverman but also most of the ensuing…
The Means of Management Control
In the understanding of managerial control over work, the labour process literature has been very influential. Recent critical contributions from the sociological tradition have, however, served to so fragment the underlying perspective that its coherence is now threatened. This paper seeks to demonstrate how a dialectical analysis can lay the basis for a viable amended approach. The need for a dialectical framework has often been urged - illustr…
The Means of Management Control
Andrew Friedman has responded to my article `The Means of Management Control' by criticising its treatment of the labour process literature. He also contends that my alternative formulation is flawed in three regards: it is simultaneously functionalist and empiricist and is allegedly dismissive of the concept of `managerial strategy'. But Friedman's critique is built on an assemblage of misinterpretation and distortion. He repeatedly reconstitute…
Managers in the Making
'Managers in the Making' questions the authenticity of the popular image of Japanese personnel and management development, which has been held up as a model in Europe, the US and elsewhere
There's No Success Like Failure
Managers in the Making
Using original comparative research data collected in Britain and in Japan this book analyzes the diverse processes through which managers are made in the two countries. It provides comparative detail about careers, training, developmental experiences and job demands of managers in eight named case companies. Each firm is matched by size and sector across the two countries. Quantitative and qualitative data are used to reveal managers' experience…
Coping With World Class Manufacturing
This article reports on a study of shopfloor ‘coping’ behaviour in an engineering company which had launched a major ‘World Class Manufacturing’ (WCM) initiative. The article unpacks the meaning of WCM and shows how its impact varied markedly between different manufacturing cells. More centrally, it reveals a significant gap between managerial understanding and attitudes to the new manufacturing and the response found among a significant proporti…
Leadership in Organizations
Inventing Popular Culture
"Inventing Popular Culture is a lively and accessible history of the idea of popular culture by one of the leading experts in the field. Written from the critical perspective of cultural studies, the book traces the invention and reinvention of the concept of popular culture from the eighteenth-century "discovery" of folk culture to contemporary accounts of the cultural impact of globalization."--Jacket
The social life of opera
This article explores the changing status of opera and seeks to challenge the idea that opera is `essentially' an elite cultural practice. I begin by considering the increasing social visibility of opera in contemporary UK and US society. I then examine the history of opera in terms of its invention in the late 16th century and its development as popular commercial entertainment in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Next, I explore how opera was …
Living with enterprise in an enterprise economy
Changes in organizational structures, logics and employment practices in the media industries – critically the outsourcing of labour, whereby employees become freelance workers – supply an ideal context in which to explore the extent to which, and the ways in which, ideological and structural pressures encourage workers to accept the logic and imperatives of enterprise. An important and influential body of literature identifies the ‘enterprising …
Inventing opera as art in nineteenth-century Manchester
There can be little doubt that in recent times opera has gained an increasing social visibility. This can be illustrated in a number of different ways; for example, by the fairly extensive use of opera in advertising and on film soundtracks. At a more general level, one could point to opera stars performing with pop stars, opera stars hosting variety shows and opera stars performing at major sporting events. Are these (and other) changes somethin…
The Invention of the English Christmas
Understanding Enterprise
The idea of `Enterprise' has been extensively used in recent years as a way to understand the principles underlying the reinvention of organizations and employees. It tends to be used as a counterfactual to `bureaucracy'. However, we argue that while this approach has produced some rich insights, an over-emphasis on the notion of enterprise may exaggerate the reality of change. In this paper we focus on the ways in which top managers mediate the …
Reply to Tara Fenwick
The Routledge companion to strategic human resource management
Cultural theory and popular culture
Managerial Dilemmas
In the midst of the most severe recession for 80 years there is little need to argue that organizations are beset by dilemmas and paradoxes. Confidence in prevailing business models and in the underlying assumptions underpinning business decisions over many decades has now been shaken. But it is not enough to rail against arrogance and greed. Within their own (flawed) assumptions bankers and corporate leaders were acting rationally. A major reaso…
The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Culture
British culture today is the product of a shifting combination of tradition and experimentation, national identity and regional and ethnic diversity. These distinctive tensions are expressed in a range of cultural arenas, such as art, sport, journalism, fashion, education, and race. This Companion addresses these and other major aspects of British culture, and offers a sophisticated understanding of what it means to study and think about the dive…
CHAPTER 1 Culture and Power
Culture and Power in Cultural Studies
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748640157); Culture and Power in Cultural Studies is a collection of John Storey's best and most significant contributions to the field of cultural studies, spanning 25 years. Covering a variety of topics, all chapters share a common focus on culture and power and the politics of signification: the struggle to define social reality; to give the world and its contents meaning in particular ways to generate de…
Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture
A revised and updated new edition of this best-selling introduction to the study of contemporary popular culture. The book presents an accessible introduction to the range of theories and methods which have been used to study contemporary popular culture. Doing this, it also provides a map of the development of cultural studies through discussion of its most influential approaches. Organised around a series of case studies, each chapter focuses o…
The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Culture (Cambridge Companions to Culture)
"British culture today is the product of a shifting combination of tradition and experimentation, national identity and regional and ethnic diversity. These distinctive tensions are expressed in a range of cultural arenas, such as art, sport, journalism, fashion, education, and race. This Companion addresses these and other major aspects of British culture, and offers a sophisticated understanding of what it means to study and think about the div…
The ground beneath my feet’
This paper examines the erosion of autonomy among research and development ( R & D ) engineers in a global information technology company and the ways in which they responded. Over a 14‐year period, we examine the changing regime of control as knowledge workers in this firm are increasingly subjected to increased project and portfolio management interventions. Drawing on extended interviews, we consider the propensity of such knowledge workers to…
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