Cultural studies Can we / should we reinvent it

Bibliographic Data

ID12602105
AuthorsN Couldry (0000-0001-8233-3287, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume23
Issue3
Pages292-297
Publication date2020-02-14
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1367-8779 • E-ISSN: 1460-356X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1367877919891733
OpenAlexW3005674399
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited9

This short article returns to an original sense of the term ‘cultural studies’, that is, a subject which needed to be invented to supplement a democratic deficit in established humanities and social science disciplines. It reviews reasons why something like cultural studies needs to be reinvented again today (converging crises in democratic systems and culture, deriving from new social and political ecologies, linked to technology), but also reasons why, right now, this is particularly difficult. Addressing this challenge requires a modesty as to what can be done, but also an urgency opening up a space where the threats to democracy’s future can honestly be faced in a cross-disciplinary dialogue

Democracy · Discipline · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Anthropology · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Cultural Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Social Media and Politics

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