Cultural Studies and Political Economy

Cultural Studies and Political Economy
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Publisher : Lexington Books
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 9780739131985
ISBN-13 : 0739131982
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Synopsis Cultural Studies and Political Economy by : Robert E. Babe

This book addresses the notorious split between the two fields of cultural studies and political economy. Drawing on the works of Harold Innis, Theodor Adorno, Raymond Williams, Richard Hoggart, E.P. Thompson, and other major theorists in the two fields, Robert E. Babe shows that political economy can be reconciled to certain aspects of cultural studies, particularly with regards to cultural materialism. Uniting the two fields has proven to be a complex undertaking though it makes practical sense, given the close interaction between political economy and cultural studies. Babe examines the evolution of cultural studies over time and its changing relationship with political economy. The intersections between the two fields center around three subjects: the cultural biases of money, the time/space dialectic, and the dialectic of information.

Towards a Cultural Political Economy

Towards a Cultural Political Economy
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Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages : 588
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ISBN-10 : 9780857930712
ISBN-13 : 0857930710
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Synopsis Towards a Cultural Political Economy by : Ngai-Ling Sum

This fascinating volume offers a critique of recent institutional and cultural turns in heterodox economics and political economy. Using seven case studies as examples, the authors explore how research on sense- and meaning-making can deepen critical s

Pragmatism and the Political Economy of Cultural Revolution, 1850–1940

Pragmatism and the Political Economy of Cultural Revolution, 1850–1940
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Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages : 425
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ISBN-10 : 9780807863039
ISBN-13 : 0807863033
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Synopsis Pragmatism and the Political Economy of Cultural Revolution, 1850–1940 by : James Livingston

The rise of corporate capitalism was a cultural revolution as well as an economic event, according to James Livingston. That revolution resides, he argues, in the fundamental reconstruction of selfhood, or subjectivity, that attends the advent of an 'age of surplus' under corporate auspices. From this standpoint, consumer culture represents a transition to a society in which identities as well as incomes are not necessarily derived from the possession of productive labor or property. From the same standpoint, pragmatism and literary naturalism become ways of accommodating the new forms of solidarity and subjectivity enabled by the emergence of corporate capitalism. So conceived, they become ways of articulating alternatives to modern, possessive individualism. Livingston argues accordingly that the flight from pragmatism led by Lewis Mumford was an attempt to refurbish a romantic version of modern, possessive individualism. This attempt still shapes our reading of pragmatism, Livingston claims, and will continue to do so until we understand that William James was not merely a well-meaning middleman between Charles Peirce and John Dewey and that James's pragmatism was both a working model of postmodern subjectivity and a novel critique of capitalism.

Culture and the Political Economy of Schooling

Culture and the Political Economy of Schooling
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 271
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ISBN-10 : 9781351612609
ISBN-13 : 1351612603
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Synopsis Culture and the Political Economy of Schooling by : John Morgan

Since the global financial crisis of 2007-08 the question of the aims of schooling have assumed greater importance. There has been no ‘return to normal’, yet young people are encouraged to ‘Keep calm and go to university’. Culture and the Political Economy of Schooling explores the possibilities for the emergence of a progressive agenda for schooling. Culture and the Political Economy of Schooling provides educators and social scientists with the essential background required to understand changes in schooling since the Second World War. It introduces theories of the economic crisis, and explores their educational implications, before going on to provide accounts of how politics and culture have shaped debates about schooling. This cultural political economy approach is applied to issues such as social class, race, the brave new worlds of work, the dangerous rise of creative education, and the increasingly urgent question of inequality. The final parts of the book explore the educational challenges of the Anthropocene and the changing conceptions of knowledge in schools and finally consider alternatives to contemporary schooling. The students in our schools today will face a future framed by the twin crises of economy and environment, prompting an urgent rethink of education. Written in an accessible and engaging manner, this book is an essential guide for thinking about the past, present and futures of education. It will be of great interest to researchers and graduate students of education studies, curriculum studies, sociology of education, education politics and education policy.

Toward a Political Economy of Culture

Toward a Political Economy of Culture
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages : 396
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ISBN-10 : 9781461700357
ISBN-13 : 1461700353
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Toward a Political Economy of Culture by : Andrew Calabrese

Several of the most important and influential political economists of communication working today explore a rich mix of topics and issues that link work, policy studies, and research and theory about the public sphere to the heritage of political economy. Familiar but still exceedingly important topics in critical political economy studies are well represented here: market structures and media concentration, regulation and policy, technological impacts on particular media sectors, information poverty, and media access. The book also features new topics for political economy study, including racism in audience research, the value and need for feminist approaches to political economy studies, and the relationship between the discourse of media finance and the behavior of markets.

Cultural Political Economy

Cultural Political Economy
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 518
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ISBN-10 : 9781135173890
ISBN-13 : 1135173893
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Cultural Political Economy by : Jacqueline Best

The global political economy is inescapably cultural. Whether we talk about the economic dimensions of the "war on terror", the sub-prime crisis and its aftermath, or the ways in which new information technology has altered practices of production and consumption, it has become increasingly clear that these processes cannot be fully captured by the hyper-rational analysis of economists or the slogans of class conflict. This book argues that culture is a concept that can be used to develop more subtle and fruitful analyses of the dynamics and problems of the global political economy. Rediscovering the unacknowledged role of culture in the writings of classical political economists, the contributors to this volume reveal its central place in the historical evolution of post-war capitalism, exploring its continued role in contemporary economic processes that range from the commercialization of security practices to the development of ethical tourism. The book shows that culture plays a role in both constituting different forms of economic life and in shaping the diverse ways that capitalism has developed historically – from its earliest moments to its most recent challenges. Providing valuable insights to a wide range of disciplines, this volume will be of vital interest to students and scholars of International Political Economy, Cultural and Economic Geography and Sociology, and International Relations.

Regionalizing Culture

Regionalizing Culture
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Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : UCSD:31822040770794
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Synopsis Regionalizing Culture by : Nissim Otmazgin

The political economy of popular culture -- Popular culture and the East Asian region -- Japan's popular culture powerhouse -- The creation of a regional market -- Japan's regional model -- Conclusion: Japanese popular culture and the making of East Asia.

Consumer Culture Reborn

Consumer Culture Reborn
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 210
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ISBN-10 : 9781134888122
ISBN-13 : 1134888120
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Synopsis Consumer Culture Reborn by : Martyn J. Lee

Consumer Culture Reborn focuses on consumption as the point at which economy and culture combine. The book draws the often polarised discourses of political economy and cultural studies closer together in a historical context as a means of understanding our social situations as we approach the end of the millenium. Taking as its central theme the ability of the capitalist mode of production to transform the material and social world which sustains it, the book focuses on some of the ways in which this transformational impulse has altered the means by which ordinary people reproduce their life and their patterns of life. Neither a history book, nor simply a book of theory, Consumer Culture Reborn fuses elements of economic, social and cultural theory in an historical perspective.

Cultural Economy

Cultural Economy
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Publisher : SAGE
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9781412931908
ISBN-13 : 1412931908
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Synopsis Cultural Economy by : Paul du Gay

Phrases such as `corporate culture′, `market culture′ and the `knowledge economy′, have now become familiar clarion calls in the world of work. They are calls that have echoed through organizations and markets. Clearly something is happening to the ways markets and organizations are being represented and intervened in and this signals a need to reassess their very constitution. In particular, the once clean divide that placed the economy, dealt with mainly by economists, on one side, and culture, addressed chiefly by those in anthropology, sociology and the other `cultural sciences′, on the other, can no longer hold. This volume presents the work of an international group of academics from a range of disciplines including sociology, media and cultural studies, social anthropology and geography, all of whom are involved not only in thinking `culture′ into the economy but thinking culture and economy together.