Understanding culture : cultural studies, order, ordering / Gavin Kendall and Gary Wickham.

Understanding Culture offers an accessible and comprehensive overview of the field of cultural studies whilst also proposing a different way of d̀oing' cultural studies. It focuses on the ways in which cultural objects and practices serve as both a means of ordering people's lives and as m...

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Main Author: Kendall, Gavin
Other Authors: Wickham, Gary, 1951-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2001.
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Table of Contents:
  • Covers; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Cultural Studies with Just a Hint of Foucault; Chapter 1
  • Surveying the Field of Cultural Studies; Chapter 2
  • The Notion of Ordering as an Organising Principle for Cultural Studies; Chapter 3
  • Building a Method for Cultural Studies as the Study of Ordering; Chapter 4
  • Ordering Through the Cluture of Government
  • a Colonial Example; Chapter 5
  • Ordering Through the Culture of Law and Regulation; Chapter 6
  • Ordering Through the Culture of Everyday Life; Chapter 7
  • Ordering Through Routinisation
  • Technique, Technology and Self.