A Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory

This Companion addresses the contemporary transformation of critical and cultural theory, with special emphasis on the way debates in the field have changed in recent decades. Features original essays from an international team of cultural theorists which offer fresh and compelling perspectives and sketch out exciting new areas of theoretical inquiry Thoughtfully organized into two sections lineages and problematics that facilitate its use both by students new to the field andadvanced scholars and researchers Explains key schools and movements clearly and succinctly, situating them in relation to broader developments in culture, society, and politics Tackles issues that have shaped and energized the field since the Second World War, with discussion of familiar and under–theorized topics related to living and laboring, being and knowing, and agency and belonging INDICE: Contributors ix .Acknowledgments xv .Introduction xviiImre Szeman, Sarah Blacker, and Justin Sully .Part I Lineages 1 .1 Frankfurt New York San Diego 1924 1968; or, Critical Theory 3Andrew Pendakis .2 Vienna 1899 Paris 1981; or, Psychoanalysis 25James Penney .3 Paris 1955 1968; or, Structuralism 41Sean Homer .4 Birmingham Urbana Champaign 1964 1990; or, Cultural Studies 59Paul Smith .5 Baltimore New Haven 1966 1983; or, Deconstruction 73Michael O Driscoll .6 Paris Boston Berkeley the Mexico/Texas Borderlands 1949 1990; or, Gender and Sexuality 91Sarah Brophy .7 Delhi/Ahmednagar Fort Washington, DC/Birmingham Jail Pretoria/Robben Island 1947 1994; or, Race, Colonialism, Postcolonialism 115Neil ten Kortenaar .8 Petrograd/Leningrad Havana Beijing 1917 1991; or, Marxist Theory and Socialist Practice 129Peter Hitchcock .9 Chile Seattle Cairo 1973 2017?; or, Globalization and Neoliberalism 147Myka Tucker Abramson .Part II Problematics 167 .Section A: Living and Laboring 167 .10 Subjectivity 173William Callison .11 Diaspora and Migration 191Ghassan Hage .12 Community, Collectivity, Affinities 205Miranda Joseph .13 Feminism 223Rosemary Hennessy .14 Gender and Queer Theory 243Amber Jamilla Musser .15 Social Divisions and Hierarchies 255Randy Martin .16 Work and Precarity 269Jason Read .Section B: Being and Knowing 283 .17 Religion and Secularism 287Jerilyn Sambrooke .18 Affect 301Marija Cetini and Jeff Diamanti .19 Indigenous Epistemes 313Rauna Kuokkanen .20 The Everyday, Taste, Class 327Ben Highmore .21 Disability Studies 339Anna Mollow .22 Unsound 357Veit Erlmann .23 Screen Life 371Toby Miller .24 Digital and New Media 387Wendy Hui Kyong Chun .25 Science and Technology 403Priscilla Wald .Section C: Structures of Agency and Belonging 419 .26 Circulation 423Will Straw .27 Cultural Production 435Sarah Brouillette .28 Decolonization 449Jennifer Wenzel .29 Race and Ethnicity 465Min Hyoung Song .30 Humanism 477Nina Power .31 Nature 489Stephanie LeMenager .32 Scale 503Justin Sully .33 Narrative 517Marie Laure Ryan .Index 531

• ISBN: 978-1-118-47231-6
• Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 592
• Fecha Publicación: 15/09/2017
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés