Page 9 - Introducing Cultural Studies

All this makes it very difficult, if
not impossible, to agree on
any basic definition of the
nature of the beast that is
cultural studies. Cultural
studies is not one thing, it is
many things. It straddles the
intellectual and academic methodology to methodology,
landscape from old according to its own concerns
established disciplines to new
and motivations.
political movements,
intellectual practices and This is why cultural studies is
modes of inquiry such as
not a discipline. It is, in fact, a
Marxism, post-colonialism,
collective term for diverse and
feminism and post- often contentious intellectual
structuralism. It moves from endeavours that address
discipline to discipline,
numerous questions, and
consists of many different
theoretical and political
positions.

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