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This volume explores the history, evolution, and future of Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies as a discipline, a pedagogical tool, and a set of working practices by bringing together a diverse group of renowned specialists to examine how the field has grown out of and reconsidered some of the basic premises of British Cultural Studies.
List of contents
Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies Theory and Practice: An Introduction; Part I. Cultural Studies Theory: New Agendas, Disobedient Genealogies and the Dangers of Institutionalization; 1. Latin American Cultural Studies: Accomplishments, Shortcomings, and New Agendas – An Updated Report; 2. Cultural Studies in Mexico: Notes Toward a Disobedient Genealogy; 3. The Non-Place of Theory in Hispanic Cultural Studies; Part II. Cultural Studies Practice: Decolonial Strategies and the Power of the Subaltern Classes; 4. Prosthetic Columbus: A Critical Cartography of the Monumental Cult of Hispanidad (1892-2020); 5. (Re)Thinking Nature: Between Brazilian Cultural Studies and Ecocriticism; 6. Gramsci and Contemporary Spanish Politics; 7. Grrrl Zines, Riot Grrrl / Minas do rock, and Feminist Cultural Studies in Brazil; 8. Mapping the Spaces and Places of Hispanic Urban Cultural Studies; 9. The ‘Fierce Urgency of Now’: Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies, New Technology and the Future of the Profession; 10. Telling the Story of Iberian Cultural Studies: Spaces of Convergence and the Defense of the Humanities; 11. Luso-Hispanic Culture and Commerce: A Media Perspective; Part III. Cultural Studies Pedagogy: Fighting Information Poverty Through Place-Based Projects and Community Engagement; 12. For a Cultural Politics of Engagement: Combating Information Poverty In and Out of Class; 13. Re-Thinking Migration and Human Mobility in Moline’s ‘West End’: Pedagogies of Urban Cultural Studies; 14. Biopolitical Monsters in the Classroom: Co-Producing and Sharing Digital Maps; 15. Challenging Cultures of Power through Cultural Studies and Maker Pedagogies: An Instructional Conversation; Index
About the author
Susan Larson is the Charles B. Qualia Chair of Romance Languages and Professor of Spanish Literature, Film, and Cultural Studies at Texas Tech University, USA.
Summary
This volume explores the history, evolution, and future of Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies as a discipline, a pedagogical tool, and a set of working practices by bringing together a diverse group of renowned specialists to examine how the field has grown out of and reconsidered some of the basic premises of British Cultural Studies.
