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Since the late 1960s, both internationally and locally, we have witnessed the growth of subject areas outside the traditional liberal arts curriculum and disciplinary structure of the university curriculum: Black Studies (or Indigenous Studies), Feminist or Women's Studies, Critical Legal Studies, Film & Media Studies, Gay Studies, and Cultural Studies are some of the most popular. The principles underlying a global neo-liberalism and managerialism were responsible for restructuring universities during the 1980s. Some thought that such developments imperiled the humanities, while others believed that the context of globalization and the development of new communications technologies offered new hope for both interdisciplinary work and the emergence of a critical approach.
The book asks the following broad questions: What are the underlying historical, epistemological, and political reasons for the emergence of cultural studies? What do these developments imply for the traditional liberal arts curriculum and the traditional discipline-based university? To what extent does the emergence of cultural studies displace or dislocate traditional disciplines? What forms of resistance has cultural studies encountered, and why? To what extent does the emergence of cultural studies reflect a changing mission of the university and changing relations between the university and the wider society? What is the future of cultural studies?
List of contents
Series Foreword by Henry A. Giroux
Preface
Introduction: After the Disciplines? Disciplinarity, Culture, and the Emerging Economy of Studies by Michael Peters
The Political Economy of "Studies" by Ruth Butterworth
After the Science Wars: From Old Battles to New Directions in the Cultural Studies of Science by Robert Markley
Going to Cyberschool: Post/Trans/Anti-Disciplinarity at the Virtual University by Timothy Luke
Fragmented Visions: Excavating the Future of Area Studies in a Post-American World by Ravi Arvind Palat
Geography and Area Studies by Warren Moran
Women's Studies/Cultural Studies: Pedagogy, Seduction, and the Real World by Maureen Molloy
Disciplined Absences: Cultural Studies and the Missing Discourse of a Feminist Politics of Emotion by Megan Boler
The Late Show: The Production of Film and Television Studies by Roger Horrocks
The Development of Maori Studies in Tertiary Education in Aoteroa/New Zealand by Ranginui Walker
Literacy Studies by Colin Lankshear
Doing Cultural Studies: Youth and the Challenge of Pedagogy by Henry Giroux
Humanities in the Postmodern by Brian Opie
About the author
Michael Peters
