CLASS, LIBERAL PLURALISM AND COUNTERHEGEMONY
| Autor: | John O'Kane |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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| Zdroj: | Cultural Studies. 15:295-325 |
| ISSN: | 1466-4348 0950-2386 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09502380152390526 |
| Popis: | This article focusses two interrelated issues in cultural studies: its increasing institutionalization, and the diminished relevance of class as an organizing principle. It concurs with many who ask what might radicalize cultural studies in the US at a time when the Birmingham legacy - an extra-institutional radicalism linked to Marxism - is no longer an effective guide. It proceeds by discussing the limits of forces which have prevented this radicalization, especially ‘American Exceptionalism’ and liberal pluralism. It then considers the existing reliance on European and British theories which has helped maintain this state, and argues in support of using both different theories and developing new articulations. These concerns are focussed through an evaluation of John Fiske'swork, which has thrived with the rise of neoliberalism, the decline of statism, the return of individualism and ‘freedom,’ and the left's creeping reformism in and outside the institution. Fiske has made significant contributions fo... |
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