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Cultural Studies (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Ben Trott
Termin:
wöchentlich | Dienstag | 16:15 - 17:45 | 15.10.2018 - 01.02.2019 | C 5.311 Seminarraum
Inhalt: This seminar introduces Cultural Studies, as it emerged in Britain in the 1950s and 60s. It looks at the ideas and approaches that shaped it (including those associated with the ‘New Left’), it’s development as an academic field, and the ways in which it has been taken up by others. Students will engage with the work of some of the key figures within (British) Cultural Studies, including Richard Hoggart, Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, and Angela McRobbie. We will look at how these authors have variously drawn on (and re-thought) Karl Marx’s account of the relationship between (economic) ‘base’ and (political/ideological) ‘superstructure’, Louis Althusser’s work on ‘ideology’ (and ‘ideological state apparatuses’), and Antonio Gramsci’s notion of ‘hegemony’. Students will also explore the resonances and dissonances between Cultural Studies and Pierre Bourdieu’s work, particularly on ‘distinction’ and on the forms of capital. Finally, we will examine the ways that contemporary scholars (including in the fields of Queer, Transgender, and Post-Colonial Studies) draw on the Cultural Studies project in order to address issues of affect, subculture, class, identity, deviance, sexuality, and hegemony today. In doing so, students will encounter the work of scholars including Gayatri Spivak, J. Jack Halberstam, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick. A draft syllabus is available in the "materials" folder for this seminar on myStudy.
Cultural Studies: Politics in Britain from Thatcher to Corbyn (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Ben Trott
Termin:
Einzeltermin | Sa, 17.11.2018, 12:15 - Sa, 17.11.2018, 17:45 | C 14.102 a Seminarraum
Einzeltermin | Fr, 30.11.2018, 12:15 - Fr, 30.11.2018, 15:45 | C 14.201 Seminarraum
Einzeltermin | Fr, 18.01.2019, 12:15 - Fr, 18.01.2019, 15:45 | C 14.102 b Seminarraum
Inhalt: In a 1983 lecture on the formation of Cultural Studies in Britain, one of its leading figures, Stuart Hall, explained that he wanted to separate himself ‘from those who would read the birth of Cultural Studies as an intellectual project’. Instead, he said, ‘I want to insist that it is in fact born as a political project, as a way of analysing postwar advanced capitalist culture.’ In addition to monographs and articles published by scholarly presses and journals, then, British Cultural Studies has also been shaped by its contributions to political debates (and particularly debates on the Left). These have often taken the form of political essays and analyses of the political (and cultural, economic, social) conjuncture, frequently challenging intellectual and political orthodoxies (including on the Left). In this seminar, we will take advantage of last year’s publication of Stuart Hall’s “Selected Political Writings”, looking at his conjunctural analyses of ‘Thatcherism’ and of the project that Tony Blair’s ‘New Labour’ represented. We will also explore, through a 2011 essay, his analysis of the era that followed the 2007/8 political economic crisis which – after Hall’s death in 2014 – has seen the rise of what some are now calling ‘Corbynism’. In addition to Hall’s political essays, we will also address the following. First, the politics of race, migration, sexuality and gender in Thatcher’s Britain, through an engagement with the film “My Beautiful Laundrette” (written by Hanif Kureishi). Second, Angela McRobbie’s discussion of the labour reforms pursued by New Labour, primarily through its promotion of the ‘creative economy’. And third, the politics of the 2011 urban uprisings across England, via the work of Paul Gilroy, along with that of David Harvie and Keir Milburn (who draw on another key figure in Cultural Studies, namely E. P. Thompson, and his writing on the ‘moral economy’ of the English crowd). A draft syllabus is available in the "materials" folder for this seminar on myStudy.