Commitment and Complicity in Cultural Theory and Practice

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ISBN: 0230221955
ISBN 13: 9780230221956
Herausgeber: B Firat/S De Mul/S Van Wichelen
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: ix, 197 S., 3 s/w Illustr., 197 p. 3 illus.
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.05.2009
Auflage: 1/2009
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

Looks at the gap between contemporary cultural theory and cultural practice, asking whether knowledge and methodologies in the humanities can intervene in everyday politics and vice-versa Examines the role of the intellectual in the twenty-first century, tapping into emerging academic interest in the subject of intellectual commitment Includes contributions from well-known and distinguished scholars such as Sara Ahmed, Rey Chow and Elleke Boehmer Strong international orientation – contributors from the UK, the US, Australia and EuropeFills a gap in the market for an interdisciplinary analysis of commitment and complicity in cultural theory

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Beschreibung

An international line-up of scholars examines the role of the intellectual in the twenty-first century, looking at the gap between contemporary cultural theory and cultural practice, and asking whether knowledge and methodologies in the humanities can intervene in everyday politics and vice-versa.

Autorenporträt

SARA AHMED is Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK MIEKE BAL is Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Professor (KNAW), based at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands ELLEKE BOEHMER is the Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford, UK TIMOTHY BRENNAN is Professor at the Departments of English and Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA REY CHOW is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University, USA OCTAVI COMERON is an artist and also a teacher at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona, Spain FIONA PROBYNRAPSEY is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia ANDREA TETI is a Lecturer at the Department of International Relations at the University of Aberdeen, UK

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