Showing papers in "Cultural Studies in 1992"
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss postcoloniality and the critique of history in the context of post-colonization and post-coloniality in a post-war Europe.
Abstract: (1992). Provincializing Europe: Postcoloniality and the critique of history. Cultural Studies: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 337-357.
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TL;DR: Suleri as discussed by the authors argued that the third world is locatable only as a discourse of convenience and that trying to find it is like pretending that history or home is real and not located precisely where you're sitting.
Abstract: When I teach topics in third world literature, much time is lost in trying to explain that the third world is locatable only as a discourse of convenience. Trying to find it is like pretending that history or home is real and not located precisely where you're sitting, I hear my voice quite idiotically say. (Sara Suleri, Meatless Days 1989)
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TL;DR: Paley as mentioned in this paper made an impromptu visit to the kindergarten down the hall: every girl says Barbie is her favorite, most imply that their mothers disapprove, and the teachers tell me privately they wish Barbie dolls were left at home.
Abstract: I make an impromptu visit to the kindergarten down the hall: Every girl says Barbie is her favorite, most imply that their mothers disapprove, and the teachers tell me privately they wish Barbie dolls were left at home. (Paley, 1984)
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TL;DR: A politics which offers only "dissent" and "resistance" as positive terms, is simply not enough It will not work An internally consistent critique necessitates by definition a closure on the part of the critic to lived and living contradictions, a turning away from that "other side" which must be faced, imagined, yearned towards if all the conflicting forces at play in a conjuncture are to be pushed towards a fruitful outcome as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: A politics which offers only ‘dissent’ and ‘resistance’ as positive terms, is simply not enough It will not work An internally consistent critique — no matter how concerned, committed or purely deconstructive in intent — necessitates by definition a closure on the part of the critic to lived and living contradictions, a turning away from that ‘other side’ which must be faced, imagined, yearned towards if all the conflicting forces at play in a conjuncture are to be pushed towards a fruitful outcome … to resurrect history in all its secular senses, we could say that the situation is indeed ‘grave’ — it always is, but it is especially grave at the moment, it is especially so now We need to develop vital strategies if we are to rise out of and move beyond a situation of such overwhelming gravity (Hebdige, 1988: 223)
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TL;DR: Kimball as mentioned in this paper argued that despite our many differences, we hold in common an intellectual, artistic, and moral legacy, descending largely from the Greeks and the Bible, supplemented and modified over centuries by innumerable contributions from diverse hands and peoples.
Abstract: Implicit in the politicizing mandate of multiculturalism is an attack on the idea of common culture, the idea that despite our many differences, we hold in common an intellectual, artistic, and moral legacy, descending largely from the Greeks and the Bible, supplemented and modified over centuries by innumerable contributions from diverse hands and peoples. It is this legacy that has given us our science, our political institutions, and the monuments of artistic and cultural achievement that define us as a civilization. Indeed, it is this legacy, insofar as we live up to it, that preserves us from chaos and barbarism. And it is precisely this legacy that the multiculturalist wishes to dispense with. (Kimball, 1991: 6)
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TL;DR: In this paper, the Visions of Disorder: Aboriginal people and youth crime reporting is discussed, with a focus on the role of Aboriginal people in the reporting of crime in Australia.
Abstract: (1992). Visions of disorder: Aboriginal people and youth crime reporting. Cultural Studies: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 322-336.
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TL;DR: Agarwal et al. as mentioned in this paper discuss materialism and maternalism in the songs of Madonna and compare them to a virgin-mother in the song "Like a Virgin-mother".
Abstract: (1992). Like a virgin-mother?: Materialism and maternalism in the songs of Madonna. Cultural Studies: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 73-96.
TL;DR: The Passagenwerk and the place of Walter Benjamin in cultural studies: Benjamin, cultural studies, Marxist theories of art as discussed by the authors was a seminal work in the field of cultural studies.
Abstract: (1992). The Passagenwerk and the place of Walter Benjamin in cultural studies: Benjamin, cultural studies, Marxist theories of art. Cultural Studies: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 147-169.
TL;DR: Morris as mentioned in this paper argued that national identity occurs in an encounter with cultural difference when and only when that difference cannot be represented to the satisfaction of all concerned: or alternatively, the "Australian" is that which irrupts as anecdotal in a theoretically rigorous exchange.
Abstract: National identity occurs in an encounter with cultural difference when and only when that difference cannot be represented to the satisfaction of all concerned: or alternatively, the ‘Australian’ is that which irrupts as anecdotal in a theoretically rigorous exchange. (Meaghan Morris)
TL;DR: In this article, the challenge of public policy for cultural studies is discussed, focusing on TV violence and the challenges of cultural studies. But they do not consider the impact of violence on children.
Abstract: (1992). TV violence: The challenge of public policy for cultural studies. Cultural Studies: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 97-115.
TL;DR: In this paper, Hegemonic irrationalities and psychoanalytic cultural critique are discussed in the context of cultural critique. But they do not consider the relationship between the two.
Abstract: (1992). Hegemonic irrationalities and psychoanalytic cultural critique. Cultural Studies: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 376-394.
TL;DR: The former Arsenal manager and Watford director, Bertie Mee prides himself on his reputation for teaching professional soccer players a "rigorous outlook" towards all aspects of their lives.
Abstract: The former Arsenal manager and Watford director, Bertie Mee prides himself on his reputation for teaching professional soccer players a ‘rigorous outlook. . . towards all aspects of their lives’. This includes schooling players ‘in everything from which knife and fork to pick up first in expensive restaurants to how to contend with the carnal temptations of trips overseas. Mee took raw, new recruits from the backwoods on educational visits to the Tower of London and introduced them to the joys of personal pension schemes’ (Hill, 1989: 33-4, emphasis in original). Of course, many coaches and administrators in professional sports are now adopting similar techniques and views.
It is doubtful whether these various figures realize the theoretical implications of their remarks about the relationship between the formation of manners and the formation of certain types of person through sport. This essay is an attempt to theoretically address this relationship.
TL;DR: The place of a tactic belongs to the other as mentioned in this paper, and all writing is an index of law (Pierre Clastres, 1987a: 177) and all tactics belong to one side or the other.
Abstract: All writing is an index of law (Pierre Clastres, 1987a: 177) The place of a tactic belongs to the other. Michel de Certeau, 1988: xix)
TL;DR: In this paper, dangerous games: Racism as practised symbolically in Italian popular culture are discussed. But they do not consider the role of women in these games. And they focus only on women.
Abstract: (1992). Dangerous games: Racism as practised symbolically in Italian popular culture. Cultural Studies: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 207-218.
TL;DR: Lessing as mentioned in this paper pointed out that while the world English is tricky and elusive enough in England, it is nothing to the variety of meanings it might bear in a Colony, self-governing or otherwise.
Abstract: Fatherland — a quintessence My father … called himself English, or rather, an Englishman, usually bitterly, and when reading the newspapers: that is, when he felt betrayed, or wounded in his moral sense. I remember thinking it all rather academic, living as we did in the backveld. However, I did learn early on that while the world English is tricky and elusive enough in England, it is nothing to the variety of meanings it might bear in a Colony, self-governing or otherwise (Lessing, 1960/68: 7–8).
TL;DR: In this article, modern poems we have wanted to forget are discussed, with a focus on modern poetry we have been wanting to forget, and the authors propose a method for forgetting them.
Abstract: (1992). Modern poems we have wanted to forget. Cultural Studies: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 170-197.
TL;DR: In the Chinese democratic revolutionary movement, it was the intellectuals who were the first to awaken as discussed by the authors, and if you want to build something, if they want to create something new, you have to put something on fire first.
Abstract: In the Chinese democratic revolutionary movement, it was the intellectuals who were the first to awaken. (Mao Zedong) If you want to build something, if you want to create something new, you have to put something on fire first. (Chen Kaige) To turn the world upside down, to stake out the right to imagine another: these are the tasks we are still faced with. (Rey Chow)
TL;DR: The trivial pursuit of textual analysis as discussed by the authors is a classic example of the "Look mum, no hands" problem. But textual analysis is not a trivial pursuit and it is not easy.
Abstract: (1992). ‘Look mum, no hands’: The trivial pursuit of textual analysis. Cultural Studies: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 502-505.