De-centring or re-focusing cultural studies
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in European Journal of Cultural Studies
- Vol. 1 (1) , 57-64
- https://doi.org/10.1177/136754949800100104
Abstract
This article welcomes Handel K. Wright's challenge to standard accounts of the history of cultural studies and begins with suggestions about the significance of this intervention. However, the piece contends that there are limits even to a pluralized origins narrative and that the spirit of Wright's challenge should be carried further. Hence, three key features of Wright's approach to cultural studies are reviewed: the stress on its anti-disciplinary nature, the refusal of the confinement to educational sites, and the concern to maintain 'its productive, political edge'. By amplifying the dimensions of these issues and raising critical questions about strategies relating to them, the author tries to encourage further debate about not only where cultural studies has come from, but also about where it may be going.Keywords
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