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Cultural Practices, Political Possibilities
Author(s): Rohee Dasgupta (Author, Editor)
- Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Publication Date: 5 Aug. 2008
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 350 pages
- ISBN-10: 1847184774
- ISBN-13: 9781847184771
Book Description
Culture has long been regarded as one of the most complicated concepts in the social sciences, possibly over theorized. Its ubiquity, tangled senses of particularity and the almost universal recognition of that assumed particularity require an extended vocabulary for framing the politics embedded in it. Cultural Practices, Political Possibilities attempts to explain the political significance and overlaps of cultural constructions as witnessed in global-local clashes, convergences of texts and contexts, within the state and community, identity and the self. Through various case-studies, concepts and interdisciplinary perspectives, the multinational group of authors from diverse academic backgrounds interprets cultural constructions of politics as factionalizing, identitarian, situational and particularistic in their links, affirmations and consequential divides. Each contribution, in its unique way explores the performative asymmetries and contradictions witnessed in diverse cultural interactions that shape new areas of political investigation. The book will be welcomed by students of international relations, environmental politics, sociology, anthropology and cultural studies.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘Scholarly, wide-ranging and inspiring in its interdisciplinarity and geographical scope, this impressive text is a valuable contribution to the analysis of the relationship between cultural practices and politics.’Dr. Kate Nash, Reader, Department of Sociology & Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy, Goldsmiths College, University of London’This creative and well informed volume opens up possibilities for cultural politics, diversity and radical practice in a wide range of geographical contexts. It’s strength is in bringing to the reader vital cultural ecologies from key zones around the world, providing a much needed internationalist intervention to an often narrowly defined Anglo-American Cultural Studies. It provides an essential added dimension to current research.’ Professor Sally R. Munt, Director, Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies, University of Sussex
About the Author
Rohee Dasgupta is PhD candidate at the School of Law, Research Institute of Law, Politics and Justice, Keele University, United Kingdom.
