Teaching Culture The Long Revolution in Cultural Studies

This book contains 12 papers that trace the connections and tensions between the original aims and forms of cultural studies in Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the current settings, goals, and methodologies of cultural studies. The following papers are included: "Introduction" (Nannette Aldred and Martin Ryle); "Marginal Occupations: Adult Education, Cultural Studies, and Social Renewal" (Tom Steele); "'Politics by Other Means'? Or, Teaching Cultural Studies in the Academy Is a Political Practice" (Richard Johnson); "'Relevant Provision': The Usefulness of Cultural Studies" (Martin Ryle); "The Marginalisation of Literature in the Teaching of Culture" (Angeliki Spiropoulou); "Relativism and Utopianism: Critical Theory and Cultural Studies" (Kate Soper); "Whither Cultural Studies?" (Jim McGuigan); "Teaching Queerly: Politics, Pedagogy, and Identity in Lesbian and Gay Studies" (Andy Medhurst); "Teaching Women's Studies: Whose Experience?" (Jane Elliott); "Cultural Studies and Cultural Practice: An Interview with Eddie Chambers" (Nannette Aldred); "A Postcolonial Pedagogy: Questions of Difference and the 'Ethical Horizon'" (Christina Lupton and Heiko Henkel); "The Value of Theory in Defining Culture in Northern Ireland" (David Butler); and "Education for What? The Politics of Pedagogy in Cultural Studies" (Alan O'Shea). (Many papers contain substantial references.) (MN)