cultural studies

The Ethics of Care and the Construction of Peace: Re-Existence Strategies Among Black Rural Women in Ladrilleros and Juanchaco, Municipality of Buenaventura

Alejandra del Rocío Bello-Urrego, Universidad del Tolima, Colombia

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Completing Radical Contextualism

Marcela Navarrete, Sara Ossa, Gabriel Rosas, Rubén Yepes, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia

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Press Photography About April 9, 1948 – Between Remembrance and Oblivion

María Isabel Zapata V. mizapata@javeriana.edu.co Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia) Abstract: The life of Colombians has established itself throughout the years in an identitarian way through common places and important dates. One of those dates is the 9th of April of 1948. But this investigation, more than just concentrating on the details of the life of […]

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Stuart Hall on Race and Racism: Cultural Studies and the Practice of Contextualism

Lawrence Grossberg dockrock@email.unc.edu University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (USA) Abstract: Stuart Hall’s work on race cannot be separated from his work in cultural studies, and in particular, from his commitment to a radical contextualism. In this article, I argue that Stuart Hall’s work on race and racism in the context of his own long-standing […]

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The Institutionalization of Cultural Studies in the United States – The Case of the Doctorate in Cultural Studies of the University of California, Davis, Eight Years Into the Program

Robert McKee Irwin rmirwin@ucdavis.edu University of California, Davis, USA Abstract: This article describes the process of institutionalization of the field of cultural studies in the United States. The example of this process at the University of California, Davis, where a doctoral program in cultural studies was established eight years ago, while idiosyncratic, illustrates the kind […]

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Stuart Hall and the Descent to the “Mundane” – A Way of Imagining and Practicing Cultural Studies

Roberto Almanza-Hernández almanzarob@gmail.com Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia Abstract: This paper briefly presents what is, in my opinion, the specificity of cultural studies and its relevance as an analytical “tool box,” as well as a way of understanding. I pay particular attention to the way in which Stuart Hall relates himself to the theory, using some […]

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Cultural studies in postgraduate programs in Latin America: A pegagogical and methodologi- cal proposal

Mónica Szurmuk mszurmuk@mora.edu.mx Instituto Mora, México Robert McKee Irwin university of california, Davis, uSa University of California, Davis, USA Abstract: In this paper, we deliver a genealogy of cultural studies presence in postgraduate programs in Latin America, along with an analysis of the different forms students postgraduate training assume throughout the region. Notwithstanding the supposed […]

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The heart of cultural studies: Contextuality, constructionism and complexity

Lawrence Grossberg dockrock@email.unc.edu University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA Abstract: This essay explains my commitment to and passion for cultural studies. I believe ideas matter, that we are better off approaching the daunting tasks of transforming the world with the best knowledge and understanding possible. And I have believed, for my entire academic career, […]

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Cultural studies in Central America: the PhD Program on Studies on Society and Culture, Costa Rica University

Patricia Fumero patricia.fumero@ucr.ac.cr Universidad de Costa Rica Abstract: This paper discusses the need to institutionalize inter-, multi- and trans- disciplinary work in order to analyze socio-cultural processes from complex analytic approaches. Also, it highlights the role of long-distance institutional/interpersonal peer alliances, as a choice to make the most of the typically scant resources available to […]

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Cultural studies in the Americas: commitment, cooperation, transformation

Gisela Cánepa gcanepa@pucp.edu.pe Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Abstract: This paper is structured in two parts: (I) an overview of cultural studies in Peru and their institutionalization in academic programs, aiming to discuss the challenges posed by cultural studies in the Peruvian context; and (II) a discussion regarding the political vocation of cultural studies, organized […]

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(Inter)cultural studies on a decolonial note

Catherine Walsh cwalsh@uasb.edu.ec Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador Abstract: “Cultural studies” in Latin America make part of a naming policy manifested on legacies and frequently mapped as a whole, hiding or overlooking differences within themselves. This paper looks at the source of cultural studies in Latin America in general, and at the Quito Simón Bolívar […]

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The New Right of Cultural Studies —Creative Industries

Toby Miller toby.miller@ucr.edu University of California, Riverside, USA Abstract: Creative-industries discourse represents the most interesting and productive response to a crisis of relevance for the humanities and the emergence of a knowledge society. Its impact has been felt across the world, not least in the hitherto-progressive field of cultural studies, where we see a New […]

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Anthropology and cultural studies: between theorizing politics and politicizing theory

Inge Helena Valencia ihvalencia@icesi.edu.co Universidad ICESI,Colombia Abstract: To think the relationship between anthropology and cultural studies is a topic full of questions and strains due to overlapping fields, subjects and methodologies. For instance, both anthropology and cultural studies ask themselves about the relationship between culture and politics, but how is the relationship between the cultural and […]

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Anthropology and cultural studies in Colombia. Emergencies, emplacements, challenges

Axel Rojas axelrojasm@unicauca.edu.co Universidad del Cauca, Colombia Abstract: This paper aims to sketch a map on the origins and localization processes undergone by anthropology and cultural studies in Colombia. To accomplish this, I will refer to their respective historical contexts of emergence, whose particularities and differences are found relevant to understand both projects’ objects of […]

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Some quips on the cultural studies-anthropology couple in Colombia

Alhena Caicedo alhenauta@yahoo.com Universidad ICESI, Colombia Abstract: The relationship between anthropology and cultural studies has given rise to various academic debates dating back from several years ago. Not only “generational” conflicts have been brought to light fostered by the undisciplining social sciences. Furthermore, those debates have put on the table certain discussions on the situated character […]

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On desires, interventions and trajectories: anthropology and cultural studies in Colombia

Juan Ricardo Aparicio japarici@uniandes.edu.co Universidad de los Andes, Colombia Abstract: In this paper, I will give a look to the relationship between anthropology and cultural studies through a common research platform on the relationship between culture and power. Thus, far from following the stereotypes under which anthropology and cultural studies are called in Colombia, this […]

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Transculturation and cultural studies. A brief approach to Fernando Ortiz’ thinking

Erelis Marrero León, Universidad de La Habana, Cuba

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