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cultural studies

vr.tr.cultural-studies · INF.KNW

Let an agent explain cultural studies and its branches, describe its methods and key debates with attribution, support study and research, and distinguish it from neighbouring disciplines.

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Purpose and description

Let an agent explain cultural studies and its branches, describe its methods and key debates with attribution, support study and research, and distinguish it from neighbouring disciplines.

An interdisciplinary field that studies culture as lived practice and meaning, drawing on anthropology, sociology, literary theory and history to analyse media, identity, power and everyday life, with branches such as area studies, dance and ballet studies, Indigenous studies including Maori land, culture and identity, and national studies such as Australian or Iraqi studies; cultural studies emerged in the mid twentieth century and remains debated in method and scope.

What it is for: Studying culture as practice and meaning.

It can be explain the field and its branches; describe methods and debates; support study and research; distinguish from neighbouring fields.

Distinguishing features

Interdisciplinary

Focus on meaning and power

Critical orientation

Many branches

What it looks like

Not physical; an academic field with departments, journals and texts.

How it is recognised

Interdisciplinary study of culture and power

Includes area and identity studies

Anthropology and sociology are parent disciplines with their own methods

Related models

is a kind of - category

humanities

is a kind of - category

anthropology

is related to - cultural criticism

criticism

is related to - ballet studies

ballet

In practice

Families and kinds

media and popular culture studies

area and national studies

dance and performance studies

Indigenous and identity studies

theoretical cultural studies

Standards and regulation

Academic research ethics

Indigenous research protocols

No regulation of the field

Failure modes and hazards

Presenting contested theory as settled

Ignoring community perspectives in identity studies

Confusing with anthropology or sociology

Also called

Iraqi studiesAustralian studiesdance studiesMāori land, culture and identityballet studiesdance theoryMāori and disabilityCulture and communicationimage theoryhistorical game studiesCentral American studiestea sciencecritical race studiesbicultural studiesBlack Canadian studiesCulture, representation and identitycultural studies of nation and regionmigrant cultural studiesscreen and media cultureconsumption and everyday lifexenologycultural rhetoricsyouth studiesmigration studiesHispanic-American, Puerto Rican, and Mexican-American/Chicano studiesuralisticsNative American studiesfan studiesanarchist studiesAfrican American studiesethnic studiescritical university studiesAsian American studiesdeaf studiesmad studiescross-cultural studiesdisability studiesWhiteness studiesgame studiesperformance studies

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Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Also registered as vr.tr.cultural-studies

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What cultural studies is.

Field.

Scope

Scope and methods.

Scope

Scope.

  1. What does cultural studies study, and which methods does it use? definition
  2. How does it differ from anthropology, sociology and literary studies? definition

Branches

Branches.

Branches

Branches.

  1. What are branches such as area studies, dance studies or Indigenous studies, and how are they organised? provenance
  2. Which entry fits a specific branch? action
Debates Theory and critique.

Attribution.

Theory

Key theories.

Theory

Theory.

  1. Which theories and thinkers shaped cultural studies, and what do they argue? provenance
  2. Which critiques of the field exist, with positions attributed? boundary

Indigenous

Indigenous and community studies.

Indigenous

Indigenous studies.

  1. How do Indigenous studies such as Maori land, culture and identity approach research, in their own terms and protocols? provenance
  2. How is community authority respected? boundary
Study Studying and researching.

Practice.

Courses

Courses and careers.

Courses

Courses.

  1. Where can cultural studies be studied, and what careers follow? provenance
  2. Which skills are developed? provenance

Research

Doing research.

Research

Research.

  1. How can a cultural studies research project be designed, with methods and ethics? action
  2. Which journals publish the field? provenance
History History of the field.

Context.

Origins

Origins.

Origins

Origins.

  1. How did cultural studies emerge, from the Birmingham school onward, according to historians of the field? provenance
  2. How did it spread internationally? provenance

Teach

Teaching.

Teach

Teaching.

  1. How can cultural studies be taught with case studies? action
  2. Which misconceptions arise? provenance

What the second pass must settle

  • Should each branch be a separate entry?
  • How should journals be linked?
  • How should Indigenous protocols be linked?
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