Recently added articles from Cultural Studies Review:
editorial
Mar 01, 2008; ... Thinking and writing about the past, challenging what 'history' might be and how it could appear, is an ongoing interest of this journal and an ongoing (sometimes contentious) point of connection between cultural studies and history. The shifts in how we research and write the past is no ...
a touching and contagious captain cook: Thinking History through Things
Mar 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT For how long can history, as it is conceived in 'the West', continue to attach itself to an exhausted humanism, where 'man' is central and all the natural and inanimate objects surrounding humans (and linked intimately to human activity) are relegated to the function of support ...
the presence of palestinian absence in narrating the zionist nation into being
Mar 01, 2008; ... Who sees? Who is capable of seeing, what, and from where? Who is authorised to look? How is this authorization given or acquired? In whose name does one look? What is the structure of the field of vision? Ariella Azoulay, Death's Showcase: The Power of Image in Contemporary ...
the challenge of film considered as historical research
Mar 01, 2008; ... Claude Lanzmann's Approach to the Shoah: Constructing History in Dialectical Time-Images You cannot see it, but what you cannot see, you have to show in images. Claude Lanzmann1 It is time to end [the] defensive posture and to adopt a different way of looking at ...
letters from beirut
Mar 01, 2008; ... In summer 20061 returned to Lebanon for a third time. I had lived in Beirut for almost a year in 2002-2003, during which time I fell in love with the city, as so many people do-the generosity, resilience and joie de vivre of so many Lebanese people, the lively artistic scene, the intensity with ...