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Article: Cultural studies and beyond: fragments of empire.
- Article from:
- Canadian Journal of Sociology
- Article date:
- September 22, 1997
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New York: Routledge, 1995, 203 pp.
In Cultural Studies and Beyond: Fragments of Empire, Ioan Davies offers a timely and insightful evaluation of the current status of cultural studies. His intent is to critically assess the institutionalization of cultural studies and to highlight the deficiency of one particular form it has taken. Indeed this work represents not so much an overview but a historiography of cultural studies. The history he presents is essential to understanding the emergence of cultural studies in Britain and the forms it has since taken there and elsewhere.
The organization of the book is original and while he marks out key debates and ...