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Article: Cultural Studies
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- International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
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Cultural Studies
STARTING POINTS: THE BRITISH CONTEXT AND THE CCCS
THE STRUGGLE FOR CULTURE
CULTURAL STUDIES GOES GLOBAL
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Anyone attempting a definition of
cultural studies
is confronted at the outset by a paradox. On the one hand, the emergence of cultural studies as a recognized discipline or field of study, particularly from the 1970s onward, can be clearly seen in the proliferation of academic departments, degree programs, academic journals, and scholars who proclaim themselves to be producing work in
“
cultural studies.
”
On the other hand, what precisely
“
cultural studies
”
takes as its object or area of study, its definitive theoretical, ...