Article: Cultural Studies

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The Sunday Observer
Article date:
November 8, 2009
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Sri Lanka, Nov. 8 -- Cultural Studies, as a discipline, has been gaining in prestige and influence over the last two decades or so. Today, it has become one of the most popular subjects in higher education in most Western countries. The books and journals devoted to this new field of inquiry are increasing at a steady rate; conferences and workshops organized in many parts of the world to pursue topics of interest to scholars of Cultural Studies are beginning to exercise a palpable influence. Cultural Studies, which was once regarded as a marginal discipline, has moved to the center of humanistic and social scientific inquiry. Cultural Studies is also beginning to influence the thinking of ...

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