radical contextualism

Completing Radical Contextualism

Marcela Navarrete, Sara Ossa, Gabriel Rosas, Rubén Yepes, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia

Stuart Hall on Race and Racism: Cultural Studies and the Practice of Contextualism

Lawrence Grossberg dockrock@email.unc.edu University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (USA) Abstract: Stuart Hall’s work on race cannot be separated from his work in cultural studies, and in particular, from his commitment to a radical contextualism. In this article, I argue that Stuart Hall’s work on race and racism in the context of his own long-standing […]

Stuart Hall and the Descent to the “Mundane” – A Way of Imagining and Practicing Cultural Studies

Roberto Almanza-Hernández almanzarob@gmail.com Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia Abstract: This paper briefly presents what is, in my opinion, the specificity of cultural studies and its relevance as an analytical “tool box,” as well as a way of understanding. I pay particular attention to the way in which Stuart Hall relates himself to the theory, using some […]

The heart of cultural studies: Contextuality, constructionism and complexity

Lawrence Grossberg dockrock@email.unc.edu University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA Abstract: This essay explains my commitment to and passion for cultural studies. I believe ideas matter, that we are better off approaching the daunting tasks of transforming the world with the best knowledge and understanding possible. And I have believed, for my entire academic career, […]

On desires, interventions and trajectories: anthropology and cultural studies in Colombia

Juan Ricardo Aparicio japarici@uniandes.edu.co Universidad de los Andes, Colombia Abstract: In this paper, I will give a look to the relationship between anthropology and cultural studies through a common research platform on the relationship between culture and power. Thus, far from following the stereotypes under which anthropology and cultural studies are called in Colombia, this […]