This edited volume seeks to combine and highlight the theoretical and practical aspects of teaching by exploring and reflecting on the ways in which Cultural Studies is taught and practiced at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, in the US and internationally. Contributors create a space where connections among Cultural Studies practitioners across generations and locations are formed. Because the alliances built by Cultural Studies practitioners in the U.S. and the global north are deeply shaped by the global south/Third World perspectives, this book extends an invitation to teachers and practitioners in and outside of the US, including those who may offer a transnational perspective on teaching and practicing Cultural Studies. This volume promises to be a trailblazing collection of first-rate essays by leading and emerging figures in the field of Cultural Studies.
Author(s): Jaafar Aksikas, Sean Johnson Andrews, Don Hedrick
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 351
Tags: Cultural Theory
Acknowledgments......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 11
Cultural Studies, Teaching and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction......Page 19
Part I: Pedagogy and Teaching in Cultural Studies: Critical Groundings......Page 24
Part II: Cultural Studies Pedagogies in Practice: In the Classroom and Beyond......Page 26
Part III: Cultural Studies Pedagogies in Context: Some Case Studies......Page 29
Works Cited......Page 32
Part I: Pedagogy and Teaching in Cultural Studies: Critical Groundings......Page 34
What Did You Learn in School Today? Cultural Studies as Pedagogy......Page 35
Cultural Studies as Pedagogy......Page 39
Cultural Studies in the Classroom......Page 46
Cultural Studies as Public Pedagogy......Page 52
Teaching in the Conjuncture......Page 61
We Are All Art Historians Now: Teaching Media Studies and/as Cultural Studies......Page 72
Olympian Remarks......Page 73
Cultural Studies......Page 77
Media Teaching......Page 82
We Are All Art Historians Now......Page 86
Conclusion......Page 87
Works Cited......Page 88
Dear Progressive and/or Queer Students: A Pedagogical Polemic from Your Queer Adjunct Professor......Page 91
Cultural Studies and (Un)Critical Pedagogies: A Journey Through the Corporatized University......Page 98
Any Way You Want It: From New Times to Hard Times......Page 99
Don’t Stop Believing: Cultural Studies and Collaboration as a Minor Strategy......Page 105
Works Cited......Page 111
The Impossibility of Teaching Cultural Studies......Page 112
Teaching Undergraduate Students......Page 114
Teaching Graduate Students......Page 118
Teaching Anyone/Everyone Else......Page 122
Works Cited......Page 125
Part II: Cultural Studies Pedagogies in Practice: In the Classroom and Beyond......Page 127
A Micro-legacy from Stuart Hall......Page 128
Trump Assignment......Page 133
Be Unpredictable......Page 134
Communicative Capital......Page 135
Branding......Page 136
Capital Speaks Value......Page 137
Genüssfähigkeit......Page 138
“Universal Prostitution”......Page 140
Speech Acts as Exchange Value......Page 141
The “Marx Ratio” and Radical Inequality......Page 142
Conclusion......Page 144
Works Cited......Page 145
Critical Pedagogies in Cultural Studies: On Teaching Marxism Online......Page 147
The University Without Walls......Page 148
Leveraging Technology for Quality Enhancement......Page 150
Acknowledging the Political at the Scene of Pedagogy......Page 152
Professing Marxism on YouTube......Page 158
Works Cited......Page 164
“Bringing the World to the Classroom”: Cultural Studies and Experiential Learning......Page 165
Works Cited......Page 175
Teaching Cultural Studies in the Undergraduate Curriculum: From the Abstract to the Concrete, and Back Again......Page 176
The Need for Political Commitment and the Analysis of the “Social Whole”......Page 190
The Need and Commitment to Theory......Page 191
Core Classes (and Course Descriptions) to Be Taken in the Following Sequence......Page 192
References......Page 193
Cultural Studies and the World of Teaching and Pedagogy: A Missed Articulation......Page 196
The Cultural Studies Formation and Curriculum at Columbia College......Page 199
The Methodology Course: Toward a ‘Thick Description’......Page 201
Classroom Work and Assignments......Page 204
The Early Weeks: Introduction to the Course and to Cultural Studies Research......Page 207
The Core Weeks: The Key Epistemological/Methodological Commitments of Cultural Studies......Page 210
The Final Weeks: Methods of Research and the ‘Circuit of Culture’......Page 216
Student Research: Final Papers and Presentations......Page 219
A Few Concluding Remarks, or What Is Cultural Studies, One More Time?......Page 220
Works Cited......Page 222
Part III: Cultural Studies Pedagogies in Context: Some Case Studies......Page 224
Critical (Race) Pedagogy and the Neoliberal Arts in Walker’s Wisconsin......Page 225
Academic Freedom and Critical Study Under Micromanagement......Page 232
Critical Race Studies and White Racial Reaction in the Corporate University......Page 233
A Pedagogy of Misery......Page 240
Works Cited......Page 245
Into the Factory: Teaching Cultural Studies as a Critique of Global Capitalism......Page 251
Background of a Cultural Production......Page 252
On the Shop Floor......Page 255
Around the Workshop......Page 259
Cultural Studies and the Social Right to the General Strike......Page 262
Works Cited......Page 264
Teaching Conjuncturally: Cultural Studies as the Practice of Conjunctural Analysis......Page 266
Cultural Studies and Conjuncture......Page 268
Conjunctural Analysis......Page 272
Designing a Course Around Conjunctural Analysis......Page 277
Works Cited......Page 283
Conjuncturally Teaching: Cultural Studies Pedagogy Beyond Common Sense......Page 286
Cultural Studies in Media Res......Page 290
Cultural Studies’ Politics as a Responsibility, Not a Commitment (and/or, How to Think, Not What To)......Page 294
Cultural Studies and the Metaphor of Conversation......Page 300
Works Cited......Page 304
Introduction......Page 305
Collective Responsibility and Learning Alliances......Page 307
The Casual Supervisor......Page 312
The Social Life of Knowledge......Page 316
Higher Degree Research in a Cultural Studies Context......Page 320
Conclusion......Page 324
Works Cited......Page 325
Public Pedagogy and Private Programs: Practicing Cultural Studies in Professional Education......Page 330
Theorizing Public Pedagogy as Political Praxis in Cultural Studies......Page 331
Practicing Public Pedagogy in Professional Studies Programs......Page 334
Reflexive Pedagogies of Close Reading, Classroom Community, and Critical Writing......Page 335
Critical Conclusions: Cultural Studies, Course Methods, and the Corporate Academy......Page 339
Works Cited......Page 342
Index......Page 346
