Cultural Studies' Affective Voices

by Gregg, Melissa

• ISBN13: 9781403999023
• ISBN10: 1403999023
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-11-14
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In a series of encounters with key figures in the field of cultural studies, this book draws attention to the significance of voice and address in enacting a political project from within the academy. Combining a focus on theories of "affect" lately dominant in the humanities with a history of cultural studies as a discipline, it highlights the diverse modes of performance that accompany and assist scholarly practice. Writing from the perspective of a new generation of cultural studies practitioners, Melissa Gregg provides a missing link between the field's earliest political concerns with those of the present. Throughout, she emphasizes the ongoing importance of engaged, public intellectualism.

Author Biography

Melissa Gregg is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies and Lecturer in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland, Australia

Table of Contents

Scholarly Affect: An Introduction to Cultural Studies' Politics * A Discourse of Empathy * A Politics of Conjuncture * Rocking in the Free World * The New Rules * Academic Activism * Come the Revolution * Bibliography * Index

Scholarly Affect: An Introduction to Cultural Studies' Politics * A Discourse of Empathy * A Politics of Conjuncture * Rocking in the Free World * The New Rules * Academic Activism * Come the Revolution * Bibliography * Index