Full Description
This volume explores the history, evolution, and future of Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies as a discipline, a pedagogical tool, and a set of working practices by bringing together a diverse group of renowned specialists to examine how the field has grown out of and radically reconsidered some of the basic premises of British Cultural Studies since the 1950s to address the many cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking world.
The chapters in this volume address
How Cultural Studies is being practiced in the increasingly virtual mediascapes of the twenty-first century
What happens to basic critical assumptions about culture and power after they have passed through the filter of Post-Colonial and Decolonial Studies of the Luso-Hispanic world
How we understand the role of culture in light of recent experiences with radical demographic shifts, populism and civil unrest within Latin America, Iberian and the Latino U.S
How new ways of practising Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies have worked their way into our pedagogy and the structure of the curriculum in the age of the increasingly privatized neoliberal university
Providing keen insight and reflection on these questions, this volume is an essential read for scholars and students of Visual and Film Studies, Latin American and Iberian Studies, Luso-Brazilian Studies, Language and Culture Pedagogy, Global Studies, and for anyone interested in Cultural Studies across the Luso-Hispanic world.
Contents
Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies Theory and Practice: An Introduction; Part I. Cultural Studies Theory: New Agendas, Disobedient Genealogies and the Dangers of Institutionalization; 1. Latin American Cultural Studies: Accomplishments, Shortcomings, and New Agendas - An Updated Report; 2. Cultural Studies in Mexico: Notes Toward a Disobedient Genealogy; 3. The Non-Place of Theory in Hispanic Cultural Studies; Part II. Cultural Studies Practice: Decolonial Strategies and the Power of the Subaltern Classes; 4. Prosthetic Columbus: A Critical Cartography of the Monumental Cult of Hispanidad (1892-2020); 5. (Re)Thinking Nature: Between Brazilian Cultural Studies and Ecocriticism; 6. Gramsci and Contemporary Spanish Politics; 7. Grrrl Zines, Riot Grrrl / Minas do rock, and Feminist Cultural Studies in Brazil; 8. Mapping the Spaces and Places of Hispanic Urban Cultural Studies; 9. The 'Fierce Urgency of Now': Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies, New Technology and the Future of the Profession; 10. Telling the Story of Iberian Cultural Studies: Spaces of Convergence and the Defense of the Humanities; 11. Luso-Hispanic Culture and Commerce: A Media Perspective; Part III. Cultural Studies Pedagogy: Fighting Information Poverty Through Place-Based Projects and Community Engagement; 12. For a Cultural Politics of Engagement: Combating Information Poverty In and Out of Class; 13. Re-Thinking Migration and Human Mobility in Moline's 'West End': Pedagogies of Urban Cultural Studies; 14. Biopolitical Monsters in the Classroom: Co-Producing and Sharing Digital Maps; 15. Challenging Cultures of Power through Cultural Studies and Maker Pedagogies: An Instructional Conversation; Index
