Full Description
Across the humanities and the social sciences, "cultural analysis" is a vibrant research practice. Since its introduction in the 1990s, its main principles have remained largely the same: interdisciplinarity, political urgency, a heuristic use of concepts, the detailed analysis of objects of culture, and an awareness of the scholar's situatedness in the present. But is the practice still suited to the spiraling of social, political, and environmental crises that mark our time? Drawing on experiences in research, teaching, activism, and the creative arts, contributors explore what cultural analysis was back then, what it is now, and what it may be by 2034. In a shifting conjuncture, contributors strike notes of discomfort, defiance, and irony—as well as a renewed sense of urgency and care.
Contents
Introduction: Cultural Analysis, Circa 2034 - Noa Roei, Murat Aydemir, and Aylin Kuryel
Part One: Speaking and Silenced Objects
Cultural Analysis: Critical Encounters in Time, Space, and Thought - Mieke Bal
Cultural Analysis as Reading for the Object - Esther Peeren
Notes Toward a Decolonial Praxis of Cultural Analysis: Exemplarity and Listening as Other, Divya Nadkarni and Alex Thinius
Objects in the Making: Cutting Through Analysis in Art Education, Jules Sturm
Part Two: Traveling Concepts, Theories, Methods
Cultural Analysis: A Global South Critical Approach, Paulina Aroch Fugellie
Traveling Concepts and Conjunctural Analysis: Concepts Gone Bad, Murat Aydemir
Cultural Analysis as Reportage, Joost de Bloois
Gathering, Framing, and the Temporality of Cultural Analysis, Ernst van Alphen
Part Three: Interdisciplinary Spaces
Objects, Infrastructures, and Thick Description: The Lifeworld of the Text as the Space for Cultural Analysis, Noa Roei
From Situated Knowledge to Intensional Field Theory, Jeff Diamanti
Cultural Analysis at a Tipping Point, Seb Wigdel-Bowcott
Part Four: Social Relevance and Intervention
From Social Relevance to Public Intervention: Cultural Analysis in and out of the Classroom, Aylin Kuryel
Toward a Decolonial Classroom: Re-situating Cultural Analysis as Pedagogical Intervention, Asli Özgen
Crises, Social Relevance, and Critical Discomfort: Shooting Ourselves in the Foot, Alvaro Lopez
Parochialism as Method: Pejorative, Partage, Pastoral, Niall Martin
Afterword, Noa Roei, Murat Aydemir, and Aylin Kuryel
