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.
