Cultural Studies as Performative Politics  

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Giroux, Henry A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies vol. 1 no. 1 (Feb. 2001), page 5-23.
Topik: cultural workers; neoliberalism; Politics
Fulltext: 5CS11.pdf (106.04KB)

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This article addresses the role public intellectuals and cultural workers might play in challenging the pervasive institutional and ideological influence of neoliberalism as it continues to attack all public spaces and social services not governed by the logic of the market. The author takes up this challenge by articulating a relationship between the political and pedagogical that is central to any notion of cultural politics. In doing so, he attempts to foreground how the diverse forms of critical pedagogy and cultural studies can engage in progressive cultural politics through the interrelated registers of insurgent citizenship, a performative critical pedagogy, and a contextualized notion of political agency. The interconnected concepts of discourse, context, power, and theory are used to critique notions of textuality that refuse to link the symbolic to material relations of power and to engage the limits of dystopian performative work that fails in spite of its appeal to the transgressive to address urgent social issues. The author concludes by pointing to a number of cultural activists whose work embodies a radical intersection of the performative and the political.

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