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How is performativity shaped by digital technologies - and how do performative practices reflect and alter techno-social formations? "Performing the Digital" explores, maps and theorizes the conditions and effects of performativity in digital cultures. Bringing together scholars from performance studies, media theory, sociology and organization studies as well as practitioners of performance, the contributions engage with the implications of digital media and its networked infrastructures for modulations of affect and the body, for performing cities, protest, organization and markets, and for the performativity of critique. With contributions by Marie-Luise Angerer, Timon Beyes, Scott deLahunta and Florian Jenett, Margarete Jahrmann, Susan Kozel, Ann-Christina Lange, Oliver Leistert, Martina Leeker, Jon McKenzie, Sigrid Merx, Melanie Mohren and Bernhard Herbordt, Imanuel Schipper and Jens Schröter.

How to do cultural studies in the 21st century? This essay collection is not a handbook, encyclopedia, or a »state of the field« compendium. Instead, it is a reflexive exercise in cultural studies, featuring fifteen accessible essays on a selection of critical key works published since 2000. The contributors aim to provide readers with a fresh and engaging look at recent criticism, exploring the interdisciplinary traffic of theories, methods, and ideas within the field of cultural and literary studies. This book shows how the work of Lauren Berlant, Rita Felski, Fred Moten, Anna Tsing, and others can inspire new thinking and theorizing for the twenty-first century

This book is an investigation of the cultural work involved in the social process of achieving and maintaining legitimacy as a not-for-profit arts or media organization in the twenty-first century. Within this work, Larsen advances an approach to studying organizational legitimacy, emanating from within cultural sociology. More specifically, he analyzes the legitimation work done in public service broadcasters in the Scandinavian countries of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Metropolitan Opera in New York City

This paper is devoted to the discussion and critical analysis of the various uses of the term 'legal culture' in recent comparative legal studies. It submits that the application of the concept of legal culture has had no consensually shared approach in comparative law; instead, numerous different ways exist. The main approaches of legal culture in comparative studies have been the use of this concept as (i) background, (ii) interactions around law, and (iii) a sum of attitudes towards law. In addition, the use of this term is even more complicated as certain typical inconsistencies may also be identified. Examples show (i) the confusion of different understandings of legal culture found within the same study; and that (ii) the under-theorisation and (iii) over-theorisation of legal culture can both be regarded as such typical inconsistencies. In conclusion, the paper calls attention to a more restricted, self-reflective and critical application of this term as the prerequisite of an efficient scholarly use.

Children's Cultures after Childhood introduces theoretical concepts from new materialist and posthumanist childhood studies into research on children's literature, film, and media texts with attention to the entanglements of which they are part. Thirteen chapters by international contributors from diverse disciplinary fields (literary studies, cultural studies, media studies, education, and childhood studies) offer a cross-section of empirical and theoretical approaches sharing an inspiration in the notion of "after childhoods", proposed by Peter Kraftl, a children's geographer, to conceptualize theoretical and methodological orientations in research on children's lives and on past, present, and future childhoods. This interdisciplinary collection will be of interest to scholars working in children's literature and culture studies, education, and childhood studies.

In an era of waning public funding and growing assumptions within the academy that gender has been integrated into curricula, Women's Studies Programs work under the monitoring eye of a corporate model of budget-slicing, bureaucratic, audit-culture accountability. Programs come under increasing assault on the grounds of obsolescence and cost-effectiveness. This article documents the institutional setting of a Women's Studies Program under threat and traces how program faculty have attempted to counter antifeminist obsolescence and individualist rhetoric, using as an example the struggle over institutional sexual harassment policy and its successor at the authors' state university. In participating in re-writing policy, the authors discovered possibilities and blockades in professors' and students' attempts to position the Program as more than a curricular remedy. We reveal the limitations of valuing departments solely on quantitative grounds and insist that feminist work in transforming academic culture is far from complete.

'A fascinating investigation that explains semiotics, the science of signs, and shows how it can help us understand the way marketing and advertising shape our behavior as consumers and the way we use brands to help create our public identities. Semiotics deals with the messages we are always sending about ourselves by the clothes we wear, our facial expressions, our body language, and the objects we purchase. It also helps us learn how to interpret the messages that others are always sending to us. The book also analyzes a number of the "objects of our affection" such as toasters, teddy bears, hamburgers and computers. In the appendix, there are a number of learning games and activities that involve using semiotics to better understand consumer culture"--Provided by publisher.

"U.S. Department of State Contract 1724-520100."--T.p. verso ; Bibliography: p. 43-56. ; Photocopy. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Academic and research fields are moved by fads, waves, revolutionaries, paradigm shifts, and turns. They all imply a certain degree of change that alters the conditions of a stable system, producing an imbalance that needs to be addressed by the field itself. New Approaches to Latin American Studies: Culture and Power offers researchers and students from different theoretical fields an essential, turn-organized overview of the radical transformation of epistemological and methodological assumptions in Latin American Studies from the end of the 1980s to the present. Sixteen chapters written by experts in their respective fields help explain the various ways in which to think about these shifts. Questions posited include. Why are turns so crucial. How did they alter the shape or direction of the field. What new questions, objects or problems did they contribute. What were or are their limitations. What did they displace or prevent us from considering. Among the turns included: memory, transnational, popular culture, decolonial, feminism, affect, indigenous studies, transatlantic, ethical, post/hegemony, deconstruction, cultural policy, subalternism, gender and sexuality, performance, and cultural studies.

Suggests that the study of popular culture opens up the realm of politics in a way that challenges the traditional boundaries of the discipline. Cultural studies, by treating culture as "ideology," focuses on sites in which meaning is produced & contested, in turn, undermining any clear distinction between politics & culture. Consequently a broader approach to the political is demanded than has traditionally been taken by political science. 25 References. Adapted from the source document.

A review of a selection of anthrop'al studies concerned with substantive problems & processes of soc & cultural change, roughly between the yrs 1964-1968. This article updates a similar review of res in this fieldd published several yrs ago (see SA 0715/C2077). Despite the considerable volume of work, no major comprehensive new theories of change have emerged in this period. Nevertheless, several important contributions to problems of special concern, including models of change, are worthy of attention. During this time, we also encounter a substantial body of literature that concerns itself with complex societies, their characterization & modes of analysis. A representative set of these items is included, partly under the heading 'Complex Societies,' partly under the heading 'Urbanization and Urban-Rural Relations,' & partly under 'Migration, Enclavement, and Associations.' These labels suggest the major substantive thrusts of published work in this domain. Perhaps the most important single gain in these yrs has been an increasingly systematic application of evolutionary theory &, here & there, of sophisticated methodology to the problems of soc & cultural change. In the future, we might hope to achieve better relations between 'mission-oriented' res (devoted to short-range applied goals) & basic or longrange res goals. Modified Author's Summary.