Cultural Studies Methodology and Political Strategy

This book is an intervention into cultural studies' theoretical and methodological foundations. It addresses a crisis in conjunctural analysis: that there is no theorized method for conjunctural analysis as it pertains to recognizing a conjunctural shift or the emergence of an organic crisis. This crisis is connected to the belief that the definition of the conjuncture is ambiguous in Gramsci's work, but using a broader range of primary, secondary, and also untranslated sources on the conjuncture, Carley demonstrates that Gramsci has decisively settled that ambiguity. Through a philological approach to Gramsci's original texts, this book alters the debate around conjunctural analysis and offers means to reinterpret cultural studies and its relationship to its founding thinkers.

Demonstrates how Hall's reading of Gramsci provides a methodology to transplant Gramsci's concepts from their original historical context into contemporary cultural analyses Analyzes strategic and tactical correspondence between culture and politics to establish a political theory of articulation Considers the interplay of objective and subjective conditions within conjunctural analysis that either enable or constrain correspondence between culture and politics

Autorentext

Robert F. Carley is Associate Professor of International Studies at Texas A&M University, College Station.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Introduction: Conjunctures and Crises.- Chapter 2: Hall's Method for Reading Gramsci.- Chapter 3: The Rediscovery of the Conjuncture.- Chapter 4: Politics as Method/Method as Politics Part One: Organic Concepts.- Chapter 5: Politics as Method/Method as Politics Part Two: Organizational Concepts.- Chapter 6: Metaconjuncture Lab.