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In the wake of proliferating discourses around globalisation and culture, some central questions around cultural politics have acquired a commonsensical and hegemonic character in contemporary intellectual discourse. The politics of difference, the possibilities of hybridity and the potential of multiple liminalities frame much discussion around the transnational dimensions of culture and post-identity politics. In this volume, the economic, political and social consequences of the focus on ‘culture’ in contemporary theories of globalization are analysed around the disparate fields of architecture, museum discourse, satellite television, dub poetry, carnival and sub-national theatre. The discourses of hybridity, diaspora, cultural difference minoritization are critically interrogated and engaged with through close analysis of cultural objects and practices. The essays thus intervene in the debate around modernity, globalization and cultural politics, and the volume as a whole provides a critical constellation through which the complexity of transnational culture can be framed. Thinking through the particular, the essays limn the absent universality of forms of capitalist globalization and the volume as a whole provides multiple perspectives from which to enter the singular modernity of our times in all its complexity.

Culture diffusion. --- International relations and culture. --- Representation (Philosophy). --- Transnationalism. --- Representation (Philosophy) --- Trans-nationalism --- Transnational migration --- Representationalism (Philosophy) --- Representationism (Philosophy) --- Culture and international relations --- Cultural diffusion --- Diffusion of culture --- International relations --- Culture --- Philosophy --- Social change

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Hoe ziet de actuele studie van literatuur en cultuur eruit? Welke thema’s zijn relevant in onze globaliserende en digitaliserende wereld waarin het onderscheid tussen hoge en lage cultuur steeds meer vervaagt en het gedrukte boek allang geen dominante positie meer inneemt? Kernthema’s in de literatuur- en cultuurwetenschap laat zien hoe de hedendaagse literatuurstudie zich heeft ontwikkeld in het brede veld van de cultuurstudie. Dit boek presenteert literatuurwetenschap niet als een discipline die zich terugtrekt in het exclusieve domein van de literatuur, maar juist als een interdisciplinaire praktijk die midden in de maatschappij staat en niet bang is zich actief te verhouden tot de kennis en uitdagingen die door de veelvoud aan cultuurwetenschappen (cultural studies, marxistische kritiek, postkoloniale kritiek, queer studies, feminisme enz.) geboden worden. Het boek plaatst de literatuur- en cultuurwetenschap nadrukkelijk als onderdeel van de mens- of geesteswetenschappen. Binnen de geesteswetenschappen wisselen literatuur- en cultuurwetenschap methoden en concepten uit met bijvoorbeeld de filosofie en de geschiedenis. Daarbuiten positioneren ze zich ten opzichte van de natuurwetenschappen. Ook laat dit boek zien hoe literatuur- en cultuurwetenschap een centrale rol spelen bij de bestudering van nieuwe maatschappelijke vraagstukken die expliciet vragen om een interdisciplinaire benadering, zoals globalisering en posthumanisme. Van Paul van Ostaijen tot Battlestar Galactica en van Philip Roth tot Dan Brown: aan de hand van een groot aantal voorbeelden onderstreept Kernthema’s in de literatuur- en cultuurwetenschap dat de hedendaagse literatuur- en cultuurwetenschap een rijke variëteit aan culturele uitingen tot onderwerp nemen. In het bijzonder wordt het aanhoudende belang belicht van literatuur- en cultuurwetenschappers als lezers die als geen ander oog hebben voor de complexiteit en veelzeggende details van het onderwerp van hun onderzoek.

Sociology of literature --- Sociology of culture --- Literature and society. --- Literature and society --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Social aspects --- Littérature --- Cultural studies --- Philosophie --- Esthétique

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"Haunting has long been a compelling element in popular culture, and has become an influential category in academic engagements with politics, economics, and aesthetics. While recent scholarship has used psychoanalysis and the Gothic as frameworks with which to study haunting, this volume seeks to situate ghosts in the cultural imagination. The chapters in Popular Ghosts are united by the impulse to theorize the cultural work that ghosts do within the trans-historical contexts that comprise our understanding of everyday life. These authors study the theoretical and aesthetic genealogies of the spectral, while also commenting on the multiple everyday spaces that this category occupies. Rather than looking to a single tradition or medium, the essays in Popular Ghosts explore film, novels, photography, television, music, social practices, and political structures from different cultures to reopen the questions that surround our haunted sense of the everyday."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Ghosts. --- Haunted places. --- Haunted localities --- Localities, Haunted --- Places, Haunted --- Occultism --- Phantoms --- Specters --- Spectres --- Apparitions --- Ghost tours --- Fantômes. --- Geesten. --- Populaire cultuur.

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This book guides the reader through the many complications and contradictions that characterize popular contestation today, focusing on its socio-political, cultural, and aesthetic dimensions. The volume recognizes that the same media and creative strategies can be used to pursue very different causes, as the anti-gay marriage Manif Pour Tous movement in France makes clear. The contributors are scholars from the humanities and social sciences, who analyze protests in particular regions, including Egypt, Iran, Australia, France, Spain, Greece, and Hong Kong, and transnational protests such as the NSA-leaks and the mobilization of migrants and refugees. Not only the specificity of these protest movements is examined, but also their tendency to connect and influence each other, as well as the central, often ambiguous role global digital platforms play in this. .

Social movements. --- Civilization, Modern. --- Social conflict. --- Class conflict --- Class struggle --- Conflict, Social --- Social tensions --- Interpersonal conflict --- Social psychology --- Sociology --- Modern civilization --- Modernity --- Civilization --- Renaissance --- Movements, Social --- Social history --- History --- Culture. --- Communication. --- Comparative politics. --- Global/International Culture. --- Media and Communication. --- Comparative Politics. --- Comparative political systems --- Comparative politics --- Government, Comparative --- Political systems, Comparative --- Political science --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Popular culture --- Social aspects

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Raymond Williams coined the notion "structure of feeling" in the 1970's to facilitate a historical understanding of "affective elements of consciousness and relationships." Since then, the need to understand emotions, moods and atmospheres as historical and social phenomena has only become more acute in an era of social networking, ubiquitous media and a public sphere permeated by commodities and advertisement culture. Concomitantly, affect studies have become one of the most thriving branches of contemporary humanities and social sciences. This volume explores the significance of the study of affectivity for already thriving fields of cultural analysis such as media studies, memory studies, gender studies and cultural studies at large. The volume is divided into four sections. The first part, Producing Affect, brings together contributions which explore some of the ways in which new media works to produce and intensify affectivity. The essays making up the second part, Affective Pasts, explore the significance of affect to the ways we remember, commemorate and in other ways get hold of things in our recent and not so recent past - or fail to do so. The essays engage the affective production of presence in contexts such as 9/11, the emotional culture of the eighteenth century, and literary auto-fiction. The third part, Affective Thinking, examines various concepts, theories, and forms of thinking not so much to show how the thinking in question may inform the field of affect studies but rather in order to draw attention to the way in which these modes of thinking are themselves already attuned to matters of affect. New social relations and ways of being in a networked world are the common themes of the essays in the final part of the volume, Circulating Affect.

Culture --- Affect (Psychology) --- Emotions --- Study and teaching. --- Sociological aspects. --- Sociology of emotions --- Cultural studies --- Sociology --- Psychology --- Affect. --- Cultural Studies. --- aesthetics. --- media.