Ziauddin Sardar

Introducing Cultural Studies

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  • Xuraman Memmedovahas quoted5 years ago
    language is a cultural phenomenon; and it generates meaning in a special way. Language produces meaning by a system of relationships, by producing a network of similarities and differences.
  • Soufiane Elberradhas quoted3 years ago
    There is more than one way to colonize a population!
  • Soufiane Elberradhas quoted3 years ago
    The most common representation of the Other is as the darker side, the binary opposite of oneself: we are civilized, they are barbaric; the colonists are hard-working, the natives are lazy; heterosexuals are good and moral, homosexuals are immoral and evil.
  • Soufiane Elberradhas quoted3 years ago
    Within Western society, women, homosexuals and immigrants are often seen as the other.
  • Soufiane Elberradhas quoted3 years ago
    Cultural studies aims to examine its subject matter in terms of cultural practices and their relation to power. Its constant goal is to expose power relationships and examine how these relationships influence and shape cultural practices.
  • Soufiane Elberradhas quoted3 years ago
    Culture is simply the ensemble of stories we tell ourselves about ourselves.
  • Soufiane Elberradhas quoted3 years ago
    Culture is that learned behavior of a society or a subgroup.
  • Soufiane Elberradhas quoted3 years ago
    Culture is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, customs, and other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.
  • marykomarovahas quoted8 years ago
    What it can do is help us to understand the mechanisms of cultural power and find ways and means to resist them. That’s all.
  • marykomarovahas quoted8 years ago
    By being successfully domesticated in the knowledge industry, cultural studies has become too abstract and too technical, divorced from the lives and realities of the people it is supposed to be empowering, and on whose behalf it was to develop strategies for resistance and survival.
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