This volume explores the history, evolution, and future of Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies as a discipline, a pedagogical tool, and a set of working practices by bringing together a diverse group of renowned specialists to examine how the field has grown out of and radically reconsidered some of the basic premises of British Cultural Studies since the 1950s to address the many cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking world.
The chapters in this volume address
- How Cultural Studies is being practiced in the increasingly virtual mediascapes of the twenty-first century
- What happens to basic critical assumptions about culture and power after they have passed through the filter of Post-Colonial and Decolonial Studies of the Luso-Hispanic world
- How we understand the role of culture in light of recent experiences with radical demographic shifts, populism and civil unrest within Latin America, Iberian and the Latino U.S
- How new ways of practising Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies have worked their way into our pedagogy and the structure of the curriculum in the age of the increasingly privatized neoliberal university
Providing keen insight and reflection on these questions, this volume is an essential read for scholars and students of Visual and Film Studies, Latin American and Iberian Studies, Luso-Brazilian Studies, Language and Culture Pedagogy, Global Studies, and for anyone interested in Cultural Studies across the Luso-Hispanic world.
This volume explores the history, evolution, and future of Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies as a discipline, a pedagogical tool, and a set of working practices by bringing together a diverse group of renowned specialists to examine how the field has grown out of and reconsidered some of the basic premises of British Cultural Studies.
Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies Theory and Practice: An Introduction;
Part I. Cultural Studies Theory: New Agendas, Disobedient Genealogies and the
Dangers of Institutionalization;
1. Latin American Cultural Studies:
Accomplishments, Shortcomings, and New Agendas An Updated Report;
2.
Cultural Studies in Mexico: Notes Toward a Disobedient Genealogy;
3. The
Non-Place of Theory in Hispanic Cultural Studies; Part II. Cultural Studies
Practice: Decolonial Strategies and the Power of the Subaltern Classes;
4.
Prosthetic Columbus: A Critical Cartography of the Monumental Cult of
Hispanidad (1892-2020);
5. (Re)Thinking Nature: Between Brazilian Cultural
Studies and Ecocriticism;
6. Gramsci and Contemporary Spanish Politics;
7.
Grrrl Zines, Riot Grrrl / Minas do rock, and Feminist Cultural Studies in
Brazil;
8. Mapping the Spaces and Places of Hispanic Urban Cultural Studies;
9. The Fierce Urgency of Now: Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies, New
Technology and the Future of the Profession;
10. Telling the Story of Iberian
Cultural Studies: Spaces of Convergence and the Defense of the Humanities;
11. Luso-Hispanic Culture and Commerce: A Media Perspective; Part III.
Cultural Studies Pedagogy: Fighting Information Poverty Through Place-Based
Projects and Community Engagement;
12. For a Cultural Politics of Engagement:
Combating Information Poverty In and Out of Class;
13. Re-Thinking Migration
and Human Mobility in Molines West End: Pedagogies of Urban Cultural
Studies;
14. Biopolitical Monsters in the Classroom: Co-Producing and Sharing
Digital Maps;
15. Challenging Cultures of Power through Cultural Studies and
Maker Pedagogies: An Instructional Conversation; Index
Susan Larson is the Charles B. Qualia Chair of Romance Languages and Professor of Spanish Literature, Film, and Cultural Studies at Texas Tech University, USA.
