Born in London, Gavin Kendall was educated at Cambridge, Manchester and London Universities, and before moving to QUT, lectured for six years at Lancaster University. His books include The Sociology of Cosmopolitanism; State, Democracy and Globalization; Understanding Culture; and Using Foucault's Methods. "I try to relate my teaching to my research, inasmuch as I try to always discuss my thinking on the key questions that have stayed with me through all my years as an undergraduate, a postgraduate, and an academic - questions of power and government, of the role of law, and of the limits of sovereignty."
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Surveying the Field of Cultural Studies The Notion of Ordering as an Organizing Principle for Cultural Studies Building a Method for Cultural Studies as a Study of Ordering Ordering through the Culture of Government A Colonial Example Ordering through the Culture of Law and Regulation Ordering through the Culture of Everyday Life Ordering through Routinization Technique, Technology and Self Conclusion Reshaping Cultural Studies
`Cultural Studies has made a name for itself by pricking the pretensions of several disciplines, from sociology to literature. Now, along come Kendall and Wickham to do the same to cultural studies - a "must read" for anyone in the field' - Toby Miller, New York University