What's Become of Cultural Studies?

Graeme Turner is Professor of Cultural Studies at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland, Australia

Introduction: Practising Cultural Studies Today Chapter 1: The Achievements of Cultural Studies The Institution of Cultural Studies Cultural Studies and... Chapter 2: The 'Un-Discipline': Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinarity Being 'Undisciplined' The Limits of Interdisciplinarity So, What Next.... Chapter 3: Teaching Cultural Studies The Marginalization of Teaching Cultural Studies 101 Old News and Bad News Chapter 4: Unintended Consequences: Convergence Culture, New Media Studies and Creative Industries The Return of Cultural Populism Convergence Culture, Cultural Studies and The Curriculum Two Stories Chapter 5: Internationalizing Cultural Studies: From Diaspora to Indigeneity From Diaspora to Indigeneity Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Chapter 6: Does Cultural Studies Have a Future? Cultural Studies and the Public Good An Interdisciplinary Lingua Franca

Graeme Turner is the leading chronicler of cultural studies. In this refreshing book, he addresses some tricky questions about the development and fate of the field, defending cultural studies as a discipline against not only its detractors but also erstwhile participants who have succumbed to the pressures of instrumentalism and drifted off into less critical territory. What's Become of Cultural Studies? takes stock and establishes grounds for renewal Jim McGuigan Loughborough University Graeme Turner is one of the most remarkable figures in the world of cultural studies. He has helped to make and remake the field over the last twenty-five years. So when he sets his alarm clock--and it goes off loudly--we all know it's time to pay attention. This extraordinary testament to what is right and wrong with cultural studies today will reverberate across the globe Toby Miller University of California - author of Makeover Nation: The United States of Reinvention