Monday, 30 December 2019

Cultural Studies

Workshop

Hello friends,

Have you ever imagine that one has dilevered full day leacture and yet not feeling tired some even for a while? Listen, not only Dr.Kalyani Vallath ma'am has dilevered leacture for full day but also made it so stimulating and interesting. While giving preparatory for. Dr.Dilip Barad sir challenged us that may you will be tired of sitting and learning for a full day but she will definitely not feel tired for a moment and I am very happy and also delight to see her enthusiasm and passionate feelings towards teaching. The way she taught is only necessary for anyone to create interest to learn. 

If someone ask  me how you come to know about exploring your interest into  Cultural studies , I would definitely say it's credit will certainly goes to Dr. Kalyani vallath. While she is taking leacture no one can dares to feel sleepy, not because just she is scolding students but she has pleasing and charming techniques for angaging students with topic and she also makes it easy to understand.

What is cultural Studies?


Cultural studies is cultural analysis.
 It also wiretap upon how power is associated. 

The objective of cultural studies includes understanding culture in all its complex forms and analyzing the social and political context in which culture manifests itself. Cultural studies is a site of both study/analysis and political criticism/action. (For example, not only would a cultural studies scholar study an object, but s/he would connect this study to a larger, progressive political project.)

Worthy to mention, "Cultural studies" is not synonymous with either "area studies" or "ethnic studies," although there are many cultural studies practitioners working in both area studies and ethnic studies programs and professional associations

Hall and others have identified some core originating texts, or the original "curriculum", of the field of cultural studies:

Richard Hoggart's The Uses of Literacy
Raymond Williams' Culture and Society  The Long Revolution
E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Classes.

In Cultural studies combines a variety of politically engaged critical approaches drawn including semiotics, Marxism, feminist theory, ethnography, critical race theory, post-structuralism, postcolonialism, social theory, political theory, history, philosophy, literary theory, media theory, film/video studies, communication studies, political economy, translation studies, museum studies and art history/criticism to study cultural phenomena in various societies and historical periods.                                                   



POints oF WORKSHOP’S  DISCUSSION
 What is Cultural Studies
♦️ Frankfurt  School
♦️ Critical Theory
♦️ Hegelian Dialectical Method
♦️ Dialectic of Enlightenment
♦️ New left in Britain
♦️ Center Contemporary  Cultural  (CCCS)
♦️ Richard Hoggart (1918-2014)
♦️ E.P. Thompson (1924-1993)
♦️ Raymond Williams(1921-1988)
♦️ Willaim’s The Long Revolution
♦️ Cultural Materialism
♦️Stuart Hall (1932-2014)
♦️ Circuit of Culture
♦️ Major Influences
♦️ Michel Foucault
♦️ Archeology and  Genealogy
♦️Power/Knowledge
♦️Episteme and Dispositif (Apparatus)
♦️ Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)
♦️ Cultural Intermediaries
♦️Black Atlantic
♦️ Subculture Studies
♦️ Public Sphere
♦️Posthumanism
♦️Information Society and Network Society
♦️ Trauma Studies
♦️ Globalization  Studies : Disjuncture
♦️Appadurai’s  Five Scapes
♦️ Queer Studies
♦️Performativity
♦️ Intersectionality
♦️Visual Cultural Studies


Of course, what I describe here is only a single drop of water, there is very interesting depths where we should looked into it, and definitely it will absolutely help in enhancing our views about cultural not only for cultural studies!

Hearty thanks to Dr.Dilip Barad sir who constantly tries to break down stereotypes of culture and society through his direction, genuine thanks to Dr.Kalyani Vallath ma'am who menaged her hectic schedule free for a while to share her knowledge and to make very certain about concept of Cultural Studies with us. I would  assuredly say that ma'am is really first women who really inspired me personally as well as she shared her dare and not a story but reality which she has faced and successfully came out of it and becomes living force for others also who are may traped by culture. Once again, thank you so much ma'am.

Thank you.

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