(1999). Un‐settling ‘the heritage’, re‐imagining the post‐nationWhose heritage? Third Text: Vol. 13, No. 49, pp. 3-13.
O texto inicia examinando novamente a centralidade da cultura - a enorme expansão de tudo que está associado a ela, na segunda metade do século XX, e o seu papel constitutivo, hoje, em todos os aspectos da vida social. A seguir, considera os aspectos teóricos e conceituais - o amplo poder analítico e explanatório que o conceito de cultura adquiriu na teorização social. Finalmente, retoma ao momento do circuito cultural - a regulação - que é o principal foco desta obra e examina a cultura no contexto das tendências e direções contraditórias da mudança social em relação ao novo milênio.
Article first published in Rethinking communication, Vol.1 Paradigm Issues, edited by DERVIN, Brenda et al. (1989).
Keynote lecture of VII Congress of the Brazilian Association of Comparative Literature (ABRALIC), “Terras & Gentes”, held in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, July 24-27, 2000.
[Hudson Vincent] I was hoping that we could begin with a conversation about the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. What brought you there to begin with? [Stuart Hall] Well, what brought me t...
The following draws out a few points that suggest an inner coherence in the midst of the rich diversity of questions Avtar Brah addresses. One critical factor is that Brah's work appears at a specific historical 'moment' - a simultaneously political, historical and theoretical conjuncture - the diasporic. The diaspora - as an emergent space and an interpretive frame - unpicks the claims made for the unities of culturally homogeneous, racially purified identities, and constitutes the moment of the problematic of the subject - when critical thought comes face to face with the perplexing interface between the social and the psychic. Brah confronts the necessarily complex and contradictory specificities of differentiated subjectivities in the diasporic frame within a distinct 'methodology' - analytic and interpretive. The very structures 'out there', which have so often been thought of as determining, are understood as themselves providing frameworks of meaning, as having an internal psychic and discursive dimension. Avtar Brah is one of the few who have begun to capture such a double inscription through ongoing research. Such is particularly evident in 'The Scent of Memory', and it is through a reading of that essay that Brah's distinct 'methodology' is presented - an approach which is sensitive to the always already contradictory condition of 'reality'. What I suggest of Brah's 'methodology' is that it is a practice that has significant consequences for the meaning and value placed on social contexts, for the 'presence' and 'absence' of information and knowledge in interpretation and analysis, a practice that we might call diasporic reasoning.
This essay discusses neo-liberalism as a hegemonic process, offering an interpretation of the past 40 years of British political developments.
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsStuart HallHe was the first editor of New Left Review and Director of the Birmingham Centre for Cultural Studies
(1992). Race, Culture, and Communications: Looking Backward and Forward at Cultural Studies. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 10-18.
This essay attempts to assess Althusser's contribution to the reconceptualization of ideology. Rather than offering a detailed exegesis, the essay provides some general reflections on the theoretical gains flowing from Althusser's break with classical Marxist formulations of ideology. It argues that these gains opened up a new perspective within Marxism, enabling a rethinking of ideology in a significantly different way.
