Futures of the Study of Culture Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Challenges

How can we approach possible but unknown futures of the study of culture? This volume explores this question in the context of a changing global world. The contributions in this volume discuss the necessity of significant shifts in our conceptual and epistemological frameworks. Taking into account c...

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Main Authors Bachmann-Medick, Doris, Nünning, Ansgar, Kugele, Jens
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Germany De Gruyter 2020
SeriesConcepts for the Study of Culture (CSC)
Subjects
Book Industry Communication
Cultural and media studies
Cultural studies
Futures/Futurity
General studies and General knowledge
HM401-1281
Interdisciplinary Research
Interdisciplinary studies
Kulturwissenschaft
Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects
Social interaction
Social issues & processes
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Social sciences
Society & culture: general
Society & social sciences
Society and culture: general
Society and Social Sciences
Study of Culture
Futures/Futurity
Interdisciplinary Research
Study of Culture
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Table of Contents:
  • Taking Responsibility for the Future: Ten Proposals for Shaping the Future of the Study of Culture into a Problem-Solving Paradigm --
  • IV. Future Connectivities: Economy, Natural Sciences, Ecology --
  • Contents --
  • Normativity and Culture in the Context of Modern Medicine: A Prospective Vision of an Elective Affinity --
  • Beyond the Colonial Shadow? Delinking, Border Thinking, and Theoretical Futures of Cultural History --
  • Index
  • Futures of the Study of Culture: Some Opening Remarks --
  • The "Future Sense" and the Future of the Study of Culture --
  • The Integrative Potentials of Arts-based Research for the Study of Culture: A Reflection on The Lagoon Cycle by Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison --
  • Notes on Contributors --
  • I. Horizons for Future Reflections --
  • After Literature: The Geographies, Technologies, and Epistemologies of Reading and Writing in the Early Twenty-first Century --
  • Pre-Post-Apocalyptic Culture: The Future(s) of the Humanities --
  • Introductions: Futures of the Study of Culture --
  • Collaborative Research in the Study of Culture --
  • Culture in the Marketplace --
  • Cultural History, Science Studies, and Global Economy: New and Future Approaches --
  • No Future: The Study of Culture in the Twenty-first Century --
  • Future Trading Zones for the Study of Culture: An Interview with Peter L. Galison --
  • Liquid Spaces in Modern Historiography --
  • After Hybridity: Grafting as a Model of Cultural Translation --
  • The Global Eye or Foucault Rewired: Security, Control, and Scholarship in the Twenty-first Century --
  • Multispecies Futures and the Study of Culture --
  • Frontmatter --
  • The Society of Singularities --
  • Preface and Acknowledgements --
  • II. No Future? Politics and Concerns --
  • III. Theorizing Pasts, Presents, Futures --