Thinking Culture and Cultural Studies-from/of the Global South

This essay invites us to consider the need to rethink culture and some theoretical/intellectual assumptions in Cultural Studies when we bring up the issue of the "Global South." The essay makes a case for "going South" in Cultural Studies. It advances a notion of the South that i...

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Published inCommunication and critical/cultural studies Vol. 16; no. 3; pp. 196 - 218
Main Author Shome, Raka
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 03.07.2019
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Summary:This essay invites us to consider the need to rethink culture and some theoretical/intellectual assumptions in Cultural Studies when we bring up the issue of the "Global South." The essay makes a case for "going South" in Cultural Studies. It advances a notion of the South that is based on a frame of dispossession. The first section offers a historical overview of the Global South and considers where the Global South is today. The second section attempts to rethink the notion of 'culture' and some intellectual orientations in Cultural Studies when we move to the Global South.
ISSN:1479-1420
1479-4233
DOI:10.1080/14791420.2019.1648841