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Book SynopsisQuestions of cultural representation and contestation, central to political and ethical thinking after the so-called ‘cultural turn’ of recent decades, have if anything intensified in a twenty-first century of new media, globalization, migration, and ever renewed struggles over identity, memory, and cultural performance. At the same time, theoretical debate is increasingly marked by a concern to retrieve a properly political sphere of action as such. The essays collected in this interdisciplinary volume aim to break new ground by exploring the critical space between the apparently enduring political vitality of cultural representation and contestation today, on the one hand, and the possible limits of a ‘cultural’ politics, on the other. Combining concrete researches and theoretical reflection, and including a final chapter exploring the issues raised by the essays, this volume will be of interest to those in the disciplines of cultural studies, sociology, political philosophy and ethics.
Table of ContentsChing-Yu Lin and John McSweeney: Introduction Representation, Media, Politics Ann-Marie Cook: More Than Just a Laugh: Assessing The Politics of Camp in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Ejvind Hansen: Actuvirtuality in the Internet-Mediated Political Public Sphere Ewa Glapka: Ideology in Media Language: Hegemonic Discourse or Multiple Discourses? Culture, Performance, Resistance Ching-Yu Lin: Taiwanese Youth, Identity and Tai-Ke Culture: Resistance and the Performance of Identity Lisa Slater: Enchantment and Disenchantment: Indigenous Australian Cultural Festivals and an Ethics of Uncertainty Baldwin Wong: Accommodating Disadvantaged Cultural Minorities Fiona Schouten: The Paradox of Memory Studies: Studying a Praxis from Within Pilar Damião de Medeiros: The Social Ethics of Modern Aesthetics Political and Ethical Thinking as ‘Cultural’ Thinking Paolo A. Bolanos: From Rigidity to Receptivity: Articulating an Ethics of Thinking via Nietzsche and Adorno John McSweeney: Culture and/or Politics? Rancière, Foucault and the Problem of Biopower Paul Reynolds: Some Remarks on the Depoliticising Relationship between Ethics and Science in Contemporary Radical and Post-Marxist Thought Concluding Reflections Paul Reynolds and John McSweeney: The Global Nexus of Culture, Representation and Politics: Towards Ethics
