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Cultural Studies Methodology and Political Strategy

Metaconjuncture

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Authors:
  1. Robert F. Carley

    1. Department of International Studies, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

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  • Demonstrates how Hall’s reading of Gramsci provides a methodology to transplant Gramsci’s concepts from their original historical context into contemporary cultural analyses
  • Analyzes strategic and tactical correspondence between culture and politics to establish a political theory of articulation
  • Considers the interplay of objective and subjective conditions within conjunctural analysis that either enable or constrain correspondence between culture and politics

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: Conjunctures and Crises

    • Robert F. Carley
    Pages 1-20

  3. Hall’s Method for Reading Gramsci

    • Robert F. Carley
    Pages 21-50

  4. The Rediscovery of the Conjuncture

    • Robert F. Carley
    Pages 51-89

  5. Politics as Method/Method as Politics Part One: Organic Concepts

    • Robert F. Carley
    Pages 91-114

  6. Politics as Method/Method as Politics Part Two: Organizational Concepts

    • Robert F. Carley
    Pages 115-131

  7. Metaconjuncture Lab

    • Robert F. Carley
    Pages 133-140

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 141-142
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About this book

This book is an intervention into cultural studies' theoretical and methodological foundations. It addresses a crisis in conjunctural analysis: that there is no theorized method for conjunctural analysis as it pertains to recognizing a conjunctural shift or the emergence of an organic crisis. This crisis is connected to the belief that the definition of the conjuncture is ambiguous in Gramsci’s work, but using a broader range of primary, secondary, and also untranslated sources on the conjuncture, Carley demonstrates that Gramsci has decisively settled that ambiguity. Through a philological approach to Gramsci’s original texts, this book alters the debate around conjunctural analysis and offers means to reinterpret cultural studies and its relationship to its founding thinkers.

Reviews

"With a newly translated passage from Gramsci, Carley has come to alert us that our understandings, especially of conjuncture, are themselves situated conjuncturally. With Metaconjuncture, he opens a new pathway for Cultural Studies to advance itself as an analytic for our times and times to come." 

—Jack Bratich, Rutgers University, USA

“Cultural studies aims to overcome the fragmentation of the study of culture by highlighting culture as a living process.  Metaconjuncture pushes the conversation to politically interrogate theories, methodologies and conjunctures.  Abutting Stuart Hall and Gramsci, Carley’s work rethinks, realigns and re-analyzes Cultural Studies."

—Shirley R. Steinberg, Werklund Research Professor of Critical Youth Studies, The University of Calgary; author of Behind the Bricolage: Redefining Rigor and Complexity in Research (2021)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of International Studies, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

    Robert F. Carley

About the author

Robert F. Carley is Associate Professor of International Studies at Texas A&M University, College Station. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cultural Studies Methodology and Political Strategy

  • Book Subtitle: Metaconjuncture

  • Authors: Robert F. Carley

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73212-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73211-0Published: 29 April 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73214-1Published: 29 April 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-73212-7Published: 28 April 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 142

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Cultural Studies, Sociological Theory, Social Sciences, general, Political Sociology

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