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"Life and Times of Cultural Studies: The Politics and Transformation of the Structures of Knowledge. Durham, NC: Duke University Press." Moving world-systems analysis into the cultural realm, Richard E. Lee locates the cultural studies movement within a broad historical and geopolitical framework. He illuminates how order and conflict have been reflected and negotiated in the sphere of knowledge production by situating the emergence of cultural studies at the intersection of international and British politics in the post-1945 period and a two-hundred-year history of conservative critical practice. Tracing British criticism from the French Revolution through the 1960s, he describes how cultural studies in its infancy recombined the elite literary critical tradition with the First New Left's concerns for history and popular culture-just as the liberal consensus began to come apart.
Lee tracks the
intellectual project of
cultural studies as it
developed over three
decades, from its
institutional foundation
at the University of
Birmingham's Centre for
Contemporary Cultural
Studies (CCCS). He links
work at the CCCS to the
events of 1968 and
explores cultural
studies' engagement with
theory in the debates
over structuralism. He
considers the shift
within cultural studies
away from issues of
working-class culture
toward questions of
identity politics in the
fields of race and
gender. He follows the
expansion of the
cultural studies project
from Britain to
Australia, Canada, South
Africa, and the United
States. Contextualizing
the development and
spread of cultural
studies within the
longue duree structures
of knowledge of the
modern world-system, Lee
assesses its past and
future as an agent of
political and social
change.
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"Capitalist Restructuring and the Pacific Rim" This book situates the evolution of the high growth economies along Asia's Pacific Rim after the Second World War within broader global political and economic changes. Specifically, it charts the growth of capitalist economies in the region throughout periodic crises and successive waves of restructuring, and links changes in the world economy to shifts in the domestic political economies of East and Southeast Asia. It suggests that the financial crisis of 1997-98 laid the basis for a new phase of regional economic integration in Pacific-Asia. Key issues examined include:
Through this detailed
analysis of regional
economic growth and
integration since 1945,
Capitalist Restructuring
and the Pacific Rim
concludes that the
continued accumulation
of capital in East and
Southeast Asia is
undermining the material
foundations of US power.
"Separate Roads to Feminism"
Separate Roads to
Feminism is the
first book to examine
the simultaneous
emergence of feminist
movements from the Civil
Rights/Black Liberation
movement, the Chicano
movement, and the white
Left in the 1960s and
1970s. Challenging the
picture of "second wave"
feminism as
monolithically middle
class and white, Benita
Roth argues that the
second wave was instead
comprised of feminisms:
organizationally
distinct movements that
influenced each other,
as well as other
movements in complex
ways.
"Through the Prism of Slavery. Labor, Capital, and World Economy (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.: Latham MD, 2004)"
In this thoughtful book,
Dale Tomich explores the
contested relationship
between slavery and
capitalism. Tracing
slavery's integral role
in the formation of a
capitalist world
economy, he reinterprets
the development of the
world economy through
the "prism of slavery."
Through a sustained
critique of Marxism,
world-systems theory,
and new economic
history, Tomich develops
an original conceptual
framework for answering
theoretical and
historical questions
about the nexus between
slavery and the world
economy. The author
explores how particular
slave systems were
affected by their
integration into the
world market,
international division
of labor, and interstate
system. He further
examines the ways that
the particular "local"
histories of such slave
regimes illuminate
processes of world
economic change. His
deft use of specific New
World examples of slave
production as local
sites of global
transformation
highlights the influence
of specific geographies
and local agency in
shaping different slave
zones Tomich's cogent
analysis of the
struggles over the
organization of work and
labor discipline in the
French West Indian
colony of Martinique
vividly illustrates the
ways that day-to-day
resistance altered the
relationship between
master and slave,
precipitated crises in
sugar cultivation, and
created the local
conditions for the
transition to a
post-slavery economy and
society.
In this fine-grained
history, Michael O. West
focuses on how the
unintended consequences
of colonialism led to
the creation of an
African middle class in
Zimbabwe. Tracing
Africans' quest for
social recognition from
the time of Cecil Rhodes
to Rhodesia's unilateral
declaration of
independence, West shows
how some Africans were
able to avail themselves
of scarceeducational and
social opportunities in
order to achieve some
degree of upward
mobility in a society
that was hostile to
their ambitions. |
