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MAIS 665: Cultural Studies: Reflections, Democratic Possibilities, and Futures (Rev. 2)
MAIS 665: Cultural Studies: Reflections, Democratic Possibilities, and Futures (Rev. 2)
MAIS 665 Cultural Studies: Reflections, Democratic Possibilities, and Futures outlines some of the developing new questions, intellectual positions, and analyses that have emerged in response to the uncertainty triggered by neoliberalism, globalization, and other means of domination. The course includes debates about national identity, multiculturalism and citizenship, diaspora, postcolonial criticism, environmental justice, new media’s influence on social organization, activism and ethics, the study of culture in relation to sexuality, gender and race, cultural memory and museums, biopolitics, and the aftermath of September 11, 2001. In addition, the course offers a variety of everyday examples and case studies to enhance students’ understanding of the dynamism of identities and cultures resulting from the reorganization of societies and nations, and the complexities associated with global integration.
Week 1
Ang, I. (2006). From cultural studies to cultural research: Engaged scholarship in the twenty-first century. Cultural Studies Review, 12 (2), 183-197.
Ross. A. (2010). The making of sustainable livelihoods. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 7 (1), 92-95.
Scott, D. (2005). Stuart Hall's ethics. Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 17 , 1-16.
Smith, A. (2008). American studies without America: Native feminisms and the nation-state. American Quarterly, 60 (2), 309-315.
Week 2
Appleton, N. S. (2019. February 4). Do not decolonize if you are not decolonizing. [Web log post]. Critical Ethnic Studies .
Rowe, A. C., & Tuck, E. (2017). Settler colonialism and cultural studies: Ongoing settlement, cultural production, and resistance. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 17 (1), 3–13.
Sabry, T. (2011). Introduction: Arab cultural studies: Between “reterritorialization” and “deterritorialization.” In Tarik Sabry (Ed.), Arab cultural studies: Mapping the field (pp. 1–31). London: I. B. Tauris.
Shome, R. (2009). Post-colonial reflections on the ‘internationalization’ of cultural studies. Cultural Studies, 23 (5/6), 694-719.
Stankovic, P. (2010). Toward a Slovene cultural studies. Cultural Studies, 24 (5), 613–636.
Tomaselli, K. G., & Wright, H. K. (2008). Editorial statement: African cultural studies. Cultural Studies, 22 (2), 173-186.
Week 3
Slack, J. D. (2008). Resisting ecocultural studies. Cultural Studies, 22 (3/4), 477-497.
Shiva, V., with Opel, A. (2008). From water crisis to water culture. Cultural Studies, 22 (3/4), 498-509.
Wilson, K. Wilson, K. (2005). Ecofeminism and First Nations peoples in Canada: Linking culture, gender and nature. Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 12 (3), 333–355.
Week 4
Bell. A. (2008). Recognition or ethics? Cultural Studies, 22 (6), 850–869.
Fischman, G. E., & McLaren, P. (2005). Rethinking critical pedagogy and the Gramscian and Freirean legacies: From organic to committed intellectuals or critical pedagogy, commitment, and praxis. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 5 (4),
Kincheloe, J. L., & Steinberg, S. R. (2006). An ideology of miseducation: Countering the pedagogy of empire. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 6 (1), 33-51.
Week 5
Alexander, C. (2009). Stuart Hall and “race.” Cultural Studies, 23 (4), 457–482.
Myers, T. K. (2020). Can you hear me now? An autoethnographic analysis of code-switching. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies , 20 (2), 113–123.
St. Louis, B. (2009). On ‘the necessity and the “impossibility” of identities’. Cultural Studies, 23 (4), 559–582.
Sesanti, S. (2009). Reclaiming space: African women’s use of the media as a platform to contest patriarchal representations of African culture - womanists’ perspectives. Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, 23 (2), 209-223.
Week 6
Phipps, A. (2016). Whose personal is more political? Experience in contemporary feminist politics. Feminist Theory, 17 (3), 303–321.
Pyle, K. (2018). Naming and claiming: Recovering Ojibwe and Plains Cree Two-Spirit language. Transgender Studies Quarterly, 5 (4), 574–588.
Todorova, M. (2018) Women, high-rise condominiums and curated living: Canadian hegemonic itineraries of female empowerment. TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 40 , pp. 42–65.
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Week 10
Liubhéid, E. (2008). Sexuality, migration, and the shifting line between legal and illegal status. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 14 (2–3), 289–315.
Scheuerman, W. (2018). Globalization. In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2018 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (Ed.).
Tawil-Souri, H. (2011). The necessary politics of Palestinian cultural studies. In Tarik Sabry (Ed.), Arab cultural studies: Mapping the field . London: I. B. Tauris. Credo Reference.
Turner, G. (2007). Shrinking the borders: Globalization, culture and belonging. Cultural Politics, 3 (1), 5–19.
Week 11
Cho, L. (2007). The turn to diaspora. Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 17 , 11–30.
Eng, D. L. (2011). Queering the black Atlantic, queering the brown Atlantic. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 17 (1). 193–204.
Fortier, A. M. (2001). “Coming home”: Queer migrations and multiple evocations of home. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 4 (4), 405–425.
Horvat, K. V. (2010). Multiculturalism in time of terrorism: Re-imagining Europe post-9/11. Cultural Studies, 24 (5), 747–766.
Keil, R., & Ali, H. (2006). Multiculturalism, racism and infectious disease in the global city: The experience of the 2003 SARS outbreak in Toronto. Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 16 , 23-50.
Week 12
Carty, V. (2010). New information communication technologies and grassroots mobilization. Information, Communication & Society, 13 (2), 155–173.
De Koster, W., & Houtman, D. (2008). “Stormfront is like a second home to me”: On virtual community formation by right-wing extremists. Information, Communication & Society, 11 (8), 1155–1176.
Gillan, K. (2009). The UK anti-war movement online: Uses and limitations of Internet technologies for contemporary activism. Information, Communication & Society, 12 (1), 25–43.
Glaser, J., Dixit, J., & Green, D. P. (2002). Studying hate crime with the Internet: What makes racists advocate racial violence? Journal of Social Issues, 58 (1), 177–193.
Kellner, D., & Kim, G. (2010). YouTube, critical pedagogy, and media activism. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 32 (1), 3-36.
Lövheim, M. (2011). Young women’s blogs as ethical spaces. Information, Communication & Society, 14 (3), 320-337.
Parker, D., & Song, M. (2009). New ethnicities and the Internet. Cultural Studies, 23 (4), 583–604.
Teurlings, J. (2010). Media literacy and the challenges of contemporary media culture: On savvy viewers and critical apathy. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 13 (3), 359–373.
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Week 15
Driskill, O. L. (2010). Doubleweaving two-spirit critiques: Building alliances between Native and queer studies. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 16 (1-2), 69–92.
Hall, S., & Back, L. (2009). At home and not at home: Stuart Hall in conversation with Les Back. Cultural Studies, 23 (4), 658-687. doi:10.1080/09502380902950963
Liubhéid, E. (2008). Sexuality, migration, and the shifting line between legal and illegal status. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 14 (2-3), 289–315.
