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MAIS 665: Cultural Studies: Reflections, Democratic Possibilities, and Futures (Rev. 3) Report a Broken Link

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

Scott, D. (2005). Stuart Hall's ethics. Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 17, 1–16.
Hebdige, D. (2015). The worldliness of cultural studies. Cultural Studies, 29(1), 32–42.
Miller, T. (2001). What it is and what it isn’t: Introducing…cultural studies. In T. Miller (Ed.), A companion to cultural studies (pp. 1–19). Blackwell.
Williams, R. (1989). Culture is ordinary. In Resources of hope: Culture, democracy, socialism (pp. 91–100). Verso.

Week 2

Appleton, N. S. (2019, February 4). Do not decolonize if you are not decolonizing. 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.
Wright, H. K., & Xiao, Y. (2020) African cultural studies: An overview. Critical Arts, 34(4), 1–31.

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.
Watts, V. (2013). Indigenous place-thought and agency amongst humans and non humans (First Woman and Sky Woman go on a European world tour!). Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 2(1), 201–234.

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), 425–446.
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.
Theory from the Margins. (2021, May 13). Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore / Stuart Hall: Selected writings on race and difference [Video]. YouTube.

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.

Week 8

Waldschmidt, A. (2017). Disability goes cultural. In H. Berressem, M. Ingwersen, & A. Waldschmidt (Eds.), Culture - theory - disability: Encounters between disability studies and cultural studies (1. Aufl. ed.). transcript-Verlag.

Week 9

Social Justice Institute UBC. (2016, February 24). Making love and relations beyond settler sexualities [Video]. YouTube.
Skey, M. (2013). Why do nations matter? The struggle for belonging and security in an uncertain world. The British Journal of Sociology, 64(1), 81–98.
Simpson, L. B., & Voices Rising. (2013).I am not a nation-state. Unsettling America: Decolonization in Theory and Practice.
Habtom, S., & Scribe, M. (2020). To breathe together: Co-conspirators for decolonial futures. Yellowhead Institute.

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 E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy (winter 2018 ed.).
Tawil-Souri, H. (2011). The necessary politics of Palestinian cultural studies. In T. Sabry (Ed.), Arab cultural studies: Mapping the field. 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

Kellner, D., & Kim, G. (2010). YouTube, critical pedagogy, and media activism. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 32(1), 3–36.
Brown, N. M. (2019). Methodological cyborg as Black feminist technology: Constructing the social self using computational digital autoethnography and social media. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 19(1), 55–67.
Haw, A. L. (2020). What drives political news engagement in digital spaces? Reimagining “echo chambers” in a polarised and hybridised media ecology. Communication Research and Practice, 6(1), 38–54.

Week 13

Ramsden, P. (2020, June 15). How the pandemic changed social media and George Floyd’s death created a collective conscience. The Conversation.
Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 41(Fall 2020).

Week 14

Hagerty, A., & Rubinov, I. (2019, July 18). Global AI ethics: A review of the social impacts and ethical implications of artificial intelligence [unpublished].
Phan, T. (2019). Amazon Echo and the aesthetics of whiteness. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 5(1), 1–38.

Week 15

Hall, S., & Back, L. (2009). At home and not at home: Stuart Hall in conversation with Les Back. Cultural Studies, 23(4), 658–687.