Abstract
The following exchange grew out of a series of posts to the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia discussion list. As a talking point leading into a regular meeting for early career cultural studies researchers in Brisbane, Melissa Gregg, Jean Burgess and Joshua Green quoted a passage from Simon During’s recent Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2005) in the hope of provoking a wider debate about the current state of Australian cultural studies. Various members of the list were duly provoked, and the ensuing discussion was later picked up in a paper by John Frow and continued in private correspondence and then in invited responses to the developing exchange.
Highlights
— Simon during, CULTURAL STUDIES: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION (2005), p. 26, quoted in melissa gregg, jean burgess and joshua green, post to csaa list, 26 august 2005
It is in Australia that the celebration of popular culture as a liberating force ... first took off through Fiske and Hartley’ s contributions
The readiness of a succession of Australian governments to encourage enterprise universities has empowered the old tertiary technical training departments in such areas as communications, allowing them to have an impact on more abstract and theorised cultural studies in ways that appear to have deprived the latter of critical force
Summary
— Simon during, CULTURAL STUDIES: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION (2005), p. 26, quoted in melissa gregg, jean burgess and joshua green, post to csaa list, 26 august 2005.
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