Más allá de la Academia: estudios culturales y prácticas interculturales

Daniel Mato

doi:10.1590/2175-623689213

Abstract

Resumen: Los debates sobre la institucionalización de los Estudios Culturales y sus dimensiones políticas, éticas y epistemológicas fueron particularmente importantes durante la década de 1990, cuando el campo pasaba por una importante expansión transnacional impulsada por universidades y editoriales de Estados Unidos e Inglaterra, que crecientemente involucró a colegas e instituciones de diversos países europeos, asiáticos y latinoamericanos. Los debates se asociaban a menudo a la diversidad de genealogías y tradiciones intelectuales en juego. Dejando en segundo plano las diferencias entre esas diversas tradiciones intelectuales, este texto se centra en algunas dimensiones políticas, éticas y epistemológicas de hacer estudios culturales más allá de la academia, o bien dentro y fuera de la academia.

Highlights

The debates on the institutionalization of Cultural Studies and its political, ethical and epistemological dimensions were important during the 1990s
Cultural Studies were experiencing a significant transnational expansion, encouraged by universities and publishers from England and the United States, which increasingly involved colleagues and institutions from several European, Asian and Latin American countries, these debates were often associated to the diversity of genealogies and intellectual traditions at stake
These differences are relevant to understand important political, ethical and epistemological aspects, privileging this particular focus of attention often contributed to disturb the discussion on those significant dimensions

Summary

Introduction

The debates on the institutionalization of Cultural Studies and its political, ethical and epistemological dimensions were important during the 1990s. Cultural Studies were experiencing a significant transnational expansion, encouraged by universities and publishers from England and the United States, which increasingly involved colleagues and institutions from several European, Asian and Latin American countries, these debates were often associated to the diversity of genealogies and intellectual traditions at stake These differences are relevant to understand important political, ethical and epistemological aspects, privileging this particular focus of attention often contributed to disturb the discussion on those significant dimensions. Power and the entrance in Latin America of the Cultural Studies idea,” a revised version of that lecture was published the following year in the book Cultura, Poder e Educação: um debate sobre estudos culturais em educação, organized by Rosa Maria Hessel Silveira (Mato, 2005) This time, I will try to ignore the differences between Latin American and other intellectual traditions and focus especially on some political, ethical and epistemological dimensions of doing cultural studies beyond the academy, or both inside and outside the academy

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