The worldliness of Stuart Hall

Abstract

This special issue addresses the worldliness of Stuart Hall, both in the naïve sense of the global scope of reception and influence of his work and in the more specific Saidian sense of the impact of his work in the formation of cultural studies generally and on specific praxis and intellectual projects. With articles addressing projects such as the Black arts movement in Britain; intellectual versus academic cultural studies in Australia; making meaning of the rise of right-wing populism in Finland; Hall’s reception in Latin America and influence on the formation of Latin American cultural studies; a specific media court case in South Africa; addressing the phenomenon of jihadi brides in Britain and reconceptualising continental African blackness, this collection represents Hall as both specific and global intellectual. It also takes us beyond the initial phase of grief to one in which we must go on doing cultural studies, without Stuart Hall’s leadership, without guarantees.