The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Analysis

Sage Publications,
01 December 2007, England

With the 'cultural turn', the concept of culture has assumed enormous importance in our understanding of the interrelations between social, political and economic structures, patterns of everyday interaction, and systems of meaning-making.
In The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Analysis, the leading figures in their fields explore the implications of this paradigm shift. Part I looks at the major disciplines of knowledge in the humanities and social sciences, asking how they have been reshaped by the cultural turn and how they have elaborated distinctive new objects of knowledge. Parts II and III examine the questions arising from a practice of analysis in which the researcher is drawn reflexively into the object of study and in which methodological frameworks are rarely given in advance.Edited by Tony Bennett and John Frow and addressed to academics and advanced students in all fields of the social sciences and humanities, The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Analysis is at once a synthesis of advances in the field, with a comprehensive coverage of the scholarly literature, and a collection of original and provocative essays by some of the brightest intellectuals of our time.
As well as a whole section dedicated to various frameworks of analysis, papers include:
Globalization and Cultural Flows Diane Crane
Indigenous Culture Tim Rowse
Culture and Economy Timothy Mitchell
Multiculturalism Ghassan Hage
Cultural and Creative Industries David Hesmondhalgh
Cultural Statistics Justin Lewis

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