Cultural Studies in Question

Peter Golding is Emeritus Professor at Northumbria University, UK. Until July 2015 he was Pro Vice-Chancellor at Northumbria University, and previously Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Loughborough University, where he was Head of Social Sciences from 1991-2006.  He  is Hon. President of the Media Research Network of the European Sociological Association, editor of the European Journal of Communication, and Hon. Sec. of the subject association for the field in the UK (MeCCSA). He chaired the Research Assessment Exercise for the field in the UK in 2008 and 2014.  He has published widely on media sociology, the political economy of the media, and on communications and social policy.

`Cultural Studies in Question is a much needed confrontation with the most challenging questions engaging cultural studies and communication today. It is at once sympathetic to the goals and political purposes of cultural studies, yet frustrated with excessive idealization, textualism, and distance from concrete practice or public policy. This collection, carefully assembled by Marjorie Ferguson and Peter Golding, is criticism at its best, aimed not at destroying but improving, not at negation but shared progress through intellectual struggle. Squarely in the tradition of Raymond Williams and Stuart Hall, the central figures in the debates around cultural studies, both its advocates and its critics, here confront the hard questions of purpose, emphasis, method, implicit ideology, and real world consequences in what may be the most important intellectual movement of this and recent decades. The result is of great value to all those seeking to better grasp the current crises in communication and culture′ - Michael R Real, San Diego State University `If you are a social scientist wanting an overview of contemporary debates in cultural studies research on both sides of the Atlantic this commissioned collection of articles is an excellent place to start′ - Sociology

• Cultural Studies and Changing Times - Marjorie Ferguson and Peter GoldingAn IntroductionPART ONE: QUESTIONS AND CRITIQUEReflections on the Project of (American) Cultural Studies - James W CareyThe Anti-Political Populism of Cultural Studies - Todd GitlinPolicy Help Wanted - Denis McQuailWilling and Able Media Culturalists Please ApplyPolitical Economy and the Practice of Cultural Studies - Nicholas GarnhamDominance and Ideology in Culture and Cultural Studies - Sari ThomasBase Notes - Graham MurdockThe Conditions of Cultural PracticeOvercoming the Divide - Douglas KellnerCultural Studies and Political EconomyPART TWO: ANSWERS AND ALTERNATIVESTheoretical Orthodoxies - David MorleyTextualism, Constructivism and the ′New Ethnography′ in Cultural StudiesCultural Populism Revisited - Jim McGuiganImagining the Audience - Joli Jensen and John J PaulyLosses and Gains in Cultural StudiesThe E′s and the Anti-E′s - Angela McRobbieNew Questions for Feminism and Cultural StudiesCultural Studies, Communication and Change - John D H DowningEastern Europe to the UralsFrom Codes to Utterances - Michael BilligCultural Studies, Discourse and Psychology