Mark Gibson is Senior Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies in the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University.

'[The book] is the most significant and original contribution on a topic - power - that is both central to Cultural Studies yet is not discussed in depth in that field.' Terry Flew, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane'An excellent critique of cultural studies' moralism and its frequently dogmatic relationship to power and oppression, the book is also an important intervention into the ongoing debate about cultural studies' responsibilities and its future direction.'Joanna Zylinska, Goldsmiths College, University of London

• * Cultural Studies and the Concept of Power * With Respect to Foucault - Towards a Critique of the Thematics of Power * Power and Sovereignty - The 'Peculiarities of the English' Revisited * Cultural Studies 'Before Power' - The First Generation * 'A Whole Way of Conflict' - The Turn to the Concept of Power * The Sociological Encounter - 'Power' at Birmingham * A Continuing Tension - The Unresolved Politics of Cultural Studies * 'An Impossible Politics to Live' - Gender, Race and the Calculus of Oppression * American Cultural Studies and the Inflation of the Concept of Power * The Shoals of Banality - Living with the Concept of Power * Beyond Power? The 'New Pluralism' and the Turn to Ethics * Conclusion - Reconfiguring Cultural Studies

Mark Gibson is Senior Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies in the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University.

'[The book] is the most significant and original contribution on a topic - power - that is both central to Cultural Studies yet is not discussed in depth in that field.' Terry Flew, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane'An excellent critique of cultural studies' moralism and its frequently dogmatic relationship to power and oppression, the book is also an important intervention into the ongoing debate about cultural studies' responsibilities and its future direction.'Joanna Zylinska, Goldsmiths College, University of London

• * Cultural Studies and the Concept of Power * With Respect to Foucault - Towards a Critique of the Thematics of Power * Power and Sovereignty - The 'Peculiarities of the English' Revisited * Cultural Studies 'Before Power' - The First Generation * 'A Whole Way of Conflict' - The Turn to the Concept of Power * The Sociological Encounter - 'Power' at Birmingham * A Continuing Tension - The Unresolved Politics of Cultural Studies * 'An Impossible Politics to Live' - Gender, Race and the Calculus of Oppression * American Cultural Studies and the Inflation of the Concept of Power * The Shoals of Banality - Living with the Concept of Power * Beyond Power? The 'New Pluralism' and the Turn to Ethics * Conclusion - Reconfiguring Cultural Studies

Mark Gibson is Senior Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies in the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University.

'[The book] is the most significant and original contribution on a topic - power - that is both central to Cultural Studies yet is not discussed in depth in that field.' Terry Flew, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane'An excellent critique of cultural studies' moralism and its frequently dogmatic relationship to power and oppression, the book is also an important intervention into the ongoing debate about cultural studies' responsibilities and its future direction.'Joanna Zylinska, Goldsmiths College, University of London

• * Cultural Studies and the Concept of Power * With Respect to Foucault - Towards a Critique of the Thematics of Power * Power and Sovereignty - The 'Peculiarities of the English' Revisited * Cultural Studies 'Before Power' - The First Generation * 'A Whole Way of Conflict' - The Turn to the Concept of Power * The Sociological Encounter - 'Power' at Birmingham * A Continuing Tension - The Unresolved Politics of Cultural Studies * 'An Impossible Politics to Live' - Gender, Race and the Calculus of Oppression * American Cultural Studies and the Inflation of the Concept of Power * The Shoals of Banality - Living with the Concept of Power * Beyond Power? The 'New Pluralism' and the Turn to Ethics * Conclusion - Reconfiguring Cultural Studies