Cultural Studies In The Classroom And Beyond: Critical Pedagogies And Classroom Strategies

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This edited volume seeks to combine and highlight the theoretical and practical aspects of teaching by exploring and reflecting on the ways in which Cultural Studies is taught and practiced at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, in the US and internationally. Contributors create a space where connections among Cultural Studies practitioners across generations and locations are formed. Because the alliances built by Cultural Studies practitioners in the U.S. and the global north are deeply shaped by the global south/Third World perspectives, this book extends an invitation to teachers and practitioners in and outside of the US, including those who may offer a transnational perspective on teaching and practicing Cultural Studies. This volume promises to be a trailblazing collection of first-rate essays by leading and emerging figures in the field of Cultural Studies. Acknowledgments......Page 6 Contents......Page 8 Notes on Contributors......Page 11 Cultural Studies, Teaching and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction......Page 19 Part I: Pedagogy and Teaching in Cultural Studies: Critical Groundings......Page 24 Part II: Cultural Studies Pedagogies in Practice: In the Classroom and Beyond......Page 26 Part III: Cultural Studies Pedagogies in Context: Some Case Studies......Page 29 Works Cited......Page 32 Part I: Pedagogy and Teaching in Cultural Studies: Critical Groundings......Page 34 What Did You Learn in School Today? Cultural Studies as Pedagogy......Page 35 Cultural Studies as Pedagogy......Page 39 Cultural Studies in the Classroom......Page 46 Cultural Studies as Public Pedagogy......Page 52 Teaching in the Conjuncture......Page 61 We Are All Art Historians Now: Teaching Media Studies and/as Cultural Studies......Page 72 Olympian Remarks......Page 73 Cultural Studies......Page 77 Media Teaching......Page 82 We Are All Art Historians Now......Page 86 Conclusion......Page 87 Works Cited......Page 88 Dear Progressive and/or Queer Students: A Pedagogical Polemic from Your Queer Adjunct Professor......Page 91 Cultural Studies and (Un)Critical Pedagogies: A Journey Through the Corporatized University......Page 98 Any Way You Want It: From New Times to Hard Times......Page 99 Don’t Stop Believing: Cultural Studies and Collaboration as a Minor Strategy......Page 105 Works Cited......Page 111 The Impossibility of Teaching Cultural Studies......Page 112 Teaching Undergraduate Students......Page 114 Teaching Graduate Students......Page 118 Teaching Anyone/Everyone Else......Page 122 Works Cited......Page 125 Part II: Cultural Studies Pedagogies in Practice: In the Classroom and Beyond......Page 127 A Micro-legacy from Stuart Hall......Page 128 Trump Assignment......Page 133 Be Unpredictable......Page 134 Communicative Capital......Page 135 Branding......Page 136 Capital Speaks Value......Page 137 Genüssfähigkeit......Page 138 “Universal Prostitution”......Page 140 Speech Acts as Exchange Value......Page 141 The “Marx Ratio” and Radical Inequality......Page 142 Conclusion......Page 144 Works Cited......Page 145 Critical Pedagogies in Cultural Studies: On Teaching Marxism Online......Page 147 The University Without Walls......Page 148 Leveraging Technology for Quality Enhancement......Page 150 Acknowledging the Political at the Scene of Pedagogy......Page 152 Professing Marxism on YouTube......Page 158 Works Cited......Page 164 “Bringing the World to the Classroom”: Cultural Studies and Experiential Learning......Page 165 Works Cited......Page 175 Teaching Cultural Studies in the Undergraduate Curriculum: From the Abstract to the Concrete, and Back Again......Page 176 The Need for Political Commitment and the Analysis of the “Social Whole”......Page 190 The Need and Commitment to Theory......Page 191 Core Classes (and Course Descriptions) to Be Taken in the Following Sequence......Page 192 References......Page 193 Cultural Studies and the World of Teaching and Pedagogy: A Missed Articulation......Page 196 The Cultural Studies Formation and Curriculum at Columbia College......Page 199 The Methodology Course: Toward a ‘Thick Description’......Page 201 Classroom Work and Assignments......Page 204 The Early Weeks: Introduction to the Course and to Cultural Studies Research......Page 207 The Core Weeks: The Key Epistemological/Methodological Commitments of Cultural Studies......Page 210 The Final Weeks: Methods of Research and the ‘Circuit of Culture’......Page 216 Student Research: Final Papers and Presentations......Page 219 A Few Concluding Remarks, or What Is Cultural Studies, One More Time?......Page 220 Works Cited......Page 222 Part III: Cultural Studies Pedagogies in Context: Some Case Studies......Page 224 Critical (Race) Pedagogy and the Neoliberal Arts in Walker’s Wisconsin......Page 225 Academic Freedom and Critical Study Under Micromanagement......Page 232 Critical Race Studies and White Racial Reaction in the Corporate University......Page 233 A Pedagogy of Misery......Page 240 Works Cited......Page 245 Into the Factory: Teaching Cultural Studies as a Critique of Global Capitalism......Page 251 Background of a Cultural Production......Page 252 On the Shop Floor......Page 255 Around the Workshop......Page 259 Cultural Studies and the Social Right to the General Strike......Page 262 Works Cited......Page 264 Teaching Conjuncturally: Cultural Studies as the Practice of Conjunctural Analysis......Page 266 Cultural Studies and Conjuncture......Page 268 Conjunctural Analysis......Page 272 Designing a Course Around Conjunctural Analysis......Page 277 Works Cited......Page 283 Conjuncturally Teaching: Cultural Studies Pedagogy Beyond Common Sense......Page 286 Cultural Studies in Media Res......Page 290 Cultural Studies’ Politics as a Responsibility, Not a Commitment (and/or, How to Think, Not What To)......Page 294 Cultural Studies and the Metaphor of Conversation......Page 300 Works Cited......Page 304 Introduction......Page 305 Collective Responsibility and Learning Alliances......Page 307 The Casual Supervisor......Page 312 The Social Life of Knowledge......Page 316 Higher Degree Research in a Cultural Studies Context......Page 320 Conclusion......Page 324 Works Cited......Page 325 Public Pedagogy and Private Programs: Practicing Cultural Studies in Professional Education......Page 330 Theorizing Public Pedagogy as Political Praxis in Cultural Studies......Page 331 Practicing Public Pedagogy in Professional Studies Programs......Page 334 Reflexive Pedagogies of Close Reading, Classroom Community, and Critical Writing......Page 335 Critical Conclusions: Cultural Studies, Course Methods, and the Corporate Academy......Page 339 Works Cited......Page 342 Index......Page 346