Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Understanding culture : cultural studies, order, ordering / Gavin Kendall and Gary Wickham.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (179 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781412932622
  • 1412932629
  • 9781446219577
  • 1446219577
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Understanding culture.DDC classification:
  • 306/.071 21
LOC classification:
  • HM623 .K46 2001eb
Other classification:
  • 71.50
Online resources:
Contents:
Covers; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Cultural Studies with Just a Hint of Foucault; Chapter 1 -- Surveying the Field of Cultural Studies; Chapter 2 -- The Notion of Ordering as an Organising Principle for Cultural Studies; Chapter 3 -- Building a Method for Cultural Studies as the Study of Ordering; Chapter 4 -- Ordering Through the Cluture of Government -- a Colonial Example; Chapter 5 -- Ordering Through the Culture of Law and Regulation; Chapter 6 -- Ordering Through the Culture of Everyday Life; Chapter 7 -- Ordering Through Routinisation -- Technique, Technology and Self.
Action note:
  • digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Summary: Understanding Culture offers an accessible and comprehensive overview of the field of cultural studies whilst also proposing a different way of d̀oing' cultural studies. It focuses on the ways in which cultural objects and practices serve as both a means of ordering people's lives and as markers of that ordering.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
eBook eBook e-Library EBSCO Social Science Available
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Covers; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Cultural Studies with Just a Hint of Foucault; Chapter 1 -- Surveying the Field of Cultural Studies; Chapter 2 -- The Notion of Ordering as an Organising Principle for Cultural Studies; Chapter 3 -- Building a Method for Cultural Studies as the Study of Ordering; Chapter 4 -- Ordering Through the Cluture of Government -- a Colonial Example; Chapter 5 -- Ordering Through the Culture of Law and Regulation; Chapter 6 -- Ordering Through the Culture of Everyday Life; Chapter 7 -- Ordering Through Routinisation -- Technique, Technology and Self.

Print version record.

Understanding Culture offers an accessible and comprehensive overview of the field of cultural studies whilst also proposing a different way of d̀oing' cultural studies. It focuses on the ways in which cultural objects and practices serve as both a means of ordering people's lives and as markers of that ordering.

Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL

Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. MiAaHDL

http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL

Master record variable field(s) change: 082

Powered by Koha