ICSC1005 Introduction to Cultural Studies
10.12.2008. Vastuuopettaja: Joel Kuortti
Please answer all six questions. In the last question (6), answer only to one of the three choices (a-c).
Define following concepts. Give examples in your answers.
1. The five characteristics of cultural studies according to Ziauddin Sardar & Borin Van Loon.
2. What does it mean to call the practice of cultural studies as radically contextualist?
3. Stuart Hall's Articulation theory.
4. Difference between place and space in cultural studies.
5. Polysemy and hybridization in cultural studies. (By Simmon During, 2003, "Introduction," in The Cultural Studies Reader. Ed. During)
6. Discuss one of the following three examples from the lectures in relation to the topic mentioned:
a) Representation and the figure of Hamid Karzai
b) Lapland UK and contextuality
c) Tori Amos's "Crucify" and gender