Jelajah Budaya

For about two decades, in many parts of the world, Cultural Studies (CS) has been moving into the mainstream of intellectual life, offering scholars interested in society and culture alternatives to old research paradigms (Hardt, 1989; Grossberg, 1997). BCS emerged from the work done at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS), an interdisciplinary research centre Richard Hoggart and Stuart Hall established at the University of Birmingham in 1964. Different scholars have endorsed different definitions of CS as a problematic (Hall, 1996, p. 31), but most claim that CS enables them to examine cultural objects and practices from the point of view of their interaction with and within relations of power. Hall (1984) writes that CS is both interpretive and evaluative in its methodologies, but rejects the simple equation of culture with “high” culture,[1] stressing that all forms of cultural production need to be studied in relation to other cultural practices and to social and historical structures. In compiling this history, I take as my point of departure the account Norma Schulman (1993, p. 52) produced. Like Schulman, I will discuss the historical antecedents of this intellectual movement; explain what the founders and their successors meant by CS and how they defined its aims; consider what theoretical or practical obstacles lay in the way of realizing its goals; and indicate the contributions Birmingham CS has made to the study of culture and communication. I end with a brief sketch of the characteristics that distinguish this problematic.
Source: Human Communication in the British Cultural Studies Tradition by Robert M. Seiler.

http://www.ucalgary.ca/~rseiler/british.htm