From Birmingham to Angkor Wat: Demarcations of Contemporary Cultural Studies

• Main Author: San Juan, E., Jr.
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: anthropology; contemporary cultural studies; history of cultural studies; postmodernism; travel and tourism
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss1/2; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1014/viewcontent/_5BKKv00n01_2002_5D_202.1_Article_SanJuanJr..pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The radical inspiration of Cultural Studies has been betrayed, declares E. San Juan, Jr. In this timely essay, he argues that this betrayal springs from the postmodernist temperament, the “metaphysical turn,” of contemporary Cultural Studies. By exaggerating “the possibility of liberation over the e...