Stuart Hall: Conversations, Projects and Legacies examines the career of the cultural studies pioneer, interrogating his influence and revealing lesser-known facets of his work.

This collection of essays and photographs evaluates the legacies of his particular brand of cultural studies and demonstrates how other scholars and activists have utilised his thinking in their own research.

Throughout these pages, Hall’s colleagues and long-term collaborators assess his theoretical and methodological standpoints, his commitment to the development of a flexible form of revisionist Marxism and the contributions of his specific mode of analysis to public debates on Thatcherism, neoliberalism and multiculturalism.

North American activist Angela Davis argues that the model of politics, ideology and race initially developed by Hall and his colleagues in Birmingham continues to resonate when applied to America’s racialized policing. Further essays focus on Hall’s contributions to contemporary political debate as well as questions of race, ethnicity, identity, migrancy and diaspora. Others discuss Hall’s continuing involvement in issues of representation and aesthetics in the visual arts, particularly photography and images.

With contributions from Britain, Europe, East Asia and North and Latin America, this book provides a comprehensive look at how, under Hall’s intellectual leadership, British cultural studies transformed itself from a form of ‘local’ knowledge to the international field of study we know today.

Edited by Julian Henriques and David Morley with Vana Goblot. With texts by John Akomfrah, Avtar Brah, Charlotte Brunsdon, Iain Chambers, John Clarke, James Curran, Angela Y Davis, David Edgar, Lawrence Grossberg, Catherine Hall, Dick Hebdige, Julian Henriques, Tony Jefferson, Bob Lumley, Doreen Massey, Angela McRobbie, Caspar Melville, David Morley, Frank Mort, Mahasiddhi (Roy Peters), Michael Rustin, Bill Schwartz, Mark Sealy, Liv Sovik, Lola Young

Published by Goldsmiths Press 2017

Pages: 322

Images: 29 (black and white)

Dimensions: 18.5 x 23.5cm

Hardcover with jacket

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