Introducing Cultural Studies: A Brief Contextual History
Structuralism and the Linguistic Turn: Ferdinand de Saussure
Semiotics: Umberto Eco, Roland Barthes and Stuart Hall
Ideology: Marxism and Louis Althusser
Post-Structuralism: Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida
Doing Deconstruction: Techniques for Practice
Psychoanalysis: Jacques Lacan
Applying Lacan: Techniques for Feminist and other forms of Cultural
Analysis
Discourse and Power: Michel Foucault
Gender and Sexuality: Judith Butler
The Postmodern Condition: Daniel Bell, Jean-François Lyotard and J
rgen Habermas
Identity and Consumption: Jean Baudrillard
Postmodernism Unplugged: Fredric Jameson
Practising Cultural Studies: Hegemony and Cognitive Mapping
Where to Go from Here: Cognitive Mapping and the Critical Project
of Cultural Studies
David Walton has a degree in English Literature (University of
Wales 1985) an M.Phil (University of Oxford 1987), a Certificate in
Education (University of Greenwich, London 1988), and a TEFL
qualification (University of Aston, Birmingham 1987). He was
awarded his doctorate in 1992 by the University of Murcia. He began
his teaching career in further education in Britain before being
contracted as an associate lecturer in the English Department of
the University of Murcia in 1989. He became Senior Lecturer in the
area of Cultural Studies in 2001 and has promoted the area in Spain
for more than ten years. He is one of the founder members of the
Culture and Power group which has organized annual conferences in
Spain and Portugal every year since 1995 and has contributed to
most of the publications to come out of these conferences. He is a
founder member and President of the Iberian Association of Cultural
Studies (IBACS). He has co-organized conferences on
English-speaking cultures and co-organized two International
Conferences on cultural studies for IBACS, both held at the
Universidad de Murcia. Apart from his undergraduate teaching, he
has taught audiovisual translation at M.A. level and has given
doctorate courses on the construction of national identity and
given many conference papers. He currently teaches cultural studies
at undergraduate level and postmodern theory and culture at M.A.
level. He has published widely, his publications reflecting his
research interests which include literary and cultural theory,
cultural studies, popular culture, visual culture and postmodern
theories of culture.
His latest books are ′Introducing Cultural Studies: Learning
Through Practice′ (SAGE, 2008) and ′Doing Cultural Theory′ (SAGE,
2012). He has a chapter on Chris Morris′ satire which will appear
in ′No Known Cure: The Comedy of Chris Morris′ (edited by James
Leggott & Jamie Sexton (Palgrave Macmilan, 2003), and has a number
of other chapters which are in print on the interfaces between
philosophy and cultural studies and graffiti and popular culture.
Doing Cultural Theory will be a very useful tool for any student
trying to make sense of the vast expanses of contemporary cultural
theory and criticism. Well-written and admirably self-reflective,
it combines rigorous explications and applications of many of the
most influential concepts and theorists
Lawrence Grossberg
The University of North Carolina Accessible and insightful
throughout; offering help to both experienced and inexperienced
students of cultural theory. Highly recommended
John Storey
The University of Sunderland
The greatest strength of David Walton’s book is that it
systematically engages with these difficult theories...it is a
serious attempt to ‘translate’ the main concepts of French Cultural
Theory for an Anglo-Saxon readership.
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