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74:(1980–1987). The Birmingham CCCS approach to culture and politics evolved from a complex moment within British post-war history: the rise of the anti-Stalinist New Left; the promotion of adult education in Britain after World War II; the "Americanization" of British popular culture and the growth of mass communication in the decades after 1945; the growing multiculturalism of British society; and, the eventual influence within British academia of new critical methods like semiotics and structuralism. Drawing on a variety of influences ( 1519: 1247: 140: 106:), over the course of several decades the Centre pioneered a variety of approaches to the study of culture, including: ideological analysis; studies of working-class cultures and subcultures; the role of media audiences; feminist cultural research; hegemonic struggles in state politics; and the place of race in social and cultural processes. Notable Centre books include 1533: 231:
Assessment Exercise of 2001, though a dean from the university described the decision as a consequence of "inexperienced 'macho management'". Students and staff unsuccessfully campaigned to save the school, which gained considerable attention in the national press and sparked numerous letters of support from former
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Richard Johnson was later director and encouraged research in social and cultural history. The centre staff included Maureen McNeil, noted theorist of culture and science, Michael Green who focused on media, cultural policy and regional cultures in the midlands, and Ann Gray, culture and media.
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The new Department of Cultural Studies and Sociology was unexpectedly and abruptly closed in 2002, a move the university's senior management described as "restructuring". The immediate reason given for disestablishment of the new department was an unexpectedly low result in the UK's Research
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all over the world. Four of the department's 14 members of staff were to be "retained" and its hundreds of students (nearly 250 undergraduates and postgraduates at that time, many from abroad) to be transferred to other departments. In the ensuing dispute most department staff left.
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here. Of special importance is the collective research that led to Policing the Crisis (1978), a study of law and order campaigns that focused on "mugging" (a code for street violence). This anticipated many of the law and order themes of
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Alec Gordon, "The Genesis of Radical Cultural Studies: Contribution to a Reconstruction of Cultural Studies as Counter-Intellectual Critique" . Unpublished Ph.D. thesis,
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The centre was the focus for what became known as the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies, or, more generally, 'British cultural studies'. After its first director,
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Shulman, Norma (1993). "Conditions of their Own Making: An Intellectual History of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham".
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Conditions of their Own Making: An Intellectual History of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham
212:'s Conservative government in the 1980s. David Morley and Charlotte Brunsdon pioneered the centre's approach to empirical research in 620: 543: 497: 451: 405: 362: 1536: 1566: 1523: 1182: 310: 262: 183: 1246: 767: 1261: 1003: 835: 831: 538:. Steinberg, Deborah Lynn., Epstein, Debbie, 1945-, Johnson, Richard, 1939-, Politics of Sexuality Group. London: Cassell. 1997. 1367: 902: 197: 67: 43: 1413: 800: 150: 1231: 1388: 1018: 71: 1098: 841: 1502: 1372: 1013: 993: 972: 1342: 714: 645: 567: 521: 475: 429: 326:
Hall, Stuart (March 1992). "Race, Culture, and Communications: Looking Backward and Forward at Cultural Studies".
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Webster, Frank (2004). "Cultural Studies and Sociology at, and After, the Closure of the Birmingham School".
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The Centre produced many key studies and developed the careers of prominent researchers and academics.
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Cultural Marxism in postwar Britain : history, the new left, and the origins of cultural studies
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Resistance through rituals : youth subcultures in post-war Britain
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Policing the crisis : mugging, the state, and law and order
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Border patrols : policing the boundaries of heterosexuality
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The Empire strikes back : race and racism in 70s Britain
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Border Patrols: Policing the Boundaries of Heterosexuality
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British Cultural Studies
University of Birmingham
Stuart Hall
Richard Hoggart
cultural studies
Richard Hoggart
Stuart Hall
Richard Johnson
feminism
structuralism
Marxism
Louis Althusser
Antonio Gramsci
sociology
critical race theory
post-structuralism
University of Birmingham
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