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A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society

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New Keywords updates Raymond Williams' seminal Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, originally published in 1976. This revised edition reflects the profound transformations in culture and society over the past 25 years, blending original entries with new discussions on their evolving meanings. Contributors from diverse fields including cultural and media studies, feminism, post-colonial studies, and sociology offer contemporary insights. The book serves as a comprehensive reference for exploring the language that shapes cultural and social understanding today.
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This book is perfectly suited for students, teachers, researchers, and public intellectuals engaged in cultural studies, sociology, media studies, and related disciplines seeking an authoritative and updated vocabulary of cultural and social terms.

Showcases 142 signed entries - from art, commodity, and fundamentalism to youth, utopia, the virtual, and the West - that capture the practices, institutions, and debates of contemporary society. This book builds on Raymond Williams' classic "Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society", by reflecting the transformation in culture and society.

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Raymond Williams' Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society is justly renowned for its role in providing a whole generation of students and intellectuals with trusty and cogent distillations of the language of cultural studies. First published in 1976, the text played a pivotal role in both academic and public understandings of culture and society and the relations between them.

New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society updates Williams' classic text by reflecting the transformation in culture and society over the last quarter-century. New Keywords includes many of Williams' original entries, but with new discussions of their history and use over the last 25 years. Several other entries encapsulate the practices, institutions, and debates of contemporary society.

The editors have assembled an international team of scholars to write from a variety of disciplines and interdisciplinary fields: cultural and media studies, feminism, post-colonial and subaltern studies, the history of science, sociology, gay and lesbian studies. The result is a state-of-the-art reference for students, teachers, and public intellectuals everywhere.

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Martin Guha from King's College London praises the book, noting that it aids clearer thinking about modern Western society through careful discussion of language. He recommends it as an essential reference for academic libraries in the humanities and social sciences, as well as public libraries committed to fostering critical thinking over mere entertainment.

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ISBN: 9780631225690

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 March 2005

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Contributors:

Edited by Tony Bennett
Edited by Lawrence Grossberg
Edited by Meaghan Morris
Edited by Tony Bennett
Edited by Lawrence Grossberg
Edited by Meaghan Morris

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 248.0mm

Weight: 676g

Pages: 464

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About the Author

Lawrence Grossberg is Professor of Communication Studies at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He co-edited the seminal volume Cultural Studies (l990) and is the author of We Gotta Get Out of this Place (1992) and Bringing it All Back Home (l997). He also co-authored Media-Making: Mass Media in Popular Culture (with Ellen Wartella and D. Charles Whitney, l998).

Tony Bennett is Professor of Sociology at the Open University. He is the author of The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics (l995) and Culture: A Reformer’s Science (l998), and is co-editor of Culture in Australia: Policies, Publics, and Programs (with David Carter, 2001).

Meaghan Morris is Chair Professor of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University. She is the author of The Pirate’s Fiancée: Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism (1988), Translation and Subjectivity (l997), and Too Soon Too Late: History in Popular Culture (l998), and is co-editor (with John Frow) of Australian Cultural Studies: A Reader (l993).