The Cultural Turn in U. S. History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cultural Turn in U. S. History write by James W. Cook. This book was released on 2012-06-12. The Cultural Turn in U. S. History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A definitive account of one of the most dominant trends in recent historical writing, The Cultural Turn in U.S. History takes stock of the field at the same time as it showcases exemplars of its practice. The first of this volume’s three distinct sections offers a comprehensive genealogy of American cultural history, tracing its multifaceted origins, defining debates, and intersections with adjacent fields. The second section comprises previously unpublished essays by a distinguished roster of contributors who illuminate the discipline’s rich potential by plumbing topics that range from nineteenth-century anxieties about greenback dollars to confidence games in 1920s Harlem, from Shirley Temple’s career to the story of a Chicano community in San Diego that created a public park under a local freeway. Featuring an equally wide ranging selection of pieces that meditate on the future of the field, the final section explores such subjects as the different strains of cultural history, its relationships with arenas from mass entertainment to public policy, and the ways it has been shaped by catastrophe. Taken together, these essays represent a watershed moment in the life of a discipline, harnessing its vitality to offer a glimpse of the shape it will take in years to come.
The "Cultural Turn"
The "Cultural Turn" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The "Cultural Turn" write by Lawrence B. Glickman. This book was released on 2012. The "Cultural Turn" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Historian Lawrence B. Glickman examines the cultural turn, which focuses on new sub-fields, such as disability history, visual studies, and identity, to show how cultural history has become the dominant historiographical method of the past 20 years.
Beyond the Cultural Turn
Beyond the Cultural Turn - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Cultural Turn write by Victoria E. Bonnell. This book was released on 2023-04-28. Beyond the Cultural Turn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nothing has generated more controversy in the social sciences than the turn toward culture, variously known as the linguistic turn, culturalism, or postmodernism. This book examines the impact of the cultural turn on two prominent social science disciplines, history and sociology, and proposes new directions in the theory and practice of historical research. The editors provide an introduction analyzing the origins and implications of the cultural turn and its postmodernist critiques of knowledge. Essays by leading historians and historical sociologists reflect on the uses of cultural theories and show both their promise and their limitations. The afterword by Hayden White provides an assessment of the trend toward culturalism by one its most influential proponents. Beyond the Cultural Turn offers fresh theoretical readings of the most persistent issues created by the cultural turn and provocative empirical studies focusing on diverse social practices, the uses of narrative, and the body and self as critical junctures where culture and society intersect.
The Cultural Turn
The Cultural Turn - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cultural Turn write by David Chaney. This book was released on 2002-11-01. The Cultural Turn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the second half of the twentieth century the theme of culture has dominated the human sciences. The forms of contemporary culture demand a radical reappraisal of the terms of description of the modern world. We therefore need to consider our options when culture does not just provide the meaning of experience but is also the terms of that experience. This book reviews these ideas in ways that will be accessible to those new to the field and also stimulating to experts. The three parts of the book: * Review the character and lessons of this "turn to culture" in a number of academic fields. The author demonstrates the socio-intellectual context within which these themes have been generated and documents the main strengths of the paradigm shift. * Explore key themes in contemporary culture. By showing how questions of citizenship and the meaning of places have been colonized under the remit of the culturalist paradigm, a cluster of associated ideas and themes implicit in the paradigm are explicitly tackled. * Examine some of the ways in whcih cultural forms are increasingly seen to dominate social reality. The final chapter explores triumphant culturalism - the postmodern world as the apogee of the turn to culture.
Critical Junctions
Critical Junctions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Junctions write by Don Kalb. This book was released on 2005. Critical Junctions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A book about theory and method in the humanities and social sciences. It reacts to what has become known as the "cultural turn," a shift toward semiotics, discourse, and representations and away from other sorts of determinations that started in the early 1980s and that has dominated social thinking for a long string of years. The book is based in a reconsideration of the meeting of two disciplines that helped to launch the cultural turn: anthropology and history. Specifically, it criticizes the ideas of hermeneutics and "thick description" (Clifford Geertz) that have come to play a key role in the encounter of anthropology and history and then in the cultural turn. It led to the renewed cherishing of what Gupta and Ferguson have called paradigms of "peoples and places," saturated pictures of universes, both small and large, of meaning ina more of less frozen standstill-an intellectual precursor to the cultural xenophobia of our times. Against this, the present book embraces praxis and "critical junctions": the connections in space (in and out of a relations of power and dependency, and what Eric Wolf has called the "interstitial relations" between apparently separate institutional domains. In this way the book adds to the current revival of institutionally based "global ethnography," which studies "up and outward" (the journal of Ethnography is a good example)."--Preface
