Workshop On Cultural Study

Hello readers !

                    Welcome to my blog .  This is our thinking activity task given by Dr Dilip Barad sir upon the cultural study . We had attended very wonderful workshop on cultural study by Dr. Kalyani Vallath . She from Trivandrum, Kerala. Kalyani Vallath is an edu-entrepreneur who persuaded her doctoral degree from Canada University . We all know that culture is now considered as the source of art and literature . And also cultural study is  not a money but also about the creationships .

# what is your understanding about the concept of cultural studies :- 

                          Cultural study is it about diversity . Cultural studies interdisciplinary field concerned with the role of social institutions in the shaping of culture . Cultural studies emerged in Britain in the late 1950s and subsequently spread internationally , notably to the United States and Australia . Originally identified with the centre for contemporary cultural studies at the University of Birmingham and with the search scholar as Richard hoggart, Stuart Hall and Raymond Williams . cultural studies later become a well established field in many academic institution and it has a sales head broad influence in sociology, anthropology, historiography, literary criticism philosophy , literary criticism and art criticism .

                           Among cultural studies Central concern are the place of race or or ethnicity class and gender in the production of cultural knowledge .

# How would you explain a layman about cultural studies :-

                           Culture itself interdisciplinary when we study culture we are talk about politics and history. We all know that culture relates to the larger society, each community have a different culture . One layman play a vital roll in culture .

# How many examples from the session ware so catchy that you will never forget it ?

                             This is very fruitful session for me . And we learn so many new things and  know the importance of cultural studies and also it is  help us to understand how  culture play a vital role in our life . In this entire section kalyanima'am explain so many things like ,

• What is cultural study ?
• Frankfurt School
• Hegelian Dialectical method
• Dialectic of enlightenment
• Cultural industry
• New left
• New left in Britain
• New left in US
• Centre for contemporary cultural studies ( CCCS )
•  The pioneers : (1) Richard Hoggart

                               (2) E P Thompson

                               (3) Raymond Williams

• Cultural materialism
• Stuart Hall (1932 -2014)
• Archeology and Genealogy
• Power/ knowledge
• Cultural archipelago and panopticon
• Cultural intermediaries
• Bourdieu's Concept of fields and habitus
• Post-humanism
• Information society and network society
• Trauma studies
• Globalisation study : disjuncture
• Visual culture studies etc.

                               In this session ma'am gives many examples like " gullivers travel " , the fourth voyage of Gulliver the land of the Wouyhnhnms is also indicate the cultural study . And another example is "sexual politics" . Sexuality is an erena a power works. Cultural study is about the political dynamic mass media and everyday cultural practices . and also it is all about  contemporary world which is dominated by  mass media . And she also talk about  Appadurai's five Scapes : (1) Ethnoscape , (2) Media scape , (3) Technoscape , (4) Finanscape , (5) Ideoscap . This all the examples I never forgot .

Thank you.............