The Future of Cultural Analysis
Murat Aydemir, Noa Roei, Aylin Kuryel (eds)
- Title
- The Future of Cultural Analysis
- Subtitle
- A Critical Inquiry
- ISBN
- 9789048559800
- Format
- eBook PDF (Adobe DRM)
- Number of pages
- 260
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 03 - 01 - 2025
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Discipline
- Social and Political Sciences
- Also available as
- Hardback - € 117,00
Introduction: Cultural Analysis, Circa 2034 - Noa Roei, Murat Aydemir, and Aylin Kuryel
Part One: Speaking and Silenced Objects
Cultural Analysis: Critical Encounters in Time, Space, and Thought - Mieke Bal
Cultural Analysis as Reading for the Object - Esther Peeren
Notes Toward a Decolonial Praxis of Cultural Analysis: Exemplarity and Listening as Other, Divya Nadkarni and Alex Thinius
Objects in the Making: Cutting Through Analysis in Art Education, Jules Sturm
Part Two: Traveling Concepts, Theories, Methods
Cultural Analysis: A Global South Critical Approach, Paulina Aroch Fugellie
Traveling Concepts and Conjunctural Analysis: Concepts Gone Bad, Murat Aydemir
Cultural Analysis as Reportage, Joost de Bloois
Gathering, Framing, and the Temporality of Cultural Analysis, Ernst van Alphen
Part Three: Interdisciplinary Spaces
Objects, Infrastructures, and Thick Description: The Lifeworld of the Text as the Space for Cultural Analysis, Noa Roei
From Situated Knowledge to Intensional Field Theory, Jeff Diamanti
Cultural Analysis at a Tipping Point, Seb Wigdel-Bowcott
Part Four: Social Relevance and Intervention
From Social Relevance to Public Intervention: Cultural Analysis in and out of the Classroom, Aylin Kuryel
Toward a Decolonial Classroom: Re-situating Cultural Analysis as Pedagogical Intervention, Asli Özgen
Crises, Social Relevance, and Critical Discomfort: Shooting Ourselves in the Foot, Alvaro Lopez
Parochialism as Method: Pejorative, Partage, Pastoral, Niall Martin
Afterword, Noa Roei, Murat Aydemir, and Aylin Kuryel
Part One: Speaking and Silenced Objects
Cultural Analysis: Critical Encounters in Time, Space, and Thought - Mieke Bal
Cultural Analysis as Reading for the Object - Esther Peeren
Notes Toward a Decolonial Praxis of Cultural Analysis: Exemplarity and Listening as Other, Divya Nadkarni and Alex Thinius
Objects in the Making: Cutting Through Analysis in Art Education, Jules Sturm
Part Two: Traveling Concepts, Theories, Methods
Cultural Analysis: A Global South Critical Approach, Paulina Aroch Fugellie
Traveling Concepts and Conjunctural Analysis: Concepts Gone Bad, Murat Aydemir
Cultural Analysis as Reportage, Joost de Bloois
Gathering, Framing, and the Temporality of Cultural Analysis, Ernst van Alphen
Part Three: Interdisciplinary Spaces
Objects, Infrastructures, and Thick Description: The Lifeworld of the Text as the Space for Cultural Analysis, Noa Roei
From Situated Knowledge to Intensional Field Theory, Jeff Diamanti
Cultural Analysis at a Tipping Point, Seb Wigdel-Bowcott
Part Four: Social Relevance and Intervention
From Social Relevance to Public Intervention: Cultural Analysis in and out of the Classroom, Aylin Kuryel
Toward a Decolonial Classroom: Re-situating Cultural Analysis as Pedagogical Intervention, Asli Özgen
Crises, Social Relevance, and Critical Discomfort: Shooting Ourselves in the Foot, Alvaro Lopez
Parochialism as Method: Pejorative, Partage, Pastoral, Niall Martin
Afterword, Noa Roei, Murat Aydemir, and Aylin Kuryel
The Future of Cultural Analysis
A Critical Inquiry
Across the humanities and the social sciences, “cultural analysis” is a vibrant research practice. Since its introduction in the 1990s, its main principles have remained largely the same: interdisciplinarity, political urgency, a heuristic use of concepts, the detailed analysis of objects of culture, and an awareness of the scholar’s situatedness in the present. But is the practice still suited to the spiraling of social, political, and environmental crises that mark our time? Drawing on experiences in research, teaching, activism, and the creative arts, contributors explore what cultural analysis was back then, what it is now, and what it may be by 2034. In a shifting conjuncture, contributors strike notes of discomfort, defiance, and irony—as well as a renewed sense of urgency and care.
Editors
Murat Aydemir
Murat Aydemir is associate professor in Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is the author of Images of Bliss: Ejaculation, Masculinity, Meaning (Minnesota University Press, 2004) and the (co)editor of Migratory Settings: Transnational Perspectives on Place (Brill, 2008) and Indiscretions: At the Intersection of Queer and Postcolonial Theory (Brill, 2011). From 2011 to 2021, he served as academic director of the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA).
Noa Roei
Noa Roei is assistant professor in Literary and Cultural Analysis at University of Amsterdam and a research fellow at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. She works in the field of visual culture, focusing on conflict, war, and nationalism, with a recent turn towards questions of spatiality, care, and infrastructure.
Aylin Kuryel
Aylin Kuryel is assistant professor in Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam and documentary maker. Among the books she co-edited are Cultural Activism: Practices, Dilemmas and Possibilities (Rodopi, 2010) and Küresel Ayaklanmalar Ça.inda Direni. ve Estetik (Resistance and Aesthetics in the Age of Global Uprisings, Iletisim Press, 2015).
