Week 7 - Barker, Chapter 14

What interested me the most in this chapter was the active part of cultural study. How do we use all this theory to bring change and agency to society? How can cultural studies be more implicated in society and in politics? In this sense it is interesting to see the different criticisms against cultural studies.

In some ways, this chapter reminded me of the praxis model described by Bevans. Maybe what cultural studies need is an active participation in social struggles, to refine theory and to get in this beneficial spiral.

Of course, I don't really know what part these studies actually play in our world. I would be interested to hear about examples of how cultural studies actually bring change.

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Now begone, infamous book.