Stuart Hall is one of the founding fathers of Cultural Studies. Having famously coined the term "Thatcherism" in the '80s, and assessed New Labour as the
"Great Moving Nowhere Show" his analysis of cultural practice over the past forty years has been politically engaged, addressing questions of class, "race," ethnicity, and identity. James Procter's introduction places Hall's work within its historical, cultural, and theoretical contexts, providing a clear guide to his key ideas and influences, as well as his critics and his intellectual legacy.
Stuart Hall is the ideal gateway to the work of a critic described by Terry Eagleton as "a walking chronicle of everything from the New Left to New Times, Leavis to Lyotard, Aldermaston to ethnicity."
Autorentext
James Procteris Lecturer in English Studies at Stirling University. Recent publications include Writing Black Britain: 1948-1998 (2000) and Dwelling Places (2003).
Zusammenfassung
Courtyard housing is one of the oldest forms of domestic development spanning at least 2000 years and occurring in distinctive form in many regions of the world. Traditionally associated with the Middle East where climate and culture have given shape to a particular type of courtyard housing, other examples exist in Latin America, China and in Europe, where the model has been reinterpreted. This book demonstrates, through discussions on sustainability and regional identity, and via a series of case studies, technical planning and design solutions, that the courtyard housing form has a future as well as a past.
Inhalt
Why Hall?; Part 1 Key Ideas; Part 1 Deconstructing the 'popular'; Part 2 Enter Cultural Studies; Part 3 Encoding/ Decoding; Part 4 Racism and Resis Tance; Part 5 Thatcherism and 'new Times'; Part 6 The Real Me; Part 7 After Hall;