"Sometimes I feel myself to have been the last colonial." This, in his own words, is the extraordinary story of the life and career of Stuart Hall—how his experiences shaped his intellectual, political, and theoretical work and how he became one of his age's brightest intellectual lights. Growing up in a middle-class family in 1930s Kingston, Jamaica, still then a British colony, the young Stuart Hall found himself uncomfortable in his own home. He lived among Kingston's stiflingly respectable brown middle class, who, in their habits and ambitions, measured themselves against the white elite. As colonial rule was challenged, things began to change in Kingston and across the world. In 1951 a Rhodes scholarship took Hall across the Atlantic to Oxford University, where he met young Jamaicans from all walks of life, as well as writers and thinkers from across the Caribbean, including V. S. Naipaul and George Lamming. While at Oxford he met Raymond Williams, Charles Taylor, and other leading intellectuals, with whom he helped found the intellectual and political movement known as the New Left. With the emotional aftershock of colonialism still pulsing through him, Hall faced a new struggle: that of building a home, a life, and an identity in a postwar England so rife with racism that it could barely recognize his humanity. With great insight, compassion, and wit, Hall tells the story of his early life, taking readers on a journey through the sights, smells, and streets of 1930s Kingston while reflecting on the thorny politics of 1950s and 1960s Britain. Full of passion and wisdom, Familiar Stranger is the intellectual memoir of one of our greatest minds.

Familiar Stranger

History

Stuart, Hall

Americas

Allen Lane.

Format Paperback 1978 Subject Literary Collections Publisher Macmillan

Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order (Critical Social Studies)

Politics & Social Sciences

Chas Critcher

Tony Jefferson

John Clarke

Brian Roberts

Social Sciences

Palgrave HE UK

The intellectual radicalism of the 1960s spawned a new set of questions about the role and nature of "the political" in social life, questions that have since revolutionized nearly every field of thought, from literary criticism through anthropology to the philosophy of science. Michel Foucault in particular made us aware that whatever our functionally defined "roles" in society, we are constantly negotiating questions of authority and the control of the definitions of reality. Such insights have led theorists to challenge concepts that have long formed the very underpinnings of their disciplines. By exploring some of the most debated of these concepts--"culture," "power," and "history"--this reader offers an enriching perspective on social theory in the contemporary moment.
 Organized around these three concepts, Culture/ Power/History brings together both classic and new essays that address Foucault's "new economy of power relations" in a number of different, contestatory directions. Representing innovative work from various disciplines and sites of study, from taxidermy to Madonna, the book seeks to affirm the creative possibilities available in a time marked by growing uncertainty about established disciplinary forms of knowledge and by the increasing fluidity of the boundaries between them. The book is introduced by a major synthetic essay by the editors, which calls attention to the most significant issues enlivening theoretical discourse today. The editors seek not only to encourage scholars to reflect anew on the course of social theory, but also to orient newcomers to this area of inquiry.
 The essays are contributed by Linda Alcoff ("Cultural Feminism versus Post-Structuralism"), Sally Alexander ("Women, Class, and Sexual Differences in the 1830s and 1840s"), Tony Bennett ("The Exhibitionary Complex"), Pierre Bourdieu ("Structures, Habitus, Power"), Nicholas B. Dirks ("Ritual and Resistance"), Geoff Eley ("Nations, Publics, and Political Cultures"), Michel Foucault (Two Lectures), Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ("Authority, [White] Power and the [Black] Critic"), Stephen Greenblatt ("The Circulation of Social Energy"), Ranajit Guha ("The Prose of Counter-Insurgency"), Stuart Hall ("Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms"), Susan Harding ("The Born-Again Telescandals"), Donna Haraway ("Teddy Bear Patriarchy"), Dick Hebdige ("After the Masses"), Susan McClary ("Living to Tell: Madonna's Resurrection of the Fleshly"), Sherry B. Ortner ("Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties"), Marshall Sahlins ("Cosmologies of Capitalism"), Elizabeth G. Traube ("Secrets of Success in Postmodern Society"), Raymond Williams (selections from Marxism and Literature), and Judith Williamson ("Family, Education, Photography").

Culture / Power / History: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Tony Bennett

Pierre Bourdieu

Dick Hebdige

Linda Alcoff

Sally Alexandeer

Donna Haraway

Ramond Williams

michel-foucault

Princeton University Press

The Dusky Innocent

Scripts

This introductory text is the first volume in a new set of preliminary coursebooks in sociology, written by the Open University. It provides new terms for thinking about the subject and for teaching it effectively. The text examines the historical processes, institutions and ideas which have shaped twentieth-century societies. Its themes include the way in which the political, economic, social and cultural dimensions of modern industrialized societies developed, and focuses on the long historical transition to "modernity". In addition the authors return to the roots of modern social thought examining the classic ideas in which the development of modern societies has been conceptualized by the founding figures of sociology. Each chapter explores the relation between historical developments and the academic and litrary discourses about them, introducing students to the distinctive sociological perspectives. Particular attention is paid to introducing students to original texts, with readings from Hobbes, Locke, Marx, Freud and Levi Strauss, plus new work in historical sociology by Michael Mann, Bryan Turner, Anthony Giddens and Michel Foucault.

The Formations of Modern Society (Introduction to Sociology)

Polity Press

Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

Holmes & Meier Pub

New Times

Politics & Government

Lawrence & Wishart Ltd

The purpose of this journal is to give a new direction and depth to a political, cultural and economic debate in Britain. It aims to explore the possibilities of a non-conservative order, and of the re-invention of the socialist tradition. Apart from the special launch edition, each issue deals in depth with a particular theme. This issue explores our relationship to heroes and heroines, asking: do we need them; who can be one; is there a role for heroes and heroines in political or other imagined communities? This issue takes as its theme the complexities of heroes and heroines. It looks at days of Empire, psychoanalysis, and modern and postmodern cinema, and asks: why do we need heroes and heroines; do we need them; and who gets to be a hero or heroine? Part One includes: Cynthia Cockburn's photo essay of Bosnia; Peter Tatchell on a queer way o defining masculinity; Gilane Tauradros on culture going global; Iain Chambers' California sketches; Robin Murray on transport; David Donnison on changing times for the Left; and Angela McRobbie on postmodern psychoanalysis.  Part Two includes some expected and unexpected heroes and heroines: Susannah Radstone examines postmodern film and TV characters, such as Tommy cooper and Hannibal Lector;i Becky Hall looks from Jane Austen to Toni Morrison; Simon Edge talks to Peter Wildeblood; Barbara Taylor discusses mary Wollstonecraft; Kirsten Notten reviews the technology of heroes and heroines, with a look at "Star Trek" and "Star Wars".

Heroes and Heroines ("Soundings") (Issue 3)

Max Q: Leaders Book

Religion & Spirituality

Andy Stanley

Christian Books & Bibles

Howard Publishing Company

Presents a conversation between Stuart Hall and Sarat Maharaj on modernity, difference and translatability. 80 pages; b&w illustrations sprinkled throughout; 6.5 x 9 inches.

Annotations Modernity and Difference

Cornerhouse Publications

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