%0 Journal Article %1 nuttall_politics_2006 %A Nuttall, Sarah %D 2006 %J Theory, Culture & Society %K 1990s cultural-studies intellectual internalist south-africa %N 7-8 %P 263--278 %R 10.1177/0263276406073229 %T A Politics of the Emergent: Cultural Studies in South Africa %V 23 %X This essay attempts to track the changing shape of cultural studies in South Africa, drawing on both local and global reference points. In the first part of the essay, I account for the preoccupations of South African cultural studies from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. In the second part, I reflect on further shifts since 2000. Here I argue for a politics of the emergent, an increasing turn towards the negotiation of the possible, the drawing in of trans-national frames, and the reformulation of theories of race in the aftermath of resistance politics. Studies of popular culture during this period increasingly come to be superseded by a focus on public culture and on circulation. The essay concludes by considering current contests in cultural studies in South Africa and with a reflection on its current place within a reconstituted public intellectual space.

@article{nuttall_politics_2006, abstract = {This essay attempts to track the changing shape of cultural studies in South Africa, drawing on both local and global reference points. In the first part of the essay, I account for the preoccupations of South African cultural studies from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. In the second part, I reflect on further shifts since 2000. Here I argue for a politics of the emergent, an increasing turn towards the negotiation of the possible, the drawing in of trans-national frames, and the reformulation of theories of race in the aftermath of resistance politics. Studies of popular culture during this period increasingly come to be superseded by a focus on public culture and on circulation. The essay concludes by considering current contests in cultural studies in South Africa and with a reflection on its current place within a reconstituted public intellectual space.}, added-at = {2019-08-29T01:56:31.000+0200}, author = {Nuttall, Sarah}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/21451d6b1b104974a9fd8b123ad585b9f/jpooley}, doi = {10.1177/0263276406073229}, interhash = {432c8f4420459f2d6a2fc07f44917f35}, intrahash = {1451d6b1b104974a9fd8b123ad585b9f}, journal = {Theory, Culture \& Society}, keywords = {1990s cultural-studies intellectual internalist south-africa}, number = {7-8}, pages = {263--278}, timestamp = {2019-08-29T01:56:31.000+0200}, title = {A {{Politics}} of the {{Emergent}}: {{Cultural Studies}} in {{South Africa}}}, volume = 23, year = 2006 }