The Trans/National Study of Culture ― A Translational Perspective

Using a translational perspective, this volume examines the trans/national study of culture and what is translatable and untranslatable between nation-specific approaches of studying culture. In 13 essays, cultural studies and other scholars from Europe describe transnational approaches to the study of culture, including differences between national research traditions like British cultural studies and German Kulturwissenschaften; the ideas of translation and displacement and their use in understanding the historical processes through which histories blend into the global history of capitalism, using the example of India; the indeterminacy of people and language; the idea that concepts travel across borders; the Eastern European study of culture; Australian cultural studies; the methodological fundamentals of cultural studies; media and communication studies; visual and image culture; and other aspects. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Doris Bachmann-Medick, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Justus-Liebig-Universitat, Giessen, Germany.