by Ziauddin Sardar, Borin Van Loon · Icon Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781848311817
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«Introducing Cultural Studies» is the graphic guide by Ziauddin Sardar and Borin Van Loon to cultural studies, in paperback (176 pages, in English).
Traces the history and ideas of cultural studies, from thinkers such as Antonio Gramsci and Raymond Williams to the present: postcolonial discourse, diaspora, feminism, queer theory, technoculture, media and globalization. Analyzes how racial, national, social and gender identity are constructed.
Published by Icon Books in 2010, it belongs to the Introducing (Graphic Guides) series. It was originally published in 1994 as Cultural Studies for Beginners.
For university students and readers curious about cultural theory and the social sciences who prefer a visual and accessible approach.
Ziauddin Sardar is a British-Pakistani scholar, award-winning writer, cultural critic and public intellectual who specialises in Muslim thought, the future of Islam, futures studies, Critique of modernity, postmodernism and science and cultural relations. He has written and edited more than 60 books. Prospect magazine named him as one of Britain's top 100 public intellectuals and The Independent newspaper called him: 'Britain's own Muslim polymath'.
