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This collection of essays, graphics and theatre displaces our understandings of borders so that we cannot look the same way at that which invades our everyday, that which kills and excludes, that which sounds out across divides and that which connects or cleaves. Addressing activism, philosophy, film, art and music, the book includes a graphic essay on the Gaza Flotilla and an original play The Detention Centre. Essays by prominent scholars an...

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Critical political analysis of how Cultural Studies has used and abused Marxism, offering a close reading of Derrida and Negri.

An extraordinary study of the politics of representation, this book explores the discursive construction of a 'city of intensities'.The author analyses representations of Calcutta in a wide variety of discourses: in the gossip and travellor-lore of backpackers and volunteer charity workers, in writing - from classic literature to travel guides, in cinema, photography and maps. The book shows how the rumours of westerners contribute to the elab...

Hutnyk challenges academic complicity in the reification of exotica, cutting through media hype to offer a critique of music, race, politics and the culture industry.

Cultural Studies commonly claims to be a radical discipline. This book thinks that's a bad assessment. Cultural theorists love to toy with Marx, but critical thinking seems to fall into obvious traps. After an introduction which explains why the 'Marxism' of the academy is unrecognisable and largely unrecognised in anti-capitalist struggles, Bad Marxism provides detailed analyses of Cultural Studies' cherished moves by holding fieldwork, archi...

The war on terror thrives on pantomime demons, created and maintained by political opportunism, convenient stereotype and uncritical celebrity scholarship. ,

Hutnyk challenges academic complicity in the reification of exotica, cutting through media hype to offer a critique of music, race, politics and the culture industry.