An alternative metacritique of postcolonial cultural studies from a cultural sociological perspective

An alternative metacritique of postcolonial cultural studies from a cultural sociological perspective

• Chew, Matthew

Cultural Studies, 15(3), 602-620, 2001

Routledge

2001

• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GE Social Sciences, Business & Law

Culture Social Sciences Colonization Interdisciplinary Approach in Education Hong Kong China Cultural Contextualism Cultural Sociology Metacritique Post- Colonial Cultural Studies Postcolonial Cultural Studies

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Unknown or Unspecified

This paper examines some of the current metacritical perspectives to postcolonial cultural studies, and discusses an alternative cultural contextualist perspective through the case of Hong Kong cultural studies. I first demarcate between contextualist and non-contextualist metacritical perspectives as well as between political-economic and cultural-contextualist ones. Then I identify major metacritiques that are currently made against postcolonial studies, and by showing how they may be applicable to Hong Kong cultural studies, I suggest ways to re-interpret these metacritiques from a cultural sociological perspective. I shall highlight important structural characteristics of Hong Kong cultural studies, and analyse them in terms of a cultural sociology of the postcolonial intellectual field. Ultimately, I argue that the problems associated with this postcolonial intellectual field appear to originate from the hierarchical global cultural context.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 09502386

• 10.1080/095023800110046722

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2010-11-24