(London: Routledge, 2005) In his introduction to the anthology of essays on (and what serves as my introduction to) Cultural Studies, editor Simon During writes,"...we need to think of cultural studies not as a traditional field or discipline, nor as a mode of interdisciplinarity, but as what I will call a field within multidisciplinarity. This means that cultural studies should aim to monopolize its students or, indeed, its teachers and intellectuals, as little as is possible within the academic-bureaucratic structures we have. Within the academy it is best regarded as an area to work in alongside others, usually more highly institutionalized disciplines - Spanish, geography, politics, economics, literature...whatever" (27).
Oh, I totally forgot! During, like Brabazon (see post from 1 Jan.) is Australian. If I weren't monopolized by that highly institutionalized discipline of Spanish, I'd smell a paper about feminism/aborigines coming on. And its soundtrack would feature that white-boy disciple of the digeridoo, Xavier Rudd...
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