Spaces and Places of Cultural Studies

As cultural studies has sought for a foothold in universities, it has faced pressures of modern disciplinarity it aims at to challenge and alter. In the conjuncture of neo-liberal university policies new weight is given to multidisciplinarity as an instrument for reshaping universities in favour of...

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Main Author:	Mikko Lehtonen
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Linköping University Electronic Press 2009-06-01
Series:	Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research
Subjects:	Cultural studies universities disciplines neoliberalism diversity
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.091667

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