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The Humanities Reloaded - Addressing Crisis (Hardcover)
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The Humanities Reloaded - Addressing Crisis (Hardcover)
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This volume examines the crisis of humanities narratives in the
context of neoliberal capitalism and of the emergence and
consolidation of the metrics-driven, corporate, managerial
university. Do narratives of the crisis of the humanities mobilize
specific notions of value and prestige? How are these notions
classed, gendered and racialized? How do narratives of the crisis
of the humanities relate to current debates and contestations
surrounding decolonization? Does the crisis of a traditional
configuration of the humanities open up opportunities to use their
institutional space for work that is both socially and politically
relevant and academically rigorous? The aim is to provide a
counter-narrative of the present and future of the humanities. In
addition to the study of a multiplicity of media texts and other
multimodal expressive forms, formats and platforms and genres, a
communicative turn in the humanities entails deepening the study of
the value chains in which they are inserted and their conditions of
production, circulation and reception. Communicative and digital
capitalism, now labelled the Fourth Industrial Revolution, is on
its way to bringing its own waves of struggles and confrontations
to our campuses and beyond, to which humanities scholars and
activists can make a vital contribution-should some of us decide to
do so. This book will be of interest to researchers and advanced
students of Art, Literature, Media and Cultural Studies, Education,
Politics, Sociology, and Social and Cultural Anthropology. The
chapters in this book were originally published in the journal
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies.
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