"Cultural Studies"is an international journal committed to exploring the relationships between cultural practices and everyday life, economic relations, the material world, the State, and historical forces and contexts.

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Volume 12 issue 2 articles:

* Babylon's "natural mystic": The North American music industry, the legend of Bob Marley and the incorporation of transnationality Michelle A. Stephens
* The transnational making of representations of gender, ethnicity and culture: indigenous people's organisations at the Smithsonian Institution's festival. Daniel Mato
* Shopping in the museum? Consumer spaces and the redefinition of the Louvre Lianne McTavish
* The golem of consciousness: Mythogeny's lift off Viktor Mazin and Olessia Tourkina
* The archive state and the fear of pollution: From the opium wars to Fu-Manchu James Hevia
* Community and the public body in breast cancer media activism Lisa Cartwright
* Commentary:
Making it tradeable: videotapes, cultural technologies and diasporas Zlatko Skirbis

This influential serial represents the truly international and interdisciplinary nature of contemporary work in cultural studies--since its inception in 1987, "Cultural Studies" has reflected the discipline in becoming ever more global in scope and perspective.
This issue's contents include: Why Horror? The peculiar pleasures of a popular genre; Framing the Shooter: the Globe and the streets; Siegfried Rides Again: Westerns, technology, and the Third Reich; Shot in the Dark; "The truth is out there...: considering Australia's industrial culture;" White squall: resistance and pedagogy of whiteness;

This acclaimed international journal explores the relationships between cultural practices and everyday life, economic relations, the material world, the State, and historical forces and contexts. Papers featured in this issue include:
Spatialities of 'community', power and change: The imagined geographies of community projects "Gillian Rose;" One cleans, the other doesn't "Kathleen McHugh;" Naming the problem: Feminism and the figuration of conspiracy "P. G. Knight;" Of Desire, the Farang, and textual excursions: Assembling 'Asian AIDS "John Nguyet Erni;" Contrasting perspectives: cultural studies in Latin America and the United States: a conversation with N'estor Garcia Canclini "Patrick D. Murphy;" Experience, empathy and strategic essentialism "Katya Gibel Azoulay;" R Collecting loss "Carol Mavor;" Reviews.

This acclaimed international journal explores the relationships between cultural practices and everyday life, economic relations, the material world, the State, and historical forces and contexts. Papers featured in this issue include:
The Aboriginal Version of Ken Done: banal aboriginal identites in Australia; Creolite and Francophonie in Music: socio-musical repositioning where it matters; To Serve and Protect: textualizing the Falklands conflict; The Risk of Empathy: interrogating multiculturalism's gaze; Danger in the Safety Zone: notes on race, resentment, and the discourse of crime, violence and suburban society; Building Diaspora and Nation: the 1991 "Cultural Festival of India;" Unpopular Culture: the case of "white trash."

Cultural Studies explores the relationships between cultural practices and everyday life, economic relations, the material world, the State, and historical forces and contexts. It fosters more open analytic, critical and political conversations by enabling people to push the dialogue into fresh, uncharted territory.

This intriguing issue represents the truly international and interdisciplinary nature of contemporary work in cultural studies. Cultural Studies has reflected the discipline in becoming ever more global in scope and perspective.

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis, an informa company.

"Cultural Studies"is an international journal committed to exploring the relationships between cultural practices and everyday life, economic relations, the material world, the State, and historical forces and contexts.

Birth stories, Della Pollock tells us, "are everywhere and nowhere," permeating and haunting our everyday lives. In this remarkable volume Pollock explores the myriad ways in which men and women recount the ritual performance of giving birth.

Many of these stories, Pollock observes, rise out of the depths of terror, flirting with disaster only to end with a profound sense of relief at what medical discourse calls a "good outcome." Others represent pain, make counterclaims on reproductive technologies, and suggest complex associations between maternity, sexuality, and body politics in the contemporary United States. Pollock retells stories about some of the injustices that structure giving and telling birth----finding there a reckoning with the unknown and unknowable.

Focusing on the performances of birth stories, Pollock writes an intimate ethnography: an account of listening "body to body" to stories that press the borders of cultural critique with virtuosity, possibility, desire, and risk. She draws on cultural criticism, performance studies, and narrative theory to unpack this long-ignored practice. Most striking, however, are the stories presented here: unsanctioned, bold, fragmentary, and often furtive, they both unnerve and inspire even as they realize and resist cultural norms.

Taking interdisciplinary and diverse approaches, these thirteen essays explore the multifaceted relationship between performance and history. By considering performance as both a useful frame for understanding historical practices and a mode of historical production itself--performance "in" history and performance "as" history--the contributors chart new directions in such fields as cultural studies, contemporary historiography, museum studies, and life narrative research.

Geographically and chronologically, the collection's sweep is broad--ranging from the nineteenth century to the present, from Victorian theater to commissions of inquiry in Kenya, from dissent in post-Soviet Lithuania to plantation tours in the American South. Together, the essays make up a work that is truly interdisciplinary in breadth and focus. By combining the methodologies of history and performance studies, the contributors illuminate the structure and function of cultural production in all its forms.

The contributors are Michael S. Bowman, Ruth Laurion Bowman, Elizabeth Gray Buck, Kay Ellen Capo, David William Cohen, Tracy Davis, Kirk W. Fuoss, Shannon Jackson, D. Soyini Madison, Carol Mavor, E. S. Atieno Odhiambo, Della Pollock, Jeffrey H. Richards, and Joseph R. Roach.

Birth stories, Della Pollock tells us, "are everywhere and nowhere," permeating and haunting our everyday lives. In this remarkable volume Pollock explores the myriad ways in which men and women recount the ritual performance of giving birth.

Many of these stories, Pollock observes, rise out of the depths of terror, flirting with disaster only to end with a profound sense of relief at what medical discourse calls a "good outcome." Others represent pain, make counterclaims on reproductive technologies, and suggest complex associations between maternity, sexuality, and body politics in the contemporary United States. Pollock retells stories about some of the injustices that structure giving and telling birth----finding there a reckoning with the unknown and unknowable.

Focusing on the performances of birth stories, Pollock writes an intimate ethnography: an account of listening "body to body" to stories that press the borders of cultural critique with virtuosity, possibility, desire, and risk. She draws on cultural criticism, performance studies, and narrative theory to unpack this long-ignored practice. Most striking, however, are the stories presented here: unsanctioned, bold, fragmentary, and often furtive, they both unnerve and inspire even as they realize and resist cultural norms.