Cultural Studies and Political Theory

These 16 diverse and wide-ranging pieces provide a thought-provoking foray into the central debates and problematics of contemporary political and cultural theory by probing the question 'what does it mean for something to be political?'... Each and every essay sheds... light on... social, moral, and legal issues we share and must address as global citizens.

-- Robert Owens Gardner, University of Colorado–Boulder * Journal of Intercultural Studies *

Cultural Studies and Political Theory is profoundly interdisciplinary, pursuing as it does the dialectic of theoretical, cultural, and political inquiry in a whole array of areas and discourse.

-- Christian Moraru, University of North Carolina, Greensboro * The Comparatist *

This book challenges political theorists to be more capacious in their treatment of the political, more attuned to cultural work that untidies their precious categories. It calls on cultural studies scholars to be more deliberate about the political potential of their insights into the subtle cultural feedback that they so convincingly deconstruct.... As individual essays and as a collection, however, this book will reach far into the bookshelves and classrooms of critical legal theory, democratic theory, American studies, feminist theory, critical race theory, and other untapped resources for political/cultural imagination.

-- Jill Locke, Gustavus Adolphus College * American Political Science Review *

This is not a collection for the intellectually timid. It will be of interest to those who are seeking to promote collaborative relations between the fields of cultural studies and political theory.

-- James L. Danielson, Minnesota State University * Perspectives on Political Scien