The working practices of Birmingham's Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies

Kieran Connell; Matthew Hilton

doi:10.1080/03071022.2015.1043191

The working practices of Birmingham's Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies

Kieran Connell, Matthew Hilton

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This article offers a history of the working practices of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. Based on extensive interviews with former members and on research into a new archive of the Centre, housed in the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham, it argues that cultural studies as practised in the 1970s was always a heterogeneous subject. The CCCS was heavily influenced by the events of 1968 when it tried to develop a new type of radical and collaborative research and teaching agenda. Despite Stuart Hall's efforts to impose a focused link between politics and academic practice, the agenda soon gave way to a series of diverse and fruitful initiatives associated with the ‘sub-groups’ model of research.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	287-311
Number of pages	25
Journal	Social History
Volume	40
Issue number	3
Early online date	16 Jul 2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2015.1043191
Publication status	Published - 2015

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cultural studies, New Left, 1968, Stuart Hall, theory, working practices

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