Cultural studies is an interdisciplinary project that operates at the intersection of culture with other forms of social and material practices; its object of study is the relations between specific cultural practices or discourses, everyday life and structures of power (in relation to such diverse issues as identity and subjectivity, forms of representation, practices of agency, knowledge and power, political economy and globalization, and the politics of culture). It is both theoretical and contextual; its concern is always how to use theory as a resource to better understand and change specific historical contexts. Cultural studies seeks better forms of knowledge and authority in the face of the challenge of contemporary political and epistemological relativism; it seeks to study contexts without assuming that it knows the answers in advance, and without accepting in advance the conceptual distinctions that have organized the fields of culture and knowledge in modern societies.

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