Déplacés : honte, corps et lieux

Cet article défend l’intérêt de la honte comme objet d’étude. En effet, je prétends que la honte a simultanément des effets culturels, sociaux, psychologiques et physiologiques, effets qu’il nous faut embrasser en trouvant de nouveaux moyens de représenter l’expérience anthropologique. Mon propos emprunte à Bourdieu et à Mauss ainsi qu’à d’autres auteurs, du monde universitaire ou littéraire. Je prétends qu’il est nécessaire de raconter des histoires et de les raconter différemment si l’on veut relever les défis que pose, aux chercheurs, le phénomène de la honte.In this article, I argue for the positivity of shame, which is to say that shame produces effects that must be understood as simultaneously cultural, social, psychological and physiological. In turn this demands new ways of representing anthropological experience. I enlist ideas developed by Bourdieu and Mauss, and extend them through a consideration of other writers, fictional and academic. I argue for the necessity of telling stories and telling them differently if we are to be up to the challenges of shame.Este artículo promueve el interés por la vergüenza en tanto que objeto de estudio. En efecto, pienso que la vergüenza tiene simultáneamente efectos culturales, sociales, sicológicos y fisiológicos, efectos que es necesario abarcar buscando nuevos medios para representar la experiencia antropológica. Mi proposición se inspira en Bourdieu, en Mauss y en otros autores del mundo universitario o literario. Afirmo que es necesario contar historias y contarlas de manera diferente si se quiere rebasar los retos que platea, a los investigadores, el fenómeno de la vergüenza

A Feminist Love Letter to Stuart Hall; or What Feminist Cultural Studies Needs to Remember

I need to preface these brief remarks with a caveat. I was to write of Hall’s contribution to forging feminist cultural studies, the intellectual project I have felt affiliated with across my academic life, and certainly that which has inspired and formed me. But I don’t feel entitled to write of ‘feminist cultural studies’ in the way that others, such as Lucy Bland, Janice Winship, Angela McRobbie and Charlotte Brunsdon can. I wasn’t there when the Women Studies Group at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies struggled with ‘the dilemma’ of ‘whether to conquer the whole of cultural studies and only then to make a feminist critique of it, or whether to focus on the “woman question” from the beginning’. The group did conceptual work across the disciplines of history, anthropology, psychology and literary studies, and grappled with theoretical movements influenced by figures as varied as Lacan, Marx and Foucault and across sites such as popular culture, regimes of gendered work and eighteenth-century novels. At the same time, and in their words, ‘the Group also felt it wanted to do concrete work rather than engaging theoretical wrangles’. Across the chapters in Women Take Issue I see dedicated feminists poring over texts, their own and others, and then heading to the streets, the factories and girls’ bedrooms to understand how, where and with what effect gendered relations were being reproduced. It is a picture of scholarly intent a bit at odds with Hall’s description in hindsight of how feminism roared into the project of cultural studies:For cultural studies (in addition to many other theoretical projects), the intervention of feminism was specific and decisive. It was ruptural … As a thief in the night, it broke in, interrupted, made an unseemly noise, seized the time, crapped on the table of cultural studies

Eating the ocean

In Eating the Ocean Elspeth Probyn investigates the profound importance of the ocean and the future of fish and human entanglement. On her ethnographic journey around the world's oceans and fisheries, she finds that the ocean is being simplified in a food politics that is overwhelmingly land based and preoccupied with buzzwords like "local" and "sustainable." Developing a conceptual tack that combines critical analysis and embodied ethnography, she dives into the lucrative and endangered bluefin tuna market, the gendered politics of "sustainability;' the ghoulish business of producing fish meal and fish oil for animals and humans, and the long history of encounters between humans and oysters. Seeing the ocean as the site of the entangle¬ment of multiple species - which are all implicated in the interactions of technology, culture, politics - and the market enables us to think about ways to develop a reflexive ethics of taste and place based in the realization that we cannot escape the food politics of the human fish relationship

How to Represent a Fish?

This article canvasses a broad range of fish representations across several disciplines. It asks what cultural studies can learn from scientific representation of fish, and argues that in turn cultural studies can be a nuanced understanding of the work of images. The objective of the article is to open debate about fish and their sustainability beyond discrete disciplines and/or ideologies. This, it is argued, is crucial if we are to go beyond a simplified cultural politics of fish.

Twentieth Anniversary Colloquium : the Cultural and Communications Studies Section of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

In November 1991, the Australian Academy of the Humanities held a symposium under the title Beyond the Disciplines: the New Humanities. Convened by Ken Ruthven, the Professor of English at the University of Melbourne, and a member of the Academy’s English Section, the symposium set out to explore the ‘battering’ that the traditional humanities had received ‘from radical critiques of their methods and politics’ in the context of the ‘Theory Wars’.1 It did so by bringing together representatives of the ‘New Humanities’ to address six topics. Meaghan Morris and John Frow spoke to the interdisciplinary aspects of cultural studies; Paul Carter and Sneja Gunew addressed the topic of multicultural studies; Tony Bennett and Lesley Johnson looked at the place of cultural policy studies within cultural studies; Judith Allen and Maila Stevens engaged with the place of feminist and gender studies within and beyond the disciplines; Simon During and Dipesh Chakrabarty brought post-colonial and subaltern studies into the conversation; and Michael Meehan and Hilary Charlesworth presented on new directions in legal studies