Cultural studies

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In `Counternarratives: Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogies in Postmodern Spaces,` Michael Peters and Colin Lankshear describe cultural studies as a set of approaches that serve to `understand and intervene into the relations of culture and power, [and] is committed to a radical contextualism which means that cultural practices cannot be reduced to or simply treated as texts” (p30). Cultural studies realigns educational priorities to focus on political, economic, and cultural forces, and to “enact democratic uses of knowledge, texts and cultural production” (p31).Cultural studies matters because it is about `how to keep political work alive in an age of shrinking possibilities` (Grossberg, 1992). Cultural studies sees culture as material and constitutive, and it is against ideas of culture as simply a reflection of or reducible to political/economic realities.