"Cultural Studies" in translation

[Michael Clark Troy]

The fact is that "Cultural Studies" designates a scholarly trend with a very
specific historical origin and a clearly demarcated political agenda.  You
can't begin to translate the term without talking about Marxism in Birmingham
in the 1970s.  Sure, everybody studies culture, but Stuart Hall and his circle
have laid a pretty firm claim to this term.  If you try to translate it as a
general kul'turovedenie or an Epsteinian kul'turologia, you'll misrepresent
things in a way so fundamental as to have translated nothing.

Clark Troy

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