Cultural Studies and its local resources: discourse and practice in the Rural Reconstruction Movement |
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Authors: | Pan Jia’en Zhang Zhen Du Jie |
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Institution: | 1. Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Chongqing University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of Chinapanjiaen0807@163.com;3. Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Chongqing University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China;4. Institute of Rural Reconstruction of China, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACTEmphasis on ‘context’ and ‘practice’ has been the tradition of Cultural Studies. Now Cultural Studies in Mainland China are facing the following difficulties: lack of attention to local issues and thoughts, lack of holistic horizon and sense of history. How can Cultural Studies in Mainland China search out more potential recourse and forces for critique and resistance from modern China and urban–rural China and confront Chinese problems and experiences which are of great complexity, by returning to its unique historical and social context and taking local resources into consideration? We try to return to the long-term engagement in ‘action-writing’ practice in the Rural Reconstruction Movement. Under the unique perspective of ‘practitioner-researcher’, they hope to explore plural spaces veiled by the mainstream and search out, in the historical context of China, local resources for Cultural Studies and possibilities for its advancement. |
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Keywords: | Cultural Studies consciousness of context local resources Rural Reconstruction Movement |
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