[ecrea] New Publication - Cultural Turns: New Orientations in the Study of Culture

I am pleased to announce a new publication - the first critical 
synthesis of cultural turns in the English-speaking world:

Doris Bachmann-Medick: Cultural Turns: New Orientations in the Study of 
Culture. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2016. ISBN 978-3-11-040297-1.

More information: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/433816?format=B

The contemporary fields of the study of culture, the humanities and the 
social sciences are unfolding in a dynamic constellation of cultural 
turns. This book provides a comprehensive overview of these 
theoretically and methodologically groundbreaking reorientations. It 
discusses the value of the new focuses and their analytical categories 
for the work of a wide range of disciplines. In addition to chapters on 
the interpretive, performative, reflexive, postcolonial, translational, 
spatial and iconic/pictorial/visual turns, it discusses emerging 
directions of research.
Drawing on a wealth of international research, this book maps central 
topics and approaches in the study of culture and thus provides 
systematic impetus for changed disciplinary and transdisciplinary 
research in the humanities and beyond - e.g. in the fields of sociology, 
economics and the study of religion.
This work is the English translation of an influential German book that 
has now been completely revised. It is a stimulating example of a 
cross-cultural translation between different theoretical cultures and 
also the first critical synthesis of cultural turns in the 
English-speaking world.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Cultural Turns - New Orientations in the Study of Culture 1-37
Chapter I: The Interpretive Turn 39-71
Chapter II: The Performative Turn 73-101
Chapter III: The Reflexive/Literary Turn 103-130
Chapter IV: The Postcolonial Turn 131-173
Chapter V: The Translational Turn 175-209
Chapter VI: The Spatial Turn 211-243
Chapter VII: The Iconic Turn/Pictorial Turn 245-278
Outlook: Are the Cultural Turns Leading to a Turn in the Humanities and 
Study of Culture? 279-298

Doris Bachmann-Medick
Senior Research Fellow
International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC)
University of Giessen, Germany
(bachmann-medick /at/ web.de)
http://www.bachmann-medick.de

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