Includes bibliographical references (p. [535]-554) and index

Theory and method -- Cultural studies and its theoretical legacies / Stuart Hall -- The organization of education and of culture / Antonio Gramsci -- The work of art in the age of its technological reproduction / Walter Benjamin -- From work to text / Roland Barthes -- Field of power, literary field and habitus / Pierre Bourdieu -- Bourgeois hysteria and the carnivalesque / Peter Stallybrass and Allon White -- Culture and policy / Tony Bennett -- Banality in cultural studies / Meaghan Morris -- Culture in space -- Notes on the new town / Henri Lefebvre -- Walking in the city / Michel de Certeau -- Space, power and knowledge / Michel Foucault -- Politics / Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet -- Globalization/postmodernism -- Postmodernization, or the informatization of production / Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri -- 'Naked bodies': experimenting with intimate relations among migrant workers in South China / Eric Ma and Hau Ling 'Helen' Cheng -- Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy / Arjun Appadurai -- Nationalism/postcolonialism/multiculturalism -- The new subaltern: a silent interview / Gayatri Spivak -- Traveling theory reconsidered / Edward Said -- Imagined communities: nationalism's cultural roots / Benedict Anderson -- The crisis of 'race' and raciology / Paul Gilroy -- Science, nature and cyberculture -- Ideas of nature / Raymond Williams -- Gramophone / Friedrich A. Kittler -- War of the worlds / Bruno Latour -- A cyborg manifesto / Donna Haraway -- Sexuality and gender -- The independent woman / Simone de Beauvoir -- Upping the anti [sic] in feminist theory / Teresa de Lauretis -- Subversive bodily acts / Judith Butler -- Axiomatic / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Consumption and the market -- The culture industry: enlightenment as mass deception / Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer -- What is art? / C.L.R. James -- Subculture and style / Dick Hebdige -- Public arts funding: who benefits? / Justin Lewis -- History-spectacle-resistance / Russell A. Potter -- Media and public spheres -- Encoding, decoding / Stuart Hall -- Rethinking the public sphere: a contribution to the critique of actually existing democracy / Nancy Fraser -- The institutional matrix of romance / Janice A. Radway -- The net and multiple realities / Jodi Dean

This third edition of this introduction to cultural studies includes 21 new articles, with increased coverage of theory and methodology, as well as added articles on new areas such as technology, science, globalisation and postcolonialism