Udo Göttlich
University of the Bundeswehr, Germany
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Published in: Current Issues in European Cultural Studies; June 15-17; Norrköping; Sweden 2011
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 62:4, p. 27-33
Published: 2011-11-22
ISBN: 978-91-7519-993-1
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
Over the last three decades attitudes toward cultural studies in Germany have developed in contact and conflict with different disciplines like ethnology; anthropology; sociology and sociology of culture ; literary studies and last but not least Kulturwissenschaft(en). On the one hand there is a strong interest in how cultural studies views and analyzes popular culture; media culture and the everyday. On the other hand borderlines between humanities and social science remain; these lead to criticism of and conflict with cultural studies and its achievements.
In my paper I will discuss some of the problems concerning the perception/reception of cultural studies among practitioners of Kulturwissenschaft(en) and sociology and I will draw on the role of cultural studies in thematizing cultural change and conflicts; and its ability to do so in a way that points out that culture and politics matter.
