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A Politics of the Emergent

Cultural Studies in South Africa

Sarah Nuttall

Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

This essay attempts to track the changing shape of cultural studies in South Africa, drawing on both local and global reference points. In the first part of the essay, I account for the preoccupations of South African cultural studies from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. In the second part, I reflect on further shifts since 2000. Here I argue for a politics of the emergent, an increasing turn towards the negotiation of the possible, the drawing in of trans-national frames, and the reformulation of theories of race in the aftermath of resistance politics. Studies of popular culture during this period increasingly come to be superseded by a focus on public culture and on circulation. The essay concludes by considering current contests in cultural studies in South Africa and with a reflection on its current place within a reconstituted public intellectual space.

Key Words: city • cultural studies • everyday life • publics • race • South Africa • transnationality

Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 23, No. 7-8, 263-278 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0263276406073229
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