Cases of Intervention

The Great Variety of British Cultural Studies

Edited By: Marie Hologa

£44.99

Cases of Intervention offers new perspectives on the case study in British cultural studies. In this volume, the method takes centre stage as scholars apply theory to diverse topics like the cup of tea, CCTV, and monarchs on film.

Cases of Intervention offers new perspectives on the case study as a research tool with a long-standing tradition in British cultural studies. Despite this significance,…

Cases of Intervention offers new perspectives on the case study as a research tool with a long-standing tradition in British cultural studies. Despite this significance, it has hardly ever been explicitly reflected upon as a method, but in this volume it takes centre stage. Scholars from interdisciplinary fields have written succinctly on diverse topics; the eleven case studies are comprehensible and lucid applications of theoretical approaches to topics such as the “British” cup of tea, CCTV and monarchs on film.

This book will give readers the opportunity to discover the broad spectrum of approaches that make British cultural studies an indispensable discipline for discourses in academia and beyond. Each case study presented here illuminates the relationship between cultural practices and theory. By choosing cases embedded in everyday life, the focus of each contribution is on the potential of pragmatic intervention.

Marie Hologa, Christian Lenz, Cyprian Piskurek and Stefan Schlensag are lecturers in the department of British and American Studies at Dortmund University. Their research interests focus on British cultural studies, cultural theory and practices of the popular.

Ellen Grünkemeier, Bernhard Klein, Jürgen Kramer, Bernd Lenz, Christian Lenz, Andrea Ochsner, Cyprian Piskurek, Susanne Reichl, Stefan Schlensag, Joachim Schwend, Claudia Sternberg, Bernd Lenz, Claus-Ulrich Viol