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Course Plan for 2010-11

Places on elective courses will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis but priorities will be given

to second year students

First term (1 September 2010 to 11 December 2010)

Core Courses:

CUS501 Perspectives in Cultural Studies (For Year 1 Students)

Instructor: Mr. Ma Kwok Ming

Timetable: Saturday/2:30 – 5:30 pm

Venue: SO201, (Dorothy Y.L. Wong Building),Lingnan University (Tuen Mun)

Language of

Instruction : Chinese (Cantonese) and English

CUS503 Pedagogy and Cultural Studies (For Year 2 Students)

Instructors: Dr. Lau Kin-chi and Dr. Hui Shiu-lun

Time: Saturday/2:30-5:30pm

Venue: GE101 (B. Y. Lam Building), Lingnan University (Tuen Mun)

Language of


Elective Courses:

CUS510E

Workshop in Cultural Practices : Theatre for Self Understanding

and Community Building (Quota : 30)

Instructors: Mr. Mok Chiu-yu and Mr. Banky Yeung

Timetable: Tuesday/6:45-9:45 p.m.

Venue: GE101 (B. Y. Lam Building) and Art Gallery, Lingnan University (Tuen

Mun)

http://www.ln.edu.hk/cultural/programmes/MCS/2010-11/cus501.php


http://www.ln.edu.hk/cultural/programmes/MCS/2010-11/cus510E.php



For the 1st lesson on 7 Sept 2010, please go to the Art Gallery (2nd Floor

of the Main Building, please go there by taking the lift which is opposite

to the Bank of East Asia)

Language of Instruction : Chinese (Cantonese) and English

CUS511A

Selected Topics in Cultural Institution and Policy: Cultural

Economy (Quota : 30)

Instructor: Dr. Hui Po-keung

Timetable: Wednesday/6:45-9:45 p.m.

Venue: LR2, Hong Kong Island Education Centre (North Point)


CUS512E

Selected Topics in Cultural Representation and Interpretation :

Technology, Sustainability and Education (Quota : 30)

Instructor: Dr. Vinod Raina

Timetable: Monday and Thursday/6:45-9:45 p.m. / Two lessons per week from 2

Sept to 21 Oct 2010


Language of Instruction : English

CUS513C Research Seminar: Hong Kong Urban's Future (Quota: 10)

Instructor: Mr. Ma Kwok-ming

Timetable: Saturday /11:30a.m -1:00pm


<There will be a total of 7 lessons>

Language of


***For CUS513C, one-page proposal is required to submit together with this course registration

form for subject teacher's consideration. Class will ONLY be offered with a minimum enrollment

of 5 students. ****

CUS513F Research Seminar: Social Movement and Cultural Studies (Quota: 10)

Instructor: Dr. Ip Iam Chong

Timetable: Friday / 7:30 -9:00pm

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Language of


***For CUS513F, one-page proposal is required to submit together with this course registration

form for subject teacher's consideration. Class will ONLY be offered with a minimum enrollment

of 5 students. ****

Second term (29 January 2011 to 14 May 2011)

Core Courses:

CUS505 Methods in Cultural Research (For Year 1 Students)

Instructors: Dr. Li Siu-leung and guest speaker(s)

Timetable: Saturday/2:30 – 5:30 pm

Venue: SO201, (Dorothy Y.L. Wong Building), Lingnan University (Tuen Mun)

Language of


CUS502 Critical Thinking through Popular Culture (For Year 2 Students)

Instructor: Professor Stephen Chan

Time: Saturday/2:30 – 5:30 pm

Venue: GE101 (B. Y. Lam Building),Lingnan University (Tuen Mun)

Language of


Elective Courses:

CUS511G Selected Topics in Cultural Institution and Policy: Politics as Cultural

Practices(Quota : 30)





http://www.ln.edu.hk/cultural/programmes/MCS/2010-11/cus511G.php



Instructors: Dr. Law Wing-sang, Dr. Ip Iam-chong and Dr. Hui Po-keung

Timetable: Tuesday/6:45-9:45pm

Venue: AR322 (Leung Kau Kui Building) : 1 and 15 Feb 2011

SO201 (Dorothy Y. L. Wong Building) : 22 Feb to 26 April 2011

GE101 (B.Y. Lam Building) : 3 May 2011

Language of


CUS511H Selected Topics in Cultural Institution and Policy: Cultural Studies,

Law and Human Rights (Quota : 30)

Instructor: Professor John Erni

Timetable: Thursday/6:45-9:45pm


Language of

Instruction : English

CUS512L Selected Topics in Cultural Representation and Interpretation :

Comparative Study of Latin America and Contemporary

China (Quota : 30)

Instructors: Professor Wen Tiejun and and Dr. Lau Kin-chi

Timetable: Monday and Wednesday/6:45-9:45pm / Two lessons per week from Jan to

April 2011

Venue:

Monday : GE101 (B. Y. Lam Building),Lingnan University (Tuen Mun)

Wednesday : SO102, (Dorothy Y.L. Wong Building),Lingnan University

(Tuen Mun)

Language of

Instruction : Chinese (Cantonese and Putonghua ) and English

CUS513E Research Seminar: Feminism and Cultural Politics (Quota: 10)

Instructor: Dr. Chan Shun-hing

Timetable:

Seminar presentation and/or discussion: 7.00-8.30 pm

Project consultation (optional): 8.30-9.00 pm

28/1, 18/2, 25/2, 11/3, 1/4, 8/4, 29/4, 6/5 and 13/5

http://www.ln.edu.hk/cultural/programmes/MCS/2010-11/cus511H.php



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Venue: Rm BC 505, PolyU, Hung Hom (for Feb sessions)

Rm BC 520, PolyU, Hung Hom (for March, April and May sessions)



**For CUS513E, one-page proposal is required to submit together with this course

registration form for subject teacher's consideration. Class will ONLY be offered with a

minimum enrollment of 5 students. **

CUS501 : Perspectives in Cultural Studies (For Year 1 Students) No. of

Credits/Term

: 3

Mode of Tuition : Lecture and tutorial

Class Contact

Hours

: 3 hours per week

Category in

Major Prog.

: Core course

Prerequisite(s) : None

Co-requisite(s) : None

Exclusion(s); : None

Brief Course

Description

: This course provides an overview of the key themes, concepts, theories and issues in

cultural studies. It introduces students to the origins and foundational concerns of

cultural studies as an academic discipline and an intellectual practice; examines

selected critical notions and problems with reference to specific contexts; and look at

the work of cultural studies in relation to social, historical and institutional conditions.

The course also addresses such issues as the role of theory and analysis in the practice

of cultural studies, the relevance of cultural studies for government and public cultures,

as well as the constraints and possibilities cultural studies workers face today in their

divergent attempts to engage themselves on location in critical projects of our time.

Aims : To introduce the basic aims and perspectives of cultural studies as an academic

discipline and as an intellectual practice;

To look at different dimensions of culture and acquaint students with a range of

issues addressed by cultural studies;

To provide insight into the complex nature of the relation between the cultural

field and the social and economic spheres.

Learning

Outcomes

: On completion of the course, students will be able to:

understand the specific concerns and the general intellectual climate leading to

the formation of cultural studies as a discipline;

explain the intricate relationship between culture and socio-economic changes;

discuss with examples a range of critical issues addressed in the major

perspectives of Cultural Studies;

demonstrate their understanding of Cultural Studies as an engaged study of

culture and the impact such a study can have on society..

Indicative

Content

: The concept of culture and the intellectual trajectories of cultural studies;

The implications of the “cultural turn” in contemporary societies;

The culture of everyday life and the question of identity.

Cultural Studies as an engaged study of culture in the local social and

disciplinary contexts

Teaching

Method

: Lectures deliver key issues and an outline of main debates and concerns; tutorial

groups allow students to discuss topics in the local contexts. The weekly 3-hour

session will consist of lecture (90 min.) and a seminar discussion period (75 min.).

Students are required to present their views on designated topics and to actively

participate in the seminar discussion after the lecture.

Measurement of

Learning

Outcomes

: 1. Students participation in class (including presentations and the ensuing discussions)

demonstrate how well they understand the overall intellectual concerns of Cultural

Studies, its specific conceptual framework, and the intricate relationship between

culture and socio-economic changes.

2. Students’ Term Paper shows how effectively they can present the analysis of a

series of inter-related issues addressed by particular viewpoints in Cultural Studies.

Assessment : 100% continuous assessment based on participation in class participation, class

presentation and the completion of a term paper.

Students shall be aware of the University regulations about dishonest practice in course

work and the possible consequences as stipulated in the Regulations Governing

University Examinations. The Department makes it mandatory for students to sign it

for each of our courses. Every written assignment in the same course will carry a

separate declaration form as the cover page. Please download the declaration form

at : http://www.ln.edu.hk/cultural/Declarationform.pdf

2010-11 Term 1, Class Schedule

http://www.ln.edu.hk/cultural/Declarationform.pdf

Lecturers: Mr. MA Kwok-ming

Professor Stephen CHAN Ching-kiu

Time: Sat. 2:30-5:30 pm

Venue: SO201, Lingnan University, Tuen Mun

Schedule

Date Lecturer Topic

4/9 ma Introductory Lecture: The Peculiarity of Cultural Studies as a Discipline

(During 1-18; Jameson 1993; Mulhern, xiii-xxi)

Part I: Intellectual Trajectory of Cultural Studies

11/9 ma The Emergence of British Cultural Studies I: The Cold War and the New Left

(Davis, 30-63; Eagleon (2008); Mulhern, 49-73; Turner, 33-68)

18/9 ma The Emergence of British Cultural Studies II: Marxism and Literary Studies

(Hall, 1992; Miliband, 3-25; Williams, 75-100)

25/9 ma Cultural Studies & Hong Kong Society(Law)

Seminar Discussion(1): The Social Formation of Hong Kong

Part II: The Cultural Logic of Capitalism

2/10 ma Capitalism as a Mode of Production and Regime Change in Contemporary Capitalism

(Aldridge, 28-52; Davis, 139-155; Harvey, 141-172)

9/10 ma Impacts of Regime Change I: The Cultural Turn in the

Economy(Harvey, 284-307; McGuigan, 81-94)

Seminar Discussion(2): Viewing the Regime Change in Hong Kong

<<Workshop for Essay Writing from 5:30 to 6:30 at SO201, Group A>>

16/10 Mid-Autumn Festival

23/10 ma Impacts of Regime Change II: The Rise of Cultural Industries and

the Transformation of Culture as Industry (Horkheimer & Adorno, 94-136;

Hesmondhalgh, 15-24)

Seminar Discussion(3): The Cultural Industries of Hong Kong

<<Workshop for Essay Writing from 5:30 to 6:30 at SO201, Group B>>

30/10 ma Impacts of Regime Change III: The Urban Revolution(Lefebvre, 1-22)

Seminar Discussion(4): Urban Renewal as Urban Revolution

Part III: How Cultural Studies Proceeds

6/11 ma Cultural Studies and The Culture of Everyday Life (de Certeau,

29-42, 45-60; Fiske, 1992)

Seminar Discussion(5): The Politics of Everyday Life in Hong Kong

13/11 ma Cultural Studies and the Debate on Consumption (Aldridge, 86-109;

Edwards, 106-127; Fiske, 1989)

Seminar Discussion(6): The Spatial Dimension of Consumption

20/11 ma Cultural Studies and Identity Politics(Hall 1990 & 1996; Rutherford;

Young, 156-191)

Seiminar Discussion(7): Identity Politics in Hong Kong

27/11 ma Cultural Studies and Politics of Memory (Benjamin, 3-60; Hall 2002)

Part IV: Conclusion

4/12 chan Conclusion I

11/12 chan Conclusion II

Required Readings:

Bennett, Tony. Culture: A Reformer's Science, London: Sage, 1998.

Grossberg, Lawrence, Cary Nelson, and Paula Treichler eds. Cultural Studies, London and New York:

Routledge, 1992.

Recommended Readings:

Adamson, Walter L. Hegemony and Revolution:Antonio Gramsci’s Political and Cultural

Theory. Berkeley and Los Angeles. University of California Press, 1980.

Aldridge, Alan. Consumption. Cambridge, Polity Press, 2003.

Bauman, Zygmunt. ‘From Pilgrim to Tourist-or a Short History of Identity’ In Questions of Cultural

Identity. Eds. Stuart Hall & Paul du Gay. London, Thousand Oaks & New Delhi: SAGE, 1996, pp.18-36.

Bennett, Tony. The Birth of the Museum. London: Routledge, 1995.

Butler, Judith. ‘Critically Queer.’ In Playing With Fire: Queer Politics, Queer Theories. Ed. Shane

Phelan. New York & London: Routledge, 1997, pp. 11-29.

Chan, Ching-kiu. ‘Building Cultural Studies for Postcolonial Hong Kong: Aspects of the Postmodern

Ruins in between Disciplines.’ In Cultural Studies: Interdisciplinarity and Translation. Ed. Stefan

Herbrechter, for Critical Studies vol. 20 (Gen. Ed. Miriam Diaz-Diocaretz), Amsterdam and New York:

Rodopi, 2002, pp. 217-237. Also published as《從文學到文化研究：香港的視角》‘From Literary to

Cultural Studies: A Hong Kong Perspective’ (in Chinese). In Methodologies: Routes of Research on

Literature. Ed. Han-Liang Chang. Taipei: National Taiwan Univ. Pr., pp. 283-315. A slightly different

version appears as《在廢墟中築造文化研究：並論當代大學教育的頹敗形式與意義》in the special

issue on University, E+E, vol. 6, 2003, 10-22.

Crawford, Margaret. ‘The World in a Shopping Mall’ in Miles, Malcolm & Hall, Tim eds, The City

Cultures Reader, London, Routledge, 1992. pp. 125-140

Davis, Ioan. Cultural Studies and Beyond. London: Routledge, 1995.

de Certeau, Michel. ‘“Making Do”: Uses and Tactics,’ ‘Foucault and Bourdieu,’ The Practice of

Everyday Life. Trans. Steven F. Rendall. Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California

Press, 1984, pp. 29-42, 45-60.

During, Simon. Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction. London, Routledge, 2005.

Eagleton, Terry. Marxism and Literary Criticism. London: Methuen Co. Ltd, 1976.

Eagelton, Terry. “Culture Conundrum” Guardian, 21 May, 2008.

Edwards, Tim. Contradictions of Consumption: Concepts, Practices and Politics in Consumer

Society. Buckingham, Open University Press, 2000.

Fiske, John. ‘Shopping for Pleasure: Malls, Power and Resistance’ in The Consumer Society. Eds. Juliet

B. Schor and Douglas B. Holt. New York, The New Press. 1989, pp 306-328.

Fiske, John. ‘Cultural Studies and the Culture of Everyday Life.’ In Cultural Studies. Eds. Lawrence

Grossberg et al. New York & London: Routledge, 1992, pp. 154-173.

Flew, Terry. ‘Creativity, the “New Humanism” and Cultural Studies.’ Continuum: Journal of Media and

Cultural Studies, vol. 18, no. 2, 2004, 161-178.

Frow, John. Marxism and Literary History. Oxford. Blackwell, 1986.

Gramsci, Antonio. Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci. Eds. and trans. Quintin

Hoare & Geoffrey Nowell Smith. London: Lawrence & Wishart. Extracts on the

subaltern/subordinate/instrumental class, 1973.

Grossberg, Lawrence. ‘Identity and Cultural Studies: Is That All There Is?’ In Questions of Cultural

Identity. Eds. Stuart Hall & Paul du Gay. London, Thousand Oaks & New Delhi: SAGE, 1996, pp. 87-

107.

Guha, Ranajit. “Preface,’ ‘On Some Aspects of the Historiography of Colonial India,’ ‘A note on the

terms “elite”, “people”, “subaltern”, etc. as used above.’ In Selected Subaltern Studies. Eds. Ranajit Guha

& Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Oxford & New York: Oxford University , Press, pp. 36-44. Also extracts

from ‘The Prose of Counter-Insurgency,’ pp. 45-88, 1988.

Hall, Stuart (1990) “Cultural Identity and Diaspora” in Jonathan Rutherford ed., Identity: Community,

Culture, Difference. London, Lawrence & Wishart, 1990, pp 222-239.

Hall, Stuart. “Cultural Studies and Its Theoretical Legacies” In Cultural Studies. Eds. Lawrence

Grossberg et al. New York & London: Routledge, 1992, pp.277-294.

Hall, Stuart. ‘Who Needs “Identity”?’ In Questions of Cultural Identity. Eds. Stuart Hall & Paul du Gay.

London, Thousand Oaks & New Delhi: SAGE, 1996, pp. 1-17.

Hall, Stuart. “Whose Heritage? Unsettling ‘the Heritage’, Re-imagining the Post Nation” in The Third

Text Reader on Art, Culture and Theory. Eds. Rasheed Araeen, Sean Cubitt & Ziauddin Sardar. London,

Continuum, 2002, pp 72-84.

Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity. Cambridge MA & Oxford. Blackwell, 1990.

Hesmondhalgh, David. The Cultural Industries. London, Sage Publications, 2002.

Hetherington, Kevin. Expressions of Identity. London, Sage Publications, 1988.

Horkheimer, Max & Adorno, Theodor W. Dialectic of Enlightenment. Stanford, Stanford University

Press, 2002.

Inglis, Fred. Culture. Cambridge. Polity Press, 2004.

Jameson, Fredric. The Cultural Turn. London. Vers, 1998.

Jameson, Fredric. “On ‘Cultural Studies’” in Social Text, No.33, Durham, Duke University Press, 1993.

MacCannell, Juliet Flower. ‘Part I: The Theory and History of the Regime of the Brother,’ The Regime of

the Brother: After the Patriarchy. New York & London: Routledge, pp. 9-42, 19XX.

McGuigan, Jim. Culture and the Public Sphere. London: Routledge, 1996.

Miliband, Ralph. Class Power & State Power. London: Verso, 1983.

Mulhern, Francis. Culture/Metaculture. London: Routledge, 2000.

Philips, Anne. ‘Fraternity,’ ‘So What’s Wrong with the Individual?’ Democracy and Difference,

Cambridge: Polity Press, 1993, pp. 23-54.

Rutherford, Jonathan. “A Place Called Home: Identity and the Cultural Politics of Difference” in

Jonathan Rutherford ed., Identity: Community, Culture, Difference. London, Lawrence & Wishart, 1993,

pp. 9-27.

Said, Edward. ‘Representations of the Intellectual,’ in Representations of the Intellectual: the 1993 Reith

Lectures, London: Vintage, 1994, pp. 3-18.

Scott, James C. Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts. New Haven & London:

Yale University Press, 1990.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’ In Marxism and the Interpretation of

Culture. Eds. Lawrence Grossberg and Cary Nelson. Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press,

1988, pp. 271-316.

Taylor, Charles. Multiculturalism. New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1994.

Turner, Graeme. British Cultural Studies. London, Routledge, 2003.

Urry, John. The Tourist Gaze. London, Sage Publications, 1990.

Williams, Raymond. Marxism and Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977.

Young, Iris Marion. Justice and the Politics of Difference. New Jersey, Princeton University Press,

1990.

CUS503 : Pedagogy and Cultural Studies

Course Code CUS503

No. of Credits/Term : 3

Mode of Tuition : Lecture

Class Contact Hours : 3 hours per week

Category in Major Prog. : Core course




Brief Course Description : This core course will question the ‘ordinary’ ways we learn to see, speak,

know and experience things; that is, how we learn to behave both as

subjects of our own actions and when we are subjected to the actions of

others. Theoretical approaches in cultural studies to pedagogical processes

formative of the person will be introduced to open up familiar aspects of

our behaviour for critical discussion. These include language, memory,

experience, culture, technology, knowledge, identity, and power. On the

practical side, the course will examine how education as an institutional

practice works to perpetuate established power relations. It will also

examine how a ‘decolonizing’ approach to pedagogy can bring together

learning experiences that are normally excluded or marginalized in formal

education. The history and practice of education in Hong Kong will be the

main focus of students’ investigations.

Aims : 1. To introduce theoretical approaches in cultural studies to

pedagogical processes;

2. To introduce transformative models and practices of pedagogy to

students;

3. To enable students to analyze existing educational practices in

Hong Kong.

Learning Outcomes : On completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. reflect on the formative processes of subjectivity and appreciate the

pedagogical process as a process of interactional relationships;

2. reflect on the underlying assumptions and structures of modern

development;

3. demonstrate a critical attitude towards pedagogy in education, social

work and cultural work.

Indicative Content : 1. Rethinking education with theoretical insights from cultural studies;

2. Issues of language and discourse; politics of representation; critical

literacy; knowledge and power relations; culture and experience;

3. Existing pedagogical practices in Hong Kong;

4. Case studies of alternative practices in decolonizing education.

Teaching Method : 1. Lectures provide a conceptual frame for understanding pedagogical

processes in the formation of subjectivity, and deal with conceptual works

on education, development, and alternatives.

2. Students’ presentations on theoretical texts will demonstrate their ability

to grasp conceptual works as well as rethink their own pedagogical

experiences.

3. Term papers are individual endeavours proposed by students and

discussed during tutorials and consultation sessions; the rewriting of two

drafts of the paper will enable students to improve on their presentations

after taking in critical comments from the teachers and fellow students.

Measurement of Learning

Outcomes

: 1. Students’ presentations on theoretical texts will demonstrate their ability

to discuss among themselves to examine given topics on culture and

pedagogy;

2. In the term project, through individual work, students will demonstrate

how well they have reexamined their own pedagogical experiences against

the social and political setting of Hong Kong.

Assessment : Students are assessed on the basis of 100% Continuous Assessment

Students shall be aware of the University regulations about dishonest

practice in course work and the possible consequences as stipulated in the

Regulations Governing University Examinations. The Department makes it

mandatory for students to sign it for each of our courses. Every written

assignment in the same course will carry a separate declaration form as the

cover page. Please download the declaration form


Required Readings:

黑柳彻子 (2003): 《窗边的小荳荳》.海口：南海.

Apffel-Marglin, Frederique with PRATEC (eds) (1998): The Spirit of Regeneration: Andean Culture

Confronting Western Notions of Development. London and New York: Zed.

Badheka, Gijubhai (1990). Divasvapna (Daydreaming). Delhi: National Book Trust.

Bowers, C.A. (2001): Educating for Eco-Justice and Community. Georgia: University of Georgia Press

Dean, Mitchell (1999): Governmentality: Power and Rule in Modern Society. London: Sage.

Holt, John (1995) How Children Fail. New York: Merloyd Lawrence.

McCarthy, E. Doyle (1996): Knowledge as Culture: New Sociology of Knowledge. London and New

York:

Routledge.

Recommended Readings:

Website for books on education: www.arvindguptatoys.com

黑柳彻子 (2004):《小時候就在想的事》海口：南海.

山中康裕(2006):《哈利波特與神隱少女》臺北:心靈工坊.

Babiana學生(2005):《給老師的信》香港:進一步.

程介明 (1995):《政治變動中的香港教育》. 香港: 牛津大學出版社.

陳曉蕾 (2000):《教育改革由一個夢想開始》. 香港: 明窗出版社.

大江健三郎 (2002):《為什麼孩子要上學》.台北: 時報.

Adam, Barbara (1998): Timescapes of Modernity: the Environment and Invisible Hazards. London and

New York: Routledge.

Bar On, Bat-Ami and Ann Ferguson eds. (1998): Daring to be Good: Essays in Feminist Ethico-Politics.

London and New York: Routledge.

Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi, ed. (1997) The Mahatma and the Poet: Letters and Debates between Gandhi

and Tagore 1915-1941. Delhi: National Book Trust.

Bender, Gretchen and Timothy Druckrey eds. (1994): Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology.

Seattle: Bay.

Conley, Verena Andermatt (1997): Ecopolitics: the Environment in Poststructuralist Thought. London

and


Culler, Jonathan (1973) “The linguistic basis of structuralism”, Structuralism: An Introduction. Oxford:

Clarendon.

Cummins, Jim and Dennis Sayers (1995) Brave New Schools: Challenging Cultural Illiteracy through

Global Learning Networks. New York: St. Martin's Press.


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http://www.best100club.com/bestguide/indexguide39.asp

Donald, James (1992): Sentimental Education: Schooling, Popular Culture and the Regulation of Liberty,

London and New York: Verso.

Feenberg, Andrew and Alastair Hannay eds. (1995): Technology and the Politics of Knowledge.

Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University.

Gane, Mike and Terry Johnson eds. (1993): Foucault’s New Domains. London and New York: Routledge.

Giroux, Henry A (2000): Stealing Innocence: Corporate Culture’s War on Children. New York: Palgrave

Giroux, Henry, Colin Lankshear, Peter McLaren and Michael Peters (1996): Counternarratives: Cultural

Studies and Critical Pedagogies in Postmodern Spaces. London and New York: Routledge.

Giroux, Henry A. and Patrick Shannon eds. (1997): Education and Cultural Studies: Toward a

Performative

Practice. London and New York: Routledge.

Gordon, Colin ed. (1980): Power / Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-77 by

Michel

Foucaul., New York: Pantheon Books

Harvey, Penelope and Peter Gow eds. (1994): Sex and Violence: Issues in Representation and

Experience. London and New York: Routledge.

Hernandez, Adriana (1997): Pedagogy, Democracy and Feminism: Rethinking the Public Sphere. Albany:

State University of New York.

hooks, bell (1994): Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. London and New

York: Routledge.

Kumar, Satish ed. (1980): The Schumacher Lectures. London: Blond and Briggs.

Leeson, Lynn Hershman ed. (1996): Clicking In: Hot Links to a Digital Culture. Seattle: Bay.

Long, Norman and Ann Long eds. (1992): Battlefields of Knowledge: The Interlocking of Theory and

Practice in Social Research and Development. London and New York: Rouledge

McLaren, Peter and Peter Leonard eds. (1993): Paulo Freire: A Critical Encounter. London and New

York:

Routledge.

Morley, David and KH Chen eds. (1996): Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies. London and


Popkewitz, Thomas S, Barry M. Franklin, and Miguel A. Pereyra eds. (2001): Cultural History and

Education: Critical Essays on Knowledge and Schooling. London and New York: Routledge

Falmer.

Richards, Glyn (2001). Ganhdi’s Philosophy of Education. Delhi: Oxford.

Said, Edward (1994): Culture and Imperialism. New York: Vintage.

Schumacher, E.F. (1973). Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered. London:

Vintage.

Williams, Raymond (1989): The Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformists. London: Verso.

Wirzbe, Norman ed. (2002): The Art of the Commonplace: the Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry.

Washington D.C.: Shoemaker and Hoard.

2010-11 Term 1, Class Schedule (TBC)

Lecturers: Dr. Hui Shiu-lun and Dr. Lau Kin-chi

Time and venue: Saturdays, 2:30pm – 5:30 pm, Lingnan University GE101

CUS510 : Workshop in Cultural Practices




Category in Major

Prog.

: Elective course




Brief Course

Description

: This course is a guided journey to cultural practices in the fields of education, mass media,

community development and other cultural work for constructive changes. Students are introduced

to the articulated process of cultural practices, from formulating vision, analyzing environment,

defining objectives, developing strategy, implementing action plan to formative evaluation. The

course covers critical skills and tools to facilitate students’ self-directed practice in particular social

context. Supplementing other theoretical courses, this workshop aims at providing a comprehensive

summary of “what works”, or “making do”, based on extensive real-life experiences in different

cultural sites. Experienced professionals working in the fields of education, community work,

drama, and media are invited to participate in the workshop and dialogue with the facilitators and

students. Students are invited to make sense of the diverse cultural-political dimensions of

professional and technical practices introduced in the course, and to consider their implications in

relevant fields.

Aims : Students will:

be introduced to the articulated process of cultural practices;

learn how to design, implement, and enhance the process;

gain access to tools that are useful to bring about positive changes;

be equipped with critical skills to steer the process effectively;

be empowered as effective change agents.

Learning Outcomes : Students will be able to

identify the importance of articulating project objectives with the planned actions;

design, implement and evaluate cultural projects effectively;

utilize tools introduced to critically reflect on previous and ongoing cultural practices.

Indicative Content : Critical skills and tools (e.g. drama, professional facilitation) for cultural practices;

Conceptual and theoretical reflection – the importance of project, context and articulation;

Case study.

Teaching Method : Workshops supplemented by lectures.

Measurement of

Learning Outcomes

: Scrutinizing students’ written works (such as evaluation reports or project proposals) and

performance/participation in the workshop to examine whether students are able to

articulate cultural projects’ objectives with the planned actions;

design, implement and evaluate cultural projects effectively;

critically assess the effects and limitations of previous or ongoing cultural practices.

Assessment : 100% continuous assessment

1. Weekly reports

2. Essay of 2000 words

3. Readiness to participate in class and improvement in practical skills

Students shall be aware of the University regulations about dishonest practice in course work and

the possible consequences as stipulated in the Regulations Governing University Examinations. The

Department makes it mandatory for students to sign it for each of our courses. Every written

assignment in the same course will carry a separate declaration form as the cover page. Please

download the declaration form at :


Course title : CUS510E : Workshop in Cultural Practices : Theatre for Self Understanding and Community

Building

Course description : The course offers critical understanding of two international cultural movements, the theatre of the

oppressed and the playback movement. The students will undertake an inquisitive and experiential

exploration into methodologies that promote dialogue, solidarity, self expression, self

understanding, community building and transformation in the form of theatre, one of the artistic

languages and cultural practices that make learning enjoyable, motivational and participatory. The

two forms of theatre also promote the citizen actor, affirming the creativity of the individual and the

non professionals and democratizing the theatre stage and making participation in the arts part of

everyday life. The course will offer hands-on training on the techniques of theatre of the oppressed

and playback theatre. The course also provides vigorous critique of the educational/educational



philosophies underpinning the practices and the aesthetics of such theatrical endeavours. It will end

with a research on the possibilities and effectiveness in blending the two into a playforward theatre.

Theatre of the Oppressed, Playback and Playforward Theatre

Theatre of the Oppressed

The Theatre of the Oppressed is a system developed by Augusto Boal to empower, not just the poor

and the downtrodden in the third world. He developed techniques that also allow the oppressed in

the better off countries to explore their often internalized oppression. The Theatre of the Oppressed

is interactive and used as vehicles for social and personal change, building communities and

rehearsing for life.

Playback Theatre

An improvisational theatre form developed by Jonathan Fox and his partner Jo Salas, in which real

life stories of members of the audience are re-enacted. The stories or the emotion of the audience

are accepted, honoured and affirmed while being played by the actors. The performances thus build

relationship and interconnectedness among the participants, the storytellers and the performers

leading to greater solidarity and cohesiveness of all who take part.

Both Theatre of the Oppressed and Playback Theatre have many adherents all over the world, in

both the developed and underdeveloped countries and are properly referred to as international

movements. Each has its own respective net work and conferences. Universities, drama schools,

applied theatre and community cultural development training institutes offer courses that are similar

to the one being proposed. Both forms of theatre are ulitizing extensively in community building.

Playforward Theatre

An attempt to blend the Theatre of the Oppressed and Playback Theatre that would be the process of

reflection on what is and a rehearsal for what ought to be – a project simultaneously explored by

artists in the USA and Hong Kong.

The course will incorporate the visit of a theatre group in Hong Kong to perform playforward

theatre in session 12 as guest lecturer.

Aims and Objectives

Students will:

be introduced to the articulated process of theatre of the oppressed and playback theatre, two

approaches that utilize theatre as

language, theatre as discourse and theatre that

promote self knowledge, group solidarity and community building..

learn how to design, implement, and enhance the theatre processes that empower and

promote the citizen actor

gain access to theatre tools that are useful to bring about positive changes;

be equipped with facilitation and acting skills to initiate, steer or participate in the process

effectively;

be empowered as effective change agents and facilitators

participate in a process that attempts to blend the two approaches practiced by thousands of

community cultural development workers all over the world

Indicative Contents

Skills and tools for participation and facilitation of the theatre of the oppressed and playback

theatre processes

Conceptual and theoretical reflection of the processes and the origin of such community

cultural development process.

Case study of developments in Hong Kong and overseas

Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to

design, implement and evaluate theatre for discourse and community building effectively;

utilize tools introduced to critically reflect on previous and ongoing theatre of the oppressed

and playback theatre projects...

Measurement of Learning Outcomes

Scrutinizing students’ written works (such as evaluation reports or project proposals) and

performance/participation in the workshop to examine whether students are able to

design, implement and evaluate theatre for discourse and community building effectively;

critically assess the effects and limitations of previous or ongoing practices of theatre of the

oppressed and playback theatre

critically assess how the blending of the two theatre forms might move forward


Instructors : Mr. Mok Chiu-yu and Mr. Banky Yeung

Course Structure

1. Origin of Theatre of the Oppressed – a discourse on Aristotle, Brecht and Augusto Boal and Paulo Freire

2. Structure of Practical Work for Theatre of the Oppressed I : Knowing the Body and Making the Body

Expressive – Games and Exercises for actors and non-actors

3. The Theatre as Language (vs other languages) – Image Theatre and Forum Theatre

4. Theatre as Discourse – Invisible theatre, Newspaper theatre, Legislative Theatre

5. Theatre as Therapy – Rainbow of Desire/ Cops in the Head vs Dramatherapy

6. Nonscripted Theatres (theatresports, improvisation, playback, action theatre)

7. Playback Theatre – the Hong Kong Experience & Fluid Sculpture

8. Playback Theatre - Pairs and Chorus

9. Playback Theatre - Free Form

10. The Conductor and the Joker

11. Playforward Theatre 1 - the case for merging Forum and Playback

12. Playforward Theatre 2 – let’s see it

13. Playforward Theatre 3 – let’s trying it out

Assessment

100% continuous assessment

Weekly reports

Essay of 2000 words

Readiness to participate in class and improvement in practical skills

Group presentation towards the end of the course.

Class Schedule

這個課程將會有十四節，每節三小時。

課程目標是希望同學在完成四十二小時課程後，可以組成多個演出隊伍，並繼續實踐及發掘認識自我/社

區建設劇場的可能性。

PLAYBACK THEATRE一人一故事劇場和受壓迫者劇場內的慾望彩虹及腦袋裏的警察均可以有效地幫助

認識自我，個人成長，處理人際關係及建立團隊。

而受壓迫者劇場內的 NEWSPAPER THEATRE報紙劇場及 FORUM THEATRE論壇劇場則很適用於社區

建設，以至社會變革上。

而 PLAYFORWARD THEATRE展望劇場更是揉合 PLAYBACK THEATRE及 THEATRE OF THE

OPPRESSED，不單情理兼備讓群眾透過劇場發聲，也同時可以在集體的經驗分享而進行社區建設並找

出社會變革的不同出路。

課程同時觸及深受歡迎的 DRAMA THERAPY及 TRANSFORMANCE，兩者均為認識自我及社會建設帶

來不同的體驗。

Date and Venue Topic

7 Sept 2010 (AG) Week 1 – Image Theatre

14 Sept 2010 (AG) Week 2 – Fluid Sculpture of Playback Theatre

21 Sept 2010 (AG) Week 3 – Free Form of Playback Theatre

28 Sept 2010 (AG) Week 4 – Chorus and other forms of Playback Theatre

5 Oct 2010 (AG) Week 5 – Rainbow of Desire / Cops in the Head

12 Oct 2010 (GE101) Week 6 – Newspaper Theatre

19 Oct 2010 (AG) Week 7 – Forum Theatre and Enhanced Forum Theatre

26 Oct 2010 (GE101) Week 8 – Playback Theatre Group Presentation

2 Nov 2010 (GE101) Week 9 – Forum Theatre Group Presentation

9 Nov 2010 (AG) Week 10 –When Playback Theatre Meet Theatre of the

Oppressed

16 Nov 2010 (AG) Week 11 – Playforward Theatre

23 Nov 2010 (AG) Week 12 -- Role of the conductor of Playforward Theatre

30 Nov 2010 (GE101) Week 13 – Drama Therapy / Psychodrama

7 Dec 2010 (AG) Week 14 – Transformance

CUS511 : Topics in Cultural Institution and Policy No. of Credits/Term : 3



Category in Major

Prog.

: Elective course




Brief Course

Description

: This elective course is the theoretical counterpart of the course “Workshop in Cultural

Practices”. It examines how public policy on culture can be understood in the framework of

Cultural Studies, and it focuses on the ways in which institutional factors affect the planning,

development and management of culture in contemporary societies. Issues of citizenship and

subjectivity will be discussed in the context of specific forms and processes of cultural

governance.

Aims : 1. To introduce students the basic concerns of Cultural Studies with

issues relating to the shaping of public culture; that is, the

institutional dimension of culture including social pedagogies and

public policies on “culture” in the broad sense of the term;

2. To familiarize students with the critical perspectives needed for

understanding that cultural matters are significant social and

public issues through in-depth study of a particular theme.


1. raise meaningful questions in the area of cultural institution and

policy with clear and precise formulation;

2. identify alternative systems of thought in the area of cultural

institution and policy, and recognize and assess, as need be, their

assumptions, implications, and practical consequences.

Indicative Content : Issues in the area of cultural institution and policy will be selected and discussed. Specific

content may vary year from year.

Teaching Method : Lecture, seminar discussion, and students’ presentation.

Measurement of

Learning Outcomes

: Scrutinizing students’ term papers and class presentation/discussion to examine whether

students are able to

1. raise relevant and critical questions (with respect to the topics of

the course) with clear and precise formulation;

2. critically review the assumptions of existing discourses on the

subject matters of the course.


Students shall be aware of the University regulations about dishonest practice in course work

and the possible consequences as stipulated in the Regulations Governing University

Examinations. The Department makes it mandatory for students to sign it for each of our

courses. Every written assignment in the same course will carry a separate declaration form

as the cover page. Please download the declaration form at :


Course title : CUS511A: Selected Topics in Cultural Institution and Policy: Cultural Economy

Course description : Course Description

This course studies the economy and economic discourses through a cultural studies

perspective. Specific attention will be paid to the market as a means of socio-cultural

organization. The course is divided into three sections. Part one discusses what is “cultural

economy” and how it works. Part two demonstrates how to do cultural economy with

concrete case studies. Part three deals with theoretical and methodological issues and

specifically discusses how political economy, sociology, and anthropology handle “culture”,

the “cultural turn” of the economy and economic, and its discontent. The main aim of the

course is to understand how cultural economy approaches help us to understand economic

discourses and the contemporary economy by analyzing the production and consumption of

culture and the issues of cultural identity, regulation and representation in relation to the

economy.

Aims and Objectives

To enable students to understand the basic approaches and the historical

development of cultural economy;

To enable students to understand the economy and economic discourses from a

cultural studies perspective;



To encourage students to conduct active research on the local economy and

economic discourses

Indicative Contents

The Separation of Culture and Economy;

Doing Cultural Economy;

Cultures of Consumption;

Cultures of Production – The Meaning of Work;

The Sociology/Political Economy of Culture;

Method: Polanyi’s Substantive Economic Anthropology and Marx’s Political Economy;

From the Production/Consumption of Culture to the Culturalization of

Production/ Consumption;

Culturalizing Production – The Transformation of Work;

Culturalizing Consumption and Culturalizing Political Economy


Lecturer: Dr. Hui Po-keung

Time and Venue: 6:45-9:45pm, Wednesday, North Point, HK

I. Introduction

1. The Separation of Culture and Economy (1/9)

du Gay, Paul ed. (1997): “Introduction”, Production of Culture/Cultures of Production,

London/Thousand Oaks/New Delhi: SAGE Publications, pp. 1-10.

Dumont, Louis (1992): “Genesis, III – The Emergence of the Economic Category (A Reminder)”, in

Essays on Individualism – Modern Ideology in Anthropological Perspective, Chicago and

London: The University of Chicago Press, pp.104-112.

*Nelson, Julie A. (2003): “How did ‘the Moral’ Get Spilt from ‘the Economic’”, in Drucilla K. Barber

and Edith Kuiper eds., Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics, pp.134-141.

*Amin, Ash and Nigel Thrift (2004): “Introduction,” in Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift eds. The Backwell

Cultural Economy Reader, Malden, MA/Oxford/Carlton, Vitoria: Blackwell Publishing, pp.x-xxx.

*Babe, Robert E. (2009): Cultural Studies and Political economy – Toward a New Integration,

Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, pp.3-115.

2. Economics as a Cultural project: Economization and Marketization (8/9)

Blaney, David L. and Naeem Inayatullah (2010): “Undressing the Wound of Wealth – Political

Economy as a Cultural Project,” in Jacqueline Best and Matthew Paterson eds. Cultural Political

Economy, London and New York: Routledge, pp.29-47.

Calıskan, Koray and Michell Collon (2009): “Economization, part 1: shifting attention from the

economy towards processes of economization”, Economy and Society, Vol.38, No. 3, pp.369-398.

Calıskan, Koray and Michell Collon (2010): “Economization, part 2: A Research Programme for the

Study of Markets”, Economy and Society, Vol.39, No. 1, pp.1-32.

*Polanyi, Karl (1944): “Birth of the Liberal Creed”, in The Great Transformation, Boston: Beacon

Press, pp.135-162.

*Nelson, Robert (2001): Economics as Religion – from Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond, University

Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press.

*Greenfeld Liah (2002): “How Economics Became a Science: A Surprising Career of a Model

Discipline,” in Amanda Anderson and Joseph Valente eds. Disciplinarity at the Fin De Siecle,

Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press.

*Grossberg, Lawrence (2005): “Neoliberalism,” in Caught in the Crossfire – Kids, Politics, and

America’s Future, Boulder/London: Paradigm Publishers, pp.111-127.

*Kadish, Alon and Keith Tribe (1993): “Introduction – The Supply and Demand for Economics in

Late Victorian Britain,” in Alon Kadish and Keith Tribe eds. The Market for Political

Economy – the Advent of Economics in BritishUniversity Culture, 1850-1905, London and

NY: Routledge, pp.1-19.

3. Doing Cultural Economy – A Framework (15/9)

du Gay, P., S. Hall, L. Janes, H. Mackay and K. Negus (1997): Doing Cultural Studies – The Story of

the Sony Walkman, London/Thousand Oaks/New Delhi: SAGE Publications.

22/9 Mid-Autumn Festival, No Class

4. Consumption and Production (29/9)

Miller, Daniel (1997): “Consumption and Its Consequences,” in Hugh Mackay ed. Consumption and

Everyday Life, London/Thousand Oaks/New Delhi: SAGE Publications, pp.13-63.

Negus, Keith (1997): “The Production of Culture,” in Paul du Gay ed., Production of

Culture/Cultures of Production, London/Thousand Oaks/New Delhi: SAGE Publications, pp. 67-118.

*Garcia Canclini, Nestor (2001): Consumers and Citizens – Globalization and Multicultural Conflicts,

Trans. George Yudice, Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 15-47.

*Kopytoff, Igor (1986): “The Cultural Biography of Things: Commoditization as Process,” in Arjun

Appadurai ed., The Social Life of Things – Commodities in Cultural Perspective,

Cambridge/NY/Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, pp. 64-91.

*Salaman, Graeme (1997): “Culturing Production,” in Paul du Gay ed.,Production of

Culture/Cultures of Production, London/Thousand Oaks/New Delhi: SAGE Publications, pp. 235-284.

5. Regulation, Representation and Identity (6/10)

Hall, Stuart (1997): “The Work of Representation,” in Stuart Hall ed., Representation: Cultural

Representations and Signifying Practices, London/Thousand Oaks/New Delhi: SAGE

Publications.

Thompson, Kenneth (1997): “Regulation, De-Regulation and Re-Regulation,” in Kenneth Thompson

ed. Media and Cultural Regulation, London/Thousand Oaks/New Delhi: SAGE Publications,

pp.9-52.

Woodward, Kathryn (1997): “Concepts of Identity and Difference,” in Kathryn Woodward ed.

Identity and Difference, London/Thousand Oaks/New Delhi: SAGE Publications, pp.7-50.

*Hall, Stuart (1993): “Encoding, Decoding” in Simon During eds. The Cultural Studies Reader,

London and New York: Routledge, pp. 90-103.

*Hall, Stuart (1997): “The Centrality of Culture: Notes on the Cultural Revolutions of Our Time,” in

Kenneth Thompson ed. Media and Cultural Regulation, London/Thousand Oaks/New Delhi:

SAGE Publications, pp. 207-238.

II. Doing Cultural Economy: Cases

6. Finance and Money (13/10)

Pryke, Michael and pail du gay (2007): “Take an Issue: Cultural Economy and Finance,” Economy

and Society, Vol. 36, No.3, pp.339-354.

Langley, Paul (2008): “Sub-prime Mortgage Lending: A Cultural Economy”, Economy and Society,

Vol. 37, No. 4, pp.469-494.

Marazzi, Christian (2008): “From Post-Fordism to the New Economy,” in Capital and Language, Los

Angeles, pp.13-68.

Thompson, Grahame (2009): “What’s in the Frame? How the Financial Crisis is Being Packaged for

Public Consumption,” Economy and Society, Vo. 38, No. 3, pp.520-524.

*Perry, James and Andreas Nolke (2006): “The Political Economy of International Accounting

Standards”, Review of International Political economy, Vol. 13, No.4, pp.559-586.

*MacKenzie, Donald (2007): “The Material Production of Virtuality: Innovation, Cultural Geography

and Facticity in Derivatives Markets,” Economy and Society, Vol. 36, No.3, pp.355-376.

*Sjoberg, Katarina (2004): “The Wall Street Culture: Market Actors and Popular Media Discourses,”

European Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol.7 (4), pp.481-499.

7. Pharmaceutical Industry & Health I (20/10) Guest Lecturer: Cheung Wai Kee

Angell, Marcia (2004) “Excess in Pharmaceutical Industry”, Canadian Medical Association Journal,

171(12): 1451-1453.

Cockburn, Iain (2004) “The Changing Structure of The Pharmaceutical Industry”, Health Affairs,

Volume 23, Number 1:10-22.

8. Pharmaceutical Industry & Health II (27/10) Guest Lecturer: Cheung Wai Kee

Conrad, Peter & Leiter,Valerie (2004) “Medicalization, Markets and Consumers”’ Journal of Health

and Social Behavior, Vol 45 (Extra Issue): 158–176.

Illich, Ivan (1974) “Medical Nemesis”, Lancet, i: 918-21.

*Lupton, Deborah (1995): The Imperative of Health – Public Health and the Regulated Body,

London/Thousand Oaks/New Delhi: SAGE Publications.

*Peterson, Alan (2006): “The Genetic Conception of Health: Is it as Radical as Claimed?” Health: An

Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, Vol. 10 (4),

pp.481-500.

9. Real Estate (3/11)

Bourdieu, Pierre (2005): The Social Structures of the Economy, Cambridge: Polity Press, pp.1-17, 185-192.

潘慧嫻 (2010): 《地產霸權》香港：天窗出版社。

III. Theoretical Perspectives and Methods

10. Production of Culture (10/11)

Adorno, Theodor and Max Horkheimer (1979/1947): “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass

Deception,” in Dialectic of Enlightenment, London: Verson.

Bourdieu, Pierre (1993): “The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed,” The

Field of Cultural Production, Cambridge: Polity Press, pp.29-73.

Bourdieu, Pierre (1998): “Is a Disinterested Act Possible?” and “The Economy of Symbolic Goods”

in Practical Reason, Cambridge: Polity Press, pp.75-126.

11. Culture of Production – The production of Work Ethics (17/11)

Weber, Max (1992/1930): “Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism,” in The Protestant Ethic and the

Spirit of Capitalism, London and New York: Routledge, pp.155-183.

Thompson, E. P. (1967): “Time, Work Discipline and Industrial Capitalism,” Past and Present 38: pp.56-97.

Bauman, Zygmunt (1998): “The Meaning of Work: Producing the Work Ethic,” “The Work Ethic and

the New Poor,” in Work, Consumerism and the New Poor, Buckingham/Philadelphia: Open U.

Press, pp.23-41, pp.63-82.

Thrift, Nigel (2010): “A Perfect Innovation Engine – The Rise of the Talent World,” in Jacqueline

Best and Matthew Paterson eds. Cultural Political Economy, London and New York: Routledge, pp.197-221.

*Shamir, Ronen (2008): “The Age of Responsibilization: on Market-embedded Morality,” Economy

and Society, Vol. 37, No.1, pp.1-19.

*Thrift, Nigel (2002): “Performing Cultures in the New Economy,” in Paul du Gay and Michael Pryke

eds. Cultural Economy – Cultural Analysis and Commercial Life, London/Thousand Oaks/New

Delhi: SAGE Publications.

*Brown, Megan (2003): “Survival at Work: Flexibility and Adaptability in American Corporate

Culture,” Cultural Studies, Vol. 17, No. 5, pp.713-733.

12. Consuming Cultures (24/11)

Bourdieu, Pierre (2000): “The Aesthetic Sense as the Sense of Distinction,” in Juliet B. Schor and

Douglas B. Holt eds. The Consumer Society Reader, New York: The New press, pp.205-211.

Veblen, Thorstein (2000): “Conspicuous Consumption,” in Juliet B. Schor and Douglas B. Holt eds.

The Consumer Society Reader, New York: The New press, pp.187-204.

Grazia, Victoria de (1996): “Introduction,” in Victoria de Grazia with Ellen Furlough eds. The Sex of

Things – Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective, Berkeeley/Los Angeles/London:

University of California Press, pp.1-10.

13. Culture of Consumption (1/12)

Baudrillard, Jean (1981): “The Ideological Genesis of Needs,” and *“Towards a Critique of the

Political Economy of the Sign,” For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign, translated

by Charles Levin, Telos Press, pp.63-87 and pp.143-163.

De Certeau, Michel (1988): “General Introduction,” and Chapters 2-3, The Practice of Everyday Life,

Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, pp.xi-xxiv, pp.15-42.

du Gay, Paul (1996): “The Culture of the Customer,” Consumption and Identity at Work,

London/Thousand Oaks/New Delhi: SAGE Publications, pp.75-95.

Fiske, John (1989/2000): “Shopping for Pleasure: Malls, Power, and Resistance,” in Juliet B. Schor

and Douglas B. Holt eds. The Consumer Society Reader, New York: The New press, pp.306-328.

Further Readings

Marx, Karl (1957-8): “The Grundrisse,” (abridged) in Robert C. Tucker ed., The Marx-Engels Reader,

second edition, New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1978, pp.221-244. (中譯：

《馬克思全集》，第 46卷？)

Hall Stuart (2003): “Marx’s Notes on Method: A ‘Reading’ of the ‘1857 Introduction’,” Cultural

Studies, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp.105-149.

Gibson-Graham, J.K. (1996): “Strategies,” “The Economy, Stupid! Industrial Policy Discourse and

the Body Economic,” The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It) – A Feminist Critique of Political

Economy, Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, pp.1-23; pp.92-119. (中譯：〈經濟啊，笨

蛋!工業政策論述與身体經濟〉，收於許寶強、渠敬東編，《反市場的資本主

義》，北京：中央編譯出版社，頁 259-297。)

Slater, Don and Fran Tonkiss (2001): “The Cultural Turn,” Market Society, Cambridge: Polity,

pp.174-196.

Ray, Larry and Andrew Sayer (1999): “Introduction,” in Larry Ray and Andrew Sayer eds. Culture

and Economy after the Cultural Turn, London/Thousand Oaks/New Delhi: SAGE Publications, pp.1-24.

du Gay, Paul and Michael Pryke (2002): “Cultural Economy: An Introduction,” in du Gay, Paul and

Michael Pryke eds. Cultural Economy – Cultural analysis and Commercial Life, London,

Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: SAGE Publications, pp. 1-12.

Bazin, Laurent and Monique Selim (2006): “Ethnography, Culture and Globalization:

Anthropological Approaches to the Market,” Critique of Anthropology, Vol. 26 No. 4, pp.437-461.

Thompson, E.P. (1993): “The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century”, “The

Moral Economy Reviewed”, Custom in Common, New York: The New Press, pp.185-351.

Best, Jacqueline and Matthew Paterson (2010): “Introduction – Understanding Cultural Political

Economy,” in Jacqueline Best and Matthew Paterson eds. Cultural Political Economy, London

and New York: Routledge, pp.1-25.

Walker, R.B.J. (2010): “Conclusion – Cultural, Political, Economy,” in Jacqueline Best and Matthew

Paterson eds. Cultural Political Economy, London and New York: Routledge, pp.225-233.

Peck, Janice (2006): “Why we Shouldn’t be Bored with the Political Economy versus Cultural Studies

Debates,” Cultural Critique, No.64, pp. 92-126.

Maxwell, Richard (2001): “Political Economy within Cultural Studies, in Toby Miller ed. A

Companion to Cultural Studies, Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers Ltd., pp.116-138.

Harmes, Adam (2006): “Neoliberalism and Multilevel Governance,” Review of International Political

Economy Vol. 13 (5), Dec., pp.725-749.

DeSoto, Dana (2010): “From Profit to Prediction: Labor and Social Relations in the Iowa Electronic

Markets,” paper presented at the 2010 Crossroads: International Cultural Studies Conference, June

17-21, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

Mackenzie, Donald (2006): An Engine, Not a Camera – How Financial Models Shape Markets,

Cambridge, MA/London, UK: The MIT Press.

Lapavitsas, Costas (2007): “Information and Trust as Social Aspects of Credit,” Economy and Society,

Vol.36 (3), pp.416-436.

Maurer, Bill (2002): “Repressed Futures: Financial Derivatives’ Theological Unconscious,” Economy

and Society, Vol.31 (1), pp.15-36.

Cetina, Karin Knorr (2002): “Inhabiting Technology: The Global Lifeform of Financial Markets,”

Current Sociology, Vol.50 (3), pp.389-405.

Assessment

1. Class presentation and dialogue (20%);

2. One reading report of selected assigned readings (4,000-6,000), English or Chinese (40%).

Deadline for submitting the reading report is Nov. 3.

3. A term paper, 4,000-6,000 words, Chinese or English (40%). Deadline(s) for submitting the paper:

Nov. 11 (a one page proposal, or at least the title of your paper), and Dec. 28 the final paper.

CUS512 : Topics in Cultural Representation and Interpretation No. of Credits/Term : 3



Category in Major

Prog.

: Elective course




Brief Course

Description

: This elective course takes the production of meaning and ideology as a fundamental issue

in Cultural Studies. Through case studies, it examines how specific forms of representation

help shape and reconstruct aspects of our social reality, our experience of the world, and

indeed our view of others and of ourselves. Students will analyze the modes of cultural

production involved, and attempt to understand how cultural practices generate, fix and

deliver meaning for us in particular social contexts. The question of interpretation will be

raised in relation to the generic formation of the “Text’ at issue, so that we can approach

the plurality of textual functions and effects in terms of the contextual issues involved.

Aims : To deepen students’ understanding of representation as the basic critical concept

in Cultural Studies by way of topics and cases selected from a wide range of social

and generic contexts;

To familiarize students with the critical scholarship needed for understanding

aspects of social life through two fundamental categories in Cultural Studies –

representation and interpretation.


raise meaningful questions in the area of cultural representation and

interpretation with clear and precise formulation;

identify alternative systems of thought in the area of cultural representation and

interpretation, and recognize and assess, as need be, their assumptions,

implications, and practical consequences.

Indicative Content : Issues in the area of cultural representation and interpretation will be selected and

discussed. Specific content may vary year from year.


Measurement of

Learning Outcomes



raise relevant and critical questions (with respect to the topics of the course) with

clear and precise formulation;

critically review the assumptions of existing discourses on the subject matters of

the course.



work and the possible consequences as stipulated in the Regulations Governing University





Course title : CUS512E: Selected topics in Cultural Representation and Interpretation : Technology,

Sustainability and Education

: Course Description

This course studies development and development discourses through a cultural studies

perspective. Specific attention will be paid to the market and state as a means of socio-

cultural organization. The course is divided into four sections. Part one discusses the link

between development and culture in a historical context and explores how it works. Part

two discusses how political economy, science and technology, sociology, and anthropology

handle “culture”. Part three and four deal with the “cultural turn” of development and

economic, and its discontent. The main aim of the course is to understand how cultural

economy approaches help us to understand development discourses and the contemporary

global issues by analyzing the production and consumption of culture and the cultures of

consumption and production.

The course will also address the important issue of ecology and culture, including the

question of sustainability in times when climate change is influencing the cultural discourse

globally.

Aims and Objectives



To enable students to understand the basic approaches and the historical

development of cultural economy as mediated by science and technology and

ecology.

To enable students to understand the ecological, technological and economy

discourses from a cultural studies perspective;

To encourage students to conduct active research on the local economy, ecology

and discourses relating to the human condition.

Indicative Contents

The Separation of Culture and Science;

Development and Cultural Economy;

Cultures of Consumption;

Cultures of Production – The Meaning of Work;

The Sociology/Political Economy of Culture;

Method: Enlightenment, Ecological links of colonialism, Marxist and capitalist views

of ecology and production

From the Production/Consumption of Culture to the Culturalization of

Production/ Consumption;

Culturalizing Production – The Transformation of Work;

Culturalizing Consumption and Culturalizing Political Economy

The condition of human happiness – the integration of consumption, production,

ecology and culture.

Required Readings

1. Alfred Crosby: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900 to 1900; Cambridge

University Press

2. Clive Pontig: A Green History of the World; Penguin

3. Bijker: Of Bicycles, Bakelites and Bulbs; MIT Press

4. Tim Ingold; The Perception of the Environment; Routledge

5. The Stern Review; The Economics of Climate Change, Cambridge University Press

6. Happy Planet Index; New Economics Foundation, London


Lecturer: Dr. Vinod Raina

CUS513 : Research Seminar


Mode of Tuition : Lecture and seminar


Category in Major

Prog.

: Elective course




Brief Course

Description

: This elective course is composed of a series of seminars. Students taking this course will be

working on a common research topic recommended or approved by the instructor. Each

student will be required to conduct library/internet research and field work both

independently and as a member of a team, and will present research findings in a seminar,

engage in seminar commentaries and discussions, and write up a research paper. The

research topics will be on areas of work in cultural studies related to, for example, questions

of pedagogy, journalism, popular culture, critical practice, feminism, cultural policy, social

change, or historical representation.

Aims : To train students to undertake serious research work on a specific topic in cultural

studies;

To provide a space for students to conduct research both independently and as

member of a team, under the supervision of an instructor;

To train students to present research work in a seminar and to master dynamic

intellectual discussions and debates, and to write up a research paper.

Learning Outcomes : It is hoped that at the end of the course students will be able to

identify a research topic in the field of cultural studies of significance as well as

interest to themselves;

conduct systematic research work on a specific topic in cultural studies;

present their research work in a seminar and to engage in dynamic intellectual

discussions and debates;

write up a research paper with high quality.

Indicative Content : Various issues in the field of cultural studies. Specific content may vary year from year.

Teaching Method : Seminar discussion and independent research project.

Measurement of

Learning Outcomes

: Class discussion to measure students’ ability in identifying research topics in the

field of cultural studies of significance as well as interest to themselves;

Oral presentation to measure students’ skills in presenting research proposal and

research findings in an academic context;

Research paper to measure students’ competency in employing theoretical

frameworks and research methods to investigate and analyze cultural issues and in

writing up a research paper with high quality.

Assessment : 100% continuous assessment, including class discussion, seminar presentation and a

research paper.





as the cover page. Please download the declaration form


Course title : CUS513C: Research Seminar : Hong Kong’s Urban Future

Course description : As a city, Hong Kong is often portrayed as a vibrant and colorful metropolis. Even in the

face of economic difficulty, phrases like “Asia’s world city”, “Super-Manhattan”, “China’s

New York” were still freely adopted by The Hong Kong SAR Government. The past few

years have seen proposals for various prestige projects. In addition to the ambitious West

Kowloon Cultural Complex, proposal for building a sports complex in East Kowloon has

also been put forward. Funds for building a brand new government headquarter right at the

waterfront has been approved and Hong Kong Disneyland has long been completed. Even

more significant than these prestige projects are the numerous urban renewal schemes

initiated in many so-called “old areas”. These schemes are to be completed by the Urban

Redevelopment Council, which has been invested with wide-ranging power to appropriate

land for redevelopment. In addition there are various smaller-scale projects that aim to give a

new look to the city and to enhance its image.

As a metropolitan city that pride itself on its connectedness with the global capitalistic

world, Hong Kong is easily susceptible to the influence of global capital. All the world-

famous but placeless buildings standing in front of Victoria Harbor attests to this. But a

closer look at the cityscape of Hong Kong will reveal that the people who live their lives in


the streets of Hong Kong used to have equal, if not more, say on the shape of the urban

profile of Hong Kong. Even now, some streets in Hong Kong are easily identified for their

rich local flavor. But prestige project after prestige project coupled with large-scale

redevelopment projects not only threaten to take away the shine of these streets but to

obliterate them all together.

On the other hand, there are indications that the local population, who in the past seemed to

be quietly accepting whatever the government did to the cityscape of Hong Kong, is

awaking to the wanton destruction of old buildings and the further reclamation of the

Victoria Habour. Some are even loudly expressing their concern over the urban futures of

Hong Kong.

The seminar on Hong Kong’s urban futures aims to review the underlying socio-economic

forces responsible for shaping the urban profile of Hong Kong. Discussions will be held on

the relevant theoretical works. But special attention will be paid to Hong Kong’s past history

to uncover the traces of people who lived their lives in the streets of Hong Kong.


Lecturer: Mr. Ma Kwok-ming

Time: Sat, 11:30a.m. to 1:00p.m

Venue: GE321, Lingnan University, Tuen Mun

Schedule

4/9 Introductory Talk: Why Hong Kong’s Urban Future and What is there to Discuss

11/9 The Nature of Urban Space and the Urban Space of Hong Kong Past and Present

18/9 Corporate Power and Street Hawkers in the Urban Space of Hong Kong

25/9 The Mistaken Ideas of Heritage and Preservation

9/10 Presentation of Proposed Topics (I)

23/10 Presentation of Proposed Topics (II)

6/11 Presentation of Proposed Topics (III)

Required Readings

Ackbar Abbas, Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance. Minneapolis, University of

Minnesota Press, 1997.

David Clark, Urban World/Global City. London, Routledge, 1996.

Henri Lefebvre, The Urban Revolution. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2003

Helen Liggett, Urban Encounters. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2003.

John R. Logan & Harvey L. Molotch, “The City as a Growth Machine” in Susan S. Fainstein & Scott

Campbell eds, Readings in Urban Theory Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, 1996.

Jim McGuigan, Culture & the Public Sphere London, Routledge, 1996

Malcom Miles and Tim Hall eds, Urban Futures: Critical Commentaries on Shaping the City. London,

Routledge, 2003.

Jamie Peck & Kevin Ward eds, City of Revolution: Restructuring Manchester Manchester, Manhester

University Press, 2002.

Saskia Sassen, The Global City. Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University, 2001.

Allen J. Scott, The Cultural Economy of Cities. London, Sage, 2000

CUS513 : Research Seminar No. of Credits/Term : 3



Category in Major

Prog.

: Elective course




Brief Course

Description

: This elective course is composed of a series of seminars. Students taking this course will be

working on a common research topic recommended or approved by the instructor. Each

student will be required to conduct library/internet research and field work both

independently and as a member of a team, and will present research findings in a seminar,

engage in seminar commentaries and discussions, and write up a research paper. The

research topics will be on areas of work in cultural studies related to, for example, questions

of pedagogy, journalism, popular culture, critical practice, feminism, cultural policy, social

change, or historical representation.

Aims : To train students to undertake serious research work on a specific topic in cultural

studies;

To provide a space for students to conduct research both independently and as

member of a team, under the supervision of an instructor;

To train students to present research work in a seminar and to master dynamic

intellectual discussions and debates, and to write up a research paper.


identify a research topic in the field of cultural studies of significance as well as

interest to themselves;

conduct systematic research work on a specific topic in cultural studies;

present their research work in a seminar and to engage in dynamic intellectual

discussions and debates;


Indicative Content : Various issues in the field of cultural studies. Specific content may vary year from year.


Measurement of

Learning Outcomes

: Class discussion to measure students’ ability in identifying research topics in the

field of cultural studies of significance as well as interest to themselves;

Oral presentation to measure students’ skills in presenting research proposal and

research findings in an academic context;

Research paper to measure students’ competency in employing theoretical

frameworks and research methods to investigate and analyze cultural issues and in

writing up a research paper with high quality.

Assessment : 100% continuous assessment, including class discussion, seminar presentation and a

research paper.







Course title : CUS513F: Research Seminar : Social Movement and Cultural Studies

Course description : This seminar covers the major theoretical paradigms of social movement studies and the

recent critiques informed by cultural studies and other related fields of studies. Students are

required to choose a topic to conduct a research project. The assigned readings and

classroom discussion help students formulate their research question, methods and

theoretical frameworks. The instructor is also working on a project related to social

movement in Hong Kong. For those who are interested in it, please contact Ip Iam-chong.



Lecturer: Dr. Ip Iam Chong

[3 Sept 2010] A short lecture on social movement studies

Kornhauser, William. 1959. “The Politics of Mass Society.” Excerpt from The Politics of Mass Society.

McCarthy, D. John and Zald, N. Meyer. 1977. “Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial

Theory.” American Journal of Sociology 82(6): 1212-1241.

[17 Sept 2010] Collective identity

Melucci, Alberto. 1995. “The Process of Collective Identity.” In Social Movement and Culture. Edited

by Hank Johnston and Bert Klandermans. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 41-63.

Polleta, Francesca and James M. Jasper. 2001. “Collective Identity and Social Movements.” Annual

Review of Sociology 27: 283-305.

[8 Oct 2010] Political opportunity

Tarrow, Sidney. 1983. “States and Opportunities: The Political Structuring of Social Movements.”

In Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements: Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and

Cultural Framings. Edited by Doug McAdam, John D. McCarthy, and Mayer N. Zald. Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, pp. 41-62.

Meyer, David S. 2004. “Protest and Political Opportunities.” Annual Review of Sociology 30: pp. 125–

45.

Chan, Kin-Man and Yan Zhou. ?. “Political Opportunity and Anti-dam Construction Movement in

China.”

[22 Oct 2010] Generation

Juris, Jeffrey Scott and Geoffrey Henri Pleyers. 2009. "Alter-activism: emerging cultures of participation

among young global justice activists." Journal of Youth Studies 12(1): 57-75.

Whittier, Nancy. 1997. “Political Generations, Micro-Cohorts, and the Transformation of Social

Movements” American Sociological Review, Vol. 62, No. 5: pp. 760-778

[5 Nov 2010] Space

Pickerill, Jenny and Paul Chatterton. 2006. “Notes Towards Autonomous Geographies: Creation,

Resistance and Self-management as Survival Tactics.” Progress in Human Geography 30(6): pp. 730–

746 .

Chatterton, Paul. 2004. “Making autonomous geographies: Argentina’s popular uprising

and the ‘Movimiento de Trabajadores Desocupados’ (Unemployed Workers Movement).” Geoforum 36:

pp. 545–561.

[19 Nov] Emotion

Jasper, James M. 1998. “The Emotions of Protest: Affective and Reactive Emotions in and around Social

Movements.” Sociological Forum 13(3): pp. 397-424.

Whitter, Nancy. “Emotional Strategies: The Collective Reconstruction and Display of Oppositional

Emotions in the Movement against Child Sexual Abuse.” In Passionate Politics: Emotions and Social

Movements. Edited by Jeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper and Francesca Polleta. Chicago and London: The

University of Chicago Press, pp. 233-250.

[3 Dec 2010] Narrative

Polleta, Francesca. “Chapter 2: Storytelling in Social Movements.” In Culture, Social Movements and

Protest. Edited by Hank Johnston. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 33-53.

Meyer, David S. “Chapter 3: Claiming Credit: Stories of Movement Influence as Outcomes.” In Culture,

Social Movements and Protest. Edited by Hank Johnston. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 55-75.

Proposal is required to submitted during course registration for subject teacher’s consideration

CUS505 : Methods in Cultural Research

No. of

Credits/Term

: 3


Class Contact

Hours

: 3 hours per week

Category in Major

Prog.

: Core course




Brief Course

Description

: This core course enhances the students to develop a reflexive attitude about and critical abilities

of different methods used by cultural researchers. Method here is understood not only as research

techniques, procedures, and practices, but also as involving the theories and perspectives that

inform the production of a particular kind of research and justify it in terms of knowledge-

making. Practical examples will be used to illustrate diverse cultural studies methods such as

textual analysis, ethnographic methods (participatory action research, interviews, focus groups

and story-telling), oral history, archival work, etc. Discussion of methodological issues involved

in those examples will help students map out the trajectories in which cultural studies as a

discipline developed in the past and the implications they have nowadays.

Aims : 1. To guide students to pay critical attentions to the

techniques and procedures of doing cultural research in

such different areas as literature, film and media, popular

culture, gender studies and postcolonial studies;

2. To provide a platform for students to discuss different

perspectives on research methods and related issues

such as research ethics, knowledge, and power.

Learning

Outcomes

: 1. Students will be able to apply at least one of the methods

learnt in the course to handle a chosen topic in cultural

research;

2. Students will be able to reflect critically upon the research

method(s) used and the process of research based on

methodological issues discussed in class.

Indicative Content : 1. Introduction to the philosophical basis of cultural research;

2. Experience and the researching self;

3. Feminist methodology;

4. Memory and oral history;

5. Reading discourses: the power of text;

6. Audience research;

7. Self and reflexivity: from cognitive bias to pertinent agent;

8. Doing cultural research in the field;

9. Writing/representing culture: from fieldwork to deskwork;

10. Action research

Teaching Method : 1. Lectures will be delivered by a group of lecturers so as to

bring in different expertise;

2. Students will be required to present their individual or

group research projects in seminars arranged at the end

of the semester.

Measurement of

Learning

Outcomes

: The ability of students to apply at least one of the methods learnt to handle a chosen topic in

cultural research and to reflect critically upon the research method(s) used and the process of

research will be measured by:

1. The presentation of the individual or group research

project in the seminar which requires students to

demonstrate the process of conducting the research,

the difficulties encountered, and the preliminary findings;

and

2. The individual research report which requires students to

include the research materials, a comprehensive

analytical account produced from the materials, and a

critical reflection upon the research method(s) adopted

and the philosophical basis for adopting such method(s).



the possible consequences as stipulated in the Regulations Governing University Examinations.

The Department makes it mandatory for students to sign it for each of our courses. Every written


download the declaration form at : http://www.ln.edu.hk/cultural/Declarationform.pdf


Course Coordinator: Dr Li Siu Leung ([email protected]) (SL)

Lecturers:

Dr Cheung Siu-keung ([email protected]) (SK)

Dr Choi Wing Yee, Kim ([email protected] ) (KIM)

Dr Law Wing-sang ([email protected]) (WS)

Syllabus & Schedule

PART ONE PHILOSOPHICAL BASIS OF RESEARCH & THE RESEARCHING

SELF (WS)

Jan 29 2011 (230-3) Course Introduction (SL)

Jan 29 2011 (3-530) Introduction to the Philosophical Basis of Cultural Research (WS)

Required Reading

Ch. 1, “Cultural Studies and the Study of Culture: Disciplines and Dialogues” in Johnson, R. et.al.

(2004) The Practice of Cultural Studies, SAGE, pp. 9-25.

Ch. 2-3, Blaikie, N.(1993) Approaches to Social Enquiry, Polity, pp. 11-92.

Further Reading

Ch. 5, “Theory in the practice of research” in Johnson, R. et.al. (2004) The Practice of Cultural Studies,

SAGE, pp. 87-103.

[Feb 5 2011 Chinese NY Break, no class]


mailto:[email protected]




Feb 12 2011 Postmodernism, Experience and the Researching Self (WS)

Required Reading

Ch. 3, “Key Themes in Postmodernism” in Alvesson, Mats (2002) Postmodernism and Social Research,

OUP, pp. 47-62.

Ch. 3, “Method and the Researching Self” in Johnson, R. et.al. (2004) The Practice of Cultural Studies,

SAGE, pp. 44-61.

Further Reading

Ch. 3, “The individual ‘in’ Culture” in Couldry, N. (2000) Inside Culture. Re-imagining the Method of

Cultural Studies, SAGE, pp. 44-66.

Feb 19 2011 7th MCS Symposium (11am-7pm, Commercial Press Bookstore, Miramar Mall,

TST)

ATTENDANCE REQUIRED: whole day, forenoon, or afternoon

PART TWO ETHNOGRAPY

Feb 26 2011 Understanding Ethnography (SK) [extended session 2:30-6:30pm]

Required Reading

Coffey, A. (1999) The Ethnographic Self: Fieldwork and the representation of identity, SAGE, pp. 17-

58.

張少強《折返田野：自我、民族志與社會尋繹》(香港社會學學會第 6屆周年大會與會文稿)，2005年。

張少強 & 古學斌，〈跳出原居民人類學的陷阱：次原居民人類學的立場、提綱與實踐〉，《社會學研

究》2006年，第 2期，頁 107-133。

Further Reading

Geertz, C. (1973) The interpretation of culture (Part I), Basic Books.

Hertz, R. (ed.) (1997) Reflexivity & Voice (Part. I), SAGE.

Von Wright, G. H. (1994) “Two Traditions” in Hammersley, M. (ed.) Social Research: Philosophy,

politics and practice, SAGE, pp. 9-13.

Mar 5 2011 Doing Ethnography (SK) [extended session 2:30-6:30pm]

Required Reading

Fetterman, D. M. (1989) Ethnography: Step by step, SAGE.

Maanen, J. (1988), Tales of the field: On writing ethnography, The University of Chicago Press.

Further Reading

Atkinson, P. (1990), The ethnographic imagination: Textual constructions of reality, Routledge.

Hammersely, M. (1995) Ethnography: Principles in practice, Tavistock.

Yow, R. (1994) Recording oral history: A practical guide for social scientists, SAGE.

Denzin, N. K. (1997), Interpretative ethnography: Ethnographic practices for the 21st century, SAGE.

PART THREE TEXTUAL ANALYSIS

Mar 12 2011 Semiotics and Decoding Cultural Meaning (SL)

Required Reading

Saussures, Ferdinand de. Part I, Ch. 1 & 2. Course in General Linguistics. Trans. Wade Baskin.

Glascow: Fontana/Collins, 1974. 65-78.

Freud. “Female Sexuality” (1931); “Medusa’s Head” (1922); “Fetishism” (1927). Sexuality and the

Psychology of Love. New York: Collier Books, 1963.

Scholes, Robert. “Uncoding Mama: The Female Body as Text.” Semiotics and Interpretation. New

Haven: Yale U Press, 1982. 127-142.

Further Reading

Hawkes. Terence. Structuralism and Semiotics. 2nd Ed. London: Routledge, 2003.

Kellner, Douglas. “Television, Advertising, and the Construction of Postmodern Identities.” Media

Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity and Politics Between the Modern and the Postmodern. London:

Routledge, 1995. 231-262.

Mar 19 2011 “Mythology” and Ideology (SL)

Required Reading

Barthes, Roland,“Myth Today.” Mythologies. Trans. Annette Lavers. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972.

109-159. (http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~marton/myth.html；羅蘭•巴特著，許薔薔、許綺玲譯：《神話

學》。台北：桂冠圖書，2000，頁 169-222)

Denton, Kirk. “Model Drama as Myth: A Semiotic Analysis of Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy.”

Constantine Tung & Colin Mackerras, eds. Drama in the People’s Republic of China. New York: SUNY

Press, 1987. 119-136.

李維怡<文學．政治．修辭－－從起錨及超錯等一系列修辭談起> (2010)

http://www.inmediahk.net/node/1007834

Mar 26 2011 Discourse, Power, and the Word

Required Reading

Foucault, Michel (1972), The Archaeology of Knowledge. Trans. A. M. Sheridan Smith. London:

Routledge, pp. 21-76.

Said, Edward. Introduction and excerpts from Ch. 3 “Orientalism Now.” Orientalism. First published

1978.

PART FOUR CONTENT ANALYSIS AND AUDIENCE RESEARCH (KIM)

Apr 2 2011 Content Analysis & Textual Analysis

Required Reading

Liesbet van Zoonen (1994) "Media texts and gender" in Feminist Media Studies. London: Sage, pp. 66-

86.

World Association for Christian Communication (WACC), "Newspaper monitoring guide" in Global

Media Monitoring Project. http://www.whomakesthenews.org/research/media_monitoring_methodology

World Association for Christian Communication (WACC), "Qualitative news analysis" in Global Media

Monitoring Project. http://www.whomakesthenews.org/research/media_monitoring_methodology

Margaret Gallagher (2005) "Global Media Monitoring Project

2005." http://www.whomakesthenews.org/research/global_reports

3 April 2010 [Easter Holiday, no class]

Apr 9 2011 Audience Research & Feminist Studies

Required Reading

Walkerdine, Valerie (1986) "Video replay: families, films and fantasy" in Burgin, Donald & Kaplan

(eds) Formations of Fantasy (1986).

Ang, Ien (1996) "On the politics of empirical audience research," in Living Room Wars: Rethinking

media uadiences for a postmodern world. London: Routledge, 35-53.

http://www.inmediahk.net/node/1007834

http://www.whomakesthenews.org/research/media_monitoring_methodology

http://www.whomakesthenews.org/research/media_monitoring_methodology

http://www.whomakesthenews.org/research/global_reports

PART FIVE SEMINARS

April 16 2011 Seminar 1: presentation of projects using ethnographic methods (SK)

[Apr 23 Easter Break]

April 30 2011 Seminar 2: presentation of projects using ethnographic methods (SK)

May 7 2011 Seminar 3: presentation of projects using textual analysis (SL)

May 14 2011 Seminar 4: presentation of projects using content analysis and audience

research methods (KIM)

CUS502 : Critical Thinking through Popular Culture

No. of

Credits/Term

: 3


Class Contact

Hours

: 3 hours per week

Category in Major

Prog.

: Core course




Brief Course

Description

: This core course focuses on the relationship between critical theories and popular culture. It

examines how the mediation of popular culture affects the ways in which our everyday life

experience is shaped. Our main concern is that a renewed understanding of the everyday

experience through popular culture can provide illuminating examples and patterns of critical

thinking much needed for public cultural education today. Students will learn about different

approaches to the many forms of popular culture, from cinema to popular journalism, from

advertisement to shopping mall culture, teen magazines to video games, fan stories and the

internet. We aim to see how these popular ways of life can be analyzed as representing complex

negotiations of power and pleasure, solidarity and resistance, distinction and community

formation in a field increasingly characterized by multiple centers and domains of value.

Aims : 1. To introduce the basic approaches to popular culture

in Cultural Studies so as to allow students to undertake

the analysis of individual cases in relevant social contexts;

2. To provide a dynamic inter-disciplinary platform for the

discussion of social, ideological, ethical and aesthetic issues

through the perspectives of popular culture.

Learning

Outcomes

: On completion of the course, students will be able to:

－ demonstrate a critical understanding of the relationship

between popular culture and everyday life in the

contemporary context;

－ discuss with critical insights a range of specific cases

encountered in local contexts relating to the experience of

popular culture as a dimension of the everyday;

－ undertake an in-depth analysis of individual cases of

popular culture formation with a relevant critical

perspective;

Indicative Content : 1. Popular culture and cultural studies: the question of

value re-visited; debates on the critical attitude toward and

status of popular culture in its many forms (e.g., fiction,

journalism, advertisement, shopping, media and internet

culture);

2. Analytical approach to the practices of everyday life:

culture as ordinary experience in the contemporary

contexts; the critical concept and functions of mediation in

popular culture; play, performance and consumption as the

key dimension of popular experience for cultural analysis;

3. Interface with popular sensuality, commodity and

everyday culture: culture as event, spectacle and

meaningful acts; popular culture and the experience of

home, community, the state and the globe; identity and

difference; social relation, history and politics; globalization,

fetishism, and the society of the spectacle (cases to be

examined may include: idol-worship and fan culture;

shopping, tourism, and consumer culture; sport, eating, and

other leisure activities).

Teaching Method : Lecture and class discussion (in groups), with student reports on readings and project outlines.

Emphasis is put on student participation in the analysis of issues, relating their own views and

experience of popular culture to the critical questions addressed in the course framework. Guest

speakers are invited to share perspectives from the industry points of view when appropriate.

Measurement of

Learning

Outcomes

: 1. Class Participation

Group presentations and discussions on selected topics test students’ understanding of

assigned readings, grasp of theoretical materials, and application of conceptual framework

to local examples;

Reading reports on the assigned materials give an opportunity for students to follow up on

their oral presentations in class, and develop critical understanding on a small issue in the

form of analytical writing;

Class discussion on term paper proposals allow students to formulate initial project ideas,

and share with fellow students divergent viewpoints through critical dialogues.

2. Mid-term Assignment

An analysis of a single popular cultural text or event chosen by the student focuses

students’ work in critical analysis on a particular item of popular culture. Students choose

to do either (a) a close reading of the text address issues relating to the

broader context involved; or (b) an analysis of a particular issue or concept studied in the

course with reference to a case or a series of examples. Students’ ability to present the

case with an effective framework of analysis would be assessed.

3. Term Paper

A detailed study of any topic discussed in the course, which reveals students’ command

of their critical and analytical ability in handling a contextualized problem or case of

popular culture effectively.

Assessment : 100% continuous assessment based on participation in class discussion, presentation and the

completion of paper assignments, as follows:

Class participation 40%

Mid-Term assignment 30%

Term paper 30%


the possible consequences as stipulated in the Regulations Governing University Examinations.

The Department makes it mandatory for students to sign it for each of our courses. Every written


download the declaration form at :


Reference(* Highly Recommended):

Bennett, Tony, Colin Mercer, and Janet Woollacott (1986) Popular Culture and Social Relations, Milton

Keynes

and Philadelphia: Open University Press.

Conboy, Martin (2002) The Press and Popular Culture. London, Thousand Oaks & New Delhi: Sage

Publications.

Corner, John (1999) Critical Ideas in Television Studies. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

*Couldry, Nick (2002) Inside Culture: Re-imagining the Method of Cultural Studies. London,

Thousand Oaks & New Delhi: Sage Publications.

--- (2003) Media Rituals: A Critical Approach. London & New York: Routledge.

Debord, Guy (1994) The Society of the Spectacle (Paris, 1967), trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith, New

York: Zone Books.

de Certeau, Michel (1984) The Practice of Everyday Life, trans. Steven F. Rendall, Berkeley, Los

Angeles and London:

University of California Press.

Donald, James & Stephanie H. Donald. “The Publicness of Cinema.” In Gledhill & Williams 114-129.


du Gay, Stuart Hall, Linda Janes, Hugh Mackey and Keith Negus (1997) Doing Cultural Studies:

The Story of the Sony Walkman, London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi: Sage Publications, in

association with The Open University.

*During, Simon (2005) Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction. London & New York: Routledge.

Ellis, John. “Television as Working Through.” In Television and Common Knowledge, ed. Jostein

Grisprud.

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Gledhill, Christine and Linda Williams, eds. (2000) Reinventing Film Studies. London: Arnold.

Hall, Stuart (1996) “Encoding/Decoding.” In Harrington and Bielby 123-132.

--- (1986). “Popular Culture and the State.” In Bennett 22-49.

Harrington, C. Lee, and Denise D. Bielby (2001) Popular Culture:

Production and Consumption, Oxford and Malden, Mass.: Blackwell.

Hartley, John (1996) Popular Reality: Journalism, Modernity, Popular Culture, London, New York and

Sydney: Arnold.

Haug, W. F. (1987) Critique of Commodity Aesthetic: Appearance, Sexuality and Advertising in

Capitalist

Society (1971), tr. R. Bock, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Kellner, Douglas (2003) Media Spectacles. London & New York: Routledge.

Lefebvre, Henri (1991) Critique of Everyday Life, vol. 1: Introduction (Paris, 1947),

trans. John Moore, London and New York: Verso.

Miller, Toby and Alec HcHoul (1997) Popular Culture and Everyday Life, London, Thousand Oaks and

New Delhi:

Sage Publications.

Moore, Kevin (1997) Museums and Popular Culture, London and Washington: Leicester University

Press.

Morris, Meaghan (1998) Too Soon, Too Late: History in Popular Culture, Bloomington and Indianapolis:

Indiana University Press.

Negus, Keith (1996) Popular Music in Theory: An Introduction. Cambridge: Polity Press with Blackwell.

*Silverstone, Roger (1999) Why Study the Media? London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi: Sage

Publications.

---(2002). “Complicity and Collusion in the Mediation of Everyday Life.” New Literary History 33: 761-780.

Scannell, Paddy (1996) Radio, Television and Modern Life: A Phenomenological Approach. Oxford:

Blackwell.

Street, John (1997) Politics and Popular Culture, Oxford: Polity Press.

Tolson, Andrew (1996) Mediations: Text and Discourse in Media Studies. London, New York, Sydney &

Auckland: Arnold.

Williams, Raymond (1989) Raymond Williams on Television: Selected Writings. Ed. Alan O’Connor.

London &



Lecutrer : Professor Stephen CHAN

1. Introduction: Culture, the Popular, and the Everyday (29/1/11)

[Miller & McHoul 1-27: “Introduction to Popular Culture and Everyday Life”]

[Couldry 20-43: “Questions of Value – or, Why do cultural studies?”]

- Chinese New Year (5/2/11) / NO CLASS -

2. The Question of the Popular (12/2)

[Frow 60-88: “The Concept of the Popular”]

[Williams: “Culture is Ordinary”]

REF: [Bennett: “The Politics of ‘the Popular’ and Popular Culture”]

- MCS Annual Symposium (19/2/11) / NO CLASS -

3. The Problem of Experience (26/2)

[Silverstone 1-12: “The Texture of Experience”]

REF: [Couldry 44-66: “The Individual ‘in’ Culture”]

- [5/3/2011 Class suspended: Lecturer on conference trip] -

4. Popular Mediation as Process (12/3)

[Silverstone 13-18: “Mediation”]

[Negus 66-98: “Mediations”]

[Tolson 53-80: “Modes of Address”]

5. Play as Mediation and the Popular Genres (19/3)

[Silverstone 57-67: “Dimension of Experience: Play”]

[During 109-123: “Media and the Public Sphere: Television”]

[Corner (1999) 60-69: “Flow”]

6. Performance as a Dimension of Everyday Experience (26/3)

[Silverstone 68-77: “Dimension of Experience: Performance”]

[Scannell 58-74: “Sincerity”]

[Ellis 55-70: “Television as Working-through”]

7. Entertainment, Fantasy and Communication (2/4)

[Silverstone 125-133: “Making Sense: Memory”]

[G&W 100-113: Gaines, “Dream/Factory”]

[H&B 123-32: S. Hall, “Encoding/Decoding”]

8. Mid-Term Paper DUE (9/4)

Rethinking Consumption and the Mediation of Experience

[Silverstone 78-85: “Dimension of Experience: Consumption”]

[During 124-135: “Media and the Public Sphere: Popular Music”]

[Corner (1999) 93-107: “Pleasure”]

REF: [Couldry 67-90: “Questioning the Text”]

9. Mid-Term Paper DUE (16/4)

Popular Formations: Celebrity, Spectacle, and the Question of Publicness

[Marshall 150-84: “Meanings of the Popular Music Celebrity”]

[Kellner 63-92: The Sports Spectacle, Michael Jordan & Nike]

[G&W114-129: Donald & Donald,“The Publicness of Cinema”]

~ Holiday (23/4) ~

10. Home in relation to the Popular: Ordinary Experience & Events (30/4)

[Silverstone 86-95: “Location of Action & Experience: House&Home]

[Scannell 75-92: Eventfulness]

[Silverstone 48-56: “Erotics”]

REF: [de Certeau 29-42: “Making Do: Uses and Tactics”]

11. Shaping Community and the Popular: Everyday Uses of Culture (7/5)

[Silverstone 96-104: “Location of Action & Experience: Community”]

[During 136-42: “Media & the Public Sphere: Internet and Technoculture”]

[Couldry: “Mediated Self-Disclosure: Before and After the Internet”]

12. Re-inventing Popular Culture: Community and Cultural Citizenship (14/5)

[Silverstone 105-113: “Location of Action & Experience: Globe”]

[Silverstone 114-124: “Making Sense: Trust”]

REF: [Couldry 91-113: “Beyond ‘Cultures’”]

13.14. Concluding Session: Roundtable on Students’ Term Projects (21/5)

Format: Whole-day roundtable sessions with participation by all; details TBA

TERM PAPER: Due 30 May 2011




Category in Major

Prog.

: Elective course




Brief Course

Description

: This elective course is the theoretical counterpart of the course “Workshop in Cultural Practices”. It

examines how public policy on culture can be understood in the framework of Cultural Studies, and it

focuses on the ways in which institutional factors affect the planning, development and management

of culture in contemporary societies. Issues of citizenship and subjectivity will be discussed in the

context of specific forms and processes of cultural governance.

Aims : 1. To introduce students the basic concerns of Cultural Studies with issues

relating to the shaping of public culture; that is, the institutional dimension

of culture including social pedagogies and public policies on “culture” in the

broad sense of the term;

2. To familiarize students with the critical perspectives needed for understanding

that cultural matters are significant social and public issues through in-depth

study of a particular theme.


1. raise meaningful questions in the area of cultural institution and

policy with clear and precise formulation;

2. identify alternative systems of thought in the area of cultural

institution and policy, and recognize and assess, as need be, their

assumptions, implications, and practical consequences.

Indicative Content : Issues in the area of cultural institution and policy will be selected and discussed. Specific content

may vary year from year.


Measurement of

Learning Outcomes

: Scrutinizing students’ term papers and class presentation/discussion to examine whether students are

able to

1. raise relevant and critical questions (with respect to the topics of the course) with clear and precise

formulation;

2. critically review the assumptions of existing discourses on the subject matters of the course.


1. Weekly reports

2. Essay of 2000 words

3. Readiness to participate in class and improvement in practical skills

Students shall be aware of the University regulations about dishonest practice in course work and the

possible consequences as stipulated in the Regulations Governing University Examinations. The

Department makes it mandatory for students to sign it for each of our courses. Every written


download the declaration form at


Course title : CUS511G: Selected Topics in Cultural Institution and Policy: Politics as Cultural Practices

Course description : Cultural studies is often understood as an approach to give a political turn to the study of culture. In

short, cultural studies students are encouraged to investigate how power, authority and ideology, etc.

underpin cultural activities and practices such as literature or art. This course tries to turn the attention

the other way round by guiding the students to build up a cultural sensitivity in political matters,

which is often studied from a behavioral or rationalistic perspective. By focusing on the symbolic or

communicative dimensions of power and authority, this course tries to give an overview of how the

governmental processes of the state, the constitution of political community as well as various social

and political movements can be examined as cultural practices. Bringing forth the cultural processes

of politics, the course will help the students to re-consider questions of identity, antagonism, solidarity

and resistances related to a number of micro- as well as macro- political issues.



Lecturers: Dr. Law Wing-sang, Dr. Ip Iam-chong and Dr. Hui Po-keung

1 Feb.

(Law)

Politics? or Anti-Politics?

*Furedi, F. (2005) Politics of Fear, London: Continuum, Ch. 1-3

*Schedler, A. (1997) “Introduction: Antipolitics – Closing and Colonizing the Public

Sphere” in Schedler, A. (ed.) The End of Politics? Explorations into

Modern Antipolitics, London: MacMillan Press, pp. 1-20

Lash, C. (1979) “The Banality of Pseudo-Self-Awareness: Theatrics of Politics and

Everyday Existence” in Culture of Narcissism, London: Abacus, Ch. 4

Fukuyama, “The End of History”, National Interest, Summer 1989

Havel, V. “The Power of the Powerless”

川崎修 (2002) 阿倫特，石家庄：河北教育，Ch. 4.

羅永生 (1992) “哈維爾的 ‘政治’” 天安門評論，頁 271-283。

8Feb.

(Law)

- Holiday Break -

15Feb.

(Law)

Administrative Absorption of Politics and Critical Public Policy

*Habermas, J. “The Scientization of Politics and Public Opinion” in Toward a

Rational Society. Student Protest, Science and Politics, Boston: Beacon Press

*Forester, J. (1985) “Critical Theory and Planning Practice” in Forester, J. (ed.)

Critical Theory and Public Life, Cambridge: MIT Press

Denhardt, R. (1981) “Toward a Critical Theory of Public Organization” Public

Administration Review,

22Feb.

(Law)

Ass #1 issued

Liberalism in Crisis?

*郭建 (2006) “為了打擊共同的敵人 – 施米特及其左翼盟友” 二十一世紀，

no. 94，pp. 19-25

*徐賁 (2006) “中國不需要這樣的 ‘政治’ 和 ‘主權者決斷’ – ‘施米特熱’ 和國家主

義”

二十一世紀，no. 94，pp. 26-39

Mouffe, C. (1993) The Return of the Political, London: Verso, Ch. 2-3

Meier, H. 隱匿的對話：施米特與施特勞斯，北京：華夏

1 Mar.

(Law)

Radical Democracy and the Return of the Political

*Mouffe, C. (2005) On the Political, London: Routledge, Ch. 2, 4, 5

Laclau, Ernesto and Chantal Mouffe (1985):Hegemony and Socialist Strategy –

Towards a radical Democratic Politics, London and New York: Verso, pp.1-46,

pp.149-194.

Mouffe, C. (2000) The Democratic Paradox, London: Verso, Ch. 5 and Conclusion

汪暉 “去政治化的政治、霸權的多重構成與六十年代的消逝” 收錄在

去政治化的政治．短 20世紀的終結與 90年代，北京：三聯

8 Mar.

(Ip)

Deadline for

Ass #1

Identity and Social Movement

*Stuart Hall. 1997 (1990). “Cultural Identity and Diaspora.” Identity and Difference.

Edited by Kathryn Woodward. London: Sage, pp. 51-61.

*McNay, Lois. 1999. “Subject, Psyche and Agency: The Work of Judith Butler.” in

Performativity and Belonging. Edited by Vikki Bell. London: Sage, 175-193

15 Mar.

(Ip)

Collective Agency

*葉蔭聰，2011，＜集體行動與新社會運動：有關「本土行動」的研究＞，《香

港．生活．文化》，呂大樂、吳俊雄、馬傑偉編，牛津大學出版社，頁 117-

147。

22 Mar.

(Ip/Guest

Speaker)

Biopolitics, Liberalism & neo-Liberalism

Foucault, Michel. 2008 (1979). “14 March 1979.” The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures

at the College de France 1978-1979. New York: Picador: pp. 215-238.

Foucault, Michel. 2008. “Course Summary.” The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the

College de France 1978-1979. New York: Picador: pp.317-324.

Foucault, Michel. 2007. “Course Summary.” Security, Territory, Population:

Lectures at the College de France 1977-1978. New York: Picador: pp.363-367.

29 Mar.

(Ip/Guest

Speaker)

Ass #2 issued

A Biopolitics space : case study in Public Housing in HK

Foucault, Michel. 2003. “28 November 1973.” Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the

College de France 1973-1974. New York: Picador: pp. 63-91.

謝曉陽，2009，＜一個賦予的生命政治空間──以香港公屋為例＞（研討會論文）

5 Apr. - Holiday Break -

12 Apr.

(Hui)

Deadline for

Ass # 2

Populist Politics and Hegemonic Struggles

Laclau, Ernesto (2005): On Populist Reason, London and New York: Verso,

pp. 69-124.

Zizek, Slavoj (2006): “Against the Populist Temptation”, Critical Inquiry, Vol. 32, Iss.

3,

pp.551-574.

19 Apr.

(Hui)

Populism, Mass Media, and the Rhetoric of Economics

*關於阿當．斯密和自由貿易的辯論(許寶強、雷鼎鳴、楊懷康、《蘋果日報》等)

26 Apr.

(Ip)

Fantasy and Ideology: Zizek’s theory

Zizek, Slavoj. 1989. “How Did Marx Invent the Symptom?” The Sublime Object of

Ideology. London and NY: Verson, pp. 11-53.

王茜，2004，＜齊澤克《意識形態的崇高客體》的意義＞，《社會科學戰線》，

第一期，頁 238-242。

3 May

(Ip)

Ass #3 issued

Politics of Universality: Zizek and Critchley

Zizek, Slavoj. 2007. “Resistance is Surrender.” London Review of Book 29(22).

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n22/slavoj-zizek/resistance-is-surrender

Critchley, Simon. 2009. “Violent Thought about Slavoj Zizek.” Naked Punch.

http://www.nakedpunch.com/articles/39

林淑芬，2006，＜付諸行動？＞

http://www.ncu.edu.tw/~csa/journal/61/journal_book_55.htm

17 May

Deadline for

Ass #3

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Category in Major

Prog.

: Elective course




Brief Course

Description

: This elective course is the theoretical counterpart of the course “Workshop in Cultural

Practices”. It examines how public policy on culture can be understood in the framework of

Cultural Studies, and it focuses on the ways in which institutional factors affect the

planning, development and management of culture in contemporary societies. Issues of

citizenship and subjectivity will be discussed in the context of specific forms and processes

of cultural governance.

Aims : 1. To introduce students the basic concerns of Cultural Studies with issues relating

to the shaping of public culture; that is, the institutional dimension of culture

including social pedagogies and public policies on “culture” in the broad sense

of the term;

2. To familiarize students with the critical perspectives needed for understanding

that cultural matters are significant social and public issues through in-depth

study of a particular theme.


1. raise meaningful questions in the area of cultural institution and policy with clear and

precise formulation;

2. identify alternative systems of thought in the area of cultural institution and policy, and

recognize and assess, as need be, their assumptions, implications, and practical

consequences.

Indicative Content : Issues in the area of cultural institution and policy will be selected and discussed. Specific

content may vary year from year.


Measurement of

Learning Outcomes



1. raise relevant and critical questions (with respect to the topics of the course) with


2. critically review the assumptions of existing discourses on the subject matters of the

course.








Course title : CUS511H: Selected Topics in Cultural Institution and Policy: Cultural Studies, Law and

Human Rights

Course description : This course attempts to explore this question: in the (re)turn to both distributive and

recognition justice, how will cultural studies critically connect with law and the legal

imagination, especially with that of international human rights law as a global professional,

interdisciplinary, and humanitarian practice? The new and persistent violence linked to

state, inter-state, and non-state actors alike has galvanized new social movements that act in

concert with international human rights law. How can cultural studies forge a connection

with these rights-based international movements, and therefore reassess the theories of

power, governmentality, justice, and legality?

This course highlights the theoretical conceptions of power as developed in cultural studies,

and links them to contemporary international debates about governance, legitimation,

culture, oppression, hegemony, civil society, law, and empowerment. We shall

study human rights as a site of legal-cultural struggles through theoretical discussions and

selected case studies. The cases will be drawn upon from human rights discourse and mass

media to examine how cultural forms and institutions are involved in the exercising of social

power.

Prior knowledge in law is not required, yet students will be exposed to basic legal concepts,

reasoning, practices, and contradictions.



Lecturer: Professor John Erni

DATE FOCUS READINGS DISCUSSION & SCREENINGS

10/2

Introduction: A

Different Project of

Cultural Studies

1. Clapham, Ch. 1, “Looking at rights”

2. Full text of the Universal Declaration of Human

Rights (UDHR)

3. Rosemary Coombe (2010), “Honing a critical cultural

study of human rights”

Discuss: Human rights in

everyday life; 16 groups of

rights

17/2

The Basics, or the

“Rights” Way of

Thinking

4. Clapham, Ch. 2, “The historical development of

international human rights”

5. John Erni, “Who needs human rights?: Cultural

studies and instiutions”

6. Pheng Cheah (2006), “Posit(ion)ing human rights in

the current global conjuncture” Additional readings:

7. Hans Skott-Myhre & Donato Tarulli (2010),

“Immanent law and the juridical: Toward a liberative

ontology of human rights”

8. Wendy Brown (2002), “Suffering the paradoxes of

rights”

Discuss: What makes a

“human rights violation”?

24/2 What is “Recognition

Justice”?: On ICCPR

9. Full text of ICCPR (International Covenant on Civil

and Political Rights, G.A. res. 2200A (XXI), 21 U.N.

GAOR Supp. (No. 16) at 52, U.N. Doc. A/6316 (1966),

999 U.N.T.S. 171, entered into force Mar. 23, 1976.)

10. Nancy Fraser (2000), “Rethinking recognition”

11. Nancy Fraser (2005), “Reframing justice in a

globalizing world” Additional reading:

12. Clapham, Ch. 5, “Legitimate restrictions of

freedom”

Discuss: What is “hate speech”

and why is it prohibited?

* Sign up for Student-led

Presentations

3/3 What is “Distributive

Justice”?: On ICESCR

13. Full text of ICESCR (International Covenant on

Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, G.A. res. 2200A

(XXI), 21 U.N.GAOR Supp. (No. 16) at 49, U.N. Doc.

A/6316 (1966), 993 U.N.T.S. 3, entered into force Jan.

3, 1976.)

14. Clapham, Ch. 7, “Food, education, health, housing,

and work”

Discuss: What is a “human

rights film”?

View: Tammy Cheung’s

documentaries

10/3 Can a Harbour have

Rights?

15. Winston Chu, ‘Legal control of harbour

reclamation’

16. Various articles by Friends of the Harbour

A Moot Court debate

17. Summary of Court judgments on Victoria Harbour

reclamation cases

17/3 Legal Hegemony,

Legal Pluralism

18. Rosemary Coombe (2001), “Is there a cultural

studies of law?”

19. Gary Wickham (2002), “Foucault and law”

20. Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2002), “Legal plurality

and the time-spaces of law” Additional readings:

21. Anne-Marie Slaughter (2004), “Judges:

Constructing a global legal system”

22. Julie Mertus (1999), “From Legal Transplants to

Transformative Justice: Human Rights and the Promise

of Transnational Civil Society”

View & Discuss: a Dialogue

between Noam Chomsky and

Michel Foucault

24/3

What’s Wrong with

Human Rights?: The

Case of Rwanda

23. Friedrich Kubler (1998), “How much freedom for

racist speech? Transnational aspects of a conflict of

human rights”

24. Leszlie L. Green (2002), “Gender hate propaganda

and sexual violence in the Rwandan genocide: An

argument for intersectionality in international law”

Additional reading:

25. David Kennedy (2002), “The International Human

RightsMovement: Part of the Problem?”

View & Discuss:

Ghosts of

Rwanda(2004); Hotel

Rwanda(2004)

31/3

NO CLASS- PROF ERNI

WILL BE AWAY FOR A

CONFERENCE

7/4 Women’s Rights and

CEDAW

26. Full text of CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination

of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, G.A.

res. 34/180, 34 U.N. GAOR Supp. (No. 46) at 193, U.N.

Doc. A/34/46, entered into force Sept. 3, 1981.)

27. Katherine M. Franke (2002), “Putting sex to work”

Additional reading:

28. Madhavi Sunder (2003), “Piercing the veil”

View & Discuss: The Good

Woman of Bangkok (1991)

14/4 Gay, Lesbian, and

Transsexual Rights

29. Michael O’Flaherty & John Fisher (2008), “ Sexual

orientation, gender identity and international human

rights law: Contextualising the Yogyakarta Principles”

Discuss: The “Billy Leung” and

‘W’ Cases in HK

30. Robyn Emerton (2007), “Finding a voice, fighting

for rights: The emergence of the transgender

movement in Hong Kong”

31. HK Court of First Instance (2010), “W v. Registrar of

Marriages”

Additional readings:

32. John Erni (2010), “A man and a woman: Really?”

33. Josephine Ho (2007), “Embodying gender:

Transgender body-subject formations in Taiwan”

21/4

28/4

5/5

12/5

Student-led

Presentations

21/4: TBA

28/4: TBA

5/5: TBA

12/5: TBA

CUS512 : Topics in Cultural Representation and Interpretation No. of Credits/Term : 3



Category in Major

Prog.

: Elective course




Brief Course

Description

: This elective course takes the production of meaning and ideology as a fundamental issue in

Cultural Studies. Through case studies, it examines how specific forms of representation

help shape and reconstruct aspects of our social reality, our experience of the world, and

indeed our view of others and of ourselves. Students will analyze the modes of cultural

production involved, and attempt to understand how cultural practices generate, fix and

deliver meaning for us in particular social contexts. The question of interpretation will be

raised in relation to the generic formation of the “Text’ at issue, so that we can approach the

plurality of textual functions and effects in terms of the contextual issues involved.

Aims : To deepen students’ understanding of representation as the basic critical concept in

Cultural Studies by way of topics and cases selected from a wide range of social and

generic contexts;

To familiarize students with the critical scholarship needed for understanding

aspects of social life through two fundamental categories in Cultural Studies –

representation and interpretation.


raise meaningful questions in the area of cultural representation and interpretation

with clear and precise formulation;

identify alternative systems of thought in the area of cultural representation and

interpretation, and recognize and assess, as need be, their assumptions,

implications, and practical consequences.

Indicative Content : Issues in the area of cultural representation and interpretation will be selected and

discussed. Specific content may vary year from year.


Measurement of

Learning Outcomes



raise relevant and critical questions (with respect to the topics of the course) with


critically review the assumptions of existing discourses on the subject matters of the

course.

Assessment : 100% continuous assessment, including class discussion, presentation and a term project.







Course title : CUS512L : Selected topics in Cultural Representation and Interpretation: Comparative Study

of Latin America and Contemporary China

拉丁美洲與當代中國發展經驗比較

Course Description

In this course on a comparative study of Latin America and contemporary China, historical

and global perspectives will be employed to discuss the capitalist crisis that induced the

second world war, and Latin American society, politics, economics and cultures in the post-

world war and post-cold war era. This will be compared to the development experience of

contemporary China in an endeavour to reflect on the crises and alternatives of

modernization.


Indicative Content : Issues in the area of cultural representation and interpretation will be selected and discussed:

1. Statism, mercantilism and the colonial history of Latin

America;

2. Dirty war, economic development, revolutionary movements, and resistance

cultures;

3. Alternative theories and practices, including liberation theology, Bolivarism,

indigenous cosmo-visions, ALBA, Southern Bank and monetary policies, the Zapatista

movement, MST, alternative currencies and solidarity economies;

4. Development experience of China in the context of global capitalism, environmental

and energy crises, the rural question, urban-rural interaction, institutional poverty

and structural poverty, and resistance and revolution.

Required Readings: Galeano, Educardo: The Open Veins of Latin America

Dai Jinhua and Lau Kin Chi (ed). The Writings of Sub-Commander Marcos.

Wen Tiejun: “Institutional Poverty and China Experience”

Wen Tiejun: Deconstructing Modernization

Films: Che, A Legend

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Zapatistas: Chronicle of a Rebellion

2010-11 Term 2, Class Schedule (tentative)

Lecturers: Professor Wen Tiejun (WTJ) and Dr. Lau Kin-chi (LKC)

Monday classes: Room GE101

Wednesday classes: Room SO102

Lecturer

1 LKC Jan 31（M） Introduction

课程简介

2 WTJ Feb 16（W） Diversified development of human civilization and the global crisis of

capitalism

人类文明的多样化发展与资本主义的全球危机

3 LKC Feb 21（M） 500 years of colonial history of Latin America

拉丁美洲被切开的血管

4 WTJ Feb 28（M） Four industrializations of China in the last century

百年中国，一波四折

5 WTJ Mar 2 (W) China’s experience in the last 60 years（1）

当代中国 60 年四次引进外资和八次危机（一）

6 WTJ Mar 7（M） China’s experience in the last 60 years（2）

当代中国 60 年四次引进外资和八次危机（二）

7 WTJ Mar 9 (W) Ecological civilization and urban-rural interactions in China

中国的生态文明与城乡统筹

8 WTJ Mar 14 (M) Rural regeneration of China

乡土中国的复兴：乡村建设与乡村治理

9 WTJ Mar 16 (W) Regionalism in Latin America: politics and economics

拉丁美洲国家的区域整合

10 WTJ/LKC Mar 21 (M) Latin American experience 1: MST

拉丁美洲个案 1：巴西的无地农民运动

11 WTJ/LKC Mar 23 (W) Latin American experience 2: the Zapatistas

拉丁美洲个案 2：墨西哥的萨帕达运动

12 WTJ/LKC Mar 28 (M) Latin American experience 3: Bolivarism

拉丁美洲个案 3：委内瑞拉和古巴的玻利维尔运动

13 WTJ/LKC Apr 11 (M) Latin American experience 4: spirit of regeneration

拉丁美洲个案 4：秘鲁和玻利维亚的原住民运动

14 WTJ/LKC Apr 13 (W) Sustainability in China and Latin America

中国和拉丁美洲的可持续路向

[Students should submit their term papers by May 20]

CUS513 : Research Seminar : Feminism and Cultural Politics




Category in Major

Prog.

: Elective course




Brief Course

Description

: This elective course is composed of a series of seminars.

Students taking this course will be working on a common

research topic recommended or approved by the instructor.

Each student will be required to conduct library/internet

research and field work both independently and as a member of

a team, and will present research findings in a seminar, engage

in seminar commentaries and discussions, and write up a

research paper. The research topics will be on areas of work in

cultural studies related to, for example, questions of pedagogy,

journalism, popular culture, critical practice, feminism, cultural

policy, social change, or historical representation.

Aims : To train students to undertake serious research work on

a specific topic in cultural studies;

To provide a space for students to conduct research

both independently and as member of a team, under

the supervision of an instructor;

To train students to present research work in a seminar

and to master dynamic intellectual discussions and

debates, and to write up a research paper.


identify a research topic in the field of cultural studies

of significance as well as interest to themselves;

conduct systematic research work on a specific topic in

cultural studies;

present their research work in a seminar and to engage

in dynamic intellectual discussions and debates;


Indicative Content : Various issues in the field of cultural studies. Specific content

may vary year from year.


Measurement of

Learning Outcomes

: Class discussion to measure students’ ability in

identifying research topics in the field of cultural

studies of significance as well as interest to themselves;

Oral presentation to measure students’ skills in

presenting research proposal and research findings in

an academic context;

Research paper to measure students’ competency in

employing theoretical frameworks and research

methods to investigate and analyze cultural issues and

in writing up a research paper with high quality.

Assessment : 100% continuous assessment, including class discussion,

seminar presentation and a research paper.

Students shall be aware of the University regulations about

dishonest practice in course work and the possible

consequences as stipulated in the Regulations Governing

University Examinations. The Department makes it mandatory

for students to sign it for each of our courses. Every written

assignment in the same course will carry a separate declaration

form as the cover page. Please download the declaration form


Course title : CUS513E: Research Seminar : Feminism and Cultural Politics


Course description : This course deals with the cultural politics of gender and

sexuality in relation to the historical development of feminist

thought in different geo-political settings. There are two major

areas of focus. The first deals with controversial debates around

gender and sexuality as these affect women, such as the cultural

construction of gender; the body; sexual desire and orientation;

the politics of difference; production and reproduction; home

and everyday life. The second focus is on feminist interventions

in different fields of knowledge, such as science, religion,

philosophy, art and literature, language, politics, economics,

history and sociology, with particular emphasis on how gender

and sexuality shape representations and discourses on one hand

and, on the other, what role representations and discourses play

in (re)shaping meaning and value in matters of gender and

sexuality.


Lecturer: Dr. Chan Shun-hing

Teaching Dates :

28 Jan Course planning

18 Feb

Introduction: Feminism and Cultural Politics of gender

Glenn Jordan and Chris Weedon (1995): “1. Introduction: What are Cultural

Politics” and “6. Feminism and the Cultural Politics of Gender” in

Cultural Politics---Class, Gender, Race and the Postmodern World,

Oxford and Cambridge: Blackwell, 3-22;177-216.

Chan, Shun-hing (2002), “Interfacing Feminism and Cultural Studies in Hong

Kong: A Case of Everyday Life Politics” in Cultural Studies 16(5) 2002, 704-734.

Morag Shiarch (1999) ed, “Introduction”, Feminism and Cultural Studies, New

York: Oxford University Press, 1-7.

Extended readings

Rosemaire Tong (1989). Chapter 1: Liberal Feminism, Chapter 4: Radical

Feminism on Gender and Sexuality and Chapter 8: Postmodern Feminism,

Feminist Thought----A Comprehensive Introduction. London: Routledge.

Pp 11-38, 95-138, 217-233.

(中譯本: 羅思瑪莉佟恩著、刁筱華譯：第一章﹕自由主義女性主義﹔第四章

﹕基進女性主義對性別及性的看法﹔第八章﹕後現代女性主義﹐<<女性主義

思潮>>，台北:時報文化，1996，頁 19-68, 167-244, 383-417。)

25 Feb

Topic 1: Gender politics around division of labour (production, reproduction, care

etc)

Sherry Ortner: “Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?” in “Chapter 1: Women

in Culture”, Lucinda J. Peach ed (1998) Women in Culture, Oxford: Blackwell,

13-45.

方剛(2008) ﹕「西方的男性氣概研究與男性運動」﹔「香港男性運動﹕觀察與

思考」﹐<<男性研究與男性運動>>﹐濟南﹕山東人民出版社﹐1-29﹔

183-198。

Extended readings

Nancy J. Chodorow 著﹐張君玫譯﹕<<母職的再生產﹕心理分析與性別社會

學>>﹐台北﹕群學出版。

11 Mar

Topic 2: Gender and Everyday life politics (consumption, media etc)

Mica Nava (1999), “Consumerism Reconsidered----Buying and Power”, in Morag

Shiarch ed. Feminism and Cultural Studies, Oxford University Press, 45-64.

Cynthia Carter and Linda Steiner: “1. Introduction to Critical Readings: Media and

Gender” and anne Scott, Lesley Semmens and Lynette Willoughby: “12.

Women and the Internet” in Cynthia Carter and Linda Steiner (2004) eds.

Critical Readings: Media and Gender, Maidenhead: Open University Press,

1-10, 219-239.

Extended readings

Mia Consalvo: “Gender and New Media” in Bonnie J. Dow and Julia T. Wood (2006)

eds. Gender and Communication, Thousand Oaks/London/New Delhi:

SAGE Publications, 355-369.

Rebekah Willett: “Consumer Citizens Online: Structure, Agency, and Gender in

Online Participation” in David Buckingham (2008) ed. Youth, Identity, and

Digital Media, Cambridge/London: the MIT Press, 49-69.

1 April

Topic 3: Feminist literary theory and representational politics

Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar (1984). “ The Queen’s Looking Glass: Female

Creativity, Male Images of Women, and the Metaphor of Literary Paternity”.

The Madwoman in the Attic----The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-

Century Literary Imagination. New Haven and London: Yale University

Press, 3-44.

陳順馨(2007)﹕「前言﹕女性主義批評與中國當代文學研究」﹐<<中國當代文

學的敘事與性別>>(增訂版)﹐北京﹕北京大學出版社﹐9-29。

Extended readings

陳順馨(2007)﹕「當代“十七年” 小說敘事話語與性別」﹐<<中國當代文

學的敘事與性別>>(增訂版)﹐北京﹕北京大學出版社﹐1-61。

8 April

Topic 4: Feminism, history, and nation-building

Joan Wallach Scott: “Gender, A Useful Category of Historical Aanlaysis” in

Joan Wallach Scott (1996) ed. Feminism and History, Oxford/New York:

Oxford University Press, 152-180.

劉健芝：「恐懼﹑暴力﹑家國﹑女人」﹑戴錦華﹕「見證與見證人」﹑陳順

馨﹕「強暴﹑戰爭與民族主義」﹐ <<讀書>>1999年 3月﹐3-24。

Extended readings

羅蘇文(1996)﹕<<女性與近代中國社會>>﹐上海﹕上海人民出版社。

夏曉虹(2004) ﹕ <<晚清女性與近代中國>>﹐北京﹕北京大學出版社。

29 April

Project presentation and discussion 1

Leung Yin Yee (working mother and caring duties)

Siu Chiu Kit (gender roles around reproduction)

Leung Man Ching (Gender stereotypes in work place)

6 May


Yu Hsiao Min (Representation of women’s liberation in English literature)

Ho Wai Man Janet (Representation of gender in English textbooks)

Tsang On Fu Clara (Feminist reading of the Bible)

13 May


Poon Ki Chi (Gender and consumerism)

Yuen Tat Kong Xico (Gender and media)

Lau Kin Yan Andre (“Tai Ping Tian Guo” 太平天國 and feminism )

Proposal is required to submitted during course registration for subject teacher’s

consideration

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