The Ethics of Cultural Studies

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A&C Black, May 1, 2005 - Philosophy - 176 pages
Ethical questions feature prominently on today's cultural andpolitical agendas. The Ethics of Cultural Studies presents an ethicalmanifesto for Cultural Studies, an exploration of its current ethicaland political concerns, and of its future challenges.The book is concerned with ethics in the material world, and drawson examples as diverse as cloning and genetics, asylum andimmigration, experiments in plastic surgery and in electronic anddigital art, memories of the Holocaust, September 11th, and mediarepresentations of violence and crime.The Ethics of Cultural Studies is a groundbreaking intervention thatsets the debate on ethics in cultural study, and offers an invaluablesource of ideas for students of contemporary culture.
 

Contents

1 A Users Guide to Culture Ethics and Politics
1
2 Ethics and Cultural Studies
26
3 Ethics and Moral Panics
41
4 Ethics Violence and the Media
63
5 Ethics and the Body
83
6 Ethics and National Identity
103
7 Ethics and Technology
122
8 Bioethics and cyberfeminism
138
Bibliography
159
Index
171
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Joanna Zylinska is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is the author of The Cyborg Experiments (Continuum, 2002).

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