The Ethics of Cultural StudiesEthical 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 |
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