Historia reciente de los estudios culturales

Abstract

From the 1960's, the Cultural Studies have put in the agenda a series of questions: Of what way do the social environment, the age, the gender or the ethnic identity affect the relation that the persons have with culture? How to understand the reception of the televised programs by the different publics? Do the life styles of the young people constitute new forms of resistance? Since then, they have renewed the both academic and social debate on the relations between culture and society. This article proposes to analyze more precisely the recent history of the Cultural Studies, which it begins in the 1980's with the methodological and political draft, with a generational relief, and which are translated by certain leeway, before to privilege a certain convergence. This change coincides with the internationalization of Cultural Studies, in spite of the national and continental specificities, and a rupture of the engagement of the investigators. Finally, if the Cultural Studies have deepened certain topics and have favored the emergency of others, like the Postcolonial Studies, they have fallen down in simplifications and the predilection for the market and the micro-sociology. One of the ways of going out of this impasse consists of exploring news interdisciplinarities.