Some thoughts regarding cultural studies acordding to Mattelart and Neveu

Abstract

This article discusses several key issues concerning the research movement known as Cultural Studies, founded during thesixties by researchers working at Birmingham School. It aims at recovering the activist and transforming potential of this group whose genealogy is depicted in a book written by Mattelard and Nevéau, in which culture is considered to be a field where a kind of tension between domination and resistance practices takes place. Some of the authors’ perspectives and notions related to the construction of the counter-hegemonic process are revisited from a critical analysis. Among others, the articulation betweenthe academic and political affairs, the value of the cultural materialism in recovering stories about struggles and resistance, the role of culture both as a material and a social productive process, and the so-called cultural turn and the importance of the civil society within which cultural and political fights occur are considered.