This ambitious collection of work at the intersection of cultural studies and
contemporary political theory brings together leading thinkers from both
traditions. Challenging the terms that have shaped the last 20 years of culture
wars, the essays in Cultural Studies and Political Theory reject the accusations
of the right that everything is political and of the left that politics is
everything. They respond with an alternative, with an exploration of processes
of politicization and culturalization that asks, "what does it mean for
something to be political?"In affirming that there are different answers to this
question, the contributors to Cultural Studies and Political Theory expand
definitions of politics in