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class=\"wp-block-group p { text-align: justify; } has-border-color has-global-padding is-content-justification-center is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-color:#752121;border-width:1px;border-radius:15px\">\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap p { text-align: justify; } has-global-color-3-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-be50be398287aa0782b45871a4e67a8a wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-top:0;padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:0;padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.488), 18px);font-style:normal;font-weight:400\"><strong>At a time of competing emergencies, unheralded opportunities, anxious futures, and in a world that is more culturally informed than ever it was, we insist on the urgency of cultural analysis.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap p { text-align: justify; } has-global-color-3-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-67ee4b7ee8e58f31598001a4d6c88d6e wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:0;padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.488), 18px);font-style:normal;font-weight:400\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-global-color-3-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-67db65ba0bec7fe00c2f6af2bb6fea3e wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:0;padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.488), 18px);font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Culture, for us, is everyday meaning-making and expression. It is the habits, beliefs, traumas, hopes, fears, energies, moods, atmospheres and desires through which we all live. Culture is how we experience and interpret the world. It is the substance through which we orient our daily lives and out of which we grapple with the past and cast out into the future. Culture is also built of relations, to each other, to and between objects, and with the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-global-color-3-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f732e7d07354117cf80304551956c221 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:0;padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.488), 18px);font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">The <em>Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies<\/em> is dedicated to a politically nuanced and methodologically innovative study of culture. We specialise in exploratory forms of cultural analysis. These can be centred on the study of the poetics of cultural phenomena or an engagement with their social, political and historical contexts, and often both together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-global-color-3-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d4bfa8774b24638d314b9cabc5298dbe wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:0;padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.488), 18px);font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">We work with social and aesthetic forms of culture and attend to them in a capacious manner. For example, we study food, youth and city cultures, the everydayness of digital life, intersectional formations, sonic and digital landscapes, feelings and fashion, atmospheres and demonstrations, playgrounds and prisons. We could go on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-global-color-3-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c2a78bf1568886c5ef5c10d76f10c20e wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:0;padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.488), 18px);font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">We are still inspired by the tradition of cultural studies and their political underpinnings, as exemplified in the work of Stuart Hall and others, and we are always intrigued by the innovations that cultural studies continues to provide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-global-color-3-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-866d0d9966837f6d6494620e5635a846 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:0;padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.488), 18px);font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">We recognise that the social is undergoing processes of reconfiguration and that the complexity of speeds and scales of the world requires being as sensitive to the discordant and the messy as to what appears to fit neatly within an analytic frame. We understand culture as central to these reconfigurations, and we defend the vitality of cultural studies accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-global-color-3-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-766e2b8380a0f1c9b1799139a4a5dab3 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:0;padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.488), 18px);font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">In our study, we value flexibility and nimbleness as much as thoroughness and rigour in developing our explanatory analyses and political philosophies. We are deeply attracted to finding new approaches to the questions culture poses, and to the ideas and terms that have been remaindered by previous forms of critical theory. We haven\u2019t given up thinking about totality, universality, difference, experience, and existence. And we certainly haven\u2019t given up on thinking about justice. But we think about such things not as abstract entities but as grounded theoretical and substantive responses to the material, sensually specific, social practices of culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-global-color-3-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c0cd6e413d4dd3a606daf2f7df64e0d9 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:0;padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.488), 18px);font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">This is reflected in the methodologies we use to capture the nuances inherent in the study of culture. These include ethnographic, autoethnographic, archival, artistic, literary, multi-scalar and formalist approaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-global-color-3-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7d04761b4c40a76a98ece8b59c6145fd wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:0;padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.488), 18px);font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Last but not least, we hope to provide a convivial context for the study and analysis of culture. At a time of dislocation and competition we maintain a mutualist ethos in which academic staff, students and researchers of culture can work collectively, and in which we use the resources of the centre, to support one another in that endeavour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left p { text-align: justify; } has-global-color-3-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-404cd53824633933ce2eca86325a738d wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-top:0;padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:0;padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.488), 18px);font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">We invite researchers interested in participating in the centre to <a href=\"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/contact\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"665\">contact us<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" src=\"http:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/files\/2024\/11\/cropped-UntiState-cultural-Analysis-ICON.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41\" style=\"width:140px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/files\/2024\/11\/cropped-UntiState-cultural-Analysis-ICON.jpg 512w, https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/files\/2024\/11\/cropped-UntiState-cultural-Analysis-ICON-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/files\/2024\/11\/cropped-UntiState-cultural-Analysis-ICON-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/files\/2024\/11\/cropped-UntiState-cultural-Analysis-ICON-230x230.jpg 230w, https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/files\/2024\/11\/cropped-UntiState-cultural-Analysis-ICON-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/files\/2024\/11\/cropped-UntiState-cultural-Analysis-ICON-480x480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/files\/2024\/11\/cropped-UntiState-cultural-Analysis-ICON-270x270.jpg 270w, https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/files\/2024\/11\/cropped-UntiState-cultural-Analysis-ICON-192x192.jpg 192w, https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/files\/2024\/11\/cropped-UntiState-cultural-Analysis-ICON-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/files\/2024\/11\/cropped-UntiState-cultural-Analysis-ICON-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a time of competing emergencies, unheralded opportunities, anxious futures, and in a world that is more culturally informed than ever it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-587","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279,"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/587\/revisions\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}