TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rowe, John Carlos
AB  - In The Cultural Politics of the New American Studies, leading American Studies scholar John Carlos Rowe responds to two urgent questions for intellectuals. First, how did neoliberal ideology use the issues of feminism, gay rights, multiculturalism, transnationalism and globalization, class mobility, religious freedom, and freedom of speech and cultural expression to justify a new -American Exceptionalism,- designed to support U.S. economic, political, military, and cultural expansion around the world in the past two decades? Second, if neoliberalism has employed successfully various cultural media, then what are the best means of criticizing its main claims and fundamental purposes? Is it possible under these circumstances to imagine a -counter-culture,- which might effectively challenge neoliberalism or is such an alternative already controlled and contained by such labels as -political correctness,- -the far left,- -radicalism,- -extremism,- even -terrorism,- which in the popular imagination refer to political and social minorities, doomed thereby to marginalization? Rowe argues that the tradition of -cultural criticism- advocated by influential public intellectuals, like Edward Said, can be adapted to the new circumstances demanded by the hegemony of neoliberalism and its successful command of new media. Yet rather than simply honoring such important predecessors as Said, we need to reconceive the role of the public intellectual as more than just an -interdisciplinary scholar- but also as a social critic able to negotiate the different media.
DO  - 10.3998/ohp.10945585.0001.001
ID  - OAPEN ID: 444373
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 804847689
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33909
KW  - american studies
KW  - neoliberal ideology
KW  - cultural criticism
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33909/1/Rowe_2012_Cultural-Politics-of-the-New-American-Studies.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33909/1/Rowe_2012_Cultural-Politics-of-the-New-American-Studies.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33909/1/Rowe_2012_Cultural-Politics-of-the-New-American-Studies.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33909/1/Rowe_2012_Cultural-Politics-of-the-New-American-Studies.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35297
PB  - Open Humanities Press
PY  - 2012
SN  - 9781607852421
TI  - The Cultural Politics of the New American Studiesnull
ER  - 
