Culture and power : a history of cultural studies / Mark Gibson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cultural studies and the concept of power -- With respect to Foucault: towards a critique of the thematics of power -- Power and the state: the peculiarities of the English revisited -- Cultural studies'before power': the first generation --'A whole way of conflict': the turn to power -- The sociological encounter:'power' at Birmingham -- A continuing tension: the unresolved politics of cultural studies --'An impossible politics to live': gender, race and the calculus of oppression -- The trans-Atlantic passage:'power' in America -- The shoals of banality: living with the concept of power -- Beyond power? The'new pluralism' and the turn to ethics -- Orientalism and occidentalism:'power' in international cultural studies -- Conclusion: reconfiguring cultural studies.