Kirjahaku

The contemporary fields of the study of culture, the humanities and the social sciences are unfolding in a dynamic constellation of cultural turns. This book provides a comprehensive overview of these theoretically and methodologically groundbreaking reorientations. It discusses the value of the new focuses and their analytical categories for the work of a wide range of disciplines. In addition to chapters on the interpretive, performative, reflexive, postcolonial, translational, spatial and iconic turns, it discusses emerging directions of research.Drawing on a wealth of international research, this book maps central topics and approaches in the study of culture and thus provides systematic impetus for changed disciplinary and transdisciplinary research in the humanities and beyond – e.g., in the fields of sociology, economics and the study of religion.This work is the English translation by Adam Blauhut of an influential German book that has now been completely revised. It is a stimulating example of a cross-cultural translation between different theoretical cultures and also the first critical synthesis of cultural turns in the English-speaking world.

Der cultural turn in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften hat in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten eine umfangreiche Forschung auf den Weg gebracht. Die Kulturwissenschaften bilden dabei ein ausdifferenziertes und höchst dynamisches Spannungsfeld, das sich gerade durch vielfältige cultural turns auszeichnet. Der Band will die jeweiligen "Wenden" in ihren systematischen Fragestellungen, ihren Erkenntnisumbrüchen, aber auch in ihren konkreten Forschungsfeldern aus der Sicht der verschiedenen Disziplinen reflektieren und zusammenfassend darstellen.