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This part begins with Stuart’s retrospective assessment of the profound role played by Richard Hoggart’s work (and in particular The Uses of Literacy , which appeared in 1957) in opening up the terrain of Cultural Studies and laying the ground for much of what followed. By the time the article was …

In some quarters, this engagement with aesthetic matters in the Black Arts movement was treated as a new (or even a surprising) development. However, as Stuart explains in the interview in chapter 9 of the succeeding volume, in many ways this simply took him back to his early interest in documentar…

Naturally, this approach was cause for consternation among those of a more conventionally Marxist orientation. Colin Sparks complained that the demotion of class from its position as the “ultimate cause” and source of final determinations was a “crippling incapacity” of the more populist forms of C…

As Kuan-Hsing Chen and I have noted elsewhere, Stuart was never interested in modes of intellectual work that, in absolutist terms, present themselves as definitively superseding all that went before. 39 His concerns were always conjunctural in nature, developing in response to emerging social and …

The CCCS ’s collectively authored book Policing the Crisis (published in 1978; see chapter 12 of this volume) had identified race as a defining feature of the increasingly conservative form of authoritarian populism developed by Margaret Thatcher. Stuart then coined the term “Thatcherism” in a pres…