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.