CUS501 Perspectives in Cultural Studies Instructor: Mr

Course Plan for 2008-09

Places on elective and core courses will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis but priorities will be given to second year students.

First term (1 September 2008 to 8 December 2008)

Core Courses:

CUS501 Perspectives in Cultural Studies Instructor: Mr. Ma Kwok Ming

Time: Saturday/2:30 – 5:30 pm Venue: SO 102, Social Sciences Building, Lingnan University (Tuen Mun)

Language of Instruction : Chinese (Cantonese) and English

CUS503 Pedagogy and Cultural Studies Instructors: Dr. Hui Shiu-lun and Dr. Lau Kin-chi

Time: Saturday/2:30-5:30pm Venue: GE 101, B.Y.Lam Building, Lingnan University (Tuen Mun)

Language of Instruction : Chinese (Cantonese) and English

Elective Courses:

CUS511G Selected Topics in Cultural Institution and Policy : Politics as Cultural Practices

Instructors: Dr. Law Wing Sang, Dr. Hui Po Keung and Dr. Ip Iam Chong

Quota: 30 Time: Wednesday/6:45-9:45pm Venue: LR2, Hong Kong Island Education Centre (North Point) Language of Instruction : Chinese (Cantonese) and English

CUS512G Selected Topics in Cultural Representation and Interpretation : Music as Cultural Text

Instructor: Dr. Li Siu Leung

Quota: 30 Time: Thursday/6:45-9:45pm Venue: SO 201, Social Sciences Building, Lingnan University (Tuen Mun) Language of Instruction : Chinese (Cantonese) and English

CUS513C Research Seminar:Hong Kong’s Urban Future

Instructor: Mr. Ma Kwok Ming Quota: 10

Time: Saturaday/11:00a.m -1:00pm (7 lessons) Venue: GE321, B. Y. Lam Building, Lingnan University (Tuen Mun) **For CUS513C, one-page proposal is required to submit together with this course registration form for subject teacher's reference.** Language of Instruction : Chinese (Cantonese) and English

~~~~~~Mid-term reading week: 1 to 7 October 2008~~~~~~

Second term (31 January 2009 to 16 May 2009)

Core Courses:

CUS505 Methods in Cultural Research Instructors: Dr. Hui Po-keung, Dr. Law Wing Sang and Dr. Cheng Wai Pang

Time: Saturday/2:30 – 5:30 pm Venue: SO102, Lingnan University (Tuen Mun)

Language of Instruction : Chinese (Cantonese)

CUS502 Critical Thinking through Popular Culture Instructors: Professor Stephen Chan and guest speakers

Time: Saturday/2:30 – 5:30 pm Venue: GE101, Lingnan University (Tuen Mun)

Language of Instruction : Chinese (Cantonese) and English

Elective Courses:

CUS507 Feminism and Cultural Politics Instructor: Professor Dai Jiuhua and Dr. Chan Shun Hing Quota: 30

Time: Wednesday/6:45-9:45pm Venue: GE101, Lingnan University (Tuen Mun) Language of Instruction : Chinese (Putonghua and Cantonese)

CUS511H Selected Topics in Cultural Institution and Policy : Cultural Studies, Law and

Human Rights Instructor: Professor John Erni

Quota: 30 Time: Thursday/6:45-9:45pm Venue: LR2, Hong Kong Island Education Centre (North Point) Language of Instruction : English

CUS512K Selected Topics in Cultural Representation and Interpretation : The legacies of the 20th century - - Revisiting “The Sixties”

Instructors: Professor Dai Jiuhua and Dr. Lau Kin Chi

Quota: 30 Time: Monday and Friday/6:45-9:45pm (2 Feb, 9 Feb, 20 Feb to 3 April) Venue: GE101, Lingnan University (Tuen Mun) Language of Instruction : Chinese (Putonghua)

~~~~~~Mid-term reading week: 16 to 19 March 2009~~~~~~

Summer term (13 June 2009 to 11 July 2009)

Elective Course:

CUS510C Workshop in Cultural Practice : Transformance Workshop

Instructor: Mr. Dan Baron Cohen Quota: 30 Time: Saturday and Sunday/2:00-8:30p.m(13, 20, 27, 28 June, 4 and 11 July) Venue: 1) Leung Fong Oi Wan Art Gallery (Please refer to campus map, No.2), 2/F, Main Building

on 3, 20, 27 and 28 June

2) Student Activities Center (Please refer to campus map, No. 18d) at Multi-purpose Outdoor Sports Ground Function rooms on 4 and 11 July For details of venue, please refer to the campus map http://www.ln.edu.hk/info-about/map/campusmap.pdf Language of Instruction : English

Course Title : Perspectives in Cultural Studies Course Code : CUS501 No. of : 3 Credits/Term Mode of Tuition : Lecture and tutorial Class Contact : 3 hours per week Hours Category in Major : Core course Prog. Prerequisite(s) : None Co-requisite(s) : None Exclusion(s); : None Brief Course : This course provides an overview of the key themes, concepts, theories and issues in Description cultural studies. It introduces students to the origins and foundational concerns of cultural studies as an academic discipline and an intellectual practice; examines selected critical notions and problems with reference to specific contexts; and look at the work of cultural studies in relation to social, historical and institutional conditions. The course also addresses such issues as the role of theory and analysis in the practice of cultural

studies, the relevance of cultural studies for government and public cultures, as well as the constraints and possibilities cultural studies workers face today in their divergent attempts to engage themselves on location in critical projects of our time. Aims :  To introduce the basic aims and perspectives of cultural studies as an academic discipline and as an intellectual practice;

 To look at different dimensions of culture and acquaint students with a range of issues addressed by cultural studies;

 To provide insight into the complex nature of the relation between the cultural field and the social and economic spheres.

Learning Outcomes : On completion of the course, students will be able to:

 understand the specific concerns and the general intellectual climate leading to the formation of cultural studies as a discipline;  explain the intricate relationship between culture and socio-economic changes;  discuss with examples a range of critical issues addressed in the major perspectives of Cultural Studies;  demonstrate their understanding of Cultural Studies as an engaged study of culture and the impact such a study can have on society.

Indicative Content :  The concept of culture and the intellectual trajectories of cultural studies;  The implications of the “cultural turn” in contemporary societies;  The culture of everyday life and the question of identity.  Cultural Studies as an engaged study of culture in the local social and disciplinary contexts

Teaching Method : Lectures deliver key issues and an outline of main debates and concerns; tutorial groups allow students to discuss topics in the local contexts. The weekly 3-hour session will consist of lecture (90 min.) and a seminar discussion period (75 min.). Students are required to present their views on designated topics and to actively participate in the seminar discussion after the lecture. Measurement of : 1. Students participation in class (including presentations and the ensuing discussions) Learning Outcomes demonstrate how well they understand the overall intellectual concerns of Cultural Studies, its specific conceptual framework, and the intricate relationship between culture and socio-economic changes.

2. Students’ Term Paper shows how effectively they can present the analysis of a series of inter-related issues addressed by particular viewpoints in Cultural Studies. Assessment : 100% continuous assessment based on participation in class participation, class presentation and the completion of a term paper.

Class presentation (30%) Term paper (70%)

Please note: Students shall be aware of the University regulations about dishonest practice in course work and the possible consequences as stipulated in the Regulations Governing University Examinations.

Required Readings:

Bennett, Tony. Culture: A Reformer's Science, London: Sage, 1998. Grossberg, Lawrence, Cary Nelson, and Paula Treichler eds. Cultural Studies, London and New York: Routledge, 1992. Recommended Readings: Adamson, Walter L. Hegemony and Revolution:Antonio Gramsci’s Political and Cultural Theory. Berkeley and Los Angeles. University of California Press, 1980. Aldridge, Alan. Consumption. Cambridge, Polity Press, 2003. Bauman, Zygmunt. ‘From Pilgrim to Tourist-or a Short History of Identity’ In Questions of Cultural Identity. Eds. Stuart Hall & Paul du Gay. London, Thousand Oaks & New Delhi: SAGE, 1996, pp.18-36. Bennett, Tony. The Birth of the Museum. London: Routledge, 1995. Butler, Judith. ‘Critically Queer.’ In Playing With Fire: Queer Politics, Queer Theories. Ed. Shane Phelan. New York & London: Routledge, 1997, pp. 11-29. Chan, Ching-kiu. ‘Building Cultural Studies for Postcolonial Hong Kong: Aspects of the Postmodern Ruins in between Disciplines.’ In Cultural Studies: Interdisciplinarity and Translation. Ed. Stefan Herbrechter, for Critical Studies vol. 20 (Gen. Ed. Miriam Diaz-Diocaretz), Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2002, pp. 217-237. Also published as《從文學到文化研究：香港的視角》‘From Literary to Cultural Studies: A Hong Kong Perspective’ (in Chinese). In Methodologies: Routes of Research on Literature. Ed. Han-Liang Chang. Taipei: National Taiwan Univ. Pr., pp. 283-315. A slightly different version appears as《在廢墟中築造文化研究：並論當代大學教育的頹敗形式與意義》in the special issue on University, E+E, vol. 6, 2003, 10-22. Crawford, Margaret. ‘The World in a Shopping Mall’ in Miles, Malcolm & Hall, Tim eds, The City Cultures Reader, London, Routledge, 1992. pp. 125-140 Davis, Ioan. Cultural Studies and Beyond. London: Routledge, 1995. de Certeau, Michel. ‘“Making Do”: Uses and Tactics,’ ‘Foucault and Bourdieu,’ The Practice of Everyday Life. Trans. Steven F. Rendall. Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press, 1984, pp. 29-42, 45-60. During, Simon. Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction. London, Routledge, 2005. Eagleton, Terry. Marxism and Literary Criticism. London: Methuen Co. Ltd, 1976. Eagelton, Terry. “Culture Conundrum” Guardian, 21 May, 2008. Edwards, Tim. Contradictions of Consumption: Concepts, Practices and Politics in Consumer Society. Buckingham, Open University Press, 2000. Fiske, John. ‘Shopping for Pleasure: Malls, Power and Resistance’ in The Consumer Society. Eds. Juliet B. Schor and Douglas B. Holt. New York, The New Press. 1989, pp 306-328. Fiske, John. ‘Cultural Studies and the Culture of Everyday Life.’ In Cultural Studies. Eds. Lawrence Grossberg et al. New York & London: Routledge, 1992, pp. 154-173. Flew, Terry. ‘Creativity, the “New Humanism” and Cultural Studies.’ Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol. 18, no. 2, 2004, 161-178. Frow, John. Marxism and Literary History. Oxford. Blackwell, 1986. Gramsci, Antonio. Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci. Eds. and trans. Quintin Hoare & Geoffrey Nowell Smith. London: Lawrence & Wishart. Extracts on the subaltern/subordinate/instrumental class, 1973. Grossberg, Lawrence. ‘Identity and Cultural Studies: Is That All There Is?’ In Questions of Cultural Identity. Eds. Stuart Hall & Paul du Gay. London, Thousand Oaks & New Delhi: SAGE, 1996, pp. 87-107. Guha, Ranajit. “Preface,’ ‘On Some Aspects of the Historiography of Colonial India,’ ‘A note on the terms “elite”, “people”, “subaltern”, etc. as used above.’ In Selected Subaltern Studies. Eds. Ranajit Guha & Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Oxford & New York: Oxford University , Press, pp. 36-44. Also extracts from ‘The Prose of Counter-Insurgency,’ pp. 45-88, 1988. Hall, Stuart (1990) “Cultural Identity and Diaspora” in Jonathan Rutherford ed., Identity: Community, Culture, Difference. London, Lawrence & Wishart, 1990, pp 222-239. Hall, Stuart. “Cultural Studies and Its Theoretical Legacies” In Cultural Studies. Eds. Lawrence Grossberg et al. New York & London: Routledge, 1992, pp.277-294. Hall, Stuart. ‘Who Needs “Identity”?’ In Questions of Cultural Identity. Eds. Stuart Hall & Paul du Gay. London, Thousand Oaks & New Delhi: SAGE, 1996, pp. 1-17. Hall, Stuart. “Whose Heritage? Unsettling ‘the Heritage’, Re-imagining the Post Nation” in The Third Text Reader on Art, Culture and Theory. Eds. Rasheed Araeen, Sean Cubitt & Ziauddin Sardar. London, Continuum, 2002, pp 72-84. Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity. Cambridge MA & Oxford. Blackwell, 1990. Hesmondhalgh, David. The Cultural Industries. London, Sage Publications, 2002. Hetherington, Kevin. Expressions of Identity. London, Sage Publications, 1988. Horkheimer, Max & Adorno, Theodor W. Dialectic of Enlightenment. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2002. Inglis, Fred. Culture. Cambridge. Polity Press, 2004. Jameson, Fredric. The Cultural Turn. London. Vers, 1998. Jameson, Fredric. “On ‘Cultural Studies’” in Social Text, No.33, Durham, Duke University Press, 1993. MacCannell, Juliet Flower. ‘Part I: The Theory and History of the Regime of the Brother,’ The Regime of the Brother: After the Patriarchy. New York & London: Routledge, pp. 9-42, 19XX. McGuigan, Jim. Culture and the Public Sphere. London: Routledge, 1996. Miliband, Ralph. Class Power & State Power. London: Verso, 1983. Mulhern, Francis. Culture/Metaculture. London: Routledge, 2000. Philips, Anne. ‘Fraternity,’ ‘So What’s Wrong with the Individual?’ Democracy and Difference, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1993, pp. 23-54. Rutherford, Jonathan. “A Place Called Home: Identity and the Cultural Politics of Difference” in Jonathan Rutherford ed., Identity: Community, Culture, Difference. London, Lawrence & Wishart, 1993, pp. 9-27. Said, Edward. ‘Representations of the Intellectual,’ in Representations of the Intellectual: the 1993 Reith Lectures, London: Vintage, 1994, pp. 3-18. Scott, James C. Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1990. Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’ In Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. Eds. Lawrence Grossberg and Cary Nelson. Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1988, pp. 271-316. Taylor, Charles. Multiculturalism. New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1994. Turner, Graeme. British Cultural Studies. London, Routledge, 2003. Urry, John. The Tourist Gaze. London, Sage Publications, 1990. Williams, Raymond. Marxism and Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977.

Young, Iris Marion. Justice and the Politics of Difference. New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1990. 2008-09 Term 1, Class Schedule

6/9/2008 Introductory Lecture: The Peculiarity of Cultural Studies as a Discipline (Bennett 1998, 1-8, 17-21, 27-30; During 1-18; Jameson 1993)

Part I: Intellectual Trajectory of Cultural Studies 13/9/2008 The Emergence of British Cultural Studies I: The Cold War and the New Left (Davis, 30-63; Eagleon (2008); Mulhern, 49-73; Turner, 33-68)

20/9/2008 The Emergence of British Cultural Studies II: Marxism and Literary Studies (Hall, 1992; Miliband, 3-25; Williams, 75-100)

27/9/2008 Cultural Studies & Hong Kong Society(Chan) Discussion: The Peculiarity of Hong Kong

[1/10/2008 – 7/10/2008 reading week]

Part II: The Present Historical Juncture 11/10/2008 Regime Change in Contemporary Capitalism: From Fordism to Post-Fordism (Aldridge, 28- 52; Davis, 139-155; Harvey, 141-172)

18/10/2008 Impacts of Regime Change I: The Cultural Turn in the Economy(Harvey, 284-307; McGuigan, 81-94) Discussion: Viewing the Regime Change in Hong Kong

25/10/2008 Impacts of Regime Change II: Cultural Industries and the Commodification of Culture (Horkheimer & Adorno, 94-136; Hesmondhalgh, 15-24) Discussion: The Cultural Industries of Hong Kong

Part III: Topics of Cultural Studies 1/1102008 The Aestheticization of Consumption and the Pitfalls of Consumer Society (Aldridge, 86-109; Crawford; Edwards, 106-127; Fiske, 1989)

8/11/2008 Urban Redevelopment as Politics of Memory (Hall 2002; Urry 1-16, 124-140) Discussion: Hong Kong Cityscape & Hong Kong Culture 15/11/2008 Cultural Studies and The Culture of Everyday Life (de Certeau, 29-42, 45-60; Fiske, 1992) Discussion: The Politics of Everyday Life: The Case of Hong Kong

22/11/2008 Identity and the Politics of Difference (Hall 1996; Rutherford; Young, 156- 191)

Part IV: Conclusion 29/11/2008 Conclusion I

6/12/2008 Conclusion II

Course Title : Pedagogy and Cultural Studies Course Code : CUS503 No. of Credits/Term : 3 Mode of Tuition : Lecture Class Contact Hours : 3 hours per week Category in Major Prog. : Core course Prerequisite(s) : None Co-requisite(s) : None Exclusion(s); : None Brief Course Description : This core course will question the ‘ordinary’ ways we learn to see, speak, know and experience things; that is, how we learn to behave both as subjects of our own actions and when we are subjected to the actions of others. Theoretical approaches in cultural studies to pedagogical processes formative of the person will be introduced to open up familiar aspects of our behaviour for critical discussion. These include language, memory, experience, culture, technology, knowledge, identity, and power. On the practical side, the course will examine how education as an institutional practice works to perpetuate established power relations. It will also examine how a ‘decolonizing’ approach to pedagogy can bring together learning experiences that are normally excluded or marginalized in formal education. The history and practice of education in Hong Kong will be the main focus of students’ investigations. Aims : 1. To introduce theoretical approaches in cultural studies to pedagogical processes; 2. To introduce transformative models and practices of pedagogy to students; 3. To enable students to analyze existing educational practices in Hong Kong.

Learning Outcomes : On completion of this course, students will be able to: 1. reflect on the formative processes of subjectivity and appreciate the pedagogical process as a process of interactional relationships; 2. reflect on the underlying assumptions and structures of modern development; 3. demonstrate a critical attitude towards pedagogy in education, social work and cultural work. Indicative Content : 1. Rethinking education with theoretical insights from cultural studies; 2. Issues of language and discourse; politics of representation; critical literacy; knowledge and power relations; culture and experience; 3. Existing pedagogical practices in Hong Kong; 4. Case studies of alternative practices in decolonizing education. Teaching Method : 1. Lectures provide a conceptual frame for understanding pedagogical processes in the formation of subjectivity, and deal with conceptual works on education, development, and alternatives. 2. Students’ presentations on theoretical texts will demonstrate their ability to grasp conceptual works as well as rethink their own pedagogical experiences. 3. Term papers are individual endeavours proposed by students and discussed during tutorials and consultation sessions; the rewriting of two drafts of the paper will enable students to improve on their presentations after taking in critical comments from the teachers and fellow students. Measurement of Learning Outcomes : 1. Students’ presentations on theoretical texts will demonstrate their ability to discuss among themselves to examine given topics on culture and pedagogy; 2. In the term project, through individual work, students will demonstrate how well they have reexamined their own pedagogical experiences against the social and political setting of Hong Kong. Assessment : Students are assessed on the basis of 100% Continuous Assessmentwith the following grade distribution: Participation in Class Discussion [15%] Group presentation on readings [25%] First draft of term paper………… [25%] Final version of term paper [35%]

Required Readings:

Apffel-Marglin, Frederique with PRATEC eds. The Spirit of Regeneration: Andean Culture Confronting Western Notions of Development. London and New York: Zed, 1998. Bowers, C.A. Educating for Eco-Justice and Community. Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2001. Dean, Mitchell. Governmentality: Power and Rule in Modern Society. London: Sage, 1999. McCarthy, E. Doyle. Knowledge as Culture: New Sociology of Knowledge. London and New York: Routledge, 1996.

Recommended Readings:

黑柳徹子. 《窗邊的小荳荳》朱曉蘭譯. 台北市 : 新潮社, 2002 黑柳彻子.《小時候就在想的事》海口：南海, 2004. 山中康裕.《哈利波特與神隱少女》臺北:心靈工坊, 2006. Babiana 學生.《給老師的信》香港:進一步,2005. 程介明.《政治變動中的香港教育》. 香港: 牛津大學出版社,1995. 陳曉蕾.《教育改革由一個夢想開始》. 香港: 明窗出版社,2000. 大江健三郎.《為什麼孩子要上學》.台北: 時報, 2002.

Adam, Barbara. Timescapes of Modernity: the Environment and Invisible Hazards. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. Badheka, Gijubhai. Divasvapna: an Educator’s Reverie. Tr, Chittaranjan Pathak. New Delhi: National Book Trust. 1990. Bar On, Bat-Ami and Ann Ferguson eds. Daring to be Good: Essays in Feminist Ethico-Politics. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. Bender, Gretchen and Timothy Druckrey eds. Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology. Seattle: Bay, 1994. Conley, Verena Andermatt. Ecopolitics: the Environment in Poststructuralist Thought. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. Cummins, Jim and Dennis Sayers. Brave New Schools: Challenging Cultural Illiteracy through Global Learning Networks. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. Donald, James. Sentimental Education: Schooling, Popular Culture, and the Regulation of Liberty. London, NY: Verso, 1992. Feenberg, Andrew and Alastair Hannay eds. (1995): Technology and the Politics of Knowledge. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University, 1995. Freire, Paulo and Ira Shor. A Pedagogy for Liberation: Dialogues on Transforming Education. South Hadley, Mass : Bergin & Garvey Publishers, 1987. Gane, Mike and Terry Johnson eds. (1993): Foucault’s New Domains. London and New York: Routledge, 1993. Giroux, Henry A Stealing Innocence: Corporate Culture’s War on Children. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Giroux, Henry A. and Patrick Shannon eds. (1997): Education and Cultural Studies: Toward a Performative Practice.London and New York: Routledge, 1997. Giroux, Henry, Colin Lankshear, Peter McLaren and Michael Peters (1996): Counternarratives: Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogies in Postmodern Spaces. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. Gordon, Colin ed. Power / Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-77 by Michel Foucaul., New York: Pantheon Books, 1980. Harvey, Penelope and Peter Gow eds. (1994): Sex and Violence: Issues in Representation and Experience. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. Hernandez, Adriana Pedagogy, Democracy and Feminism: Rethinking the Public Sphere. Albany: State University of New York, 1997. Hooks, bell. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. NY: Routledge, 1994. Kumar, Satish ed. The Schumacher Lectures. London: Blond and Briggs, 1980. Leeson, Lynn Hershman ed. Clicking In: Hot Links to a Digital Culture. Seattle: Bay, 1996. Long, Norman and Ann Long eds. Battlefields of Knowledge: The Interlocking of Theory and Practice in Social Research and Development. London and New York: Rouledge, 1992. McLaren, Peter and Peter Leonard eds. Paulo Freire: A Critical Encounter. London and New York: Routledge, 1993. Morley, David and KH Chen eds. Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. Popkewitz, Thomas S, Barry M. Franklin, and Miguel A. Pereyra eds. Cultural History and Education: Critical Essays on Knowledge and Schooling. London and New York: Routledge Falmer, 2001. Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Vintage, 1994. Schumacher, E.F. Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered. London: Vintage, 1973. Williams, Raymond The Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformists. London: Verso, 1989. Wirzbe, Norman ed. The Art of the Commonplace: the Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry. Washington D.C.: Shoemaker and Hoard, 2002. Website for books on education: www.arvindguptatoys.com 2008-09 Term 1, Class Schedule

6/9/2008 Introduction: Pedagogy and Cultural Studies 13/9/2008 I. Experience of learning (Divasvapna (Daydreaming);《窗边的小豆豆》) 20/9/2008 (Danger School; How Children Fail) 27/9/2008 II. Critical perspectives of knowledge Institutionally validated knowledge (Introduction, Chapter 1 “What is knowledge?”, Chapter 3 “The structures of knowledge” in Knowledge as Culture) [1/10/2008 – 7/10/2008 reading week] 11/10/2008 Subjugated knowledge (Michel Foucault “Two lectures” in Power and Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977) 18/10/2008 III. Education and modern development Andean culture confronting western notions of development (The Spirit of Regeneration Chapter 1 “Introduction”) 25/10/2008 A different logic of development (Educating for Eco-Justice and Community Introduction; Chapter 4 “Elements of an Eco-Justice Curriculum”) 1/11/2008 IV. The question of the modern subject Governmentality (Governmentality Chapter 1 “Basic concepts and themes”) 8/11/2008 V. Praxis – theoretical-practical concerns Student presentation of abstracts of papers 15/11/2008 Practices in view of a different way of thinking 22/11/2008 Practices in view of a different way of thinking 29/11/2008 Critical examination of pedagogical experiences and alternative practices in Hong Kong or Asia 6/12/2008 Critical examination of pedagogical experiences and alternative practices in Hong Kong or Asia

Course Title : Topics in Cultural Institution and Policy Course Code : CUS511 No. of : 3 Credits/Term Mode of Tuition : Lecture Class Contact : 3 hours per week Hours Category in Major : Elective course Prog. Prerequisite(s) : None Co-requisite(s) : None Exclusion(s); : None Brief Course : This elective course is the theoretical counterpart of the course “Workshop in Cultural Description Practices”. It examines how public policy on culture can be understood in the framework of Cultural Studies, and it focuses on the ways in which institutional factors affect the planning, development and management of culture in contemporary societies. Issues of citizenship and subjectivity will be discussed in the context of specific forms and processes of cultural governance. Aims :  To introduce students the basic concerns of Cultural Studies with issues relating to the shaping of public culture; that is, the institutional dimension of culture including social pedagogies and public policies on “culture” in the broad sense of the term;  To familiarize students with the critical perspectives needed for understanding that cultural matters are significant social and public issues through in-depth study of a particular theme.

Learning : Students will be able to Outcomes  raise meaningful questions in the area of cultural institution and policy with clear and precise formulation;  identify alternative systems of thought in the area of cultural institution and policy, and recognize and assess, as need be, their assumptions, implications, and practical consequences.

Indicative Content : Issues in the area of cultural institution and policy will be selected and discussed. Specific content may vary year from year. Teaching Method : Lecture, seminar discussion, and students’ presentation. Measurement of : Scrutinizing students’ term papers and class presentation/discussion to examine Learning whether students are able to Outcomes  raise relevant and critical questions (with respect to the topics of the course) with clear and precise formulation;  critically review the assumptions of existing discourses on the subject matters of the course.

Assessment : 100% continuous assessment, including class discussion, presentation and a term project.

2008-09 Term 1 Course title : CUS511G Selected Topics in Cultural Institution and Policy : Politics as Cultural Practices Course description : Cultural studies is often understood as an approach to give a political turn to the study of culture. In short, cultural studies students are encouraged to investigate how power, authority and ideology, etc. underpin cultural activities and practices such as literature or art. This course tries to turn the attention the other way round by guiding the students to build up a cultural sensitivity in political matters, which is often studied from a behavioral or rationalistic perspective. By focusing on the symbolic or communicative dimensions of power and authority, this course tries to give an overview of how the governmental processes of the state, the constitution of political community as well as various social and political movements can be examined as cultural practices. Bringing forth the cultural processes of politics, the course will help the students to re-consider questions of identity, antagonism, solidarity and resistances related to a number of micro- as well as macro- political issues. Required Readings/2008-09 Term 1, Class Schedule

3/9/2008 Introduction: The End of Politics? *Furedi, F. Politics of Fear, London: Continuum, 2005, Ch. 1-3 *Lash, C. “The Banality of Pseudo-Self-Awareness: Theatrics of Politics and Everyday Existence” in Culture of Narcissism, London: Abacus, 1979, Ch. 4 Schedler, A. “Introduction: Antipolitics – Closing and Colonizing the Public Sphere” in Schedler, A. (ed.) The End of Politics? Explorations into Modern Antipolitics, London: MacMillan Press, 1997, pp. 1-20 Fukuyama, “The End of History”, National Interest, Summer 1989

10/9/2008 Liberal-Rational State Under Siege – Part I (1) Administrative Absorption of Politics and Critical Public Policy *Habermas, J. “The Scientization of Politics and Public Opinion” in Toward a Rational Society. Student Protest, Science and Politics, Boston: Beacon Press *Forester, J. “Critical Theory and Planning Practice” in Forester, J. (ed.) Critical Theory and Public Life, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1985. Denhardt, R. “Toward a Critical Theory of Public Organization” Public Administration Review, 1981.

17/9/2008 (2) The Right or the Good? *Mouffe, C. The Return of the Political, London: Verso, 1993, Ch. 2-3

24/9/2008 Cultural Politics in New Capitalism (1) Symbolic Policy and Cynicism – The case of education reform

Morris, Paul and Ian Scott. “Education Reform and Policy Implementation in Hong Kong,” in Lok Sang Ho, Paul Morris and Yue-ping Chung eds. Education Reform and the Quest for Excellence – The Hong Kong Story, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2005, pp. 83-97.

許寶強〈教改脈絡下本土教育的重新扣連〉，《本土論述》，香港：上書局，2008, 頁 179-186。

[1/10/2008 – 7/10/2008 reading week]

8/10/2008 (2) Cynicism as a form of ideology *Zizek, Slavoj. The Sublime Object of Ideology, London and New York: Verso, 1989, pp.28-49. Sloterdijk, Peter. Critique of Cynical Reason, Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1988.

15/10/2008 (3) Populism, Mass Media, and the Rhetoric of Economics *關於阿當．斯密的辯論(許寶強、楊懷康、《蘋果日報》等) Hall, Stuart. Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left: The Hard Road to Renewal, London: Verson, 1988.

22/10/2008 (4) Populist Politics and Hegemonic Struggles *Morris, Lydia. “A Book Review on On Populist Reason”, Sociology, 2006, Vol. 40, No.4, pp.778-779. *Laclau, Ernesto. On Populist Reason, London and New York: Verso, 2005, pp. 69-124 Laclau, Ernesto and Chantal Mouffe. Hegemony and Socialist Strategy – Towards a radical Democratic Politics, London and New York: Verso, 1985, pp.1-46, pp.149-194. Bennett, Tony. “Cultural Studies – The Foucault Effect”, Culture: A Reformer’s Science, St. Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1998, pp. 60-84.

29/10/2008 Culture and Social Movement (1) Identity and Social Movement *Stuart Hall. “Cultural Identity and Diaspora.” Identity and Difference. Edited by Kathryn Woodward. London: Sage, 1990, pp. 51-61. *McNay, Lois. “Subject, Psyche and Agency: The Work of Judith Butler.” in Performativity and Belonging. Edited by Vikki Bell. London: Sage, 1999, 175-193

5/11/2008 (2) Collective Agency *Collective agency and identity in social movement: The case of “Local Action” *葉蔭聰＜集體行動與新社會運動＞, 2008。

12/11/2008 Liberal-Rational State Under Siege – Part II (1) Aesthetics and Political Myths *Cassirer, E. The Myth of the State, Yale University Press. Sontag, S. “Fascinating Fascism” Under the Sign of Saturn, London: Vintage, 2001.

19/11/2008 (2) Political Theology *郭建 “為了打擊共同的敵人 – 施米特及其左翼盟友” 二十一世紀，no. 94，2006, pp. 19-25 *徐賁 “中國不需要這樣的 ‘政治’ 和 ‘主權者決斷’ – ‘施米特熱’ 和國家主義” 二十一世紀，no. 94， 2006, pp. 26-39 Meier, H. 隱匿的對話：施米特與施特勞斯，北京：華夏

26/11/2008 The Return of the Political *Bennett, Tony (1998): “Culture, power, resistance” Culture: A Reformer’s Science, St. Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1998, pp. 167-188 *Mouffe, C. On the Political, London: Routledge, 2005, Ch. 2, 4, 5 Mouffe, C. The Democratic Paradox, London: Verso, Ch. 5 and Conclusion, 2000.

3/12/2008 Beyond Liberalism? *Havel, V. The Power of the Powerless, *汪暉 “去政治化的政治、霸權的多重構成與六十年代的消逝” 收錄在去政治化的政治．短 20 世紀的終結與 90 年代，北京：三聯川崎修阿倫特，石家庄：河北教育，2002, Ch. 4. 羅永生 “哈維爾的 ‘政治’” 天安門評論，1992, 頁 271-283。 Simons, J. “Foucault in Contemporary Political Theory” Foucault and the Political, London: Routledge, 1995, pp. 105-125

Course Title : Topics in Cultural Representation and Interpretation Course Code : CUS512 No. of : 3 Credits/Term Mode of Tuition : Lecture Class Contact : 3 hours per week Hours Category in Major : Elective course Prog. Prerequisite(s) : None Co-requisite(s) : None Exclusion(s); : None Brief Course : This elective course takes the production of meaning and ideology as a fundamental issue Description in Cultural Studies. Through case studies, it examines how specific forms of representation help shape and reconstruct aspects of our social reality, our experience of the world, and indeed our view of others and of ourselves. Students will analyze the modes of cultural production involved, and attempt to understand how cultural practices generate, fix and deliver meaning for us in particular social contexts. The question of

interpretation will be raised in relation to the generic formation of the “Text’ at issue, so that we can approach the plurality of textual functions and effects in terms of the contextual issues involved. Aims : 1. To deepen students’ understanding of representation as the basic critical concept in Cultural Studies by way of topics and cases selected from a wide range of social and generic contexts; 2. To familiarize students with the critical scholarship needed for understanding aspects of social life through two fundamental categories in Cultural Studies – representation and interpretation.

Learning : Students will be able to Outcomes 1. raise meaningful questions in the area of cultural representation and interpretation with clear and precise formulation; 2. identify alternative systems of thought in the area of cultural representation and interpretation, and recognize and assess, as need be, their assumptions, implications, and practical consequences. Indicative Content : Issues in the area of cultural representation and interpretation will be selected and discussed. Specific content may vary year from year. Teaching Method : Lecture, seminar discussion, and students’ presentation. Measurement of : Scrutinizing students’ term papers and class presentation/discussion to examine whether Learning students are able to Outcomes 1. raise relevant and critical questions (with respect to the topics of the course) with clear and precise formulation; 2. critically review the assumptions of existing discourses on the subject matters of the course.

Assessment : 100% continuous assessment, including class discussion, presentation and a term project.

2008-09 Term 1 Course title : CUS512G Topics in Cultural Institution and Policy: Music as Cultural Text Course description : The “cultural studies” of music, if there has ever been a significant presence at all in the context of Hong Kong, seems to have focused predominated in the study of pop lyrics. This course takes a different turn and pays attention to the various dimensions of music beyond the linguistic and read them as “texts” for their cultural-political meanings. We shall analyze music in terms of/as form, style, subculture, performance, social practice and creative imagination. We shall draw on philosophical aesthetics, postcolonial criticism, feminist and gender critique, postmodernism, Marxist theory, and ethnomusicology in our quest for the “meanings” of music. Examining how music from European classical to Chinese traditional and contemporary pop has been talked and written about, this course simultaneously introduces students to and engages them in the production of musical meanings in everyday life via an extensive reading of writings by a variety of thinkers, intellectual, critics, scholars and artists.

Upon finishing the course, students will be able to demonstrate critical knowledge of the multi-dimensional meaning of music as a socially and culturally constructed expression in human society via verbal and written discourses. NO knowledge of music theory required. Required Readings/2008-09 Term 1, Class Schedule

4/9/2008 First Meeting: Course intro; questionnaire on music background Topic: Notions of “Music”: A Comparative Review Class Format: Lecture + Q&A

11/9/2008 Topic: Cultural Theory of Art Class Format: Lecture + Q&A Required Reading: (1) Gordon Graham, Philo of the Arts (Ch. 8) (2) Shepherd and Wicke, Music and Cultural Theory (“Introduction”)

18/9/2008 Topic: Rock & Roll and Power Class Format: Lecture + Q&A / Commentary-Presentation Required Reading: Lawrence Grossberg, “Another Boring Day in Paradise”

25/9/2008 Topic: Sexual and Gender Politics in Music (I) Class Format: Lecture + Q&A / Commentary-Presentation Required Reading: Susan McClary, Feminine Endings (Ch. 3, 7)

[1/10/2008 – 7/10/2008 reading week]

9/10/2008 Topic: Sexual and Gender Politics in Music (II) Class Format: Lecture + Q&A / Commentary-Presentation Required Reading: (1) Sherrie Tucker, “Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies” (2) Nichole T Rustin, “’Mary Lou Williams Plays Like a Man!’: Gender, Genius, and Difference in Black Music Discourse”

16/10/2008 Topic: Perspective Structuring - Cultural Studies, “New Musicology,” Sociology of Music Class Format: Lecture + Q&A

23/10/2008 Topics: (Part 1) The Sociology of Music (II); (Part 2) The Political Economy of Music (I) Class Format: Lecture + Q&A / Commentary-Presentation Required Reading: Adorno, “On the Fetish Character in Music…” (The Cultural Industry)

30/10/2008 Topic: The Political Economy of Music (II) Class Format: Lecture + Q&A / Commentary-Presentation Required Reading: Jacques Attali, Noise (Ch. 1, 3, Afterword [by Susan McClary]) 6/11/2008 Topic: Ethnomusicology in Postcolonial Perspective Class Format: Commentary-Presentation Required Reading: (1) 韓國鐄 «音樂的中國» ; «自西徂東» (selections) (2) 余少華 ‹歷史原貌與現實﹕中國樂器的西化與現代化›﹐«樂在顛錯中» (3) Fred Lau, “Fusion or Fission: The Paradox and Politics of Contemporary Chinese Avant-Garde Music” (Locating E Asia Music in Western Art Music) (4) Yu Siu-wah, “Two Practices Confused in One Composition: Tan Dun’s Symphony 1997: Heaven, Earth, Man” (ditto)

13/11/2008 Topic: Music and Identity in the Postcolonial Condition Class Format: Commentary-Presentation Required Reading: (1) Lawrence Witzleben, “Cantopop and Mandapop in Pre-Postcolonial HK: Identity Negotiation in the Performances of Anita Mui Yim-Fong” (2) Fred Lau, “Entertaining Chineseness: Chinese Singing Clubs in in Contemporary Bangkok” (3) Yu Siu-wah, “Identity as a Problem of Hong Kong Composers”

20/11/2008 Topic: Perspectives in Ethnomusicology: Love Caution, Beijing Olympics, and Music Guest lecture by Prof. Yu Siu-wah (Music, CUHK) Required Reading: [to be determined]

27/11/2008 Session for Commentary-Presentations

4/12/2008 Topic: Musicology in the Shadow of Cultural Theory Class Format: Lecture + Q&A / Commentary-Presentation Required Reading: Shepherd and Wicke, Music and Cultural Theory (Ch. 9, 10)

Course Title : Research Seminar Course Code : CUS513 No. of : 3 Credits/Term Mode of Tuition : Lecture and seminar Class Contact : 3 hours per week Hours Category in Major : Elective course Prog. Prerequisite(s) : None Co-requisite(s) : None Exclusion(s); : None Brief Course : This elective course is composed of a series of seminars. Students taking this course Description will be working on a common research topic recommended or approved by the instructor. Each student will be required to conduct library/internet research and field work both independently and as a member of a team, and will present research findings in a seminar, engage in seminar commentaries and discussions, and write up a research paper. The research topics will be on areas of work in cultural studies related to, for

example, questions of pedagogy, journalism, popular culture, critical practice, feminism, cultural policy, social change, or historical representation. Aims : 1. To train students to undertake serious research work on a specific topic in cultural studies; 2. To provide a space for students to conduct research both independently and as member of a team, under the supervision of an instructor; 3. To train students to present research work in a seminar and to master dynamic intellectual discussions and debates, and to write up a research paper.

Learning : It is hoped that at the end of the course students will be able to Outcomes 1. identify a research topic in the field of cultural studies of significance as well as interest to themselves; 2. conduct systematic research work on a specific topic in cultural studies; 3. present their research work in a seminar and to engage in dynamic intellectual discussions and debates; 4. write up a research paper with high quality.

Indicative Content : Various issues in the field of cultural studies. Specific content may vary year from year. Teaching Method : Seminar discussion and independent research project.

Measurement of : 1. Class discussion to measure students’ ability in identifying research topics in Learning the field of cultural studies of significance as well as interest to themselves; Outcomes 2. Oral presentation to measure students’ skills in presenting research proposal and research findings in an academic context; 3. Research paper to measure students’ competency in employing theoretical frameworks and research methods to investigate and analyze cultural issues and in writing up a research paper with high quality.

Assessment : 100% continuous assessment, including class discussion, seminar presentation and a research paper.

2008-09 Term 1 Course title : CUS513C Research Seminar: Hong Kong’s Urban Future Course description : As a city, Hong Kong is often portrayed as a vibrant and colorful metropolis. Even in the face of economic difficulty, phrases like “Asia’s world city”, “Super-Manhattan”, “China’s New York” were still freely adopted by The Hong Kong SAR Government. The past few years have seen proposals for various prestige projects. In addition to the ambitious West Kowloon Cultural Complex, proposal for building a sports complex in East Kowloon has also been put forward. Funds for building a brand new government headquarter right at the waterfront has been approved and Hong Kong Disneyland has long been completed. Even more significant than these prestige projects are the numerous urban renewal schemes initiated in many so-called “old areas”. These schemes are to be completed by the Urban Redevelopment Council, which has been invested with wide-ranging power to appropriate land for redevelopment. In addition there are various smaller-scale projects that aim to give a new look to the city and to enhance its image.

As a metropolitan city that pride itself on its connectedness with the global capitalistic world, Hong Kong is easily susceptible to the influence of global capital. All the world- famous but placeless buildings standing in front of Victoria Harbor attests to this. But a closer look at the cityscape of Hong Kong will reveal that the people who live their lives in the streets of Hong Kong used to have equal, if not more, say on the shape of the urban profile of Hong Kong. Even now, some streets in Hong Kong are easily identified for their rich local flavor. But prestige project after prestige project coupled with large-scale redevelopment projects not only threaten to take away the shine of these streets but to obliterate them all together.

On the other hand, there are indications that the local population, who in the past seemed to be quietly accepting whatever the government did to the cityscape of Hong Kong, is awaking to the wanton destruction of old buildings and the further reclamation of the Victoria Habour. Some are even loudly expressing their concern over the urban futures of Hong Kong.

The seminar on Hong Kong’s urban futures aims to review the underlying socio- economic forces responsible for shaping the urban profile of Hong Kong. Discussions will be held on the relevant theoretical works. But special attention will be paid to Hong Kong’s past history to uncover the traces of people who lived their lives in the streets of Hong Kong.

Required Readings

Ackbar Abbas, Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1997. David Clark, Urban World/Global City. London, Routledge, 1996. Henri Lefebvre, The Urban Revolution. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2003 Helen Liggett, Urban Encounters. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2003. John R. Logan & Harvey L. Molotch, “The City as a Growth Machine” in Susan S. Fainstein & Scott Campbell eds, Readings in Urban Theory Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, 1996. Jim McGuigan, Culture & the Public Sphere London, Routledge, 1996 Malcom Miles and Tim Hall eds, Urban Futures: Critical Commentaries on Shaping the City. London, Routledge, 2003. Jamie Peck & Kevin Ward eds, City of Revolution: Restructuring Manchester Manchester, Manhester University Press, 2002. Saskia Sassen, The Global City. Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University, 2001. Allen J. Scott, The Cultural Economy of Cities. London, Sage, 2000.

2008-09 Term 1, Class Schedule 6/9/2008 Introductory Talk: Why Hong Kong’s Urban Future and What is there to Discuss

13/9 & 20/9/2008 Colonial Legacy and Hong Kong Cityscape: The Case of the MTR

27/9 & 11/10/2008 Corporate Power and Hong Kong Cityscape: The Case of Urban Renewal

18/10 & 25/10/2008 Hong Kong Citizens and Hong Kong Cityscape: The Case of Street Hawkers

1/11 & 8/11/2008 The Mistaken Ideas of Heritage and Preservation: The Case of Star Ferry Pier and Queen’s Pier

15/11 & 22/11/2008 Hong Kong Cityscape under the Tourist Gaze

29/11 & 6/12/2008 Is Hong Kong Sustainable?

Course Title : Methods in Cultural Research Course Code : CUS505 No. of : 3 Credits/Term Mode of Tuition : Lecture and seminar Class Contact Hours : 3 hours per week Category in Major : Core course Prog. Prerequisite(s) : None Co-requisite(s) : None Exclusion(s); : None Brief Course : This core course enhances the students to develop a reflexive attitude about and critical abilities Description of different methods used by cultural researchers. Method here is understood not only as research techniques, procedures, and practices, but also as involving the theories and perspectives that inform the production of a particular kind of research and justify it in terms of knowledge-making. Practical examples will be used to illustrate diverse cultural studies

methods such as textual analysis, ethnographic methods (participatory action research, interviews, focus groups and story-telling), oral history, archival work, etc. Discussion of methodological issues involved in those examples will help students map out the trajectories in which cultural studies as a discipline developed in the past and the implications they have nowadays. Aims : 1. To guide students to pay critical attentions to the techniques and procedures of doing cultural research in such different areas as literature, film and media, popular culture, gender studies and postcolonial studies;

2. To provide a platform for students to discuss different perspectives on research methods and related issues such as research ethics, knowledge, and power.

Learning Outcomes : 1. Students will be able to apply at least one of the methods learnt in the course to handle a chosen topic in cultural research; 2. Students will be able to reflect critically upon the research method(s) used and the process of research based on methodological issues discussed in class.

Indicative Content : 1. Introduction to the philosophical basis of cultural research; 2. Experience and the researching self; 3. Feminist methodology; 4. Memory and oral history; 5. Reading discourses: the power of text; 6. Audience research; 7. Self and reflexivity: from cognitive bias to pertinent agent; 8. Doing cultural research in the field; 9. Writing/representing culture: from fieldwork to deskwork; 10. Action research

Teaching Method : 1. Lectures will be delivered by a group of lecturers so as to bring in different expertise; 2. Students will be required to present their individual or group research projects in seminars arranged at the end of the semester.

Measurement of : The ability of students to apply at least one of the methods learnt to handle a chosen topic in Learning Outcomes cultural research and to reflect critically upon the research method(s) used and the process of research will be measured by:

1. The presentation of the individual or group research project in the seminar which requires students to demonstrate the process of conducting the research, the difficulties encountered, and the preliminary findings; and 2. The individual research report which requires students to include the research materials, a comprehensive analytical account produced from the materials, and a critical reflection upon the research method(s) adopted and the philosophical basis for adopting such method(s).

Assessment : 100% continuous assessment based on:

1. Presentation of research project and participation in class discussions (30%) 2. Individual research report (70%)

Required Readings:

Couldry, N. Inside Culture-- Re-imagining the Method of Cultural Studies, London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 2000. Johnson, R. et.al. The Practice of Cultural Studies, London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi:SAGE publications﹐2004.

Recommended Readings:

Ashley, Bob. Reading Popular Narratives; A Source Book, London and Washington: Leicester University Press, 1997. Bennett, Tony, Colin Mercer, and Janet Woollacott. Popular Culture and Social Relations, Milton Keynes and Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1986. Conboy, Martin. The Press and Popular Culture. London, Thousand Oaks & New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2002.

Corner, John. Critical Ideas in Television Studies. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. Couldry, Nick. Media Rituals: A Critical Approach. London & New York: Routledge, 2003. Debord, Guy. The Society of the Spectacle (Paris, 1967), trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith, New York: Zone Books, 1994. de Certeau, Michel. The Practice of Everyday Life, trans. Steven F. Rendall, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1984. Donald, James and Stephanie H. Donald. “The Publicness of Cinema.” In Gledhill and Williams 114-129. du Gay, Stuart Hall, Linda Janes, Hugh Mackey and Keith Negus. Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman, London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi: Sage Publications, in association with The Open University, 1997. Ellis, John. “Television as Working Through.” In Television and Common Knowledge, ed. Jostein Grisprud. Gledhill, Christine and Linda Williams, eds. Reinventing Film Studies. London: Arnold, 2000. Hall, Stuart. “Encoding/Decoding.” In Harrington and Bielby 123-132. --- “Popular Culture and the State.” In Bennett 22-49. Harrington, C. Lee, and Denise D. Bielby. Popular Culture: Production and Consumption, Oxford and Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2001. Hartley, John. Popular Reality: Journalism, Modernity, Popular Culture, London, New York and Sydney: Arnold, 1996. Haug, W. F. Critique of Commodity Aesthetic: Appearance, Sexuality and Advertising in Capitalist Society (1971), tr. R. Bock, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. Kellner, Douglas. Media Spectacles. London & New York: Routledge, 2003. Lefebvre, Henri. Critique of Everyday Life, vol. 1: Introduction (Paris, 1947), trans. John Moore, London and New York: Verso, 1991. Miller, Toby and Alec HcHoul. Popular Culture and Everyday Life, London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1997. Moore, Kevin. Museums and Popular Culture, London and Washington: Leicester University Press, 1997. Morris, Meaghan. Too Soon, Too Late: History in Popular Culture, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1998. Negus, Keith. Popular Music in Theory: An Introduction. Cambridge: Polity Press with Blackwell, 1996. Silverstone, Roger. “Complicity and Collusion in the Mediation of Everyday Life.” New Literary History 33 (2002): 761-780. Scannell, Paddy. Radio, Television and Modern Life: A Phenomenological Approach. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996. Strinati, Dominic. An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture, London & New York: Routledge, 1995. Street, John. Politics and Popular Culture, Oxford: Polity Press, 1997. Williams, Raymond. Raymond Williams on Television: Selected Writings. Ed. Alan O’Connor. London & New York: Routledge, 1989.

2008-09 Term 2, Class Schedule

1. Introduction: Culture, the Popular, and the Everyday (31/1/09)

[Miller & McHoul 1-27: “Introduction to Popular Culture and Everyday Life”] [Couldry 20-43: “Questions of Value – or, Why do cultural studies?”] REF: [Williams’ Keywords (selected items)] - MCS Annual Symposium (7/2/09) NO LECTURE -

2. The Question of the Popular (14/2)

[Frow 60-88: “The Concept of the Popular”] REF: [Ashley 1-8: “Reading of Popular Texts: some initial problems]

3. The Problem of Experience (21/2) [Silverstone 1-12: “The Texture of Experience”] REF: [Couldry 44-66: “The Individual ‘in’ Culture”]

4. Popular Mediation as Process (28/2) [Silverstone 13-18: “Mediation”] [Negus 66-98: “Mediations”] [Tolson 53-80: “Modes of Address”]

5. Play as Mediation and the Popular Genres (7/3) [Silverstone 57-67: “Dimension of Experience: Play”] [During 109-123: “Media and the Public Sphere: Television”] [Corner (1999) 60-69: “Flow”]

6. Performance as a Dimension of Everyday Experience (14/3) [Silverstone 68-77: “Dimension of Experience: Performance”] [Scannell 58-74: “Sincerity”] [Ellis 55-70: “Television as Working-through”]

7. Entertainment, Fantasy and Communication (21/3) [Silverstone 125-133: “Making Sense: Memory”] [G&W 100-113: Gaines, “Dream/Factory”] [H&B 123-32: S. Hall, “Encoding/Decoding”]

8. Consumption and the Mediation of Experience (28/3)

[Silverstone 78-85: “Dimension of Experience: Consumption”] [During 124-135: “Media and the Public Sphere: Popular Music”] [Corner (1999) 93-107: “Pleasure”] REF: [Couldry 67-90: “Questioning the Text”]

~ Holidays (4/4, 11/4) ~ 9. Popular Cultural Formation: Celebrity, Spectacle, and Publicness (18/4) [Marshall 150-84: “Meanings of the Popular Music Celebrity”] [Kellner 63-92: The Sports Spectacle, Michael Jordan & Nike] [G&W114-129: Donald & Donald,“The Publicness of Cinema”]

10. Re-thinking Home and the Popular: Ordinary Experience & Events (25/4) [Silverstone 86-95: “Location of Action & Experience: House&Home] [Scannell 75-92: Eventfulness] [Silverstone 48-56: “Erotics”] REF: [de Certeau 29-42: “Making Do: Uses and Tactics”]

~ Holiday (2/5) ~

11. Re-thinking Community and the Popular: Everyday Uses of Culture (9/5)

[Silverstone 96-104: “Location of Action & Experience: Community”] [During 136-142: “Media and the Public Sphere: The Internet and Technoculture”] [Couldry: “Mediated Self-Disclosure: Before and After the Internet”] REF: [Ashley 121-2: Gramsci on Common-sense]

12. Re-inventing Popular Culture: Community and Cultural Citizenship (16/5) [Silverstone 105-113: “Location of Action & Experience: Globe”] [Silverstone 114-124: “Making Sense: Trust”] REF: [Couldry 91-113: “Beyond ‘Cultures’”]

13. Concluding Session: Conflicting Regimes of Value (23/5 ?) [Roundtable on Term Paper] (DATE TO BE CONFIRMED) REF: [Frow 131-169: “Economies of Value”]

Course Title : Feminism and Cultural Politics Course Code : CUS507 No. of : 3 Credits/Term Mode of Tuition : Lecture and seminar Class Contact Hours : 3 hours per week Category in Major : Elective course Prog. Prerequisite(s) : None Co-requisite(s) : None Exclusion(s); : None Brief Course : This course deals with the cultural politics of gender and sexuality in relation to the historical Description development of feminist thought in different geo-political settings. There are two major areas of focus. The first deals with controversial debates around gender and sexuality as these affect women, such as the cultural construction of gender; the body; sexual desire and orientation; the politics of difference; production and reproduction; home and everyday life. The second focus

is on feminist interventions in different fields of knowledge, such as science, religion, philosophy, art and literature, language, politics, economics, history and sociology, with particular emphasis on how gender and sexuality shape representations and discourses on one hand and, on the other, what role representations and discourses play in (re)shaping meaning and value in matters of gender and sexuality. Aims : 1. To introduce the common philosophy and concerns of feminism and cultural studies, asking how these two cross- disciplinary studies can interface with each other; 2. To provide a platform for students to discuss the theories and practices of feminism in the wider context of current thought on gender and sexual politics.

Learning Outcomes : 1. Students will be able to apply feminist perspective and theories to analyse gender and sexuality issues and practices in the everyday life; 2. Students will able to analyse the cultural politics involved in the representation and discourses of gender and sexuality and the way meaning are constructed in different contexts; 3. Students will be able to relate feminist knowledge to different discipline or other fields of knowledge.

Indicative Content : 1. Interfacing feminism and cultural studies; 2. The meaning and possibilities of feminism as resources; 3. Historicizing feminism in the Chinese context: theories and practices; 4. Theorizing gender, class, and race; 5. Feminist theories on film studies; 6. Female subjectivities and visual culture; 7. Peace, women, and the everyday; 8. Home, space, and gender; 9. Women’s body and nation building; 10. Current debates around gender and sexuality issues in Hong Kong

Teaching Method : 1. Lectures on thematic topics will be delivered by both theoretical articulations and personal experiences; 2. Students will be required to do case study on a specific topic and have it presented in the seminar.

Measurement of : The measurement of the three learning outcomes will be based on: Learning Outcomes 1. The quality of the presentation of the case study which requires students to apply the feminist perspectives and theories learnt in class and to integrate different forms of knowledge to make sense of the case under study; 2. A substantial research paper which requires students to focus on the discussion of feminist cultural politics either theoretically or based on case study.

Assessment : 100% continuous assessment based on:

1. Presentation in seminar and class participation (30%); 2. Research paper (70%)

Reference : Barlow, Tani ed. Gender Politics in Modern China----Writing and Feminism, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1993. Bonner, F., Goodman, L., and Allen R. eds. Imaging Women----Cultural Representations and Gender, Cambridge and Oxford: Polity, 1992. Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble----Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, London and New York: Routledge, 1990. Cornell, Drucilla ed. Feminism and Pornography, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Coates, Jennifer ed. Language and Gender----A Reader, Oxford and Malden: Blackwell Publishers, 1998. Felski, Rita. Doing Time----Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture, London and New York: New York University, 2000. Franklin S. Lury C. and Stacey J. eds. Off-Centre----Feminism and Cultural Studies, London and NY: Harper Collins Academic, 1991. Gayatri, Spivak. “The New Subaltern: A Silent Interview” in Vinayak Chaturvedi ed. Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial, London & New York: Verso, 2000, 324-340. Grewal I. et al eds. Scattered Hegemonies---Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices,

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1994. Hershatter, Gail. Dangerous Pleasures----Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1997. Jone, Amelia ed. The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. Kaplan, Caren et al. eds. Between Woman and Nation----Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms and the State, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999. Moore, Henrietta. Feminism and Anthropology, Cambridge and Oxford: Polity, 1988. Mulvey, Laura. Visual and Other Pleasures, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1989. Scott, Joan Wallach. Feminism and History, Oxford and New York: OUP, 1996. Smith, Bonnie ed. Global Feminisms since 1945, London and New York: Routledge, 2000. Warren, Karen and Cady, Duane. Bring Peace Home---Feminism, Violence and Nature, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indianna University Press, 1996. Warren, Karen ed. Ecofeminism----Women, Culture, Nature, Bloomington and Indianpolis: Indiana U. Press, 1997. Warhol, Robyn. and Herndl, Diane eds. Feminisms----An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1991. Yuval-Davis, Nira and Werbner, Pina eds. Women, Citizenship and Difference, London and New York: Zed Books, 1999.

戴錦華﹐<<性別中國>>。台北：麥田出版社，2006。戴錦華﹐<<鏡城突圍>>。北京：作家出版社，1995。李銀河等主編﹐<<婦女﹕最漫長的革命>>。北京﹕三聯書店﹐1997。顧燕翎主編﹐<<女性主義理論與流派>>。台北﹕女書﹐ 1996。王志弘等譯﹐<<設計的歧視﹕「男造」環境的女性主義批判>>。台北﹕巨流出版社﹐1997。陳順馨﹑戴錦華主編﹐<< 婦女﹑民族與女性主義>>。北京﹕中央編譯出版社﹐ 2004。陳順馨﹐<<中國當代文學的敘事與性別(增訂版)>> 。北京﹕北京大學出版社﹐2007。張小虹﹐<<性別越界---女性主義文學理論與批評>>。台北﹕聯合文學﹐1995。

2008-09 Term 2, Class Schuedle

I. Introduction: Feminism and Cultural Studies in the Hong Kong and China Contexts

4 Feb Feminism and Cultural Politics of Gender (Chan)

Glenn Jordan and Chris Weedon (1995): “1. Introduction: What are Cultural Politics” and “6. Feminism and the Cultural Politics of Gender” in Cultural Politics---Class, Gender, Race and the Postmodern World, Oxford and Cambridge: Blackwell, 3-22;177-216.

11 Feb Historicizing Feminism and Cultural Studies in the Hong Kong Context (Chan)

Chan, Shun-hing (2002), “Interfacing Feminism and Cultural Studies in Hong Kong: A Case of Everyday Life Politics” in Cultural Studies 16(5) 2002, 704-734.

Morag Shiarch (1999) ed, “Introduction”, Feminism and Cultural Studies, New York: Oxford University Press, 1-7.

18 Feb Historicizing Feminism and Cultural Studies in the Chinese Context (Dai)

戴錦華(2006)：「寫在前面的話」<<性別中國>>，台北：麥田出版社﹐ 頁 13-26。

II. Feminism as Resources and Practices 25 Feb Feminist Theories and Practices in Mainland China (Dai)

戴錦華﹕「歲月留痕----西蒙娜波伏瓦在中國」﹔

賀桂梅(2008)﹕「當代女性文學批評的三種資源」, << 歷史與現實之間>>﹐濟南﹕山東文藝出版社﹐122-134。

4 Mar The Meaning and Possibilities of Feminism as Resources (I) & (II) &11 Mar (Dai)

艾里斯楊(Iris Young)﹕「超越不幸的婚姻----對二元制理論的批判」﹐李銀河等主編 (1997)﹕<<婦女﹕最漫長的革命>> ﹐北京﹕三聯書店﹐76-105。

顧燕翎﹕「生態女性主義----平等互敬﹑永續共存的新價值」﹐顧燕翎主編(1996)﹕<<女性主義理論與流派>>﹐台北﹕女書﹐259-282。

III. Feminist Visual Culture

18 Mar Feminist Theories on Film Studies (Dai)

Laura Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” and “Afterthoughts on ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ inspired by King Vidor’s Duel in the Sun (1946)” in Laura Mulvey (1989): Visual and Other Pleasures, Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press,14-38. (第一篇中譯本﹕勞拉穆爾維﹕「視覺快感和敘事性電影」﹐李恆基等主編 (1995) ﹕<<外國電影理論文選>> ﹐上海文藝出版社﹐562-576。)

戴錦華(2006)：「『女人』的故事----一段劇變中的歷史」<<性別中國>>，台北：麥田出版，頁 27-56。

25 Mar Female Subjectivities and Visual Culture (Dai)

Amelia Jones: “Introduction” and Luce Irigaray: “Any Theory of the ‘Subject’ Has Always Been Appropriated by the ‘Masculine’”, in Amelia Jones (2003) ed, The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, London and New York: Routledge, 1-7, 119-128. 戴錦華(2006)：「『扮演』的故事----女性主體呈現的困境」<<性別中國>>，台北：麥田出版，頁 57-92。

1 April (Reading Week---Class suspended)

IV Gender and Everyday Life Politics

8 Apr Peace, Women, and the Everyday (Chan)

Chan Shun-hing, “Peace, the Everyday, and Women” (manuscript)

Karen Warren and Duane Cady (1996), “Feminism and Peace: Seeing Connections” in Bring Peace Home---Feminism, Violence and Nature, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indianna University Press, 1-15.

15 Apr Home, Space, and Gender (Chan)

Biddy Martin and Chandra Talpade Mohanty (1999), “Feminist Politics----What’s Home Got to Do With It?”, in Morag Shiarch ed. Feminism and Cultural Studies, Oxford University Press, 517-539.

Leslie Kanes Weisman 著﹐王志弘等譯(1997)：「第六章﹕安適家居的未來」<<設計的歧視﹕「男造」環境的女性主義批判>>，台北﹕巨流﹐頁 229-256。

郭恩慈主編(2004)﹕「第一章﹕導論」<<艱難空間﹕新來港婦女生活環境遷歷>>﹐香港﹕理工大學設計學院都空間文化研究組及香港小童群益會﹐頁 1-17。

22 Apr Consumption and the Politics of the Everyday (Chan)

Mica Nava (1999), “Consumerism Reconsidered----Buying and Power”, in Morag Shiarch ed. Feminism and Cultural Studies, Oxford University Press, 45-64.

Meaghan Morris (1993), “Things to Do With Shopping Centres” in Simon During ed. The Cultural Studies Reader, London and New York: Routledge, 391-409.

V. Sexualities and Cultural Politics

29 Apr Women’s Body and Nation Building (Chan) Mary Layoun (1994), “The Female Body and ‘Transnational’ Reproduction; or, Rape by Any Other Name?”, in Grewal I. et al eds. Scattered Hegemonies---Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 63-75. (中譯本﹕雷雍﹕女性身體和“跨民族” 生育﹔或不叫強暴的強暴﹖” ﹐陳順馨﹑戴錦華主編 (2004)﹕<< 婦女﹑民女性主義>> ﹐北京﹕中央編譯出版社﹐213-233。)

劉健芝：「恐懼﹑暴力﹑家國﹑女人」﹑戴錦華﹕「見證與見證人」﹑陳順馨﹕「強暴﹑戰爭與民族主義」﹐<讀書>>1999 年 3 月﹐3-24。

6 May Current Debates around Sexualities Issues in Hong Kong (Chan)

Michel Foucault (1989), “Sexual Choice, Sexual Act” in Sylvere Lotringer ed. Foucault Live (Interviews, 1961-1984), New York: SEMIOTEXT(E), 322-333.

Day Wong (2004), “(Post-)identity politics and anti-normalization ----(Homo) sexual rights movement” in Agnes Ku and Ngai Pun eds. Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong--- Community, Nation and the Global City, London and New York: Routledge.

Shannon Bell (1994), “Rewriting the Prostitute Body---Prostitute Perspectives” in Reading, Writing and Re-writing the Prostitute Body, Bloomington and Indiannapolis: Indiana University Press, 99-136.

Course Title : Topics in Cultural Institution and Policy Course Code : CUS511 No. of : 3 Credits/Term Mode of Tuition : Lecture Class Contact Hours : 3 hours per week Category in Major : Elective course Prog. Prerequisite(s) : None Co-requisite(s) : None Exclusion(s); : None Brief Course : This elective course is the theoretical counterpart of the course “Workshop in Cultural Description Practices”. It examines how public policy on culture can be understood in the framework of Cultural Studies, and it focuses on the ways in which institutional factors affect the planning, development and management of culture in contemporary societies. Issues of citizenship and subjectivity will be discussed in the context of specific forms and processes of cultural

governance. Aims : 1. To introduce students the basic concerns of Cultural Studies with issues relating to the shaping of public culture; that is, the institutional dimension of culture including social pedagogies and public policies on “culture” in the broad sense of the term; 2. To familiarize students with the critical perspectives needed for understanding that cultural matters are significant social and public issues through in-depth study of a particular theme.

Learning Outcomes : Students will be able to 1. raise meaningful questions in the area of cultural institution and policy with clear and precise formulation; 2. identify alternative systems of thought in the area of cultural institution and policy, and recognize and assess, as need be, their assumptions, implications, and practical consequences.

Indicative Content : Issues in the area of cultural institution and policy will be selected and discussed. Specific content may vary year from year.

Teaching Method : Lecture, seminar discussion, and students’ presentation.

Measurement of : Scrutinizing students’ term papers and class presentation/discussion to examine whether Learning Outcomes students are able to 1. raise relevant and critical questions (with respect to the topics of the course) with clear and precise formulation;

2. critically review the assumptions of existing discourses on the subject matters of the course.

Assessment : 100% continuous assessment, including class discussion, presentation and a term project.

Course title CUS511H: Selected Topics in Cultural Institution and Policy: Cultural Studies, Law and Human Rights

Course description This course attempts to explore this question: in the (re)turn to both distributive and recognition justice, how will cultural studies critically connect with law and the legal imagination, especially with that of international human rights law as a global professional, interdisciplinary, and humanitarian practice? The new and persistent violence linked to state, inter-state, and non-state actors alike has galvanized new social movements that act in concert with international human rights law. How can cultural studies forge a connection with these rights- based international movements, and therefore reassess the theories of power, governmentality, justice, and legality?

This course highlights the theoretical conceptions of power as developed in cultural studies, and links them to contemporary international debates about governance, legitimation, culture, oppression, hegemony, civil society, law, and empowerment. We shall study human rights as a site of legal-cultural struggles through theoretical discussions and selected case studies. The cases will be drawn upon from human rights discourse and mass media to examine how cultural forms and institutions are involved in the exercising of social power. Prior knowledge in law is not required, yet students will be exposed to basic legal concepts, reasoning, practices, and contradictions.

2008-09 Term 2, Class Schedule (with reference)

COURSE OUTLINE (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)

DATE READINGS, EXERCISES AND SCREENINGS TOPICS 5/2 Introduction: 1. Clapham, Ch. 1 Looking at Rights 2. Full text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) 12/2 Human Rights (as) 3. Clapham, Chs. 2 and 5 Law 4. David Kairys, ‘Perspectives on critical legal studies: Law and politics’, George Washington Law

Review, 52 (2005): 243+. (excerpt)

Exercise: ‘Stand up and be counted!’ 19/2 Human Rights (as) 5. Julie Mertus, ‘From Legal Transplants to Law cont’d Transformative Justice: Human Rights and the Promise of Transnational Civil Society’, American University International Law Review, 14 (1999): 1335+. (excerpt). 6. David Kennedy, ‘The International Human Rights Movement: Part of the Problem?’ The Harvard Human Rights Journal, 15(2002): 99+.

26/2 What is ‘Recognition 7. Full text of ICCPR (International Covenant Justice’?: On ICCPR on Civil and Political Rights, G.A. res. 2200A (XXI), 21 U.N. GAOR Supp. (No. 16) at 52, U.N. Doc. A/6316 (1966), 999 U.N.T.S. 171, entered into force Mar. 23, 1976.) 8. Nancy Fraser, ‘Rethinking recognition’ 9. Nancy Fraser, ‘Reframing justice in a globalizing world’, New Left Review, 36, Nov/Dec, 2005: 1-19. 5/3 What is ‘Distributive 10. Full text of ICESCR (International Covenant Justice’?: On on ICESCR Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, G.A. res. 2200A (XXI), 21 U.N.GAOR Supp. (No. 16) at 49, U.N. Doc. A/6316 (1966), 993 U.N.T.S. 3, entered into force Jan. 3, 1976.) 11. Clapham, Ch. 7 12. ‘Challenges to Economic and Social Rights’ (various short articles)

Discuss: Sicko (Dir. Michael Moore, 2007) 5/3 Modern Governance 13. Clapham, Ch. 3 14. Clapham, Ch. 6 15. Danaher et al, ‘Introduction to Michel Foucault’s work and contexts’, Understanding Foucault. London: Sage, 2000. 16. Danaher et al, ‘Governmentality and liberalism’

Exercise: Analyzing dialogue between Foucault and Chomsky 12/3 What’s Wrong with 17. Stephanie Farrior, ‘Molding The Matrix: Human Rights?: The The Case of Rwanda Historical and Theoretical Foundations of International Law Concerning Hate Speech’, 14 Berkeley Journal of International Law, 1996, pp. 3+. (excerpt) 18. Leszlie L. Green, ‘Gender hate propaganda and sexual violence in the Rwandan genocide: An argument for intersectionality in international law’, 33 Columbia Human Rights Law Review, 2002, pp. 733+.

Discuss: Ghosts of Rwanda (PBS, 2004); Hotel Rwanda (2004) 19/3 Reading Week – No ------Class

26/3 Examining the Cases 19. Simon Young, ‘Knock, knock. Who’s of ‘Article 23’ and there?: ‘VictoriaHarbour’ Warrantless searches for Article 23 offences’ (excerpt)

20. Winston Chu, ‘Legal control of harbour reclamation’

21. Chloe Lai, ‘We were kept in the dark: harbour advisors’ 2/4 On Gender and 22. Amartya Sen, ‘More than 100 million CEDAW women are missing’ (excerpt) (4 pgs)

23. Full text of CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, G.A. res. 34/180, 34 U.N. GAOR Supp. (No. 46) at 193, U.N. Doc. A/34/46, entered into force Sept. 3, 1981.)

24. ‘CEDAW: Provisions and Committee’ (various short articles)

25. Madhavi Sunder, ‘Piercing the veil’, Yale Law Journal, 112 (2003): 1399+ (excerpt). 9/4 The Case of 26. Robyn Emerton, ‘Finding a voice, fighting Transsexual Rights for rights: The emergence of the transgender movement in Hong Kong’, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 7.2 (2007): 243-269. 27. Josephine Ho, ‘Embodying gender: Transgender body-subject formations in Taiwan’, in Chen and Chua, pp. 347-363. 16/4 Group Presentations Groups 1 & 2

23/4 Group Presentations Groups 3 & 4 30/4 Group Presentations Groups 5 & 6 7/5 Group Presentations Groups 7 & 8 14/5 Conclusion: Is there a 28. Rosemary J. Coombe, “Is there a cultural ‘Legal Cultural studies of Studies’? law?” in Toby Miller (ed.), A Companion to Cultural Studies. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2001, pp. 36-62. 29. Costas Douzinas, “Justice and human rights in postmodernity,” in Conor Gearty & Adam Tomkins (eds.), Understanding Human Rights. London & New York: Mansell, 1996, pp. 111-137. 30. Gary Wickham, “Foucault and law,” in Reza Banakar & Max Travers (eds.), An Introduction to Law and Social Theory. Portland, OR: Hart Publishing, 2002, pp. 249-265.

Course Title : Topics in Cultural Representation and Interpretation Course Code : CUS512 No. of : 3 Credits/Term Mode of Tuition : Lecture Class Contact Hours : 3 hours per week Category in Major : Elective course Prog. Prerequisite(s) : None Co-requisite(s) : None Exclusion(s); : None Brief Course : This elective course takes the production of meaning and ideology as a fundamental issue in Description Cultural Studies. Through case studies, it examines how specific forms of representation help shape and reconstruct aspects of our social reality, our experience of the world, and indeed our view of others and of ourselves. Students will analyze the modes of cultural production involved, and attempt to understand how cultural practices generate, fix and deliver meaning for us in particular social contexts. The question of interpretation will be raised in relation to the generic formation of the “Text’ at issue, so that we can approach the plurality of textual functions and effects in terms of the contextual issues involved.

Aims : 1. To deepen students’ understanding of representation as the basic critical concept in Cultural Studies by way of topics and cases selected from a wide range of social and generic contexts; 2. To familiarize students with the critical scholarship needed for understanding aspects of social life through two fundamental categories in Cultural Studies – representation and interpretation.

Learning Outcomes : Students will be able to 1. raise meaningful questions in the area of cultural representation and interpretation with clear and precise formulation; 2. identify alternative systems of thought in the area of cultural representation and interpretation, and recognize and assess, as need be, their assumptions, implications, and practical consequences.

Indicative Content : Issues in the area of cultural representation and interpretation will be selected and discussed. Specific content may vary year from year.

Teaching Method : Lecture, seminar discussion, and students’ presentation.

Assessment : 100% continuous assessment, including class discussion, presentation and a term project.

Course title CUS512K Selected Topics in Cultural Representation and Interpretation : The legacies of the 20th Century - - Revising “The Sixties”电影和文学中的 60 年代

Course description 本课程拟从几组小说和电影文本入手，切入 20 世纪 60 年代的文化研究。60 年代作为 20 世纪一个最为重要和特殊年代，事实上成了 20 世纪的最重要的转折的十年。在这十年间，第三世界的独立建国运动，在名符其实地改变了世界地图的同时，改变着整个世界的格局。此间，古巴革命、古巴导弹危机、柏林墙、越南战争、西欧、东欧的学生民主运动、女权运动、美国的民权、民主运动、反战运动与反文化的大浪、中国长达十年之久的无产阶级文化大革命……无不撼动着现代文明的根基。然而，半个世纪过去，红色、炽烈的 60 年代却在不间断的遭审判、遭葬埋、被遗忘的同时，不断地被重写，作为迷人的怀旧表象不断地被复制再生产为可供消费的表象。因此，本课程拟以 60 年代的文化研究，尝试进入对于 21 世纪/今日世界仍十分重要而迫切的议题。

Course Plan 第一部分绪论：60 年代的断代和启示冷战格局与“序号第三”的世界 60 年代的多重视野遗忘与怀旧

电影《甘地传》、《万岁！玛丽娅》、《槐树庄》小说：《金色笔记》

第二部分青春的发明与无因的反抗有因/无因的反抗青春叙事 “做现实主义者，求不可能之事” 电影：《精疲力尽》、《邦尼和克莱德》、《无因的反抗》、《JFK》、《青春残酷物语》小说：《愤怒的青年》、《在路上》、《麦田的守望者》、《杀心萌动的那一年》、《带星星的火车票》诗歌：郭路生《相信未来》

第三部分切·格瓦拉，萨尔瓦多·阿连德和“广大的第三世界” 切·格瓦拉的标识第三世界：革命与困境独立与依附

电影《切：一个世纪的传奇》、《圣地亚哥在下雨》、《蜘蛛女之吻》、《半亩地》、《创业》小说：《蜘蛛女之吻》

第四部分无产阶级文化大革命：债务与遗产 “文革”再叙述失败的革命？创伤与幽灵电影《八九点钟的太阳》、《春苗》、《小街》、《太阳照常升起》、《1966,我的红卫兵时代》

第五部分后现代与 60 的表象后现代主义的悖论遗忘与消费 60 年代的遗产

电影《阳光灿烂的日子》、《梦想家》、《马戏团》、《阿甘正传》小说《动物凶猛》、《与青春有关的日子》

Reference

[英]塔里克·阿里(Tariq Ali) 苏珊·沃特金斯(Susan Watkins)《1968：反叛的年代》，山东画报出版社， 2003 年。 [法]安琪楼・夸特罗其，汤姆・奈仁《法国 1968：终结的开始》，赵刚译，三联书店，2001 [英]霍布斯邦（一译霍布斯鲍姆）《极端的年代：1914-1991》，郑明萱译，江苏人民出版社，南京， 1999。

王逢振主编《六十年代》（先锋译丛 3），天津社会学院出版社，天津，1999。 [法]皮埃尔·卡尔丰的《切·埃内斯托·格瓦拉：一个世纪的传奇》，王晓峰、张士赐、王长明、张萍译，太白文艺出版社，1999 年。 [美国]戴维·斯泰格沃德著《六十年代与现代美国的终结》，周朗译，商务印书馆 Felix Guattari and Toni Negri: Communists Like Us. Semiotext(E).

2008-09, Term 2 Class Schedule

Monday Friday Introduction: Class 1: 2 February Class 2: 20 February Unit 1 Class 3: 23 February Class 4: 27 February

Unit 2 Class 5: 2 March Class 6: 6 March Unit 3 Class 7: 9 March Class 8: 13 March [Reading week 16-19 March] Unit 4 Class 9: 20 March Class 10 23 March Unit 5 Class 11: 27 March Class 12: 30 March Conclusion Class 13: 3 April

Course outline: Workshop in Cultural Practices: Transformance

Course Code: CUS510C Term 3, 2008-2009: 13 June to 11 July 2009 Number of Credits: 3 Mode of Tuition: Workshop Class Contact Hours: 36 Category in Major Prog: Elective Pre-requisites: None Co-requisites: None Exclusions: None

Teaching dates and venues

Saturday and Sunday, 2pm-8pm June 13, 20, 27 and 28 Leung Fong Oi Wan Art Gallery (Please refer to No.2), 2/F, Main Building

July 4 and 11 Student Activities Centre (Please refer to No. 18d) at Multi-purpose Outdoor Sports Ground: Function room 1,2 and 3

For campus map, please refer to the following link http://www.ln.edu.hk/info- about/map/campusmap.pdf

When entering Student Activities Centre, the staff may check your Student ID card. It would be appreciated if you would bring your student ID card on 4 and 11 July.

Weather Regarding the Classes Arrangements on the Approach of Typhoon/Rainstorms, please visit http://www.ln.edu.hk/cultural/programmes/MCS/mcstyphoon.php. Classes will be rescheduled in case of bad weather, please reserve some time slots for class rescheduling.

Course Outline The course offers a foundation course in a new pedagogy and method of social change through personal and community action, called Transformance. This method aims to transform education and workplaces through community arts processes that nurture solidarity, cooperation and sustainable development.

Course Description These workshop processes demonstrate how to use and apply personal and collective storytelling, narrative dance and cooperative improvisation inside formal and informal education and diverse community contexts as techniques for individual and community transformation. These techniques are essential for building self-confidence and learning skills for intercultural communication and living in multicultural communities. They enable schools, universities and workplaces to use their creative human resources to create human communities and sustainable futures.

Aims Students will:

1. be introduced to the cultural and educational transformation practice based on personal and community stories; 2. learn how to design, implement and evaluate development processes based on dialogue and various artistic languages; 3. gain access to tools that are useful to bring about positive personal and community changes; 4. be equipped with critical skills to steer individual and group processes effectively; be empowered as effective change agents.

Teaching method Workshops supplemented by powerpoint presentations and continuous evaluation in pairs and groups.

Workshop aims

 to enable participants to apply ‘transformance’ techniques and processes;  to illustrate how these processes can generate communities in formal and informal education, and be used to train confident educators, art-educators and project leaders;  to discuss the potential challenges that can emerge with practitioners and theoreticians and understand how to resolve them.

Learning Outcomes Students will be able to 1. identify the importance of articulating project objectives with the planned actions; 2. design, implement and evaluate cultural projects effectively; 3. utilize tools introduced to critically reflect on previous/ongoing cultural practices.

Measurement of Learning Outcomes Scrutinizing students’ written evaluation reports, project proposal and transformance participation in the course workshop to examine whether students are able to

1. articulate a cultural project’s objectives with planned actions; 2. design, implement and evaluate a cultural project effectively; 3. reflect creatively and collectively on the learning process of the course; 4. critically assess the effects and limitations of previous or ongoing cultural practices.

Transformance Course Schedule and Content

Instructor: Dan Baron Cohen: [email protected]

13/6/2009, Sat (Art Gallery) Week 1: Creating a community stage of storytelling/storymaking based on dialogue, human rights and collective agreements. 20/6/2009, Sat (Art Gallery) Week 2: Understanding the principles and power of performance through dialogue based in dance narrative; 27/6/2009, Sat (Art Gallery) Week 3: Understanding how to create community action projects through personal storytelling in various artistic languages; 28/6/2009, Sun (Art Gallery) Week 4: Understanding cultural identity and difference to perform solidarity and transformation; 4/7/2009, Sat (Sport Centre) Week 5: Designing and presenting a group project of personal and community transformation; 11/7/2009, Sat (Sport Centre) Week 6: Placing the pedagogy in a global perspective to evaluate the Transformance course and methodology.

Required Reading

1. Introductory reading for Transformance Course (before week 1) 2. Dialogic performance: towards a pedagogy of transformance 3. Transformance: Learning to perform transformation 4. Transformance: Towards a Pedagogy of Self-determination 5. Transformance: Towards a Pedagogy for the 21st Century