Hallmarks: The Cultural Politics and Public Pedagogies of Stuart Hall

This provocative, interdisciplinary, and transnational collection delves deeply into the educational and public intellectual hallmarks of Stuart M. Hall, a core figure in the development of the post-War British New Left, of Cultural Studies at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and later, of the Open University. It opens new vistas on both critical educational studies and cultural studies through interviews with, and essays by, leading writers, shedding light on the under-appreciated public pedagogical and cultural politics of the New Left, of Thatcherism, and of Rightist, neo-colonial, diasporic, and neo-liberal formations in Jamaica, the UK, Australia, North America, and Brazil. Intimate and moving, the contributors describe Hall's diasporic formation as a courageous 'artist' and educator of cultural politics and social movements, showing both the reach and the relevance of his public pedagogies in the construction of alternatives to essentialist racial politics and the despairing cynicism of neo-liberalism. With contributors and interviewees including Leslie G. Roman, Michael W. Apple, Avtar Brah, John Clarke, Annette Henry, Lawrence Grossberg, Luis Gandin, and Fazal Rizvi, Hallmarks: The Cultural Politics and Public Pedagogies of Stuart Hall reveals that neither cultural politics nor public pedagogies are stable or self-evident constructs. Each legitimates and requires the other as part of a longer radical democratic project for social justice. This book was originally published as a special issue of Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.

Leslie G. Roman is Professor of Educational Studies, Killam Fellow, and Affiliate of the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. She is author and co-editor of Becoming Feminine: The Politics of Popular Culture (Falmer Press, 1988), Views Beyond the 'Border Country: Raymond Williams and Cultural Politics (Routledge, 1992), and Dangerous Territories: Struggles for Difference and Equality in Education (Routledge, 1997). Her book, Contested Knowledge will appear shortly with Rowman & Littlefield.

Preface Introduction - 'Keywords': Stuart Hall, an extraordinary educator, cultural politics and public pedagogies Part I: Conjunctural thinking 1. Understanding and interrupting hegemonic projects in education: learning from Stuart Hall 2. Conjunctural thinking - 'pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will': Lawrence Grossberg remembers Stuart Hall 3. Making and moving publics: Stuart Hall's projects, maximal selves and education Part II: Diasporic thinking 4. 'Nostalgia for what cannot be': an interpretive and social biography of Stuart Hall's early years in Jamaica and England, 1932-1959 5. Diasporic reasoning, affect, memory and cultural politics: An interview with Avtar Brah 6. Stuart Hall on racism and the importance of diasporic thinking Part III: Articulation in theory and practice 7. Stuart Hall and the theory and practice of articulation 8. The contribution of Stuart Hall to analyzing educational policy and reform