The Critical Lede

Take a listen to our interview with Norm as we discuss his upcoming book from Left Coast Press, The Qualitative Manifesto: A Call to Arms.

 

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Take a listen to our review of Swift’s Herbert Marcuse and the New Left: Dialectic and Rhetoric in RSQ.

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In this podcast we review our first piece from Qualitative Inquiry and discuss the challenges of reviewing an authethnographic piece.

Also, we gave a shout out to The Rosewater Chronicles discussion the new editor of CC/CS and what that means for communication studies.

In this episode we discuss Ted Striphas' excellent article "Acknowledged Goods: Cultural Studies and the Politics of Academic Journal Publishing". In this article Ted turns a critical eye on the process of producing academic articles. This is a must read for anyone doing critical/cultural scholarship.

We discuss Shauna McDonald's article in Text and Peformance Quarterly titled " Out of the Pit: The Culture of Memorializing Miner-Martyrs." It is an interesting look at the performance of remembering national heroes.

In this episode we review Claire Sisco King's article "It Cuts Both Ways: Fight Club, Abject Masculinity, and Abject Hegemony" In Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies.

In this episode we review the article "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing: Framing Celebrity Impersonator Performances" from the recent TPQ. It is an interesting Goffman analysis of celebrity impersonators.

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