%0 Journal Article %1 dworkin_paul_2009 %A Dworkin, Dennis %D 2009 %J Rethinking History %K cultural-studies cultural-theory externalist gilroy intellectual marxism race united-kingdom %N 4 %P 521--539 %R 10.1080/13642520903293128 %T Paul Gilroy and the Cultural Politics of Decline %V 13 %X Paul Gilroy has been an influential cultural theorist and scholar, but he has also been important to wider debates concerning decline and identity in contemporary Britain, Gilroy's contention that contemporary Britain suffered from postcolonial melancholia built on some of his earliest published work. Gilroy has been a trenchant critic of the early British cultural-studies tradition, but his simultaneous attention to structure and agency, focus on modes of dominance and resistance, privileging of historicity and counterhistory, and exploration of the politics of representation, suggests connections with that tradition as well. In stretching and reconceiving the cultural Marxist tradition, Gilroy has simultaneously demonstrated its continued legacy for historical theory and practice.

@article{dworkin_paul_2009, abstract = {Paul Gilroy has been an influential cultural theorist and scholar, but he has also been important to wider debates concerning decline and identity in contemporary Britain, Gilroy's contention that contemporary Britain suffered from postcolonial melancholia built on some of his earliest published work. Gilroy has been a trenchant critic of the early British cultural-studies tradition, but his simultaneous attention to structure and agency, focus on modes of dominance and resistance, privileging of historicity and counterhistory, and exploration of the politics of representation, suggests connections with that tradition as well. In stretching and reconceiving the cultural Marxist tradition, Gilroy has simultaneously demonstrated its continued legacy for historical theory and practice.}, added-at = {2019-08-29T01:56:31.000+0200}, author = {Dworkin, Dennis}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2df23fba9f13e13d1e7013c0018165dc9/jpooley}, doi = {10.1080/13642520903293128}, interhash = {aa387aff138fbc46eb903e2a5a61c34e}, intrahash = {df23fba9f13e13d1e7013c0018165dc9}, journal = {Rethinking History}, keywords = {cultural-studies cultural-theory externalist gilroy intellectual marxism race united-kingdom}, month = dec, number = 4, pages = {521--539}, timestamp = {2019-08-29T01:56:31.000+0200}, title = {Paul {{Gilroy}} and the {{Cultural Politics}} of {{Decline}}}, volume = 13, year = 2009 }