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Resistance, Recuperation, and Reflexivity: The Limits of the Paradigm

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Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 12 (4): 403--422 (1995)
DOI: 10.1080/15295039509366948

Abstract

Since the early 1980s, the paradigm of resistance (which emerges from a particular reading of Antonio Gramsci's theory of hegemony) has enjoyed widespread popularity in the field of media studies. Arguing for understanding media studies as a field, in Pierre Bourdieu 's sense of the term, this article explores the analytical and political limits of this paradigm and, by extension, the intellectual vision that proceeds from it. The author focuses specifically on the problems that proceed from this textualist model by examining its internal limitations and the questions and lines of critical analysis it forecloses. Against this model, the author argues that Pierre Bourdieu 's sociological theory offers a necessary corrective to the lack of self-reflexivity and critical insight that has resulted from the domidnance of this paradigm within media studies.

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