Rest in Peace dear Stuart Hall, the god of cultural studies…

Stuart Hall

The Guardian – ?29 minutes ago?
When Richard Hoggart founded the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University in 1964, he invited Stuart Hall, who has died aged 82, to join him as its first research fellow. Four years later Hall became acting director and, in 1972

Jamaican cultural theorist Stuart Hall dies, aged 82

The Voice Online – ?1 hour ago?
Last autumn, Hall was brought to the big screen, in The Stuart Hall Project, a documentary and labour of love from acclaimed director John Akomfrah, for whom the academic is a personal hero. Akomfrah said: ?Stuart Hall was one of the few people of colour

DVD Review: The Stuart Hall Project

Thenationalstudent – ?3 hours ago?
Stuart Hall pioneered cultural studies at Birmingham University and became one of the most influential academics of the late twentieth century. This film, directed by John Akomfrah, pays an earnest and often fascinating tribute to Hall, harnessing a wealth of
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Stuart Hall (cultural theorist) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hall_(cultural_theorist)?

Stuart Hall (3 February 1932 ? 10 February 2014) was a cultural theorist and sociologist who has lived and worked in the United Kingdom since 1951.

 

Jeremy Gilbert reflects on the life and work of Stuart Hall, who died Monday aged 82.

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Stuart Hall has died. The enormity of the loss cannot be exaggerated. There is little point trying to measure Hall?s importance against other significant figures: he himself would have abhorred the macho individualism of such a gesture. But it has been a long time since the intellectual Left in the UK has experienced such a loss, or one more keenly feared by those who may have anticipated it. I am not going to repeat here much of the information contained in the superb obituary penned by my colleagues, Bill Schwarz and David Morley, and I encourage readers to refer there first if they are unfamiliar with the basic narrative of Hall?s life and career.

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