Cultural study

Cultural studies is an innovative interdisciplinary field of research and teaching that investigates the ways in which “culture” creates and transforms individual experiences, everyday life, social relations and power. Research and teaching in the field explores the relations between culture understood as human expressive and symbolic activities, and cultures understood as distinctive ways of life. Combining the strengths of the social sciences and the humanities, cultural studies draws on methods and theories from literary studies, sociology, communications studies, history, cultural anthropology, and economics. By working across the boundaries among these fields, cultural studies addresses new questions and problems of today’s world. Rather than seeking answers that will hold for all time, cultural studies develops flexible tools that adapt to this rapidly changing world.

Cultural studies brings to everyday life the same tools of analysis one finds in literary study.Advertisement,popular songs,television show,journalism,gaming all can be analyzed from a variety of critical perspectives.That is the case because they are imaginative artifacts that bear meaning.They are constructed using techniques similar to those used in film and literature such as narrative,metaphor,irony,framing and composition. As in literature,so in culture,meaning is borne by signs.Signs function because They embody codes that are shared by Cultural communities. Colonialism has been an integral part of the history of numerous nation in Asia,Africa and south America.European nations controlled much of the world's resources and populations from the seventeenth century,well into the twentieth.

Postcolonialism theory looks at the ways in which the non white races have been subject to oppression and exploration during colonial rule.It foregrounds questions of race in discussion about the west and the West's interaction (both past and present) with the east.It also looks at how the present age of globalization brings back memories of colonialism,albeit in a new frame and with never rhetoric and modes of exploltation.