Italian alterdisciplinarity

Calefato, Patrizia 2015. Italian alterdisciplinarity. JOMEC Journal (8) , pp. 1-11. 10.18573/j.2015.10028

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyse the consequences, problems and possible opportunities derived from the absence of Cultural Studies as a specific and autonomous ‘discipline’ in the Italian University, despite its wide diffusion across various academic subjects since the 1970s. I start my analysis from two ‘rupture texts’: Mario Perniola’s relevant essay entitled ‘Chi ha paura degli studi culturali?’ (2000) (‘Who is afraid of Cultural Studies?’) and the website/volume entitled Studi Culturali (2003-2004), edited by Michele Cometa. Both texts focused on what had (not) happened in the Italian University in the last decades of the 20th century and envisioned inter- or alter-disciplinary perspectives for the future. Over just the same period, however, from the late 1990s to the early 2000s,a problem occurred: the Italian university started its structural transformation from the Humboldtian model to the neoliberal model. Thus, is there a possible actua(bi)lity for Cultural Studies in Italy? What resistant pedagogical and interventional practices already exist, and what need to be built in totally different forms? I will try to respond to these questions focusing, above all, on the communicative dimension of the critical method of Cultural Studies, choosing Fashion Theory and Social Semiotics as case studies.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Subjects:	L Education > LB Theory and practice of education L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2361 Curriculum L Education > LF Individual institutions (Europe)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Italian academic discourse Cultural studies Social sciences Fashion theory Trans-disciplinarity
Additional Information:	JOMEC Journal no. 8 is a special issue, entitled "Italian Cultural Studies" and edited by Floriana Bernardi.
Publisher:	Cardiff University Press
ISSN:	2049-2340
Related URLs:	Organisation
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Last Modified:	05 May 2023 12:58
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/83392

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