Cultural studies

![CDATA[Cultural studies' is a familiar presence in intellectual discourse today, but there is little agreement about what it stands for. As John Hartley recently observed, the field is riven by fundamental disagreements about what cultural studies is for, in whose interests it is done, what theories, methods and objects of study are proper to it, and where to set its limits (Hartley, 2003: p. 1). Such admissions od dissensus and uncertainty are typical of cultural studies. Indeed, boundary disputes (including disputes about its own boundaries) are intrinsic to cultural studies.]]