Topic: Choose 3 separate readings from the assigned subject readings from weeks 1 to 5 and write approx. 400 Words of each reading

Order Description
There are 11 different readings. choose 3 readings from weeks 1 to 5 and provide an account of the reading that summarizes its main arguments and evaluates its claims (i.e., are they plausible, persuasive, well-founded). This includes providing definitions of key concepts as appropriate (e.g., ‘invented tradition’, ‘over-determined’, etc.). The 3 readings must be from different weeks (you cannot choose 2 readings from the same week).

Week 1 Introduction
Stuart Hall, 1980 “Cultural Studies – Two Paradigms”, Media Culture and Society, 2, pp 57—72.

Stuart Hall, 1992 “Cultural Studies and its Theoretical Legacies” in Grossberg et al (eds) Cultural Studies, London: Routledge, pp 277-294.
John Frow, 2005 “Australian Cultural Studies”, Australian Humanities Review 37, https://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/archive/Issue-December-2005/frow.html

Week 2 Australia Day
Meaghan Morris, 1993 “Panorama: The Live, the Dead and the Living” in G Turner (ed) Nation, Culture, Text, London: Routledge, 19-58
Linn Miller and Jeff Malpas, 2011 “On the Beach: Between the Cosmopolitan and the Parochial” in K Jacobs and J Malpas (eds). Ocean to Outback Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Australia, Perth: UWA Press, pp 123-149.

Week 3 Beach
John Fiske, 1989 “Reading the Beach” in J Fiske Reading the Popular, London: Unwin Hyman, pp 34-62.

Belinda Wheaton, 2013 “Surfing, Identity and Race” in B Wheaton The Cultural Politics of Lifestyle Sports, London: Routledge, pp 138-162.

Week 4 Travel
John Urry and Jonas Larsen 2011 “Theories” in J Urry & J Larsen The Tourist Gaze 3.0, London: Sage, pp 1-30.

James Clifford, 1997 “Travelling Cultures” in J Clifford, Routes, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Daniel Boorstin, 1992 “From Traveler to Tourist” in D Boorstin, The Image, NY: Vintage Books, pp 77-117.

Week 5 Taste
Luce Giard 1998 “Plat du Jour” in M de Certeau et al The Practice of Everyday Life 2: Living and Cooking, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp 171-198