ABSTRACT
I begin by signalling my departure from Eurocentric and Anglocentric cultural studies, which needs to change gear and slow down. But it would be foolish for me to give up cultural studies entirely. This critique is thus offered from within and without; strongly motivated to win friends and alliances, among ‘those friends with whom, out of a different loyalty, I must now openly disagree’ (Sivanandan, 1990). I want eventually to propose a ‘new’ internationalist localism in cultural studies; a strategic manoeuvring.
