ABSTRACT
Critical psychologists have turned their attention to the consideration of culture with an agenda that in many respects mirrors the reconfiguration of culture throughout the humanities. Issues of cultural politics and the examination of relationships between culture, power and subjectivity are key to this agenda (hooks, 1991; Mirza, 1997; Said, 1993). A body of research studies now exist which share a concern for understanding culture as structures of shared knowledge, experience, beliefs and meaning, in their subtlety and range of variation, and the ways in which these find public and accessible expression through not only speech, but also music, the arts and other communicative forms (Hannerz, 1992).
