ABSTRACT
The volume Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies Theory and Practice asks how the field has reconsidered and grown out of some of the basic premises of the discipline of Cultural Studies to address the many cultures of the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world. The historical, social and economic specificities of the contemporary Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world are tied to faster flows of global capital that depend on the uneven access of humans and goods to mobility, ever-adapting forms of racial repression and resistance, the transfer of information through new technologies, the changing role of culture in the era of the weakening nation state and the overarching specter of ecological collapse. How do these many aspects of twenty-first-century life demand a careful reconsideration of the basic underlying tenets of Cultural Studies? Is Cultural Studies as a discipline and working set of practices still recognizable or pertinent in the twenty-first century? What is worth keeping? What should be abandoned?
