ABSTRACT
Theorists and practitioners of divergent disciplines have increasingly committed themselves to addressing the ethical aspects of their work over the past few decades. A similar concern has recently emerged within cultural studies (Hebdige, 1985, 1987a; Williamson, 1986). A growing number of cultural theorists 1 have begun to recognize that the ethical issues raised by or implicit in their research deserve critical attention and analysis. As in other disciplines, the ethical issues that arise are unique—overdetermined by the specific conditions within which they arise. For cultural studies, it is the recent engagement with postmodernism that has brought questions of ethics to the surface and prompted debates over the constitution of the subject and the problems and possibilities of a politics.
