Cultural studies matters (does it?): engaging inter/disciplinarity

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One less fortunate effect of this inclusion within the Academy of the Humanities is a de-emphasis of cultural studies' deep embeddedness within the social sciences, which in the Australian context are separately institutionalised within the Academy of the Social Sciences.

In the Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification, established in 2008, Cultural Studies is grouped within the Division for Language, Communication and Culture (Division 20). Cultural Studies (FOR 2002) is subdivided into 13 subfields: 200201 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Studies; 200202 Asian Cultural Studies; 200203 Consumption and Everyday Life; 200204 Cultural Theory; 200205 Culture, Gender; Sexuality; 200206 Globalisation and Culture; 200207 Maori Cultural Studies; 200208 Migrant Cultural Studies; 200209 Multicultural, Intercultural and Cross-cultural Studies; 200210 Pacific Cultural Studies; 200211 Postcolonial Studies; 200212 Screen and Media Culture; and 200299 Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified.

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Ien Ang

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