Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)
Jamaican-born British sociologist and cultural theorist
Stuart McPhail Hall (3 February 1932 – 10 February 2014) was a Jamaican-born cultural theorist and sociologist.
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| Born | Stuart McPhail Hall 3 February 1932 |
| Died | 10 February 2014 (aged 82) |
| Cause of death | Kidney failure |
| Alma mater | Merton College (Oxford) |
| Known for | Articulation, oppositional decoding |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cultural Studies |
| Institutions | University of Birmingham and Open University |
| Influences | Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, Raymond Williams, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault |
Hall, with Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams, was one of the founding figures of British Cultural Studies.[1] He was President of the British Sociological Association 1995–97. In the 1950s Hall was a founder of the influential New Left Review.
Hall become a Professor of Sociology at the Open University.[2] Hall retired from the Open University in 1997 and was a Professor Emeritus.[3] British newspaper The Observer called him "one of the country's leading cultural theorists".[4]
Hall died on 10 February 2014, from complications following kidney failure a week after his eighty second birthday.[5][6]
Related pages
changeReferences
change- ↑ Procter, James 2004. Stuart Hall, Routledge Critical Thinkers.
- ↑ Chen, Kuan-Hsing. 1996. The formation of a diasporic intellectual: an interview with Stuart Hall in Stuart Hall: critical dialogues in cultural studies. David Morley and Kuan-Hsing Chen, eds: New York: Routledge.
- ↑ Stuart Hall: Culture and Power. Interview. Radical Philosophy, November/December 1998. Archived 2009-03-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Tim Adams. ""Cultural hallmark", The Observer. 22 September 2007". Guardian. Retrieved 2014-02-17.
- ↑ Hudson, Rykesha (10 February 2014). "Jamaican cultural theorist Stuart Hall dies, aged 82". The Voice. Archived from the original on 14 February 2014. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
- ↑ David Morley and Bill Schwarz, "Stuart Hall obituary: Influential cultural theorist, campaigner and founding editor of the New Left Review", The Guardian, 10 February 2014.
Other websites
change- Obituary in The Independent by Marcus Williamson
- John O'Hara interview with Stuart Hall for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Doubletake program, originally broadcast 5 May 1983: The Narrative Construction of Reality - Stuart Hall Archived 2008-08-08 at the Wayback Machine. Republished in centerforbookculture.org's "Context" online edition, No. 10. Retrieved on 2008-04-16.
- Mitchell, Don. Chapter 24: Stuart Hall. In: Key Thinkers on Space and Place. Phil Hubbard, Rob Kitchin, Gill Valentine (2004), pp. 160ff. ISBN 0-7619-4963-1.
- Marxist Media Theory
- A brief biography Archived 2007-01-01 at the Wayback Machine