Cases of Intervention: The Great Variety of British Cultural Studies

Cases of Intervention offers new perspectives on the case study as a research tool with a long-standing tradition in British cultural studies. Despite this significance, it has hardly ever been explicitly reflected upon as a method, but in this volume it takes centre stage. Scholars from interdisciplinary fields have written succinctly on diverse topics; the eleven case studies are comprehensible and lucid applications of theoretical approaches to topics such as the “British” cup of tea, CCTV and monarchs on film.

This book will give readers the opportunity to discover the broad spectrum of approaches that make British cultural studies an indispensable discipline for discourses in academia and beyond. Each case study presented here illuminates the relationship between cultural practices and theory. By choosing cases embedded in everyday life, the focus of each contribution is on the potential of pragmatic intervention.