Global cultures

In this unit you will explore what popular culture can tell us about globalisation and global studies.  Film, music, print and digital media, video games, and other forms of popular culture are significant parts of people’s identities and how they experience and shape global flows of knowledge and ideas. You will investigate how people across the globe produce and consume popular culture through the practices and rituals of everyday life. You will examine the ways in which popular culture reflects particular political contexts, and how meanings are recreated as popular cultural products travel across space and time. Through case studies and examples across different languages, places and cultures, you will also explore the politics of popular culture, and identify and analyse how cultural forms challenge and/or reinforce dominant global narratives around inequality, injustice and intolerance.