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We would like to thank our publisher at Sage, Julia Hall, for her patience during the long gestation of this book. At the Nottingham Trent University we would particularly like to thank Olwyn Ince for her careful attention in formatting the book and completing the bibliography; and Nichola Hudson for her bibliographic assistance in the early stages. Our thanks also go to successive groups of students on the Postgraduate Research Practice course, whose lively critical discussions of ideas that were being 'tried out' was invaluable. Finally, we would like to thank our faculty for granting sabbaticals that enabled us to work on this book. The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University provided the intellectual space for the development of some of the ideas expressed here. We note the unwarranted closure of its successor, The Department of Sociology and Cultural Studies, with great sadness. ContentsAcknowledgements v 'Inside culture': cultural research as a cultural circuit Objectivism, self and other From 'standpoint' to 'positionalities' Making claims to truth: conventions and truthfulness Is truth only a convention then? 'Reflexivity' versus the confessional Realizing reflexivity: social, spatial, temporal and cultural aspects Dialogue and difference Accountability and responsibilities Conclusion: the logic of combination The research process: moments and strategies Choosing and Developing a topic Starting Managing time Working with others: supervisors and peers Reviewing the literature, mapping the field Developing research proposals General models of researching Starting from a source not data? Sources and questions Research, analysis and textuality Contextualization and creating a distance Writing as a moment -functions and forms Diversity in the writing process: planning and writing Writing and the autobiographical voice Writing ethics and politics: authorial power and its deployment Conclusion 6 Make space! Spatial dimensions in cultural research Bringing place and space into focus Complicated spatialities Theoretical tools for researching spatiality Spatiality as a metaphor for power Virtual spaces, technologized places Complex places Bringing it all together again: transdisciplinary integrations Conclusion: the return of abstraction viii C O N T E N T S 7 Time please! Historical perspectives Thinking about time Writing cultural histories part I: radical popular histories Writing cultural histories part II: history's cultural turn The argument so far: history and cultural studies -convergence and tension Public representations of the past and popular memory Thinking historically: historicizing theory Historicizing the present ConclusionSimilarly, in terms of readership, this is not intended as a book for cultural studies students and teachers only. It is also for readers who are interested in a tendency to the cultural in their own discipline or who want to pursue a cultural topic in a dissertation or a thesis. For these readers we seek to introduce cultural studies (see especially Cha...

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