Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)
Jamaican-born British sociologist and cultural theorist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Stuart McPhail Hall (3 February 1932 – 10 February 2014) was a Jamaican-born cultural theorist and sociologist.
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Stuart Hall | |
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Born | Stuart McPhail Hall (1932-02-03)3 February 1932 |
Died | 10 February 2014(2014-02-10) (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 |
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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]