His research and eventual film work will explore how the influence of these committed intellectuals reverberated widely in the post-war cultural arena, eventually giving rise to an emerging discipline of «cultural studies», that, in its focus on popular art forms and vernacular traditions, posed considerable challenges to
the established academic elite of that time.
Not exact matches
The statement added: «If the theme of the year is to be successfully realized, it is imperative that platforms of national authorship and ownership be speedily
established to enable a cross session of ordinary Africans to connect with what is at present an abstract concept restricted to the ivory tower of the political
elite, bureaucrats and
academics.»
While there will always be opportunities for pure legal theorists, especially at the most
elite and
established law faculties, there is an increasing willingness among the
academic community to not only train their students on the use of technology in the classroom, but also participate directly in the development of this technology, often in an interdisciplinary relationship with other faculties (for example, the work we're doing with Duke Law).