Stuart Hall died

Today, February 10, in London, at the age of 82, Stuart Hall, the sociologist of culture and mass communications, one of the founders of cultural studies died.

It is reported by The Guardian .

Stuart Hall was born on Jamaica in 1931, in 1951 he moved to the UK, graduated from Oxford University, was preparing to defend the dissertation in literature, but international events - the suppression of the Hungarian uprising and the Suez crisis - changed its plans. Hall decided to engage in politics.

In 1960, together with Reimond Williams and Richard Hoggart, he became one of the founders and editors of the theoretical magazine New Left Review . In 1964, he began working as a center for modern cultural research in Birmingham, in 1968 he became its director.

Since the mid-1960s, Hall has published a number of key articles, including “Situating Marx: Evaluations and Departures” (1972), “Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse” (1973), became the co -author CRISIS ” (1978) and “ Resistance Through Rituals ” (1975).

In these years, Hall developed a fundamentally new concept of cultural studies based on an interdisciplinary approach to the study of culture and society, combining the elements of the ideas of Marx, Gramsha, Altusser and others, paid special attention to the sociology of protest cultures, mass communications and popular literature.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Hall actively collaborated with Marxism Today , in 1995 founded the Academic Journal of Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture .

From 1979 to 1997, Stuart Hall served as a professor at an open university. This period includes its work “The Hard Road to Renewal” (1988), “Formats of Modernity” (1992), “Questions of Cultural Identity” (1996) “Cultural ReprySentions and Signifing Practices ” (1997), devoted to such processes and phenomena of modern society as hybridization, westernization, identity, race and multiculturalism.