Unless some realm of human activity can be roughly delimited _in distinction from_ other fundamental realms of human activity, and that realm labelled "culture," it is difficult to see how "Cultural Studies" has any content other than the demand of some sectors of academia that they have departmental sovereignty.
What makes this different from any other discioline? Is "society" different from "politics" in a way that explains the difference berween sociology and political science? Is "the economy" something analytically distinct from "the state" or "society," such that we have economics? Why can'y you writea philosophy dissertation on Montesquieu or Machiavelli or the Federalist, apart from the fact taht those writers haven't historically been studied by philosophers? Fact of the matter is, none of these terms is any worse off than culture, and all have only a historically located and contextual meaning. As for disciplinary boundaries, all there si too them is institutioanal history. That is not necesasrily a bad thng. jks
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