Stuart Hall: dai Cultural Studies alla riflessione postcoloniale

This essay is focused on Stuart Hall’s 1950s seminal research on the meaning, and uses of culture. After reworking Gramsci’s key concepts, Hall found fertile research ground in post-colonial contexts, with particular reference to marginal and diasporic relationship structures. Through the study of marginalized people integration processes, and of the modifications they brought about in particular socio-economic contexts, Hall built a theory of the political significance of new cultural identities.