Stuart Hall Foundation Award
About the prize
This award, a collaboration between the Stuart Hall Foundation and the Routledge, Taylor & Francis journal Cultural Studies, seeks to recognize the article by an early career scholar that best captures, and/or makes the most significant contribution to, cultural studies as Stuart Hall envisioned it:
- a rigorous intellectual investigation in the service of political struggle and transformation
- that engages in a self–reflective conversation between theory and empirical realities
- that starts with the contingency of actually existing relations and structures to ask how they were made and whether and how they could be made differently
- that accepts the complexity of any context or phenomenon, and refuses any form of reductionism
- that thinks contextually about the contexts of lived realities
Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies is an international journal which explores the relation between cultural practices, everyday life, material, economic, political, geographical and historical contexts. It fosters more open analytic, critical and political conversations by encouraging people to push the dialogue into fresh, uncharted territory.
Submission Instructions
While it could be an advantage if essays show some familiarity with Stuart Hall’s work and writings, this is not a necessary condition for the award. The award seeks to further Stuart’s interests, commitments and spirit as a political intellectual.
In order to qualify for this award, eligible candidates must be undergraduate or graduate students or scholars who received their PhD fewer than seven years prior to submission. In some years, the award may not be presented.
Articles will be shortlisted by the Journal’s Editors from papers published in the annual volume of the journal. The shortlist will then be evaluated by a panel comprising members of the Stuart Hall Foundation’s Scholarship & Fellowships Sub-Committee, and the Cultural Studies Editors-in-Chief.
Announcement for 2020 Prize (2019 Volume)
The awarding committee, consisting of editorial board members Sarah Sharma (University of Toronto, Canada), Raka Shome (Villanova University, USA), Editor-in-Chief Ted Striphas, and trustees from the Stuart Hall Foundation’s Academic Committee, is pleased to have selected Jamie Hakim’s “The Rise of Chemsex: Queering Collective Intimacy in Neoliberal London” (Cultural Studies 33.2 - March 2019) from among 15 eligible essays.
| Year | Author(s) | Article Title | Volume | Issue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Jamie Hakim | The Rise of Chemsex: Queering Collective Intimacy in Neoliberal London | 33 | 2 |
| 2019 | Eduardo Restrepo | Talks and disputes of racism in Colombia after multiculturalism | 32 | 3 |
| 2018 | Bohyeong Kim | Think rich, feel hurt: the critique of capitalism and the production of affect in the making of financial subjects in South Korea | 31 | 5 |
| 2017 | Laura Junka-Aikio | Can the Sámi speak Now? Deconstructive research ethos and the debate on who is a Sámi in Finland | 30 | 2 |