Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)
| Stuart Hall | |
|---|---|
| Born | Stuart Henry McPhail Hall 3 February 1932 Kingston, Colony of Jamaica |
| Died | 10 February 2014 (aged 82) London, England |
| Fields | Cultural Studies, Sociology |
| Institutions |
University of Birmingham Open University |
| Alma mater | Merton College, Oxford |
| Known for | Founder of New Left Review, Articulation, Encoding/decoding model of communication, Reception theory |
| Influences | Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, Raymond Williams, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault |
Stuart McPhail Hall, FBA (3 February 1932 – 10 February 2014) was a Jamaican-born cultural theorist, political activist and sociologist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1951. Hall, along with Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams, was one of the founding figures of the school of thought that is now known as British Cultural Studies or The Birmingham School of Cultural Studies.
In the 1950s Hall was a founder of the influential New Left Review. At the invitation of Hoggart, Hall joined the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University in 1964. Hall took over from Hoggart as acting director of the Centre in 1968, became its director in 1972, and remained there until 1979. While at the Centre, Hall is credited with playing a role in expanding the scope of cultural studies to deal with race and gender, and with helping to incorporate new ideas derived from the work of French theorists like Michel Foucault.
Hall left the centre in 1979 to become a professor of sociology at the Open University. He was President of the British Sociological Association 1995–97. Hall retired from the Open University in 1997 and was a Professor Emeritus. British newspaper The Observer called him "one of the country's leading cultural theorists". Hall was also involved in the Black Arts Movement. Movie directors such as John Akomfrah and Isaac Julien also see him as one of their heroes.
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