A Politics of the Emergent.

The article discusses the developments attending cultural studies in South Africa. The institutionalization of cultural studies in the country is a byproduct of several debates on cultural study coming from various sources and by the inherent history of the country itself. Several school of thoughts exist which attempts to define cultural studies in South Africa including the theory which perceived it as the study of areas of culture largely ignored by other disciplines, specifically focusing on transient rather than a permanent form and the theory which viewed it as an academic site for marginal or minority discourses.