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Studies Areas and Major Theorists  \n.Graeme Turner  \nCultural Materialism     \n·Manuel Catells  \n●Raymond Williams  \n● Richard Dyer  \n·Jonathan Dollimore  \n·Alan Sinfield  \n# Space and Cultural Studies \n\n·Guy Debord  \n# Cyberfeminism    \n\n·Michel Foucault  \n·Donna Haraway  \n.Henri Lefebvre  \n·Susanna Paasonen  \n●David Harvey  \n·N.Katherine Hayles  \n●Edward Soja  \n●Radhika Gajjala  \n·Sadie Plant  \n# Queer Studies     \n\n·Alan Sinfield  \nPosthumanism      \n·Mildred Berryman  \n·Manfred E.Clynes  \n●bell hooks  \n·N.Katherine Hayles  \n●Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick  \n●Donna Haraway  \n·Adrienne Rich  \n●Pramod K.Nayar  \n.Sara Ahmed  \n·Michael Warner  \n# Media studies &Media Theory\n\n.Robert McRuer  \n●Angela McRobbie  \n·Alan McKee  \n● Jonathan Dollimore  \n●bell hooks  \n·Annamarie Jagose  \n·John Berger  \n·Joan Riviere  \n● Susan Sontag  \n·Marshall McLuhan  \n·Jean Baudrillard  \n# Cultural History    \n\n·Gary Hall  \n●E.P.Thompson  \n●Bob Hodge  \n.Catherine 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