Chris Barker in Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice remarks on the interdisciplinary nature of the discipline: “Cultural Studies is not only interdisciplinary but postdisciplinary in the sense that there is a willing ‘blurring' of boundaries between itself and other subjects.” Cultural Studies has been celebrated by its proponents as one of the most interdisciplinary fields in the humanities and social sciences. And the detractors have found the interdisciplinary too shifting with too many borrowings from different disciplines. Barker therefore calls it a postdisciplinary domain where “there is no claim to any originality here, only the forming of new patterns and ways of seeing.” We also recall that the political aspect of cultural studies is the most important aspect in the sense that this is the aspect that distinguishes it from all other domains.

Barker says that one of the ways by which we may argue against a disciplinary framework for the domain is by rephrasing the question “What is Cultural Studies?” Instead, we need to ask:

•  “How do we talk about cultural studies?

•  What are the purposes of cultural studies?

•  Where are the practices of cultural studies located?”