Stuart HallThinkers

Articulation is a cultural unity of structured relations that recognizes that culture is made up of elements that are related as much through their differences as through their similarities.

Articulation is a form of cultural analysis that is also in part a form of activism in that marginalized groups who see within the framework of articulation are led to actively articulate their interests with others who are also marginalized.

Articulation is a method of cultural analysis conducted first by focusing on who is doing the speaking under examination and what their interests are. Second by listing all the things they are articulating [I..E. The things they are trying to bring together] (people, objects, discourses), third by identifying what commonality the speaker is creating out of these elements, fourthly by noting the erasures that make this creation of commonality possible, and lastly, by considering possible alternate articulations.

Articulation is a mode of analysis that examines someone's actions and or language for who they are trying to forge into an alliance with, for how strong that alliance is, and for how certain articulations of disparate elements are wrongly passed off as sharing particular interests.

Articulation is a mode of analysis that focuses on practice. That is, it is not an abstract analysis, but rather, there is always someone who is doing the articulation (speaking, organizing, advertising, etc.).

Articulation is a mode of cultural analysis that draws attention to the fact that the actual form which a culture takes represents only one of many of its possible arrangements. Culture is a thing more likened to a contingent arrangement of elements than to a living organism.

Articulation is a mode of cultural analysis that sees culture as composed of shifting linkages of otherwise unrelated elements (for example between an institution and an ideology).

Articulation is a way of understanding how -much like a semi-trailer can be unhooked and re-combined -culture is a matter of disparate elements (e.g., the institution of family with some abstract ideology) being continually combined into new cultural and social formations.

Articulation is an analytic approach stressing how a person or group tries to force different sorts of objects to act or to envision themselves as a group even though there are many indications that they are different.

Articulation is an analytic approach to how some person or group with specific interests tries to connect other people, groups, economic arrangements (what marx called means of production), ideas, and property to carry out their interests.

Articulation is rather than reducing everything to economics, a mode of analysis which focuses on how different elements are combined: Race, economics, sexuality, and language, for instance.

Articulation is concerned, for example, with how 'blackness' in Jamaica can be rearticuated such that it no longer signifies dispossessed, uncivilized, and incompetent but instead signifies soul brother, beautiful, solidarity with struggles for liberation, and the cultural essence of 'jamaican-ness'.