Stuart Hall deals with media and mass culture, the New Right and racism, Marxist theory, and critical analyses of leftist politics. He developed the foundational principles of Cultural Studies and engaged with questions of postmodernism, globalization, and cultural identity. In his investigations into cultural politics, he follows in the footsteps of Gramsci, Althusser, and Derrida, exploring the complexity and historical change of concepts such as culture, identity, and difference. Cultural Studies, founded with the intention of making everyday life visible as a contested space, a site of resistance where the "minds and hearts" of people are fought over, has now become a global academic discipline. Stuart Hall successfully theorizes identity-forming practices as contested and permeated by power.