For many across the globe, Stuart Hall’s name is synonymous with Cultural Studies, an interdisciplinary field of inquiry that he helped establish. An immigrant from Jamaica to Britain in the early 1950s, Hall’s work was deeply immersed in the political and cultural climate of his adopted country throughout his long career as scholar and teacher, activist and speaker. One who both learned from, and shaped, the most wide-ranging cultural and political shifts that he lived through, Hall was invariably open, eclectic, and inventive in his points of view. His work on identity and ethnicity since the early 1990s shaped multicultural debates in Britain and elsewhere. At a time when immigration is a hot button issue across Europe, Hall’s ability to occupy the “outsider” position makes his insights of continuing relevance.

His obituary can be read here —http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/10/stuart-hall?CMP=twt_gu