Cultural politics is a research area that examines how cultural practices, beliefs, and values shape and are shaped by political processes. It investigates how cultural symbols, meanings, and identities influence political behavior, policies, and institutions. Scholars in this field analyze the role of language, art, media, religion, and other cultural forms in shaping political discourse, power dynamics, and social relations. Cultural politics also explores issues of representation, identity politics, and cultural hegemony in the context of globalization, nationalism, multiculturalism, and other contemporary social phenomena. Overall, cultural politics seeks to understand how culture intersects with politics to create and contest social meanings and power structures.