JUST PUBLISHED: Volume 29 Issue 2 of the European Journal of Cultural Studies.
Special Issue: Culture as Foundational
Guest editors: Justin O'Connor, Kate Oakley, and Tully Barnett
Read it on our website (link in bio).
In this issue:
* Justin O'Connor, Kate Oakley, and Tully Barnett on culture as foundational
* Abigail Gilmore, Ben Eltham, and Claire Burnill-Maier on re-performing statistics and the foundational economy
* Kate Oakley on English football fans and the European Super League
* Sebastian Olma on hauntological lessons for a foundational culture
* Julian Meyrick on the public realm from Hannah Arendt's 'The Human Condition' to the Bennett Institute repor
* Justin O'Connor on global cultural policy at the crossroads
* Sarah Banet-Weiser and Jilly Boyce Kay on feminism and reactionary politics
* Liang Ge on the Haitang Incident 2024 and the ugliness of danmei culture/industry
* Karina Horsti reviewing Margreth Lünenborg's and Birgitt Röttger-Rössler's (eds) 'Affective Formation of Publics: Places, Networks, and Media'
* Weiru Cheng reviewing Antonio A Casilli's 'Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation'
* Yiu-Wai Chu reviewing Yiu Fai Chow's, Jeroen de Kloet's and Leonie Schmidt's '‘It’s My Party’: Tat Ming and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong'
#europeanjournalofculturalstudies #ecs #journal #newissue #culturalstudies #academia #academic #specialissue
Drawing on 64 interviews across two anonymised case studies of television dramas, Beth Johnson (@Universityofleeds ), Laura Minor (@salforduni ), Dave O’Brien (@officialuom ) and Anna Viola Sborgi (@Universityofleeds ) show how broadcast-era stability and platform-era precarity produce distinct, classed dispositions towards skill, authority and cultural value.
Read the full article #onlinefirst in the European Journal of Cultural Studies.
#television #broadcasting #bbc #mediastudies #televisionstudies
"This work demonstrates how postfeminism has been able to adapt and thrive in a culture of crisis, making a vital contribution to the multiplex field of contemporary feminisms and their entanglements with popular culture."
You can find the full #bookreview of @ohmygrrrl ’s "Feminisms and Domesticity in Times of Crisis" (@Bloomsburybooksus , 2025), written by Isabel Sykes, in @ejcs_journal now!
"In other words, ideas of rebellion and disruption of the status quo are now more frequently associated with the populist right than with the left in Western liberal democracies."
In this #onlinefirst research article, @Francesconasi (@unibo ) argues that right-wing populist forces gradually colonized the political imaginary of rebellion. Read the full article here: /10.1177/13675494261432712
Goes well with flowers and cards: A selection of articles on motherhood from the archive of @ejcs_journal for International Mother’s Day!
#mothersday #motherhood #academia #culturalstudies #research
"Despite recognising the possibilities that creative, literary, and cultural methods offer to sociological analyses of mobility, the authors stop short of engaging the radical potential of autosociobiography as an aesthetic form and mode of social critique."
In our #CulturalCommons section, Maria Rovisco (@Universityofleeds ) responds to the article "Autosociobiography and social mobility" by Sam Friedman, Mike Savage and Carlos Spoerhase.
Lin Song (University of Melbourne, Australia) reviewed Shana Leodar Ye's 'Queer Chimerica' for us.
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#bookreview #culturalstudies #acwri #academicwriting #queer #chimerica #autoethnography #ethnography
Sourav Saha (Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, India) and Shyamkiran Kaur (Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, India) reviewed Zahra Stardust's 'Indie Porn' for us.
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#bookreview #culturalstudies #acwri #academicwriting #indieporn
In "The irony of aging graffiti writers: Negotiating subcultural identities through Internet memes", Malcolm Jacobson (@malcolmjacobson.se , @stockholmuniversity ) examines how Internet memes about graffiti are used to negotiate cultural meanings of aging within a youth-coded subculture.
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#culturalstudies #academicwriting #journal #article #graffiti #memes #subcultures
In "Reconfiguring identities through the sacred: Mythic counterstorytelling and caste reality in Varanasi", Pritha Chakraborty (@amityunibengaluru_official ) and Mini Chandran (@_iit_kharagpur_ ) expand and incorporate Richard Delgado’s concept of counterstorytelling to underline the cultural, political and paradoxical implications of Dalit counternarratives.
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#culturalstudies #acwri #newarticle #journal #myths #storytelling #counternarratives #counterstorytelling
In "Legitimate grief, illegitimate protest in times of conjuncture? The moral governance of German Staatsräson on solidarity with Palestine", Hannah Weinmann (@hannah.wnn , @kuleuven ) and Luuc Brans (@kuleuven ) examine how remembrance culture, racialisation and decolonial struggle intersect to redefine the moral boundaries of legitimate protest and belonging in contemporary Germany. The authors demonstrate that Germany’s contemporary national identity is shaped by the selective recognition of suffering and the marginalisation of dissenting solidarities, in effect reproducing colonial hierarchies of life and loss.
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#culturalstudies #acwri #journal #article #conjuncture #stuarthall #germanstudies #decolonialism #postcolonialism
In "Cultural intermediaries of the green transition? European cultural networks and the balancing act of an emerging social role", Matina Magkou (@univ_cotedazur ) and Olga Kolokytha (@unikrems ) examine the role of European cultural networks as cultural intermediaries in the green transition within European Union context, where climate action is being mainstreamed in all policy fields, including culture. It contributes to discussions on environmental sustainability in the cultural and creative sectors, the contemporary cultural politics of the environment and the expanded social and political roles of cultural intermediaries.
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#culturalstudies #academia #journal #newarticle #europe #eu #greentransition #sustainability
