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‘Comrade unknown to me’: colonialism, modernity, and conjunctural translation in Familiar Stranger Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-16 Yutaka Yoshida
This essay considers the possibility of what I would call conjunctural translation. While literal translation has accelerated cultural ethnocentrism as well as settler colonial violence, conjunctur...
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Translating Familiar Stranger into German: the particularities of the historical, cultural and political context Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-16 Victor Rego Diaz, Natascha Khakpour, Jan Niggemann, Ingo Pohn-Lauggas, Nora Räthzel
The translation of Familiar Stranger by Stuart Hall into German was a particular challenge, especially with regard to the concept of race. Hall uses the term ‘race’ to fan out the countless cultura...
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The weather proxy: the racial technics of algorithmic surveillance Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Gary Kafer
This article examines the political work performed by the weather within contemporary big data predictive analytics. As a sociotechnical construction, the weather has long served as a predictive me...
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Performing heritage at Cordoba’s Mosque-Cathedral Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Mar Griera, Avi Astor, Marian Burchardt
This article explores the politics of cultural heritage in societies experiencing secularization and religious diversification by examining recent efforts made by Cordoba's Cathedral Chapter to emp...
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Uncovering the uncoverers: identity, performativity and representation in counter-disinformation discourse Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Stephen C. Hutchings
Treating counter-disinformation activities as a discursive practice producing knowledge in specific cultural and historical contexts, this article brings a vital cultural studies perspective to an ...
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The politics of media scarcity Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-28 Beatrys Rodrigues
Published in Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Black Space: Negotiating Race, Diversity, and Belonging in the Ivory Tower Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-28 Nana Afua Yeboaa Brantuo
Published in Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Communication and electoral politics in Ghana: interrogating transnational technology, discourse, and multimodalities Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Dominic Awini Asitanga
Published in Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Crisis vision: race and the cultural production of surveillance Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Atilla Hallsby
Published in Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The political economy of Egyptian media: business and military elite power and communication after 2011 Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Nihal El Aasar
Published in Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Mean girl feminism: how white feminists gaslight, gatekeep, and girlboss Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Sahar Saadat
Published in Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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God’s wealth, legal frames, and the question of material and immaterial heritage: the case of Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in Kerala, India Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Anindita Chakrabarti, Ayushi Dube, Shriram Venkatraman
Analyzing the battle over Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple’s enormous treasure, the paper documents the litigious journey of the concept of sacred possession and heritage. It shows how the evolving and ...
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The future of religious pasts: religion and cultural heritage-making in a secular age – introduction Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Marian Burchardt, Nur Yasemin Ural
The question of how to symbolize collective identities in an age marked by both nationalist fervor and diversity politics has dominated public debates and highlighted the political role of religion...
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Repressive suspicion, or: the problem with conspiracy theories Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Philip R. Conway
Conspiracy culture cultivates suspicion towards the hidden workings of power. While some modes of suspicion direct critical attention towards the crimes and cruelties of oppressive social relations...
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Possessing and being possessed by the past: on the ambivalences of heritage as religious return Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-30 Simon Coleman, Evgenia Mesaritou
This paper explores the politics of religious patrimony by comparing two cases where the heritagization of religious sites results in feelings of loss and estrangement rather than return and restor...
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Cloned Buddhas: mapping out the DNA of Buddhist heritage preservation Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-30 Paulina Kolata
This article considers how technological innovation transforms the value of religious materiality in Buddhist heritage reproduction projects in Japan. To illustrate the religiously and politically ...
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The matter of home: repurposed churches, heritage and belonging in Amsterdam Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-30 Daan Beekers
In this paper I look at the widespread, and often much debated, abandonment and reuse of church buildings in the Netherlands. I focus on the striking case of the Roman Catholic Chassé Church that, ...
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Amphibious subjects: sasso and the contested politics of queer self making in neo-liberal Ghana Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Princess A Sibanda
Published in Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Religion to culture: who is the ‘Us’? Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Lori G. Beaman
In this paper I focus on designations of ‘our culture and heritage' that defend practices and symbols of religious majorities. I consider the entanglement of nationalist narratives, secularity and ...
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Hegemonic mimicry: Korean popular culture of the twenty-first century Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Aarum F. Youn-Heil
Published in Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Militarized granularity: Sand’s making of men and masculinity in Singapore Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 John Lowe
Land reclamation is the process of transforming mined sand from rivers, estuaries, the seabed and even islands into new land parcels. This article examines Singapore’s insatiable appetite for sand ...
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A new model of distilling religion: culturalization as marginality Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Mariam Goshadze
The culturalization of religion has received considerable scholarly attention in recent years as a compelling restatement of religion in the secular public sphere. Existing research has focused pri...
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Breaking through the silence of structural heteropatriarchy Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Mattie Hamilton
Published in Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Lesbian death: desire and danger between feminist and queer Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 M. Aubrey Studebaker
Published in Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The science and philosophy of martial arts: exploring the connections between the cognitive, physical, and spiritual aspects of martial arts Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 James Sutton
Published in Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Viral justice: how we grow the world we want Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Jackline F Kemigisa
Published in Cultural Studies (Vol. 38, No. 5, 2024)
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The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality and Humanity in Modern India Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Ali Ahsan
Published in Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Rebel's clinic: the revolutionary lives of Frantz Fanon Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Fouad Mami
Published in Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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NFTs and the financialization of art Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Barbara Jenkins
The explosion of the NFT market has resulted in the unprecedented financialization of the art world. While some view NFTs as another move toward the complete financialization of social and cultural...
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‘Starved for pleasure’: the fashion magazine as a desirous queer archive Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Roberto Filippello
Bringing queer affect theory to bear on the history of fashion magazines, I track how in the 1990s Dutch – an independent fashion publication which became increasingly popular across Europe and the...
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‘They abscond’: migration and coloniality in the contemporary conjuncture in Europe Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Prem Kumar Rajaram
Over the past decade, the public sphere in Europe has become increasingly ‘culturalised’. Ideas about European heritage and culture have been used as a way to exclude people, notably migrants. My i...
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Fandom through generational lenses Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Judith Fathallah
Published in Cultural Studies (Vol. 38, No. 5, 2024)
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‘Blood Money’: a cultural history of the menstrual economy Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Hannah L. Westwood
Published in Cultural Studies (Vol. 38, No. 5, 2024)
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Curriculum and pedagogical shifts from a semi-peripheral perspective Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Zakir Hussain
Published in Cultural Studies (Vol. 38, No. 5, 2024)
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Confronting boot strap feminism Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Amy Whiteside
Published in Cultural Studies (Vol. 38, No. 5, 2024)
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Drawing hearts in the air within new African diaspora spaces: selling Nollywood and consuming nostalgia in London Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Kamahra Ewing
Nigerian video films circulate transnationally across various African diaspora communities, including London, England. This article explores conversations concerning the experience of both real and...
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New wave of totalitarianism/authoritarianism in East Asia: an editorial introduction Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Stephen C. K. Chan, Wang Xiaoming
Published in Cultural Studies (Vol. 38, No. 1, 2024)
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Communication totalitarianism in Japan: ‘Decontextualisation’ and ‘Recontextualisation’ and the digital communication environment Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Junxiao Yang
In Japan, young people are becoming increasingly apathetic about politics, while at the same time they are experiencing a rightward leaning and a growing sympathy for totalitarianism and authoritar...
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The tyranny of magicalized science and its collapse by the masses: fear and modernity in the Japanese mask norm Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Jiro Hane
This article discusses the tyranny of science and the masses’ reaction to it, considering the situation in which the overturned mask norm, which is different from the medically desirable mask norm,...
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Male youth’s self-narrative and the discourse of meritocracy in South Korea Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Jayoung Park
In South Korea, which has seen a drastic power transfer from a progressive to an authoritarian government, a new form of the ‘weak-victim’ narrative has emerged in recent years, and changes and rup...
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Correction Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-21
Published in Cultural Studies (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2024)
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Correction Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-01
Published in Cultural Studies (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2024)
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Memoryscapes of liberation: activist mnemonic labour in the queer press Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Daniele Salerno
In this article, I will explore the role of memory in the context of homosexual liberation movements. I will do this through the lens of the queer press, which will serve as a doorway for the explo...
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Dripping in molasses: Black feminist nostalgia and Kara Walker’s A Subtlety Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Loron Benton
Kara Walker is best known for her depictions of sexualized violence and gendered racism during slavery in the form of black paper silhouettes. Scholars such as Salamishah Tillet argue that Walker's...
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Streaming Black to the future: post-soul aesthetics & competing nostalgia in FX’s Snowfall and Pose Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Ta’Les Love
Television networks, in partnership and collaboration with streaming platforms, are now increasingly using nostalgia themed programming to captivate diverse audiences. To meet the growing calls for...
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Streaming Black girlhood: biculturality, nostalgia and hypervisibility in Cuties Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Nicosia Shakes, Barbara Thelamour
The era of streaming services and online distribution of independent films have offered more varied representations of the African Diaspora than were previously available through traditional media....
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Changing ‘practical consciousness’ of Shanghai’s middle class under covid lockdowns: a residential community’s defiance and mobilization Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Chun Zhang
During the spring 2022 lockdowns in Shanghai, strict implementation of the Zero Covid policy compelled every person residing in Shanghai to confront the agents of the state and the authority behind...
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Rewriting the queer potential of She’s Gotta Have It Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Alexandria Smith
This paper argues that the 2017–2019 comedy-drama Netflix series She’s Gotta Have It attempts to rewrite the past represented within the 1986 feature-length film of the same name through its portra...
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Editors’ introduction: remembering blackly Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Aria Halliday, Ashleigh Greene Wade
Shows like Moesha and Fresh Prince both fictionalized and revealed the twentieth-century dreams of Black folks who like Moesha’s family had just established themselves in Lamert Park or like Will h...
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Black media nostalgia in Britain Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Francesca Sobande
Drawing on Black media, cultural, and digital studies, this work considers the relationship between nostalgia and the media, cultural productions, and experiences of Black people in Britain. Engagi...
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Dancing for laughs: signifyin(g) bodies and the Black American sitcom Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Cara Hagan
This work examines the presence and impact of dance in Black sitcoms from kinetic, historical, and cultural perspectives. In a sitcom, the role of dance is one where actors can communicate with the...
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Tiffany Pollard GIFs and nostalgia for the negative Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Anna P. Wald
This essay asks how the nostalgic attachments to particular Black women’s performances on reality television inform current uses of those images through internet GIFs and memes. Examining the usage...
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The community forming potential of Cartonera publishing Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Rebekka Kiesewetter
Published in Cultural Studies (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2024)
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Disillusionment in post-punk Leeds Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz
Published in Cultural Studies (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2024)
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How should the non-Indigenous speak? A discussion of decolonizing academia, positioning, and freedom of speech Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Stine Agnete Sand
ABSTRACT How can we engage in Indigenous research that allows multiple perspectives and knowledge production that is open to epistemic diversity? Answering calls for decolonization of the academy and the need for researchers to do their homework, I use my position as an ‘inbetweener’ in a Sámi, Indigenous context, experiences with peer reviewers as gatekeepers, and theoretical and methodological discussions
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Fear makes the soul: constituting whiteness through moral panics in postcolonial Germany Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Armanc Yildiz
Published in Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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From mass popular to bastardized popular Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Omar Rincón
ABSTRACT This essay acknowledges the theoretical contributions, the perspective and the practices carried out by Jesús Martín-Barbero concerning the popular in connection with the cultural industry and the acknowledgment of what is our own in Latin America. Based on the Martin-Barberian concept of mass popular and without losing his contribution, a conceptual re-invention is suggested to report on
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Conjunctures Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Nabil Echchaibi, Ted Striphas
Published in Cultural Studies (Vol. 37, No. 4, 2023)
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From media to mediations: unexpected readings Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Néstor García Canclini, Translated by Alejandro Ponce de León
Abstract This essay critically reviews Jesús Martín-Barbero's 1987 book, “De los medios a las mediaciones”, and its influence on Latin American cultural studies after its first decade of publication. Highlighting the work's seminal contributions, it also underscores its participation in the emergence of dialogues and interdisciplinary studies on mass and popular culture. The essay acknowledges Martín-Barbero's
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Sound mediations: a translocal reading of sonideros Cultural Studies (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Camila Aschner-Restrepo
ABSTRACT In this paper, I study the case of sonideros in Mexico to explore the possibilities that aural archives and experiences can bring to the academic understanding of the modern urban sensorium. I inquire about the ways in which Latin America is built through translocal networks that traverse the aural space. Through a dialogue between theorists from the region and other parts of the global south