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‘Starved for pleasure’: the fashion magazine as a desirous queer archive Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) 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 1.533) 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 1.533) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Judith Fathallah
Published in Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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‘Blood Money’: a cultural history of the menstrual economy Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Hannah L. Westwood
Published in Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Curriculum and pedagogical shifts from a semi-peripheral perspective Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Zakir Hussain
Published in Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Confronting boot strap feminism Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Amy Whiteside
Published in Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 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 1.533) 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 1.533) 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 1.533) 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 1.533) 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 1.533) 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 1.533) Pub Date : 2023-11-21
Published in Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Correction Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2023-11-01
Published in Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Memoryscapes of liberation: activist mnemonic labour in the queer press Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) 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 1.533) 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 girlhood: biculturality, nostalgia and hypervisibility in Cuties Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) 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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Streaming Black to the future: post-soul aesthetics & competing Nostalgia in FX’s snowfall and POSE Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) 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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Changing ‘practical consciousness’ of Shanghai’s middle class under covid lockdowns: a residential community’s defiance and mobilization Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) 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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Black media nostalgia in Britain Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) 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 1.533) 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 1.533) 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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Rewriting the queer potential of She’s Gotta Have It Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) 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 1.533) 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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The community forming potential of Cartonera publishing Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Rebekka Kiesewetter
Published in Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Disillusionment in post-punk Leeds Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz
Published in Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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How should the non-Indigenous speak? A discussion of decolonizing academia, positioning, and freedom of speech Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) 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 1.533) 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 1.533) 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 1.533) 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 1.533) 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 1.533) 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
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Psy-drama from Martín-Barbero’s perspective Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Vicente Caballero de la Torre
ABSTRACT In 1992, Jesús Martín-Barbero and Sonia Muñoz co-authored a book called Televisión y melodrama: géneros y lecturas de la telenovela en Colombia (Television and melodrama: genres and readings of the telenovela in Colombia). There, the authors proposed some ideas that allow us to understand the new forms of entertainment, typical of the culture of the algorithm, at the dawn of the TVIV era.
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Word and action: the many routes through Jesús Martín-Barbero Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Alejandro Ponce de León, Alejandro Martín Maldonado, Juan Ricardo Aparicio
ABSTRACT The articles in this special issue address some of the conceptual innovations and controversies raised by the late Jesús Martín-Barbero's (1937–2021) combative and generous spirit. These introductory remarks provide an overview of Martín-Barbero's academic and public intellectual contributions. Specifically, we examine his personal, political, intellectual and cultural trajectories as they
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The concept of experience in the work of Jesús Martín-Barbero: toward a positive theory of the popular Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Iván Alvarado Castro, David del Pino Díaz
ABSTRACT This article aims to review the concept of experience, linked to the popular, proposed by Jesús Martín-Barbero. The author’s production is inscribed in the intersection between philosophy, cultural studies, and mass media. From the deductive method, we delve into the development of a theoretical journey that dialogues from the Frankfurt School and British Cultural Studies to contemporary French
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Settler colonial bordering and post-pandemic futures: disrupting the nation state in Aotearoa/New Zealand Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2023-06-04 Fiona McCormack, Bronwyn Isaacs, Priya Kurian, Rolande Paekau, Cayathri Divakalala, Sharayne Bennett
ABSTRACT In Aotearoa/New Zealand, the relative safety offered by border regime closures during Covid-19 promised to ease uncertainty surrounding perilous futures, yet it did so by extending nation building into more intimate areas of life, exacerbating existing lines of discrimination. While justified in terms of crisis management, state expressions of citizen care during the pandemic were largely
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Female leaders in Japan: from historical dimensions to abenomics Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2023-05-28 Qin Qin
Published in Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Seven theses about the so-called culture war(s) (or some fragmentary notes on ‘cancel culture’) Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Sean Phelan
ABSTRACT How might we understand the forms of mediatized politics that are signified under the dreary heading of the ‘culture war(s)’? This article addresses this question in the form of seven theses. Informed by a distinct theoretical reading of Laclau and Mouffe’s concept of antagonism, I highlight the anti-political character of culture war discourses, particularly as amplified in a public culture
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Dissonance and defensiveness: orienting affects in online feminist cultures Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Akane Kanai, Julia Coffey
ABSTRACT Are there certain shared feelings that orient contemporary feminists? And what does it mean to feel like a feminist now, at a time when digital networks and media culture significantly shape the conditions for what feminism ‘is’ (Banet-Weiser Citation2018)? This paper considers how digital culture, as a crucial but potentially disorienting site of feminist encounter and contestation, may reshape
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The proliferation of men’s sheds in Australia: the problematization of masculinity in a neoliberal regime Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Leigh Boucher
ABSTRACT Men’s sheds emerged in Australia with a promise to restore men to health and happiness through the provision of a gender-exclusive communal space and access to ‘traditional’ masculine activities. This article traces their emergence in order to examine how anti-feminist claims about the rights and needs of men have been yoked together with ideas about health and wellbeing in late modernity
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Acknowledgements Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Aretha Phiri
Published in Cultural Studies (Vol. 37, No. 2, 2023)
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Mexican migration and the struggle for visibility in NYC Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Jessie Brown
Published in Cultural Studies (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2024)
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Aqua/geopolitical conjuncture and disjuncture: invasion, resources, and mining the deep dark sea Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Elspeth Probyn
ABSTRACT In this article, I address the omission of the ocean or the aqua in geo-political scholarship and public debate. My argument is motivated by the public descriptions of Putin’s invasion and war in Ukraine and the lack of attention to the oceanic geopolitics of deep sea mining. Descriptions of Putin’s attack reproduce old terrestrial arguments about the role of geography in figuring national
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Policing the Borribles: conjunctural crisis and moral panic in children’s literature Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2022-12-11 J. Macgregor Wise
ABSTRACT Michael de Larrabeiti’s controversial series of novels for youth (published in 1975, 1981, and 1986) about the Borribles, children who grow feral and live in anarchic communities in London, were influential for the urban fantasy genre. The novels describe a fictional fantasy subculture but nevertheless engage with issues of the rise of a law-and-order society in the U.K. in the 1970s and police
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The ruse of impurity: Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic and the politics of hybridity Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Marzia Milazzo
ABSTRACT Placing Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993) within a larger historical and transnational context, this essay interrogates Gilroy’s uncritical deployment of mestizaje and hybridity to theorize Black subject formation and Black cultural productions. In doing so, it shows that the exclusion of Afro-Latin America and the Hispanophone Caribbean has crucial
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Stories of decolonial resilience Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2022-11-13 Kevin Glynn, Julie Cupples
ABSTRACT Many scholars, analysts and commentators have noted that the neoliberal conjuncture has seen the rise of a veritable explosion of discourses and theories of resilience. Some regard this discursive and narrative profusion as integral to the ongoing project of a neoliberal ‘worlding’ that seeks to reconfigure all aspects of human subjectivities and social relations. Meanwhile, the ongoing outpouring
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Migrating narratives: re-inscribing black diaspora cultures Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Aretha Phiri
ABSTRACT This essay traces the predominant counter-hegemonic, counter-discursive political and cultural models that obtain on either side of the Atlantic – the black Atlantic and the (pan-)Africanist. Typically read as disparate, even oppositional, competing ideologies, this essay examines the ways in which black Atlantic and Africanist thought migrate – travelling and journeying in ironic echoes and
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Speculative machines and us: more-than-human intuition and the algorithmic condition Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Carolyn Pedwell
In the wake of Turing’s ‘universal machine’, this article foregrounds intuition as a generative concept and lens to unfold the affective genealogies of human-machine relations in post-war transatla...
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More than just ‘working from home’: domestic space, economies and living infrastructures during and beyond pandemic times Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Tania Lewis, Indigo Holcombe-James, Andrew Glover
This article draws on an ethnographic study of employees working from home in 13 Australian households in Sydney, New South Wales and Melbourne, Victoria during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Condu...
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Ecology and labour in the circuit of culture Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Phaedra C. Pezzullo
Published in Cultural Studies (Vol. 37, No. 4, 2023)
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Cultural physics Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Ben Highmore
Published in Cultural Studies (Vol. 37, No. 4, 2023)
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Translating cultural studies Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Giulia Pelillo-Hestermeyer
This paper engages with the transculturalization of Cultural Studies by focusing on the theoretical and political implications of translating it. This is a question that has been discussed over the...
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Reframing the Black Atlantic Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Aretha Phiri
Published in Cultural Studies (Vol. 37, No. 2, 2023)
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Interview: ‘The elephant in the room’: talking (physics of) blackness with Michelle M. Wright Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Aretha Phiri, Michelle M. Wright
Published in Cultural Studies (Vol. 37, No. 2, 2023)
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Afterword: engendering new century black transnationalisms Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Laura Chrisman
Published in Cultural Studies (Vol. 37, No. 2, 2023)
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Feeling against the plot: an African diaspora feminist politics of happiness Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2022-09-12 Samantha Pinto
ABSTRACT This essay maps the uneasy terrains of Black feminist happiness in the diaspora as a complex reckoning with radical political and social theories of subject formation Refusing analytics that prioritize loss, injury, lack, stasis, and trauma as the defining features of the Black diaspora, African diaspora feminist happiness displaces whiteness and the West as its referents in favour of more
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Oceanic bellies and liquid feminism in Fatou Diome’s Le Ventre de l’Atlantique Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Polo B. Moji
ABSTRACT Winner of the 2003 Prix des Hémisphères Chantal Lapicque, and translated into German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and English, Fatou Diome’s 2003 Diome, F., 2003. Le ventre de l'Atlantique. Paris: Anne Carrière. [Google Scholar] novel, Le Ventre de l’Atlantique [ The Belly of the Atlantic, 2006] plays on the image of the Atlantic as an oceanic belly. This article explores the usefulness of
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Modern African humans effecting Atlantic middle passes Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2022-08-16 Janine Jones
This essay challenges the traditional focus of the Black Atlantic on Anglophone-dominant movement and culture by prioritizing Afro-Francophone discussion, through a philosophical contextualization ...
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‘It was a departure of sorts’: glocal homes in recent short fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Efemia Chela, Chibundu Onuzo and Lesley Nneka Arimah Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Jennifer Terry
ABSTRACT This article takes off from two of the angles of contention found in critical responses to Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic and subsequent Atlanticist studies: asymmetries and exclusions along gender lines, and insufficient attention to the dynamics of contemporary global capital. It examines what gets articulated when recent African short fiction is approached via a frame centered on the
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Stirring the sugar in the English cup of tea: more notes on the continuing relevance of Stuart Hall Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2022-08-07 Ali Meghji
Published in Cultural Studies (Vol. 37, No. 3, 2023)
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Violent spectre of ghost limbs Cultural Studies (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2022-08-07 Emre Keser
Published in Cultural Studies (Vol. 37, No. 3, 2023)