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Making virtual celebrity: Platformization and intermediation in digital cultural production International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Jingyan Elaine Yuan
Focusing on intermediation in cultural production in a digital ecology consisting of multiple platforms mediating simultaneously converging and diverging industries, this study critically engages with the thesis that platforms act primarily as a disintermediation vector in a linear value chain within a single industry. With two empirical cases of intermediation in the emerging virtual celebrity sector
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Memetic commenting: Armenian curses and the Twitter theatre of Trump's deselection International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Elena Pilipets, Susanna Paasonen
On 7 November 2020, strange things were happening in the comments to @realDonaldTrump's tweet erroneously arguing that he had won the US presidential election, ‘BY A LOT’. Posting quote tweets and replies in Armenian in tandem with ‘cursed images’, memes, and creepypasta, users engaged in a spam-like trollish intervention, even as Twitter kept removing the said content in real time. Exploring this
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Exploring cultural hybridity, questioning cultural appropriation: Peruvian fans’ responses to Latin tropes in K-pop International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Kyong Yoon, Camila Alexandra Labarta Garcia
Drawing on qualitative interviews with K-pop fans in Lima, Peru, this study explores how Latin fans think about and negotiate K-pop industries’ citations of Latin pop music tropes. It addresses the ways in which K-pop's practices of citing other cultures are perceived by the audience whose culture is cited. The Peruvian fans in this study suggest that the citations of other cultures observed in K-pop
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Decolonizing bodies and the ethics of care: On the significance of embodied vulnerability as the future of cultural studies International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Meenakshi Gigi Durham
In the contemporary moment, systemic failures – from climate change to pandemics to political repression – have created embodied vulnerabilities worldwide. I argue here that the increasing precaritization of individual bodies is an index of the political formations that create and condition vulnerabilities among certain populations. Recognizing this, analyses of the conditions of embodied vulnerability
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Global visions for a metaverse International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Katerina Girginova
There is a growing effort to locate metaverse developments within the purview of platform research. However, the majority of English-language studies take Horizon Worlds, Meta's US-centric prototype of a metaverse, as the starting point. This critical reflection argues that since the fate of the metaverse is far from settled, and its building blocks exist in a colorful array of global visions, we need
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Art rocks: Atmospheres of connection and everyday creativity in hybrid public space International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Caroline Wilson-Barnao, Natalie Collie
Using the analysis of online activity, autoethnographic reflection, and a participant survey, this article examines Australian rock-decorating groups on Facebook and the role of social media in everyday practices of decorating, hiding, and finding rocks. These groups use the platform to celebrate and share their creativity, generate digital connections between strangers, and in so doing bring about
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The politics of credit in remix of Japanese popular culture: Between “an 80's Japanese disco floor” and “this remix is worthy of the actual game” International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Mark Kretzschmar, Mel Stanfill
In this article, we examine songs that reuse decades-old Japanese media, in which the Japaneseness is both important and attenuated. While there is clear desire for and pleasure in the Japaneseness of source materials in vaporwave (electronic music featuring manipulated sounds and images from the 1980s and 1990s) and future funk (which commonly samples 1980s Japanese music and speeds it up), actual
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Ambivalence of informality: Covid-19 and unmasked precarity in Nollywood International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Godwin Iretomiwa Simon
This article explores the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Nigerian film industry (Nollywood) and the local responses of filmmakers to the precariousness engendered by the pandemic. This research adopts the critical media industry studies framework and relies on interviews with 30 Nollywood filmmakers who provided insights on the impact of the pandemic on labour in Nollywood. Theorizing the
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Death to Chad and Stacy: Incels and anti-fandom as group identity International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Matthew L. Meier, Kellen Sharp
Anti-fan research has traditionally focused on audiences' engaged dislike as media consumers more than as media producers, often ignoring their capacity to inflict harm. Building from this while drawing empirical support from incels, the manosphere's most violent faction, this article reconceptualizes the anti-fandom as a networked community organized around textual productions of hate or dislike.
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On mediations and the environment: Material, spatial and epistemic considerations International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Miyase Christensen
The thinking behind this special issue was to move beyond the representation of the environment in news media and large-scale popular culture, and consider other informational outlets and spaces wh...
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Performing pregnancy: Comic content, critique and ambivalence in pregnant stand-up comedy International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2023-04-02 Sharon Lockyer, Sara De Benedictis
Stand-up comedy has recently become a primary site where representations of pregnancy are increasingly prevalent. Yet little academic work focuses on pregnant stand-up comedians and their performan...
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More than just the regional promotion in Japan: The case of Chita Musume International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Yasuhito Abe
This article investigates a Japanese transmedia regional promotion project known as Chita Musume Jikkō Iinkai (or the Executive Committee of Daughters of Chita); it critically discusses how the elu...
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A history of New Year’s Eve, Sydney: From ‘the crowd’ to ‘crowded places’ International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Ben Dibley
This article presents a history of Sydney's New Year's Eve event. First established when a crowd gathered outside Sydney's General Post Office in 1897 to celebrate the inauguration of International...
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‘I cringe at the slave portions’: How fans of Gone with the Wind negotiate anti-racist criticism International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Marcel van den Haak, Liedeke Plate, Selina Bick
In recent years an increasing number of cultural products have come under fire for moral or political reasons, such as racist or sexist content, in the mainstream (White) public sphere. An outstand...
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Exploring everyday resilience in the creative industries through devised theatre: A case of performing arts students and recent graduates in Ghana International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Rashida Resario, Robin Steedman, Thilde Langevang
The concept of resilience has become widely used to account for how people respond both to acute crisis and, increasingly, to protracted precarity. Yet, cultural studies theorists have also vigorou...
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The rise and fall of the Synthetic: The mediatization of Canada's oil sands International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Patrick McCurdy
The concept of the Synthetic is developed to trace and trouble the prevailing popular mythology of Alberta's oil sands and place the omnipresence of petro-hegemony into focus in a time of crisis an...
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Apps, mobilities, and migration in the Covid-19 pandemic: Covid technology and the control of migrant workers in Singapore International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Gerard Goggin, Kuansong Victor Zhuang
In this article we discuss the entanglement of apps, mobilities, and migration – and the way that apps work as migrant infrastructure in a Covid context. We develop our analysis through a case stud...
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Researching (im)mobile lives during a lockdown: Reconceptualizing remote interviews as field events International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Earvin Cabalquinto, Tanja Ahlin
This article foregrounds the benefits and challenges of deploying remote interviews to investigate the digital practices of older adults from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) background...
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Danger, no exit: Relationships to ‘remains’ and ‘petromelancholia’ on the landscape of the oil sands International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Megan Green
The article relates taxidermy to oil in the subculture associated with the oil sands in the Canadian West. Kitsch as it relates to postmodernism, and postmodernism to oil, share a sense of melancho...
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Physical immobility and virtual mobility: Mediating everyday life from a Karen refugee camp in Thailand International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Charlotte Hill
This article reflects on how offline and online everyday life coexists for encamped, young Karen living in protracted displacement. As part of the special issue ‘Cultures of (im)mobile entanglement...
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We are not raised by wolves: Decentering human exceptionalism in nature International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Chandler L Classen, David Monje
Some of the earliest writings to which we have access introduce the myth of a human child raised by wolves. Enkidu is the “wild” friend of Gilgamesh in the eponymous Sumerian epic; Romulus and Remu...
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Minority representation in the streaming era: An analysis of Jewish identity in competing subscription video on-demand platforms International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Matt Sienkiewicz, Michael L. Wayne
This article considers how three competing subscription video on-demand services (SVODs) – Jewzy, ChaiFlicks, and IZZY – attract American Jewish subscribers via content selection, platform design, ...
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‘The festival is ours’: Power dynamics of community participation in the Alter do Chão Film Festival International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Débora Póvoa
Although festivals are often promoted as opportunities for community empowerment, power dynamics during festival organization might hinder such potential. To discuss this issue, this article examin...
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Abridged anime and the distance in fan-dubbing: Interpreting culture through parody and fan appropriation International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Jacob Mertens
This article explores the fan-dubbing practice of ‘abridged anime’ on YouTube and considers the implications involving the creators’ cultural distance from their transnational source material. In t...
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Getting to yes: An interview with Igor Vamos International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2023-01-29 Patrick Burkart, Igor Vamos
Patrick Burkart, Editor-in-Chief of Popular Communication: International Journal of Media and Culture, interviews Dr Igor Vamos, member of The Yes Men and Professor of Art at Rennselaer Polytechnic...
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‘Bella ciao’: A portable monument for transnational activism International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Daniele Salerno, Marit van de Warenburg
‘Bella ciao’ is one of the best-known partisan songs of the Italian anti-fascist Resistance (1943–5) and is part of the repertoire of protest of many movements across the globe. In 2018, the song w...
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Towards inclusive international environmental communication scholarship: The role of Latin America International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Bruno Takahashi
This article presents an overview of environmental communication scholarship about and from Latin America. It explores the main trends, developments, and characteristics of this scholarship, and th...
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Environing media and cultural techniques: From the history of agriculture to AI-driven smart farming International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Adam Wickberg
This article presents the new theoretical concept of environing media, which is developed to offer critical insight into how processes of mediation affect how we perceive of, manage and use the env...
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‘The pandemic helped me!’ Queer international students’ identity negotiation with family on social media in immobile times International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Hao Zheng
This article examines queer international students’ negotiation of sexuality and family ties maintenance during the Covid-19 pandemic. In considering the transitions in queer identity making, I hig...
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Territories of migrancy and meaning: The emotional politics of borderscapes in the lives of deported Mexican men in Tijuana International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Renato de Almeida Arao Galhardi
This article discusses how Mexican deportees find meaning and negotiate their agency in the borderscape and borderland of Tijuana, Mexico. Established through vice tourism, Tijuana has figured prom...
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Surveillance practices among migration officers: Online media and LGBTQ+ refugees International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Marie Lunau, Rikke Andreassen
Examining Denmark as a case study, and focusing on LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in particular, this article investigates migration authorities’ use of online surveillance to assess claims for asylum. Draw...
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The Paradox of a Mobile Society: Situating Cultural Studies in the Global South Context International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Earvin Cabalquinto
This provocation presents a critical reflection on the role of cultural studies in examining the consequences of an increasingly global and digital society. More specifically, I extend and situate ...
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Remedying disinformation and fake news? The cultural frameworks of fake news crisis responses and solution-seeking International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-11-13 Rob Cover, Ashleigh Haw, Jay Daniel Thompson
For the past half-decade, disinformation and misinformation have been discussed in the public sphere as the construct ‘fake news’, through a discourse of crisis and, increasingly, in terms of respo...
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Struggle over control: Sound in home video International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Renée Winter
This article investigates sound practices in home video. Home video manuals and magazines recommended specific strategies for dealing with sound, often with the goal of gaining control over the ope...
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Cultural studies in South Africa, or not International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Nicky Falkof
This contribution to the International Journal of Cultural Studies' ongoing series ponders cultural studies’ relative failure to retain a presence in South African academia today, suggesting that l...
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‘No room for hate in our country’: Constructing the LGBTI-friendly nation in news discourses after the murder of a gay man in Belgium International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Emma Verhoeven, Alexander Dhoest, Steve Paulussen
This article analyses othering discourses in the news media coverage of an alleged homophobic murder in Belgium. The case study is based on a critical discourse analysis of news articles published ...
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Filipino migrants in Germany and their diasporic (irony) chronotopes in Facebook International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Audris Umel
This article explores Facebook's role in how Filipino migrants negotiate their diasporic chronotopes, that is, spatio-temporal constructions of their past/homeland and present/hostland. Specificall...
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Culture is transnational International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Łukasz Szulc
In this article, I ask that culture be properly recognized as transnational, with all the implications of transnationalism, including cultural mobility as well as cultural imperialism and colonial ...
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Reading oil (back) into media history: The case of postwar television International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-10-05 Kyle Conway
This article extends recent research about the material impact of energy-consuming media technologies by describing the role of oil and its derivatives in the production and consumption of televisi...
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‘Welcome to a Coronavirus production’: Beyond Bows and Arrows’ Indigenous on-air community-building during lockdown International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Katie Moylan
This article examines intertribal community-building in Indigenous-produced radio show Beyond Bows and Arrows, broadcast since 1983 in Dallas, Texas, and explores ways in which on-air Indigenous ar...
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Uneasy self-promotion and tactics of patience: Finnish MPs’ ambivalent feelings about personalised politics on social media International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-08-24 Mona Mannevuo
This article examines Finnish politicians’ ambivalent attachments to social media – specifically Facebook and Twitter – in candidate-centred, personalised politics. The analysis draws on 20 semi-st...
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Curating new ethnicities in a digital era: Women and media work in the British South Asian diaspora International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Aswin Punathambekar, Julia Giese, Diwas Bisht
This article analyses the unfolding impact of social media platforms on the politics of race, ethnicity, and gender in the UK. Revisiting Stuart Hall's foundational work on ‘new ethnicities’ and bu...
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The border as “other space” International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Dominik Winkler
Refugees played a central role in public discourse in the past decade, however, self-representations were marginal. In this article, I analyze the documentary My Escape / Meine Flucht, which portra...
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The sad clown paradox: A theory of comic transcendence International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Daniel R Smith
One prevailing cultural sensibility of our time is a concern with the state of our mental health, another is our obligation and desire for a good ‘sense of humour’. At present the two are conflated...
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Bilingual fiction series, genre conventions, and the economy of linguistic interaction in Israeli television International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-07-26 Nahuel Ribke
During the last decade, an increasing number of transnational and multilingual television shows have been produced, distributed, and consumed via global streaming platforms. The present study aims ...
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Slow scholarship? Cultural studies and television historiography International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-06-26 Elana Levine
Levine discusses the research and writing of her 2020 book, Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History, considering whether the long duration of the project qualifies it as “slow sch...
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Brothers from another mother: Seeing the uncanny in US popular media depictions of South Africa International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-05-29 Rachel Lara van der Merwe
This article examines a pattern of popular US audiovisual media depictions of post-apartheid South Africa, which portray SA as harbouring latent danger. I use these depictions as an entry point int...
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Vicarious expertise: Locating skilled knowing in craft reality competition television International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-05-22 Susan Luckman, Ash Tower
This article examines how qualities of expertise are constructed and sustained within the televisual world of craft reality competition television. We suggest that part of the appeal of this relatively recent media typology beyond any didactic or instructional interest, is a desire to observe expertise and thus gain perceived but highly circumscribed access to the community of practice that is presented
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The digital Creole International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-05-26 Douglas-Wade Brunton
This article argues that the Creole is, at once, both a technological construct of the plantation economies of the colonized Atlantic world and a moment of interpretation, constantly negotiating ti...
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Progressive in the West, backward in the East: Shalwar’s trials with modernity International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Yasemin Y Celikkol
About a century ago, women in the US and western Europe looked to ‘Turkish pantaloons’ (shalwar) for freedom and were shamed, harassed, and even arrested for wearing them. Meanwhile, people of all genders in Turkey and Bulgaria moved freely in shalwar until modern nation-building projects imposed Western restrictive dress that rigidly delineated the boundaries of masculinity and femininity. Considering
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‘The filthy people’: Racism in digital spaces during Covid-19 in the context of South–South migration International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Macarena Bonhomme, Amaranta Alfaro
Notions of ‘race’ and disease are deeply imbricated across the globe. This article explores the historical, complex entanglements between ‘race’, disease, and dirtiness in the multicultural Chilean context of Covid-19. We conducted a quantitative content analysis and a discourse analysis of online readers’ comments (n = 1233) in a digital news platform surrounding a controversial news event to examine
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Locating cultural studies: The limits of translation in knowledge production International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Sriram Mohan, Radhika Parameswaran, Pallavi Rao
This article reflects on translation practices engendered by location, disciplinary constraints, and Western hegemonies in the work of cultural studies scholars from the Global South. Focusing on issues of translation beyond language and text, the article tackles cultural translation practices at the levels of theory and analysis, which scholars engage in to render their research legible within academic
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Covid-19: The cultural constructions of a global crisis International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Paul Frosh, Myria Georgiou
This is the Introduction to the special issue on Covid-19 and the cultural constructions of a global crisis. Contextualizing understandings of the pandemic in relation to the concepts of ‘event’ and ‘crisis’, especially to the idea that modernity is itself a condition of perpetual crisis, it proposes that the pandemic is a crisis-event that catalyses new possibilities for making visible endemic inequalities
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Craft fields and the temporal structures of quilting International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Sara Hosking, Michael Scott
This article develops a Bourdieusian-inspired structuralist model of how craft and commerce intersect. Through interpretative engagement with targeted interviews (n = 17) of ‘serious leisure’ quilters drawn from a larger quantitative survey (n = 440), we find that attitudes to pattern sharing suspends the field between commercial and communitarian poles. Unlike fine art and popular culture fields,
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Producing Nollywood portal films: Navigating precarity through informal social relations and hope International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Godwin Iretomiwa Simon
This article examines the production practices that underpin the production of portal films in the Nigerian video film industry (Nollywood). Following the recent surge in the number of streaming portals focusing on the distribution of Nollywood films, a nascent video on demand (VOD) market has been created. This new market has given rise to a crop of filmmakers who now produce straight-to-portal films
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Reorientation of foreign memories in domestic political speech: Considerations and effects International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Tracy Adams
Within the “politics of memory,” this study conceptually expands understanding of the role of political leaders as active producers of memory. By considering the growing exchangeability of ideas and meanings across cultural and national borders, analysis demonstrates how political leaders adapt and reorient transnational memory narratives’ most iconic events. However, deliberately relying on memories
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Conjunctions of resilience and the Covid-19 crisis of the creative cultural industries International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Audrey Yue
This article compares the conjunctions of emergency resilience and ecological resilience that underpin the creative cultural industry (CCI) crisis. It first introduces three characteristics that socially construct the CCI crisis and its hegemonic practice of emergency resilience (time, disaster discourse, and the adaptation of aesthetic digitalization) and exposes multiple discourses – from the technologies
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Turning disaster into crisis International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Sean Cubitt
This article suggests that the conditions driving the still-unresolved global financial crisis that began in 2007 depend on a generalised condition of capitalist coloniality that profits from disasters. It proposes that the task of cultural studies is to convert these disasters into crises: critical and therefore history-making opportunities.
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Museums in the age of platform giants: Disconnected policies and practices International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Bjarki Valtysson
This article explores how the British Museum and the National Museum of Australia tailor their digital cultural politics, and how this corresponds to their management of online collections and presence on social media. The article applies textual analysis to examine how the two museums discursively frame their policies; interface analysis to demonstrate how they organise their online collections; and
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Game of Thrones tourism and the (re)imagination of the new Northern Ireland International Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 1.754) Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Emily Mannheimer, Stijn Reijnders, Amanda Brandellero
For decades, Northern Ireland was best known for the violent conflict referred to as the Troubles. However, the filming of HBO's Game of Thrones in Northern Ireland has had a profound effect on boosting tourism numbers as well as the country's image in the global awareness. This article examines the role of Game of Thrones tour guides as cultural mediators who are uniquely positioned to redefine the