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Fandom meets artificial intelligence: Rethinking participatory culture as human–community–machine interactions European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Eva Cheuk-Yin Li, Ka-Wei Pang
Fandom as an interpretive community is the frontier for rich insights into the multi-layered interactions and practices between individual users, communities and intelligent machines. To understand the challenges and opportunities Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents to contemporary media and culture, we discuss how fans engage with AI, as fandom provides meaningful insights into interactions between
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The British state, citizenship rights and gendered folk devils: The case of Shamima Begum European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Milly Williamson, Gholam Khiabany
The revoking of Shamima Begum’s citizenship exemplifies much of the purposes of contemporary anti-Muslim racism and underlines its significant gendered element. Both state and media actors constructed the 15-year old as a problematic other, both to justify conditional citizenship ideologically, and to use her case to strengthen and add to the framework for making it legal. This comes in a context in
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Romantic opportunism: Doing the work of structures in post-feminist creative industries European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Carolina Bandinelli
This article contributes to feminist cultural studies on the creative industries by offering an ethnographic account of the lifeworld of a female and creative entrepreneur. Drawing on interview data and ethnographic observations collected over the course of 10 years, I offer a thick description of the personal and professional trajectories of Alexandra, through the rise and fall of her fashion brand
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Fatal feminisation: Problematising endocrine-disrupting chemicals in Denmark European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Charlotte Halmø Kroløkke, Anne Nørkjær Bang, Karen Hvidtfeldt
While an average everyday life in Denmark is vastly permeated with – and reliant upon – endocrine-disrupting chemicals; these invisible, yet active and mobile, compounds are often viewed as agents of disturbance causing harm in bodies and ecosystems as well as blurring boundaries upholding the two-sex system. In this article, we investigate how endocrine-disrupting chemicals came into existence as
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Space oddity – Reading Nirmal Puwar’s Space Invaders: race, gender and bodies out of place in decolonial times European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Roshi Naidoo
UK museums are embracing decolonisation as a discourse and an institutional cultural policy. There has been a shift in the sector whereby discussions of colonial violence and white supremacy have become more common. Do we feel optimism at this turn or should we also be wary? Just as the museum has historically helped determine the canon of knowledge, it can also determine the ways in which we unpack
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Discourses of cultural diversity and inclusion in film policy: The case of Flanders (2002–2022) European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Alexander De Man, Gertjan Willems, Daniel Biltereyst
This article examines how Flemish film policy actors and industry stakeholders have conceptualized, framed and operationalized cultural diversity and inclusion over the past two decades (2002–2022). Drawing on critical discourse and interpretive policy analysis of policy documents and a series of in-depth expert interviews, we investigate how discourses of diversity in cultural policymaking are consistently
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Director for hire? Negotiating creativity and work in the Irish television sector European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Gerard Nelson, Anne O’ Brien
The television industry has deep-rooted neoliberal employment structures, and this article explores how the non-fiction television director negotiates this contingent working environment. Research has established that creative workers adapt themselves to the demands of a post-Fordist ‘gig economy’, characterised by casual, non-permanent work, with little security or accountability. However, relatively
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Affective capitalism and the (new) entrepreneurial mood: Slush as a field configuring event European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Minna Nikunen, Marjo Kolehmainen
This article examines start-up entrepreneurialism and provides insights into the configurations of affective capitalism. The empirical case explored in this article is the Slush Conference, which promotes start-up entrepreneurialism. The data were gathered by ethnographic methods, including on-site observations, and complemented by diverse materials such as social media content and newspaper coverage
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Black cultural intermediaries: Difference, neoliberalism and the negotiation of Black cultural value European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Clive Nwonka
In recent years, the UK screen industries have exhibited a renewed interest in racial difference that can be understood as the outcome of policy interventions into the unequal labour practices within film production and film culture. This has emerged with new modes of Black cultural visibility that have accompanied the increased presence of mainstream, publicly funded feature films. Here, the increasing
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Queer occultism, sentimental biopower, and becoming ‘bottoms’ as a means to divest from white supremacy among practitioners of magic in Montréal European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Sydney Sheedy
Astrology, magic, and other psychic healing practices are undergoing a cultural revival, notably among those on the Left who employ it as a language for social justice. Queer practitioners have claimed kinship with the occult through a perceived shared abjection, deeming it an inherently queer resource for self- and community empowerment, and naming anti-racism and decolonization key aims of their
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A pub for England: Race and class in the time of the nation European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Amit Singh, Sivamohan Valluvan, James Kneale
The pub is often romanticised as a site of idyllic English ‘working-class’ sociability that is now under threat. Such melancholic invocations of the pub’s plight are invoked amid the wider resurgence of a racialised English nationalism that makes particularly effective claims to a ‘white working-class’ and their putatively ‘left-behind’ anguish. This article challenges such dominant accounts, juxtaposing
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The emergence and undermining of sex worker-led freelance feminism European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Jessica Simpson
Using one sex worker-led collective as a case example, this paper explores how feminism, precarious work and entrepreneurialism coexist together in contradictory ways. I begin by highlighting how freelance work within UK strip clubs creates precarity and hostile work environments for sex workers when coupled with exploitative managerial practices; however, when similar, equally precarious gig work
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The female entrepreneur: Fragments of a genealogy European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Jo Littler
This short article, based on a lecture, offers fragments for a genealogy of female entrepreneurship in the Global North. It argues that in business and management books and social texts, the entrepreneur has historically been overwhelmingly figured as male – as ‘entrepreneurial man’. Yet, over the past few decades, encouraged by both gender mainstreaming and neoliberal feminism, the symbolic locus
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Reality offsets: Climate meets capitalism at the Olympic Games European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Ben Glasson
In the era of undeniable climate crisis, investors too have become wary of corporate greenwashing. Far from heralding progress, this development appears to legitimise a collective greenwashing project better described as corporate environmentalism. Through this meta-greenwashing, corporations as a bloc are exploiting their communicative platforms to renarrate climate crisis into climate opportunity
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Marginalized disappearances: Shaping the power relations of the search for the missing European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Anna Matyska
Every year, tens of thousands of people go missing in Europe and across the globe, leaving the families of these individuals in the anguish of the unknown. Yet only some missing gain media attention, with others remaining the ‘missing missing’, and this contributes to a definition of who is, and who is not, worthy of being searched for. This article focuses on the Polish television programme Ktokolwiek
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White and gendered aesthetics and attitudes of #pandemicbaking and #quarantinebaking European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Francesca Sobande
Foodwork is a political matter, and baking is no exception. Many messages are associated with the symbolic significance of baking, such as idealised notions of white, middle-class domesticity, femininity and visibility. The rise in home-baking during the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a surge in social media content, which conveys much about the different meanings ascribed to baking. Relatedly, scholarship
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The unbearable oldness of generative artificial intelligence: Or the re-making of digital narratives in times of ChatGPT European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Nishant Shah
The emerging discourse catalyzed by the opening up of generative artificial intelligence (Gen-AI) applications for everyday usage often presents Gen-AI as radically and disruptively new. I revisit two moments in early conversations in computational history to offer a historicization of Chat GPT: the making of digital narratives through computational methods of storing, sorting and sequencing semantic
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Best friends forever – really? The group of friends as the ideal model of sociability in children’s animations European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Laura Saarenmaa
This article explores the intensifying friendship ideal current in children’s media culture. The article argues that children’s animations, such as Lego Friends, educate children about a desirable ...
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‘Even if the algorithm is a terrible workmate, you just need to learn to live with it’: Perceptions of data analytics among game industry professionals European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2023-05-13 Olli Sotamaa, Heikki Tyni, Taina Myöhänen
The digital game industry has actively integrated data-driven methods into its core processes. This interview-based study shows how game industry professionals perceive the role of data as part of ...
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On joining the editorial team of European Journal of Cultural Studies in its 25th year European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Jilly Boyce Kay
In this essay, I discuss my appointment as co-editor of this journal within the context of its history across its 25 years of life thus far, as well as within the field of cultural studies more bro...
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The mediated circulation of the United Kingdom’s YouthStrike4Climate movement’s discourses and actions European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Bart Cammaerts
The circulation of the discourse as well as the direct actions of the United Kingdom’s YouthStrike4Climate movement is analysed by considering the production of movement discourses in conjunction w...
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Identity construction and collusion in documentary of the Gaelic-speaking community: A filmmaker’s perspective European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Diane Maclean
If Gaelic has been symbolically appropriated to represent Scotland, then it follows that we need to look more closely at the part played by documentary film both of and from the Scottish Hebrides, ...
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Post-racial politics, pre-emption and in/security European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Sanjay Sharma, Jasbinder S. Nijjar
Militarized policing strategies aiming to identify and nullify risks to national security in Western nations have become central to the biopolitical regulation of racialized populations. While the ...
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Beyond door policies: Cultural production as a form of spatial regulation in Amsterdam nightclubs European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Timo Koren
Understanding regulation is key to identifying and understanding the mechanisms and patterns that (re)produce social inequalities in nightclub production. Roughly speaking, researchers have focused...
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Journey to Diagnosis of Young-Onset Dementia: A Qualitative Study of People with Young-Onset Dementia and their Family Caregivers in Australia European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Michelle Lai, Yun-Hee Jeon, Heather McKenzie, Adrienne Withall
ObjectivesThis study aims to explore the journey to dementia diagnosis and reaction to the diagnosis from the perspective of people with young-onset dementia living in the community from diverse ar...
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Exploring the lived experiences of debilitating period pain management in the UK European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Parmis Vafapour, Esther Murray
BackgroundFive to ten percent of women experience period pains that disrupt their lives yet 4 in 5 women believe that their claims for their dysmenorrhea are not taken seriously. Within the process...
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H∞ performance tracking and group consensus of delayed multiagent systems under attack European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Muhammad Nasir, Zahoor Ahmed, Nihad Ali, Muhammad A Saeed
This paper deals with the problem of performance tracking and group consensus control of a multiagent system (MAS) under deception attack in the frequency domain. Deception attack, a type of networ...
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Year in Review 2022: Noteworthy Literature in Cardiac Anesthesiology European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Elijah Christensen, Joseph Morabito, Markus Kowalsky, John-Paul Tsai, Douglas Rooke, Nathan Clendenen
Last year researchers made substantial progress in work relevant to the practice of cardiac anesthesiology. We reviewed 389 articles published in 2022 focused on topics related to clinical practice...
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Effect of wear damage on aero-thermal performance of the film-cooled squealer tip in a turbine stage European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Mingliang Ye, Xin Yan, Kun He
Effects of wear damage on the aerodynamic performance, heat transfer and film cooling effect in the squealer tip region of a gas turbine stage were investigated under engine condition. Two wear par...
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COVID crisis, austerity and the ‘Left Behind’ city: Exploring poverty and destitution in Stoke-on-Trent European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 David Etherington, Martin Jones, Luke Telford
Whilst the COVID-19 pandemic and ‘cost of living’ crisis revealed and intensified the United Kingdom’s (UK) socio-spatial inequalities, these crises did not emerge into a vacuum. Long-term trends o...
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A silica/epoxy resin nanocomposite exhibiting high thermal stability and low thermal expansion based on the uniform dispersion of hydrophilic colloidal silica nanospheres European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Mitsuru Tanahashi, Kazuma Hirota
The present study fabricated high-performance silica/epoxy resin nanocomposites having a low coefficient of linear thermal expansion (CTE) and a high glass transition temperature (Tg). This was acc...
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The menopause moment: The rising visibility of ‘the change’ in UK news coverage European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2023-04-15 Shani Orgad, Catherine Rottenberg
Drawing on feminist scholarship that interrogates cultural representations of ageing women, this article examines UK news coverage of menopause from 2001 to 2021. We show that not only has there be...
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Selling feminist stories: Popular feminism, authenticity and happiness European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2023-04-07 Johanna Lauri, Marcus Lauri
By interviewing Swedish feminist activists who sell commodities to serve feminist purposes, this study focuses on how they articulate their engagement and make it intelligible. To untangle how arti...
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The body as theme and tool of artivism in young people European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 João Carlos Figueira Martins, Ricardo Marnoto de Oliveira Campos
The body occupies a prominent place in the social sciences literature, where it is understood to be an important social marker. The body is either used to classify and supervise individuals and cer...
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An astrological genealogy of artificial intelligence: From ‘pseudo-sciences’ of divination to sciences of prediction European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Leona Nikolić
Algorithmic media have adopted and adapted divinatory practices and vernaculars of prediction, prophecy, probability, fortune-telling and forecasting – suggesting a possible link between artificial...
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The Good, the Bad and the Disney: Employing princesses to examine Hungarian tweens’ understanding of gender European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Anna Zsubori
By relying on diverse scholarly works within several fields – such as communication, cultural, feminist media, film and tweenhood studies – on the one hand, and conducting audience research with Hu...
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Analyzing the Justice and Development Party’s changing discourse on the headscarf issue as the constitutive part of its drift toward authoritarian politics in Turkey European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Betül Yarar
Despite its long history since the late Ottoman period in Turkey, this article focuses on the headscarf issue within a particular period; since 2002, when the Justice and Development Party has been...
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Mapping the music of migration: Emergent themes and challenges European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Abigail Gardner, Kai Arne Hansen
This article adds to existing scholarship on music and migration by presenting and reflecting on the work undertaken in the project ‘Mapping the Music of Migration’ (2019–2021, www.mamumi.eu), whic...
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The (de-)radical(-ising) potential of r/IncelExit and r/ExRedPill European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Joshua Thorburn
This article introduces two forums, r/IncelExit and r/ExRedPill, that have organically emerged in recent years to provide a pathway out of the manosphere for men and boys. Based upon preliminary fi...
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Trash, dirt, glitch: The imperfect turn European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2023-02-18 Ellen Rutten, Ruby de Vos
‘Trash, dirt, glitch’ offers an introduction to a cluster devoted to trash, dirt and glitch – concepts that, in aesthetic and artistic domains, firmly merit joint exploration. In fashion and urban ...
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From London to Bali: Raymond Williams and communication as transport and social networks European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Rianne Subijanto
This article unearths Raymond Williams’ approach to communication as transport and social networks. Existing literature argues that the field of communication’s withdrawal from the study of transpo...
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Enduring inequalities: Fifty years of gender equality talk in the media and cultural industries European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Maura Edmond
This article provides a critical overview of gender equality talk within the media, arts and cultural industries, focusing on a case study of Australian cultural policy discourse from the 1970s to ...
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Loving cultural work at Southbank Centre: Evolutions of emotional, embodied, collaborative labour European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Kathy Williams
This article scrutinises a recent moment of cultural work at Southbank Centre, drawing on empirical research including 32 interviews carried out over a 4-year period. It supports the view that it i...
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Purging the neoliberal poison? Marina Diamandis and the cultural grammar of popular left politics European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Jonathan Dean
This article enquires into the discursive and affective texture of the intersections of popular culture and left/feminist politics in the current Anglo-American context. It does this primarily via ...
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Economic martyrs and moralised others: The construction of social class in UK media during the ‘age of austerity’ European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Lee Marsden
This article describes the key findings of a study which critically analyses the construction of social class within UK media during the period 2010–2016 – part of the ‘age of austerity’. Focusing ...
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Wounded men of feminism: Exploring regimes of male victimhood in the Spanish manosphere European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Elisa García Mingo, Silvia Díaz Fernández
The manosphere has become a popular digital social object of research and a growing academic corpus aims to make sense of online masculinist subcultures and the rise in misogynistic discourses in d...
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Screen agencies as cultural intermediaries: Delivering gender equality in the film and television sectors? European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Caitriona Noonan, Maria Brock
This article examines the role of national screen agencies in the realisation of an equitable screen sector. Publicly funded screen agencies like Ffilm Cymru Wales, Screen Ireland, Det Danske Filmi...
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Emotional scapes in Mediterranean port cities: Walking Barcelona, Marseille and Genova European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Jean Duruz, Angela Giovanangeli, Alice Loda, Nicholas Manganas
Mediterranean port cities share a number of trajectories that reveal their constitutive interconnectedness. Among the more recent is the process of urban regeneration that many of these cities have...
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‘I’m just not gay-gay’: Exploring same-sex desire and sexual minority identity formation in SKAM and its Western European remakes European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Frederik Dhaenens, Salma Mediavilla Aboulaoula, Anke Lion
SKAM (NRK, 2015–2017), a popular Norwegian teen drama series, was praised for its season revolving around a nonheterosexual cis-male teenager coming to terms with his sexual desires and identity. B...
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The zaniness of everyday life: Trump, Littler and Ngai European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Francis Russell, Rebecca Persic
This article seeks to build on sociologist Jo Littler’s notion of the normcore plutocrat, that is, a newly emerging political actor who gains power through performances of ordinariness. We do this ...
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‘U OK hun’? Classed femininities, meme culture and locating humour in the celebrity ‘hun’ European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Laura Minor
This article examines ‘huns’ – specifically celebrity huns in the public spotlight – as memetic ‘figures’ who are defined by their loud, tongue-in-cheek and humorous display of British femininities...
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Periods of austerity: The emergence of ‘period poverty’ in UK news media European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Sara De Benedictis
This article analyses the emergence of the discourse of period poverty in UK news media across a two-year period. Using thematic analysis and discourse analysis, I analyse three themes: the focus o...
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Constructions of self and the pursuit of ‘authenticity’ in women’s magazines: A study of British and Greek discourses European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Rafaela Orphanides, Line Nyhagen, Emily Keightley
This article examines discourses of authenticity embedded in European popular culture based on an empirical study of British and Greek women’s magazines. After a quantitative content analysis of 57...
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The unexpected consequences of a pandemic: Crypto-finance as cultural commons European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Alberto Cossu
This Cultural Commons article provide some coordinates that help explain why cryptocurrencies have recently become mainstream, indicating their connection to precarisation and new class formations....
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Access and diversity in South African craft and design: The work of craft intermediaries in Cape Town European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Roberta Comunian, Lauren England
Creative intermediaries are increasingly recognised for their role in facilitating the growth and development of creative entrepreneurs and creative and cultural industries. There is also a growing...
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Maker-centricity and ‘edge-places of creativity’: CARE-full making in a CARE-less world European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Fiona Hackney, Laura Onions, Gavin Rogers, Deirdre Figueiredo, Mary Loveday
Susan Luckman, citing Katherine Gibson’s call for a return to ‘the grass-roots work of engaging the community and being open to developing new economies’, advocates a vision of creative industries ...
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Crafting professionals: Skills and resources for graduates entering the craft economy European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Lauren England
There is growing interest in creative graduate skillsets, but so far there has been limited investigation of the specific skills and resource requirements of early-career crafts graduates. Drawing ...
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‘I want to be judged on my work, I don’t want to be judged as a person’: Inequality, expertise and cultural value in UK craft European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Karen Patel
This article focuses on the relationship between inequality, expertise and cultural value in UK professional craft. Drawing on interviews with ethnically diverse women makers, I explore how getting...
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The persistence of the housewife ideology: Shifts in women’s roles in production of Sumbanese handwoven cloth European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Radhika Gajjala, Ololade Margaret Faniyi, Sarah Ford, Rustina Untari, Muhammad Taufiq Al Makmun
This article examines women’s shifting roles in the production of handwoven cloth in Sumba, Indonesia. The main themes that emerge are the invisible labor of women and the production of a self-empo...
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In conversation with Deirdre Figueiredo MBE, Director of Craftspace European Journal of Cultural Studies (IF 2.099) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Karen Patel
Deirdre Figueiredo MBE is Director of Craftspace, an organisation in Birmingham, United Kingdom, which supports contemporary craft. For over 30 years, Craftspace has been working with communities a...