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Reading Roberto Esposito’s affirmative biopolitics with Niccolo Machiavelli: possibilities and limitations Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Zeliha Dişci
Roberto Esposito tries to overcome the crisis of contemporary politics by proposing the ‘affirmative biopolitics’ inspired by Niccolo Machiavelli’s way of thinking about politics. But does this pro...
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Tell me what you eat, and I will tell who you are: a gastronomical reading of cultural identity in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Soumaya Bouacida, Zeyneb Benhenda
This paper sheds light on the significance of gastronomy as an emblem of cultural identity in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child. It shows how Morrison imbues the narrative with instances of food a...
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Examining cultural policy shifts in response to the COVID-19 pandemic Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Dahae Jung, Nara Park
This study examines the evolving role of governments in cultural policy implementation in France, the United Kingdom, and the United States before, during, and after the COVID-19 crisis. The findin...
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Masculinities, femininities, and the patriarchal family: a reading of The Great Indian Kitchen Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Roshan Karimpaniyil, Pranamya Bhat
This article seeks to examine the representation of masculinities and femininities in the renowned South Indian drama film The Great Indian Kitchen. The research construes the manner in which the t...
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Reimagining spatiality in South Asian diasporic literature: a Lefebvrian reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Zhang Qiuchen, Moussa Pourya Asl, Mohamad Rashidi Bin Mohd Pakri
The examination of power, space, and identity formation within diasporic literature has garnered significant attention due to the escalating global mobility of migrants across the world. This artic...
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Populist discourses of political leaders in Turkey on Twitter: “you can’t, I will” Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2023-12-24 Emre Vadi Balcı, Melis Karakuş
In Turkey, populism has a homogeneous structure that includes opposing ideologies stuck between right-wing and left-wing views. In the political structure in Turkey, ‘us’ and ‘the other’ are create...
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Ethnicity, cultural hybridity & Felanee: women question in India’s Northeast Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2023-12-24 Debajyoti Biswas, Rupanjit Das
Women and children have often been affected by conflicts taking place in India’s Northeast. Although human rights abuse by armed forces and militias has been addressed in academia time and again, t...
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The poetics of identity making: precarity and agency in Tahmima Anam’s The Good Muslim Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Xin Yan Chew, Moussa Pourya Asl
Bangladesh experienced a massive surge in humanitarian crises after the 1971 Liberation War due to the systematic use of violence at both public and private spheres. Fictional accounts of the post-...
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Rethinking the apocalypse: Zeno’s Conscience and Death Stranding Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Paolo Bartoloni, Enea Bianchi
The moment we live in is a moment of multiple crisis – environmental, political, economic, and viral – a moment, that is, where the reality of damage, fallibility and faultiness, and the ensuing fe...
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Uncanny parallels: exile, pandemic, and the Palestinian experience Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Ahmad Qabaha, Bilal Hamamra
Inspired by Said’s concept of exile, Camus’ 1947 novel The Plague, and testimonies from our students, this paper explores the striking similarities between experiences of exile and the COVID-19 pan...
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Photosynethics: a groundwork for being with the light Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2023-10-19 David W. Hill
It has been suggested that we turn to solar geoengineering to counter global warming, which would consequently transform the relationship of terrestrial plant-life to the sun. This is an article no...
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Women as witness, victim and villain: multifaceted role-play in Fatal Frame II Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Maxine Gee
ABSTRACT In 2003 Japanese folk horror game Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly directed by Makoto Shibata, the protagonist bears witness to an ancient tradition of a community linked to the ritual sacrifice of twins, which results in the female victim becoming a malevolent spirit. Gradually the player, as Mio, equipped with the Camera Obscura, transitions from observer to participant in the cycle of
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Laughing bodies and the tickle machine: understanding the YouTube pipeline through alt-right humour Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Shuvam Das
Since the 2010s, popular YouTube channels have used derogatory humour at the expense of gendered and racialised others. Founded upon the perception of an influx of ‘wokeness’ in comedy, these video...
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Sense and sensibility in intellectual discourse on YouTube: Anti-emotional positioning in the case of Affleck vs. Harris Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Mikkel Bækby Johansen
This article aims to explain the behaviour of public intellectuals, celebrities, and media audiences in the construction of anti-emotional narratives in the online culture wars. In the investigatio...
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Disney boys to men: erotic gaze and masculine gender capital of former Disney boy actors Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Steven Dashiell
This research examines the nature of gender presentation of men who were the stars on Disney Channel shows. Research has already examined how young women who were Disney stars become quickly sexual...
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‘715 haven street: art looks back’: the archival question of art resistance for abolitionist futures in a pacified present Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Mariane A. Stanev
In this article, I bring together the archive of institutional activism of Niara Sudarkasa in the U.S. and the posthumous impact of activist and public administrator Marielle Franco. The 1970s hist...
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Captive maternals and democracy as Hegelian Sittlichkeit: the case of the undocumented, incarcerated, and racialized in the United States and India Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Nitin Luthra
This paper attempts to theorise the labour and corporeal carcerability of the non-citizen non-subjects in contemporary democracies of the United States and India. I reappropriate Joy James’ framewo...
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Kuchisake-Onna: the horror of motherhood and gender embodiment Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Leigh A. Wynn
Am I pretty? A simple question that epitomises both beauty and vulgarity in its monstrous representation of feminine embodiment. In this work, I look at the 2007 Japanese Horror film Carved: The Sl...
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Tyranny and boredom Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Hager Weslati
ABSTRACT Half-way through Alexandre Kojève’s six-year lectures on Hegel (1933–1939), the dialectic of struggle and work reaches its culmination in the conceptual dyad Napoleon-Hegel as a necessary vehicle for universal emancipation and absolute science. Anticipating the ‘leap’ into post-historical existence, the figure of tyranny and wisdom marks the exception in which the dialectical process is suspended
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It is time for men and women to act: constructing a female-friendly space in a male-dominated scene Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2023-06-18 Hinhin Daryana, Aquarini Priyatna, Dinda Satya Upaja Budi
ABSTRACT This study examines how Bandung metal men and women establish gender-sensitive environment, an increasingly crucial task shared with other scene members to create a safe space for women. The research investigates the manifestation of gender-equitable behaviour among male and female metal musicians, the factors that influence such behaviour, and the dynamics of gender relations within the metal
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Crisis, what’s a crisis? Some methodological reflections on evaluating the impact of Covid-19 on Australian arts and culture Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Julian Meyrick, Ben Green, Diana Tolmie, Jane Frank, Guy Cooper
ABSTRACT This essay discusses a 2021 interview-based pilot project on the impact of COVID-19 on a cross-section of Southeast Queensland artists and cultural organisations. Though it engages with empirical data, it addresses conceptual concerns. Our interviews aimed at capturing the emotional as well as the objective costs of the pandemic on cultural practitioners. The essay considers the phrase ‘crisis
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‘Better the devil you know’: feminine sexuality and patriarchal liberation in The Witch Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2023-06-04 Melody Blackmore, Catherine Pugh
At the end of 2015‘s The Witch, isolated and beaten protagonist, Thomasin, ultimately rejects her puritanical upbringing to become a witch, accepting the invitation of the Devil (in the guise of th...
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‘“Do you feel held?”: gender, community, and affective design in midsommar’ Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Cary Elza
Ari Aster’s 2019 folk horror film Midsommar, which enjoyed both critical and popular success, features a bright colour palette and an eerily playful tone alongside a dark narrative exploring comple...
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Queer subtext in The Wicker Man (1973) Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Nikila Lakshmanan
There is surprisingly scant research on queer subtext in The Wicker Man (1973). I suggest Lord Summerisle, who was portrayed by Christopher Lee, is a queer-coded villain. On the night Willow MacGre...
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Bill Gates and the ‘new normal’ COVID-19 conspiracy theories: ‘it’s a new thing’ or nothing new under the sun? Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Arby Ted Siraki, Malek H. Mohammad
ABSTRACT The outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 in late 2019 and the subsequent lockdowns led to widespread conspiracy theories often involving one particular actor: Bill Gates. Adherents of these conspiracy theories believed Gates was behind the pandemic for some nefarious purpose, including chipping and/or eugenics. This was, however, no fringe sentiment: celebrities and other prominent voices articulated some
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The contribution of underwater cultural heritage to gender equality: an iconographic analysis of shipwrecks Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Elena Perez-Alvaro
ABSTRACT This article will examine how underwater cultural heritage research can be an essential tool for reaching gender equality in the maritime world. It will examine the interplay of male and female identities in the maritime world of the past through the analysis of works of art depicting shipwrecks. This will make it possible to investigate the social representation of gender roles and produce
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Human crises and the COVID-19 pandemic: a review Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Sarbani Banerjee
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has not only claimed innumerable lives but the concomitant inflation has also frustrated many small and large enterprises, not to mention the loss of jobs that employees have suffered and sometimes succumbed to through self-harm and suicides. In this context, this paper probes how a politics of representation has deeply informed the dissemination and consumption of ‘COVID
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From colonial violence to decriminalisation and recognition: An interdisciplinary appraisal of perspectives on Indian LGBTQ+ community’s encounter with law Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Ashitha Mary Christopher, Unni Krishnan Karikkat
ABSTRACT This article explores the duality of law with regard to the LGBTQ+ community, examining both its historical regulation of non-heteronormative genders and sexualities and its contradictory potential to transcend such regulations over time. Situated within a postcolonial analytical framework, it undertakes a thematic overview and narrative appraisal of research materials, drawn from a diverse
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Visual presentation of self by the British royal family on instagram Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Sheri Parmelee, Clark Greer
ABSTRACT For centuries, the British royal family has been the subject of books, articles, broadcast media, and digital communication. The addition of social media platforms has further increased the attention of the royals. Each of the family’s official social media sites have large numbers of followers around the world. The present study uses Goffman’s Presentation of Self to qualitatively examine
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The Missionary Housemother and Her ‘Daughters’: Voice and agency in female subaltern spaces in 19th Century Malabar Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Amritha Koiloth Ramath, Shashikantha Koudur
ABSTRACT The paper attempts to explore notions of public-private dichotomy with reference to collective agency and inclusion. It looks at a women’s shelter run by a missionary wife Julie Gundert of the Basel Mission in nineteenth-century Malabar. The missionaries played a key role in the introduction of printing and the development of a modern public sphere in the region: a space, nevertheless, restricted
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As Time Goes By: colonialism, the revision of the past and Brexit Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Jon Stratton
Abstract One component in the vote to leave the European Union was a nostalgic image of Empire and the assertion by Brexiteers like Boris Johnson that after Britain had left the EU new trade links would be made with countries who were members of the Commonwealth, countries that Britain had previously governed as colonies. The foundation for this idea was the understanding that Britain’s governing of
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Casualties of exclusionary cultural policies: exploring the paradox of Black American cultural engagement Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Antonio C. Cuyler
ABSTRACT Since their enslavement in the U. S. Black Americans have longitudinally suffered some of the most heinous crimes against humanity. Yet, despite cultural policies intended to discriminate against, marginalise, oppress, and subjugate them, Black folx have unfailingly demonstrated remarkable creative resilience. This conceptual article explores three research questions: (1) in what ways have
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From politics for life to politics against life: “immunity” as modern logic of politics Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Zeliha Dişci
ABSTRACT The concept of ‘immunity’ is the central notion in Roberto Esposito’s assessments of modern politics. Understanding modern politics from Esposito’s perspective is synonymous with understanding the concept of immunity. However, if one looks at modern political theory, one finds that a number of concepts such as social contract, state/sovereignty, person, property, and liberty stand out as central
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When charity and camera collide: Nigerian celebrity philanthropy in the age of technology Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Rosemary Oyinlola Popoola
ABSTRACT Celebrity studies is an expansive and expanding field in European and American scholarship. Unfortunately, Africanist scholars have paid limited attention to this significant branch of scholarship. Drawing from varied secondary sources, including audio-visual materials, newspaper articles and journals, and books in the fields of celebrities and development, I examine Nigerian celebrity philanthropy
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The last god: lightning of turning in Heidegger Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Jacob W. Glazier
ABSTRACT I explore Martin Heidegger’s figure of the last god found in his middle period of thinking from 1936–1939 centring my analysis on Contributions to Philosophy: Of the Event (Beiträge) and how this conception is messianic in nature. The last god is a particular instantiation of a being among beings rather than representing a literary or philosophical structure that lies ahead in the future.
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Wall Street: on capitalism and the predatory instinct Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2022-10-30 Thierry Suchère
ABSTRACT Financial markets have a social history. In the 19th century, birth of capital markets led to the birth of the stock exchange novel, which inspired H de Balzac, E Zola, etc. During the 1980s, the financialization of the economy saw the cinema captured this change through the financial thriller. Oliver Stone’s Wall Street (1987) inaugurates a list of recent movies that deals with the stock
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Sulayman Al-Bassam’s The Al Hamlet Summit: normalisation and Arab treacherous politics Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Bilal Hamamra, Ayman Mleitat, Abdel Karim Daragmeh
ABSTRACT Al-Bassam’s The Al Hamlet Summit (2006), an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1603), presents a cynical comment on the political corruption in the Arab World and it constitutes from a presentist perspective, we argue, an anachronistic critique of some Arab leaders’ lapse into normalisation with the long-standing Other, the Israeli occupation. Al-Bassam captures the political corruption and
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Framing the pandemic: from information to outformation in the COVID-19 era Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Johanna Vuorelma
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has been the most mediatised health crisis in human history, involving a rapid circulation of knowledge in global networks and a continuous flow of spectacular images and narratives that have rendered the pandemic graspable in cultural, political, and moral terms. This article proposes that the intertwined nature of two opposite trends of knowledge production – scientific
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Reflexivity and the perpetuation of inequality in the cultural sector: half awake in a fake empire? Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2022-08-21 Steven Hadley, Brea Heidelberg, Eleonora Belfiore
ABSTRACT Discourses of social justice offer the sense of a progressive and developing narrative within the arts sector. Cultural democracy, cultural equity and cultural diversity address broad policy issues related to production, consumption and representation. This article questions whether these approaches have failed in their challenge to the long-established power dynamics of the cultural sector
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Political and economic theology after Carl Schmitt: the confessional logic of deferment Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Andrea Mura
ABSTRACT Carl Schmitt’s critical insights into ‘economic-technical thinking’ and the dominant role that a ‘magical technicity’ is said to assume in the social horizon of his times offers an opportunity to reframe contemporary debates on political and economic theology, exposing a theological core behind technocratic administration. Starting from this premise, the article engages with recent inquiries
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Storytelling through images: how leaders managed their visual communication on Facebook during the 2019 European election campaign Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2022-08-07 Marco Mazzoni, Roberto Mincigrucci
ABSTRACT In contemporary democracies, the image that political leaders project is of central importance to their electoral appeal, however, studies of image projection have mainly been based on textual messages, undermining often visual content such as photos, memes and postcards. This study explores populist leaders image projection through visuals on Facebook in a cross-national context, with the
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Discourse of Self-Empowerment in Ariana Grande’s ‘thank u, next’ Album Lyrics: A Critical Discourse Analysis Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Ekkarat Ruanglertsilp
ABSTRACT Due to the increasing concern about gender equity in the U.S., song lyrics with political activism are receiving more attention. As reflected through lyrics and the artist’s tumultuous life events, ‘thank u, next,’ Ariana Grande’s fifth album, has been reviewed by media outlets, such as Billboard as mirroring Grande’s public persona of self-empowerment. iTunes (2019) describes the album as
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The culture of migration in Southeast Asia: Acculturation, enculturation and deculturation Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2022-07-07 AKM Ahsan Ullah
ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to look at how migration and culture interact to shape the migration landscape in Southeast Asian countries. Within the scope of migration study, there has been a lack of attention paid to the importance of culture. Scholars may have lost sight of the importance of culture due to a sustained and continuous concentration on socioeconomic concerns. The research
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The taste of contemporaneity: is the west kitsch? Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Alberto Castelli, Barbara Sonzogni
ABSTRACT As the twenty-first century begins, Benjamin’s aura as the quality of an authentic-art-object might be outdated, but the notion of kitsch remains essential in a post-Warholian world. The following discussion is an attempt to assess Western contemporaneity. By using a few examples, so to dissect problems into their smallest components, I suggest that the current popularity of kitsch inclinations
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Lost items and exposed shame – dreamcore’s inheritance and transcendence of liminal space and defamiliarization Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Haoxing Wu
ABSTRACT Dreamcore originates from a video (or image) form submitted on 21 April 2018, when an anonymous user posted a thread on 4chan’s paranormal section collecting images that would make people feel ‘uncomfortable', and another user’s comment under it gained the attention of the community. And it has been a new subculture that uses familiar scenes to make the audience nostalgic but uneasy, with
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A Gendered Pandemic: Editors’ Introduction Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2022-04-14 Emma Casey, Sarah Childs, Rupa Huq
(2022). A Gendered Pandemic: Editors’ Introduction. Journal for Cultural Research: Vol. 26, A Gendered Pandemic: Covid 19 and Questions of Gender (In)equalities, pp. 1-5.
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How to stop the torture machine? Language and destituent power Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2022-03-15 Önder Özden
ABSTRACT In this paper reling on Agamben’s genealogical endeavour with regard to the concept of oath, I shall try to discuss how he renders the relation between language and the destituent power that will lead me to address ‘the new experience of the word’, namely, pistis (faith), which is placed at the centre of the messianic announcement. In order to open up this point, I will take into consideration
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Negotiating memories through language: an analysis of the choice of an official language during state-building in Timor-Leste Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2022-03-13 Marcelle Trote Martins
ABSTRACT The main objective of this work is to contribute to the literature on memory in post-conflict societies by considering how the choice of an official language is entangled in memory politics. Particularly, in Timor-Leste, the choice of Portuguese as the official language reflects an effort to create a narrative of the heroism of the ‘Generation of 75’ whilst silencing the efforts and memories
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Domestic workers from margin to center: protest, opportunity and threat in pandemic politics Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2022-03-08 Srijani Datta, Summer Forester, Kaitlin Kelly-Thompson, Amber Lusvardi, Laurel Weldon
ABSTRACT (***Special Edition Gendered Pandemic) In India, domestic workers' movements advocated for their own and other workers’ rights both before and during the pandemic. Over the course of the pandemic, however, the political landscape and degree of disunity among workers changed. Despite dwindling resources and a hostile political environment that offered paltry prospects for success, domestic
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The singularity to come Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Saitya Brata Das
ABSTRACT In his posthumously published Broken Hegemonies, Reiner Schürmann shows how the ‘tragic denial’ of the differend – between the universal and the singular, natality and mortality, institution and destitution – gives rise to hegemonies. When ‘the sovereign fantasm’ that grounds and anchors the hegemony expires, the hegemony gets withered away. Taking Schürmann’s insights as point of departure
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Come Scream with Me: On feminist stories and screaming into the void Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Amber Moore, Kathleen (Kaye) Hare
ABSTRACT In this paper, we apply a scholarly lens to ‘screaming into the void,’ especially in response to similarly intense moments of lived experience as emergent feminist and literacy education scholars. Together, we produce storied soundscapes of screaming – a kind of cartography that we call feminist ‘screamscapes’, largely in response to our experience as cruel optimist early academics. We understand
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‘A New Career’: nostalgia, mortality, and David Bowie’s ‘I Can’t Give Everything Away’ Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2022-01-23 Alice Masterson
ABSTRACT David Bowie’s swansong album Blackstar occupies a unique position in its proximity to the artist’s death: just two days. It thus provides an opportunity to examine how music, nostalgia, and mortality interact. Combining study into the links between music and nostalgia and analysis of use of quotation, I propose a reading of a ‘dual effect’ in which the track ‘I Can’t Give Everything Away’
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Heartland television commercials: Cadbury, the EU and Brexit Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2022-01-20 Jon Stratton
ABSTRACT This article argues that certain Cadbury television advertisements reflect a change in the relationship between the north and the south of England. Historically, the south of England has understood the north, let us say, the North, as a relatively backward and impoverished region while the south, let us say the South, has seen itself as the heartland of England. In the disillusionment felt
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“I was able to take part in the chamber as if I was there” – women local councillors, remote meeting attendance, and Covid-19: a positive from the pandemic? Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Leah Hibbs
ABSTRACT This article explores research findings regarding the possibilities offered by remote attendance at council meetings as implemented during the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, and reflects upon how this may improve women local councillors’ experiences, as well as women’s political participation and the accessibility of Welsh local government going forward. Influenced by feminist institutionalist
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Ethnic minority and migrant women’s struggles in accessing healthcare during COVID-19: an intersectional analysis Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Adrienne Yong, Sabrina Germain
ABSTRACT This paper aims to show that the COVID-19 pandemic has amplified existing barriers to healthcare in England for ethnic minority and migrant women. These barriers include those embedded within the institution, stemming from community perceptions and relating to socio-economic factors. Though barriers to accessing healthcare have existed long before the pandemic, more attention must be devoted
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Politik kekirian: Ucok and Homicide’s brokerages of protests in Bandung, Indonesia Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2022-01-05 William Yanko
ABSTRACT In this article, I examine politics and protest during the post-authoritarian Indonesian regime by analysing the song ‘Puritan (God Blessed Fascists)’ by Homicide (2002)., drawing from my fieldwork in Bandung and Jakarta to do so. By framing my analysis through Bräuchler’s (2019 Bräuchler, B. (2019). Brokerage, Creativity and Space: Protest Culture in Indonesia. Journal of Intercultural Studies
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Deconstructing Britney Spears: stardom, meltdown and conservatorship Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Otávio Daros
ABSTRACT Using a diverse set of research sources, this article critically examines the trajectory of singer Britney Spears over four decades, from her first steps towards fame to the unfolding of the #FreeBritney movement. In the first part, the study addresses her origins as a rural girl from a working-class family in Louisiana and how she was meticulously constructed like ‘Miss American Dream’. It
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The coronavirus pandemic: exploring expectant fathers’ experiences Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Alice Menzel
ABSTRACT The Coronavirus pandemic raises significant concerns about pervasive social inequities and disparate gender relations, particularly between mothers/fathers. Indeed, the pandemic engendered a general retreat into traditional parenting roles across myriad, everyday, institutional, spaces, including workplaces, homes, and welfare/healthcare services. These effects have been especially marked
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Men at (home) work: masculinity and the second shift during COVID-19 Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Dan Cassino, Yasemin Besen-Cassino
ABSTRACT Past work has shown that men’s gender identities often lead them to eschew household labour in an attempt to shore up threatened masculinity. As the COVID-19 pandemic has lead to both enormous financial disruption and high levels of stress among the population, we expect these patterns to be exacerbated. We focus on the helping children with virtual school activities, as it is a uniquely stressful
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Is coolness still cool? Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2021-11-22 Vanessa Brown
ABSTRACT In the 1990s and early 2000s, “cool’ received substantial scholarly attention, some influential studies claiming that cool was becoming the dominant ethic in contemporary consumer societies, with increasingly global resonance. Yet it remains an elusive and complex phenomenon approached from numerous disciplinary islands, though sometimes curiously absent from studies of related phenomena such