Pub Date : 2024-03-11DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2024.2318560
Roberto Filippello
{"title":"‘Starved for pleasure’: the fashion magazine as a desirous queer archive","authors":"Roberto Filippello","doi":"10.1080/09502386.2024.2318560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2024.2318560","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140252769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-03DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2024.2318555
Prem Kumar Rajaram
{"title":"‘They abscond’: migration and coloniality in the contemporary conjuncture in Europe","authors":"Prem Kumar Rajaram","doi":"10.1080/09502386.2024.2318555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2024.2318555","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140081147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-29DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2024.2304871
Judith Fathallah
{"title":"Fandom through generational lenses\u0000 Fandom: the next generation\u0000 , edited by Bridget Kies and Megan Connor, Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 2022, 256pp., $70.00, ISBN-13 9781609388331, $70 (ebook), ISBN-13 9781609388348","authors":"Judith Fathallah","doi":"10.1080/09502386.2024.2304871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2024.2304871","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140487017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-25DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2024.2304846
Hannah L. Westwood
{"title":"‘Blood Money’: a cultural history of the menstrual economy\u0000 Cash flow: The businesses of menstruation\u0000 , by Camilla Mørk Røstvik, London, UCL Press, 2022, 229pp, ISBN: 9781787355569(hardback, 40.00) / 9781787355446(paperback, 20.00) / 9781787355385(ebook, open access)","authors":"Hannah L. Westwood","doi":"10.1080/09502386.2024.2304846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2024.2304846","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139596633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-23DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2024.2304881
Amy Whiteside
{"title":"Confronting boot strap feminismConfidence culture, by Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill, Durham, Duke University Press, 2022, 256 pp., $26.95(paperback), ISBN 9781478017608, $102.95(cloth), ISBN 9781478014539","authors":"Amy Whiteside","doi":"10.1080/09502386.2024.2304881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2024.2304881","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139604838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-23DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2024.2304870
Zakir Hussain
{"title":"Curriculum and pedagogical shifts from a semi-peripheral perspective\u0000 Decolonising English studies from the semi-periphery\u0000 , by Ana Cristina Mendes, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 247 pp., £93.08(e-book), ISBN: 9783031202865","authors":"Zakir Hussain","doi":"10.1080/09502386.2024.2304870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2024.2304870","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139605161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-15DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2023.2261956
Kamahra Ewing
{"title":"Drawing hearts in the air within new African diaspora spaces: selling Nollywood and consuming nostalgia in London","authors":"Kamahra Ewing","doi":"10.1080/09502386.2023.2261956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2023.2261956","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139623132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-08DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2023.2274083
Shuwen Qu
ABSTRACTKaraoke has long been understood as an imitative musical practice, popular among the working class in western society. While scholars have noticed the communicative significance of karaoke in generating interpretive creativity and social interaction, they also point out the tendency of offline karaoke practices to strengthen cultural rules and social hierarchies. For this reason, this paper examines vibrant Chinese streaming karaoke practices and explores how Chinese streaming karaoke, as the originator of cultural and social enclave, offers hope for resistance against cultural censorship and social restriction. Through the lens of the theoretical concepts of tactics, affect and human flourishing, the analysis reveals that the karaoke enclave generates an affective field for vernacular creativities that foster personal wellbeing and social publicness in everyday life, through four playful tactics: to ‘water’ the vibrancy of life, to build ‘asylum’ so as to seek more intensified experiential connections and connect with total strangers, to ‘morph’ into unknown spontaneity and set up non-monetary values, and to perform ‘freak show’ to voice political affect and resonate with the most unlikely of people. The emancipatory power of streaming karaoke play, lies in the interdependence and interconnection of those tactics and they as a whole contribute to the human flourishing.KEYWORDS: Streaming karaokehuman flourishingaffecttacticsvernacular creativities AcknowledgementsThe author thanks two anonymous reviewers for their careful reading of the manuscript and their insightful and critical comments. The author is also grateful to Prof. David Hesmondhalgh for providing helpful comments on earlier draft of the manuscript.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis research is supported by the Chinese Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (no.332202312623657), and by the Music Culture in the Age of Streaming—which has received funding from the European Research Council, under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, in the form of an Advanced Research Grant awarded to Professor David Hesmondhalgh, at the University of Leeds (Grant agreement no. 1010020615).
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Pub Date : 2023-10-31DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2023.2274077
Daniele Salerno
In this article, I will explore the role of memory in the context of homosexual liberation movements. I will do this through the lens of the queer press, which will serve as a doorway for the exploration of activist mnemonic labour. Activists undertake mnemonic labour to craft narratives that weave together historical oppression and resistance with hopes for a better future. These narratives are used to motivate and sustain activists in their present struggles. The queer press helps spread narratives across borders and creates shared memoryscapes for activism. My proposal is to view memoryscapes as schemata that inform activist mnemonic labour. On one hand, memoryscapes offer a shared purpose and direction for activists spread across different countries. On the other hand, they serve as arenas for mediation and comparison, linking distinct histories from diverse social groups and revealing their shared threads. This turns memory into a resource for building alliances across borders, and among different political and social groups. I will adopt this perspective to study two Argentinian homosexual liberation groups from the 1960s-70s: Nuestro Mundo and Frente de Liberación Homosexual (FLH). I will explore activist mnemonic labour on Nuestro Mundo’s bulletins and the FLH’s periodicals: Homosexuales and Somos. I will focus on two main aspects: (1) how activists adapt transnational narratives to the local context, and (2) how Argentinian activists weave narratives that blend historical oppression and resistance with visions of a different future.
在这篇文章中，我将探讨记忆在同性恋解放运动中的作用。我将通过酷儿媒体的镜头来做这件事，这将成为探索激进的助记劳动的门户。活动人士从事记忆性工作，精心编写叙事，将历史上的压迫和反抗与对更美好未来的希望交织在一起。这些叙述被用来激励和支持活动家们目前的斗争。酷儿媒体帮助跨界传播叙事，为激进主义创造共同的记忆。我的建议是将记忆景观视为图式，为激进的助记劳动提供信息。一方面，记忆景观为分布在不同国家的活动人士提供了共同的目标和方向。另一方面，它们作为调解和比较的场所，将不同社会群体的不同历史联系起来，揭示他们的共同线索。这就把记忆变成了跨越国界、在不同政治和社会群体之间建立联盟的资源。我将采用这一视角来研究20世纪60年代至70年代的两个阿根廷同性恋解放组织:Nuestro Mundo和Frente de Liberación homosexual (FLH)。我将在Nuestro Mundo的公报和FLH的期刊:同性恋和Somos上探索活动家的记忆劳动。我将集中讨论两个主要方面:(1)活动家如何将跨国叙事适应当地背景，以及(2)阿根廷活动家如何编织叙事，将历史压迫和抵抗与不同未来的愿景融合在一起。
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Pub Date : 2023-10-24DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2023.2264580
Loron Benton
ABSTRACTKara Walker is best known for her depictions of sexualized violence and gendered racism during slavery in the form of black paper silhouettes. Scholars such as Salamishah Tillet argue that Walker's art, along with art by some of her post-civil rights contemporaries, offers ‘aesthetic interventions’ to problematic racial histories as part of a larger project of memory reclamation and justice. Walker's A Subtlety, Or the Marvelous Sugar Baby, an Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World on the Occasion of the demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant is another such interventionist project. Debuting in the Williamsburg neighbourhood of Brooklyn, New York in May of 2014, A Subtlety explores how a figure like mammy ‘survives as a cultural force that influences and reflects a national conscience’ (Wallace Sanders [2008]. Mammy: a century of race, gender, and southern memory. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 12). And yet, to say that the historical rootedness of the title, sugar sphinx sculpture, and molasses-covered walls and cherub-faced small figures throughout the installation were ambiguous to some spectators, is an understatement. Hundreds of photographs and videos were uploaded to social media sites with people making gestures towards the figure that some critics deemed highly inappropriate. This paper explores how A Subtlety both understands and undermines representations of Black women's bodies and how Black artists in the African diaspora contend with complex cultural signs of the past in the present. Utilizing studies of Black feminist theory and visual culture, I argue that Walker’s A Subtlety – and her art more broadly – offers theoretical and geographic space to ponder where Black pleasure and collective memory can exist in systems of misogynoir, as well as in the Black nostalgic imagination.KEYWORDS: Feminismpleasuregazesugarmammymemory Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
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