European Journal of Cultural Studies (EJCS)
@EJCS_Journal
A major international peer-reviewed journal which has been publishing cultural studies scholarship for 25 yrs. Find us elsewhere: http://ejcs-journal.bsky.social
Volume 27 Issue 4 is now out in print! 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/toc/ECS/current
New Pub alert -- 'The music business case for diversity: Multiculturalism, pop music and the 1990s,' in @EJCS_Journal! Looked at the role of "multiculturalism" in how the music biz marketed (and the world received) Lauryn Hill, Whitney Houston & Santana journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…
Short piece with @JamesKneale & Vallu for @PointsHistory summarising & expanding arguments we made in our paper for @EJCS_Journal w/ some personal family history The Desi Pub: postcolonial, anti-racist histories of ‘the British pub’ pointshistory.org/post/the-desi-…
Really pleased to share this new article, written with Sharon Lockyer, where we examine intersectionality in stand-up comedy. @Comedy_Studies @EJCS_Journal Intersectionality and the Construction of Humour in Contemporary Stand-up Comedy journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…
Why is being a victim such a potent identity today? Read @kat_hig's #bookreview of "Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood" (@ColumbiaUP) by @chouliaraki_l here: doi.org/10.1177/136754…
“Refugee Voices: Performativity and the Struggle for Recognition” (@Routledge_MandC) by @_robsharp explores how participatory creative production allows refugees to be recognised in emotional, legal and social ways. Read the #bookreview by @mmmzsk here: doi.org/10.1177/136754…
Drawing on qualitative interviews and ethnographic research, this article by Jiayixiu Zhao and @yimeizhu aims to understand Lolita participants’ perception of Lolita dressing culture and their experience with the Lolita online communities. Read here: doi.org/10.1177/136754…
In “Performing Fear in Television Production” (@AmsterdamUPress), @xiaorongfong turns to the lived everyday of media producers in Singapore to explore what it takes to perpetuate authoritarian resilience in the media. Read the #review by Howard Lee here: doi.org/10.1177/136754…
New article authored by student and staff in Media&Comm: 'Need for belonging: Exploring subcultural identity in the Chinese Lolita online community - Dr Jiayixiu Zhao & Dr Yimei Zhu @yimeizhu #lolitafashion #lolitastyle in @EJCS_Journal journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…
In "Anokha emerging: The Asian Underground, new ethnicities, and diversity conservatism", @rikjaz (@ucl) places British-Asian club and music aesthetics in a broader terrain of avant-garde cultural production and representational politics. doi.org/10.1177/136754… #OpenAccess
It was a pleasure to write this review of @chouliaraki_l’s brilliant new book Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood for @EJCS_Journal. Wronged is an essential text for this crazymaking moment in public moral politics, and I can’t recommend it highly enough 👇
Wow! Brilliant reflection on Wronged in @EJCS_Journal.@kat_hig 🙏 Wronged opens new ways of thinking about the centrality of pain in political life, while inviting us to meet the challenge of reclaiming victimhood to build a more just, less painful world. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…
Wow! Brilliant reflection on Wronged in @EJCS_Journal.@kat_hig 🙏 Wronged opens new ways of thinking about the centrality of pain in political life, while inviting us to meet the challenge of reclaiming victimhood to build a more just, less painful world. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…
From ‘girlboss’ to #stayathomegirlfriend: @IOJ_Sykes (@bruneluni) argues that the romanticisation of domesticity on @tiktok_us ultimately serves to exacerbate the societal disavowal of social reproduction labour under neoliberal capitalism. doi.org/10.1177/136754… #TikTok
To render the asymmetries in air pollution exposure not only visible but sense-able, this article by @LouiseRondel (@GoldsmithsUoL) draws on a mobile, emplaced and embodied methodology of walking and cycling through #London. doi.org/10.1177/136754…
"Pansy asses and terrorists": In this #OpenAccess article, Heidi Kosonen (@uniofjyvaskyla) and @LofRiku (@HelsinkiUni) analyse anti-environmentalist speech and actions against @ExtinctionR in Finland through the concept of ‘toxic speech’. Read here: doi.org/10.1177/136754…
"The contemplative vividness of Performing Fear lends significant depth of discussion that renders it an important addition to Singapore media scholarship." Thank you to Howard Lee for reviewing my book for @EJCS_Journal .
Waiting for the results of the US #Election2024? This might be a great time to (re)read Eeva Sointu and David W Hill’s “Trump Therapy” and Neil O’Boyle’s “WhatsAppening Donald” in our digital archive. Both #OpenAccess here doi.org/10.1177/136754… & here doi.org/10.1177/136754…
A book with “vast implications for a deepened understanding of Hong Kong popular music”: Yiu-Wai Chu reviews “‘It’s My Party’: Tat Ming and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong” by Chow Yiu Fai, @JeroendeKloet and Leonie Schmidt. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
What happens when the skills & stories of older rural women are translated into superheroine stories? Powerful research by Beatriz Carbajal-Carrera in @EJCS_Journal (2022), discovered during my @metaklub global literature review: doi.org/10.1177/136754… derrubandomuros.gal/mural/fina-de-…
Trending in #CulturalStudies: ooir.org/index.php?fiel… 1) Global perspectives on platforms & cultural production (@IJCS_journal) 2) Village YouTubers in S. India 3) China as data coloniser? 4) Cultural & spatial logics of Channel 4’s media hub workspaces (@EJCS_Journal)
In "Musical metapolitics and the Alt-Right", Sam de Boise (@orebrouni) argues that Alt-Right media and its proponents simultaneously encouraged ironic consumption of mainstream musics and advocated an aesthetic pluralism. Read in #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1177/136754…
