Article
Cultural Studies
Hong Zeng
Summary: The increasing number of women migrants is a consequence of accelerated globalization and transnational migration in recent decades. This article explores women migrants' sense of belonging by examining their everyday material practices. By analyzing narratives about diasporic objects, it is argued that these objects articulate women migrants' domestic and familial life, connecting them with their imagined national cultures. The concept of 'home' is haunted by memories of war, patriarchal oppression, and authoritarianism. The study concludes by discussing how women migrants use their diasporic objects to transform the idea of home into a rooted and transitive concept.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Kevin Barker
Summary: Britain's accession to the European Union in 1973 had a significant impact on the British Commonwealth, reducing its global influence and emphasizing its role in promoting Britain's soft power. However, the Commonwealth gained added significance during the Brexit referendum campaign in 2016. For supporters of Brexit, the Commonwealth represents an important platform for Britain to reestablish itself in the world through trade and migration. This essay examines the intellectual contributions of James Bryce, Jawaharlal Nehru, Kwame Nkrumah, and Shridath Ramphal to assess the influence of Brexit on the Commonwealth. It argues that Britain's anxiety about the European Union's constitutional order is rooted in its colonial past and the subsequent formation of the Commonwealth. Furthermore, the essay explores how the Crown exercises sovereign power within the Commonwealth through a strategic presence and absence.
INTERVENTIONS-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Gil Anidjar
Summary: The concept of minority, like any other concept, functions differentially. It is distinct from the majority and other categories of identified minorities. The polysemy and vagueness of minority, along with its relationship to various modifiers, contribute to its differential nature. The modifiers range from number and race to class, gender, nationality, ethnicity, religion, and legal, social, and political aspects. The concept also involves measurement, which relates to quality rather than quantity. This essay highlights the destruction of minority as a crucial phenomenon to recognize in the age of minorities.
INTERVENTIONS-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Qingyue Sun
Summary: This study examines various aspects of the Chinese digital labor market, including capitalism, national agendas, and state regulation. The findings show that digital labor in the multi-channel networks operates within a state-led/capitalist complex. The recruitment logic and management of MCNs align with the state's economic development agenda, integrating creative power and individual entrepreneurship into national building.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Jason Ahlenius
Summary: This essay discusses the impact of empire and capital expansion through Eadweard Muybridge's survey photography. It shows how photography can naturalize the temporalities of global capital and US empire, while also varying its role in different geographical contexts. Muybridge's photographs depict the transformation of Guatemala into a modernizing coffee state, suppressing indigenous histories and representing them within global currents of commodification and exhibition.
INTERVENTIONS-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Evan Nicoll-Johnson
Summary: "The Treatise on Withdrawing to the Mountains of Jinhua" by Liu Xiaobiao provides a comprehensive account of the author's rural mountain estate. Through his unique form of landscape writing, Liu draws inspiration from various literary genres and academic influences. He explores different attitudes and perspectives on human engagement with the natural world, capturing a region that has undergone significant anthropogenic transformation.
POSTMEDIEVAL-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL CULTURAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Nicholas Hardy
Summary: This article examines the connection between Serres' Le Parasite and the research practice of creative intervention through the analysis of an experimental film produced for the 2022 Space and Culture Conference. The experimental film aims to challenge traditional academic forms by combining research materials from local sites with a range of ideas and theories, blurring the boundaries between theory, poetry, and practice, and exploring the dystopia of virtualization in everyday life and the potential realities seen from a local perspective.
Article
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Anna Demianova, Mikhail Gershman, Evgeniy Kutsenko, Evgeniya Polyakova, Valeriya Vlasova
Summary: The study finds that the growth in creative employment is mainly driven by an increase in IT, marketing, and public relations professionals. The research also reveals the heterogeneity of the creative workforce in terms of employment, education, and localization characteristics. Creative employment is predominantly concentrated in regions with city populations of over one million.
Article
Cultural Studies
Larissa Hjorth, Sybille Lammes
Summary: Cities are complex spaces that involve various interactions between infrastructures, media, humans and non-humans. They contain multiple visible and invisible cartographies that require a multisensory approach. Recently, cities have been seen as playgrounds, inviting new ways of designing urban games and interventions that acknowledge the diverse ways we experience the world. The concept of the city as a playground is explored in this article, with a reflection on dominant ideas of playgrounds and a case study of Superillas in Barcelona.
Article
Cultural Studies
Leonie Tuitjer, Anna-Lisa Muller, Gesine Tuitjer
Summary: This article explores how local social infrastructures, such as supermarkets, became primary sites during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on auto-ethnographic accounts, it analyzes the role of design, objects, and materiality in adjusting social practices and urban conviviality.
Article
Cultural Studies
Seth Giddings
Summary: This article explores the origins of children's playgrounds as technological, spatial, and historical phenomena, and discusses the use of digitally augmented playground equipment in children's outdoor play in the postdigital era. It raises questions about the introduction of digital technology and media forms, and the relationships between play, play environments, and imagination during times of technological change.
Article
Cultural Studies
Ana Grgic
Summary: The re-emergence of local horror films in Malaysia in the early 21st century coincided with the rise of digital filmmaking. Digital streaming platforms have become new circulation routes for engaged and independent local films, offering more freedom compared to the Malaysian mainstream film landscape. Streaming platforms are particularly suitable for hosting horror movies, which often face censorship due to violence, explicit content, and focus on evil. Additionally, 'Southeast Asian horror' has become a key curating and marketing strategy for the global arthouse streaming service MUBI in Southeast Asia.
CONTINUUM-JOURNAL OF MEDIA & CULTURAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Area Studies
Hyung-min Joo, Taehee Whang, Young Jun Choi, Wooseon Choi
Summary: North Koreans have heavily relied on the shadow economy since the collapse of socialism in the 1990s. The shadow economy has brought about significant changes in social practices, welfare perception, corruption levels, and public views of the regime. However, due to tight social control, people remain sceptical about the possibility of regime change.
ASIAN STUDIES REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Marcello Messina, Francisco Bento da Silva, Leticia Porto Ribeiro, Jairo de Araujo Souza
Summary: This article takes Erll's categorisation of memory studies scholars as a starting point to propose the centrality of the Amazon as a spatiotemporal center for memory studies. By examining case studies in the region, the article argues that Amazon-centered memory studies can be applied to other geographical realities and different disciplines.
Article
Cultural Studies
Jessica K. Young
Summary: This article discusses the situation at New College of Florida and the controversy surrounding the appointment of trustees. The author argues that in the current precarious teaching environment, connecting history to the present and offering vulnerability education may promote reconciliation, despite right-wing efforts to divide society.
Article
Cultural Studies
Samuel K. Adesubokan
Summary: "Koko Inu Iwe Iroyin" is a Yoruba language radio programme that started airing in 1999. It deviates from traditional radio journalism conventions and adopts a performative mode that incorporates various oral devices such as proverbs, puns, extemporisation, and fictional exaggeration. By drawing from other Yoruba performance traditions, it creates a unique news format that reinforces Yoruba cultural identity and fosters a distinct aural community. The use of Yoruba figurative texts in news storytelling aims to localize journalistic work within the Yoruba discursive tradition, which values textual creativity and dynamic recapitulations. This radio news show reflects the evolving context and continuous reinvention of Yoruba oral performance in modern society.
JOURNAL OF AFRICAN CULTURAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Stipe Odak, Aline Cordonnier, Sandra Rios Oyola, Pierre Bouchat, Valerie Rosoux
Summary: This article describes a 1-year online Memory Studies Certificate Program at UCLouvain and emphasizes the importance of teaching in the field. The article summarizes key lessons learned from internal discussions and a survey, highlighting the need for deep understanding and cohesive dialogue in creating study programs.
Article
Anthropology
Geng Song
Summary: This article investigates the phenomenon of "milky puppy" in Chinese internet culture and its representation in Chinese TV dramas. The term "milky puppy" symbolizes a young and adorable male figure, similar to a puppy, and is influenced by the moe culture in Japanese and Korean popular cultures. The article explores the cultural translation of the pet man imaginary in East Asia and argues that the bodily rhetoric of milky puppy represents the commodification of the male body. Through the analysis of two Chinese TV dramas, Find Yourself and The Rational Life, the article identifies distinctive Chinese characteristics in the portrayal of pet man masculinity and examines the negotiation between neoliberal subjectivity and patriarchal gender norms in postsocialist China.
INTER-ASIA CULTURAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Anthropology
Tze-ki Hon, Hok-yin Chan
Summary: This article examines two memorial landscapes in Cold War Hong Kong – Sung Wong Toi Garden in Kowloon Bay and Benjamin Franklin Centre of Chinese University of Hong Kong in New Territories. These landscapes, established in 1958 and 1969 respectively, marked a significant shift in Hong Kong's position in the world, transforming it from a trading port to a strategic node in the global competition between communism and capitalism, authoritarianism and democracy, planned economy and market economy. By emphasizing Hong Kong's historical roots and commitment to higher education, these memorial landscapes played a crucial role in shaping people's perceptions and emotions.
INTER-ASIA CULTURAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Anthropology
Chun-yen Wang
Summary: This essay examines Assignment Theater's documentary theater performances on environment issues and discusses its relationship with the leftist movement in post-war Taiwan. It explores the interconnectedness of environmental discourses, village communities, and documentary theater.
INTER-ASIA CULTURAL STUDIES
(2023)
