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Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Katarzyna Paszkiewicz
Summary: This paper aims to contribute to the study of nonhuman in Andrea Arnold's cinema. Through analyzing Arnold's three films, the author argues that her sensory-driven cinema offers instances of non-anthropocentric stray visuality by focusing on the environment and nonhuman beings. The author asserts that Arnold's filmmaking challenges binary oppositions and is deeply involved in current ecological debates.
JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS & CULTURE
(2023)
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Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Erik Wallrup
Summary: This article argues that affectivity can drive historical change and introduces the concept of patheme in relation to Foucault, Heidegger, Reddy, Ranciere, and de Bolla's theories. It explores the profound affective transformation of European culture during the 18th century and its condensed shifts in Sweden during Gustav III's reign. The study considers the interplay between power relations, social conditions, modes of scientific thought, and affectivity, described as polyphony.
JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS & CULTURE
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Rozemarijn Weyers
Summary: This article argues for considering urban neighborhood spaces in the formation of whiteness, proposing a co-constitutive process between space and race. Based on ethnographic research in a diverse neighborhood in Amsterdam, the analysis identifies four socio-spatial practices that contribute to the construction of white identities.
IDENTITIES-GLOBAL STUDIES IN CULTURE AND POWER
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Maria Sigridur Finnsdottir
Summary: Social media has provided powerful tools for radical right parties to expand their influence and connect with concerned voters. However, women politicians on the radical right continue to face gendered stereotypes and are only rewarded online when conforming to these stereotypes.
CONTINUUM-JOURNAL OF MEDIA & CULTURAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
A. Lamont Williams, Amanda Schweinbenz, Ann Pegoraro
Summary: This article examines the gap in Black athlete activism and advancement from the 1980s to the late 2000s by applying a Black Critical Theory lens and analyzing athletes like Michael Jordan in the apolitical era of Black athletes.
CULTURAL STUDIES-CRITICAL METHODOLOGIES
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Tamsyn Dent, Jessica Tanghetti, Roberta Comunian
Summary: This article examines the collective acts of resistance to workplace inequality among cultural and creative workers in Milan after the Covid-19 lockdown. By observing the emerging consciousness and recognition of precarious working conditions, combined with the disruptions caused by the pandemic, the article argues that interruptions can create opportunities for reimagining and reshaping the political future.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Ronald J. Pelias
Summary: This tribute article uses poetry to highlight the profound contributions of Dr. Tami Spry to the fields of performance studies and qualitative inquiry, and asserts that she will have a lasting impact on her area of research.
CULTURAL STUDIES-CRITICAL METHODOLOGIES
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Dan Ward
Summary: Professional wrestling, especially WWE, has utilized mainstream crossover appeal stars as symbols to attract new audiences and signify new directions or innovations in brand identity. With the growing demand for behind-the-scenes information, WWE has renegotiated its relationship with discourses of the 'real' and 'authentic' by engaging with reality-based media forms and emphasizing legitimate combat athletes as featured stars.
Article
Cultural Studies
Patrick Bixby
Summary: This essay examines the relationship between Beckett's portrayal of vagrants and the colonial legal legacy in post-independence Ireland, highlighting the political significance of these figures and their defiance of the post-independence state's legal ideology.
INTERVENTIONS-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Amina ElHalawani
Summary: This article examines how Arab-American women writers negotiate their hyphenated identities and view identity as a fluid concept, rather than fixed. It focuses on a selection of poems by Lisa Suhair Majaj, Laila Halaby, and Suheir Hammad, analyzing how they express their sense of being and deal with the assumed paradox of their double identity, especially after the rise of anti-Arab sentiment following 9/11.
INTERVENTIONS-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Susanna L. Sacks
Summary: This essay analyzes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on poetic production in South Africa and explores the theme of connection in contemporary poetry. During lockdowns, South African poets compensate for the lack of state or market support for the arts through community organizations and collaborations. The digital shift has created new possibilities, but what kind of community is formed through these platforms? Who specifically benefits and under what terms? How does poetry itself mediate these relationships?
INTERVENTIONS-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Sean Kennedy
Summary: Samuel Beckett wrote Watt during the occupation of France, exploring the theme of complicity. Through the manuscripts, we gain insights into Beckett's thoughts on fascism and France's capitulation, as well as his artistic dialogue with W.B. Yeats. The novel revolves around disposing of a landlord's leftovers using dogs bred for that purpose, which can be seen as a parody of liberal political economy. Additionally, Beckett critiques the biopolitics of liberal Zionism, viewing it as part of the broader biopolitics of liberal colonialism.
INTERVENTIONS-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Javier Padilla
Summary: In recent decades, thinkers have argued for political engagement with early Christian thought, but often within a limited Eurocentric framework. However, the Latin American philosopher Enrique Dussel's ideas of liberation theology and philosophy offer important precursors for a decolonial political theology.
INTERVENTIONS-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Gabriel Quigley
Summary: This essay examines Samuel Beckett's translation of Rene Crevel's essay, demonstrating how he critiques the ideology of racial purity in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe by emphasizing the panic over racial purity, degeneration, and generation hygiene.
INTERVENTIONS-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Leo Dunsker
Summary: This essay contributes to the criticism of Derek Walcott's Omeros by focusing on the specific poetic genre and exploring the postcolonial poet's alienation from his cultural milieu. The essay argues for a mock-epic interpretation of the epic signifiers, showcasing the poet's ability to draw analogies between Homer's and his own environments. It also highlights the resistance to Homeric analogy through images of Afro-Caribbean folk-cultural practice.
INTERVENTIONS-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Shan Xiaoxi
Summary: The paragraph discusses the concept of the metaverse in the context of a multiverse and proposes a four worlds paradigm for its understanding. It highlights the development of the metaverse through online games, the internet, and virtual reality, and emphasizes the virtual potential of metaversal elements in digital space.
CRITICAL ARTS-SOUTH-NORTH CULTURAL AND MEDIA STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Valeria Deplano, Alessandro Pes
Summary: This article explores the position of Sardinia in the colonial past and the response of the Sardinians to their colonial history. The research finds that the island experienced intense colonization and still bears the signs of colonialism until today, indicating a lack of cultural decolonization.
INTERVENTIONS-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Nassima Abdelghafour
Summary: This article, based on ethnographic research, explores the material conditions of price realization in a poverty-reduction intervention in rural areas. Using a pricing experiment, the study examines the willingness of extremely poor individuals to pay for solar lights and analyzes the consequences of materializing prices.
JOURNAL OF CULTURAL ECONOMY
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Qian Xie
Summary: Digital technology has made our digital existence an integral part of our human existence. Crypto Art, through the integration of blockchain technology and non-fungible tokens, secures the freedom of our digital existence in the metaverse. However, it also brings about the problem of alienation of digital laborers. The communal mechanism and spirit of consensus within the blockchain offer potential solutions to this issue.
CRITICAL ARTS-SOUTH-NORTH CULTURAL AND MEDIA STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Nuria Codina Sola
Summary: This essay argues that globalization leads to increasing similarities between literary texts that emerge from migration experiences but are located in different contexts. By analyzing two novels, the essay highlights the importance of understanding intertextuality in a global and cultural dimension.
INTERVENTIONS-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
(2023)
