Article
Cultural Studies
Jairo Funez-Flores
Summary: This article compares the points of convergence and divergence between two intellectual currents in social and anthropological theory known as the decolonial and ontological turns. It discusses how these theories and approaches complement each other in destabilizing the foundations of Western modernity.
THEORY CULTURE & SOCIETY
(2022)
Review
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Manfredi de Bernard, Roberta Comunian, Jonathan Gross
Summary: This paper provides a systematic and critical review of the literature on cultural and creative ecology and ecosystems, highlighting the growing use of ecological language in research and policymaking. It clarifies the relationship between ecological approaches and previous framings like creative industry and creative economy, proposing an agenda for future research to support ecological policymaking.
Article
Cultural Studies
Michael Carolan
Summary: This article explores the concepts of ethical consumption and good farmers by investigating the understandings of good food and good farmers among participants from urban and rural areas. It highlights the interconnectedness between consumers' constructions of good food and producers' ideas of being a good farmer.
JOURNAL OF CONSUMER CULTURE
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Sarah Y. Choi, James H. Liu, Silvia Mari, Ilya E. Garber
Summary: This study examines the content and subjective evaluation of living historical memory from open-ended nominations of historical events in 39 societies. The results reveal that Western societies are dominated by living memories of terrorism, while many developing societies have a more positive climate in their living memory, rooted in events related to their nation's foundation. This study provides insight into the role of collective remembering in shaping emotional climates and national political culture.
Article
Anthropology
Tim Gruenewald, Saskia Witteborn
Summary: This paper questions the assumption that virtual reality (VR) films can amplify empathy for humanitarian crises and support aid organizations. The authors argue that humanitarian VR films primarily cater to the emotional needs of viewers, rather than promoting genuine engagement with global problems. They suggest that the focus on empathy obscures the geopolitical causes of humanitarian crises.
Article
Cultural Studies
Paul Crosby, Jordi McKenzie
Summary: This study investigates the impact of COVID-19 on Australian musicians and finds that sentiment about future employment and income opportunities is most strongly correlated with industry demand returning post COVID-19. Short-term income support and pivoting towards online media strategies do not seem to improve such sentiment. The results suggest that demand-side policies can play a crucial role in ensuring musicians do not leave the industry in the medium to long term.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CULTURAL POLICY
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Thao Phan, Jake Goldenfein, Monique Mann, Declan Kuch
SCIENCE AS CULTURE
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Paul O'Connor
Summary: Collective memory represents efforts to find meaning and integrate experience. Different modes of memory have different potentials for generating meaning. Memory becomes increasingly detached from localized contexts due to technological and institutional mediation, impacting the depth and type of meaning it provides.
Article
Cultural Studies
Eleonora Belfiore
Summary: This article sheds light on working conditions within socially engaged arts practice, calling for addressing the exploitation of artists and ensuring care for both artists and participating communities. Drawing on feminist ethics of care and moral economy perspective, it points out a clear moral failure in current cultural policy regarding funding practices in the arts sector.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Katy E. Pearce, Jason C. Yip, Jin Ha Lee, Jesse J. Martinez, Travis W. Windleharth, Arpita Bhattacharya, Qisheng Li
Summary: The study found that families coped with pandemic-related stress using the video game Animal Crossing: New Horizons as a coping tool. Parents and children individually and collectively used media to deal with the stress, with parents engaging in protective buffering and families engaging in communal coping. This suggests that video games can be effective coping tools, especially within the family setting.
Article
Cultural Studies
Kean Birch, Kelly Bronson
SCIENCE AS CULTURE
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Esra Ozyurek
Summary: In Germany, a new cohort of Turkish- and Arab-background public intellectuals attribute the root of migrant community problems to similarities between Islamic culture and Nazi ideology. Critics of Islam believe that by rebelling against tradition, children of Muslim immigrants can embrace democratic values and be included in German national identity, while also reinterpreting German history. This transformation in German Holocaust memory and public political culture raises questions about the role of minorities like Muslims in shaping and reacting to these changes.
Article
Cultural Studies
Xiufang (Leah) Li, Juan Feng
Summary: This article examines how soccer is used as a tool to shape China's image post-Beijing Olympics. Through content analysis of media texts related to sports mega-events, the study reveals the creation of media frames and a representation of Chinese national identity, aiming to elevate China as a world soccer superpower by 2050. The research suggests that nation branding in China is focused on restructuring national identity for political purposes, and highlights the importance of developing a thriving soccer culture to strengthen the personality traits of the nation's brand.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn, Francesco Giumelli
Summary: This paper discusses the application of blockchain and fintech in Africa and other sanctioned countries, and argues that these applications actually reinforce the influence of colonial finance/security infrastructure.
JOURNAL OF CULTURAL ECONOMY
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Camilo Tamayo Gomez
Summary: This article discusses the significance of constructing victims' collective memory in post-conflict Colombia, emphasizing the active role of victims' initiatives in shaping post-war memory. Through participative action research, it shows Eastern Antioquia victims' groups establishing collective memory types and promoting the March of Light activity to advance transitional justice in Colombia.
Article
Area Studies
Yating Yu
Summary: The article investigates how China's state-run media resisted foreign scrutiny of the COVID-19 pandemic by constructing a discourse of resistance through strategies such as enemification, victimisation, and heroisation. The use of linguistic mechanisms like argumentative topoi, nominations, predications, and metaphors helped shape China's national image and convey geopolitical messages through the media's response to the crisis.
ASIAN STUDIES REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Victoria Grace Walden
Summary: This paper re-evaluates the relationship between virtuality and memory through the thinking of Deleuze and Bergson and discusses how both digital and non-digital memory projects related to the Holocaust draw attention to the virtuality of memory. It proposes that the virtual should be seen as a methodology, a particular form of memory practice.
Article
Cultural Studies
Esperanza Miyake
Summary: By examining the virtual influencer Imma from Japan, this article critically analyzes Japanese raciality and gender within the context of virtuality, (im)materiality, and digital consumption. It explores the concept of semiotic immaterialism and its application to the phenomenon of virtual influencers in the consumer-driven world of social media. The study also problematizes how Western media texts portray Japanese virtuality, arguing that they perpetuate Orientalist discourses of racialized and gendered Otherness. Through interdisciplinary analysis of Imma's Instagram content and Western media texts, the article reveals how the (im)materiality of Japanese race and gender is commodified and materialized through the digital and self-Orientalist lens.
JOURNAL OF CONSUMER CULTURE
(2023)
Book
Cultural Studies
G Song
TELEVISING CHINESENESS: Gender, Nation, and Subjectivity
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Reijer Hendrikse, Ilke Adriaans, Tobias J. Klinge, Rodrigo Fernandez
SCIENCE AS CULTURE
(2022)
