Article
Cultural Studies
Anh Ngoc Quynh Phan
Summary: This paper examines the disrupted mobility experiences of a Vietnamese doctoral student in New Zealand who was stuck in Vietnam, focusing on the issues of sense of belonging and sense of place in different spaces. The author highlights agency in reinforcing and reconnecting with one's sense of belonging. The article challenges mobility bias in international education scholarship by suggesting that new forms of mobility can arise from immobility and identity reconstruction can be facilitated through respatialization.
CULTURAL STUDIES-CRITICAL METHODOLOGIES
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Steve Hinchliffe
Summary: Drug-resistant infections are intricately linked with social and medical power dynamics, and challenging the methods that seek to expand these powers is crucial. Adopting an alternative approach based on postcolonial and 'post-colony' perspectives could help challenge the norms and assumptions of global health, emphasizing the potential contributions of vernacular approaches in combating resistance.
THEORY CULTURE & SOCIETY
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Sami Koponen, Pekka Mustonen
Summary: This paper explores the impact of consumers' increasing fascination with recreational eating out on the upmarket restaurant practice, particularly focusing on the cultural phenomenon and practice of solo dining. The research finds that solo dining is celebrated as a practice for enhanced aesthetic immersion and can be interpreted as a form of eating together.
JOURNAL OF CONSUMER CULTURE
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Jamie Hakim, Ingrid Young, James Cummings
Summary: This article explores the experiences of sexual and intimate practices during COVID-19 among queer men in London and Edinburgh through in-depth qualitative interviews, revealing that they have developed a range of ethically reflexive strategies to negotiate the challenges they face in pursuing their cultures of sex and intimacy during the pandemic.
CONTINUUM-JOURNAL OF MEDIA & CULTURAL STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Paul Langley, Andrew Leyshon
Summary: This paper contributes to social science research into FinTech in Africa in three ways: firstly, by exploring how FinTech providers offer short-term credit products through mobile wallets; secondly, by highlighting the platformization processes of Africa's FinTech economy; thirdly, by analyzing the historical and geographical conditions of racialized marginalization and arguing that FinTech is reshaping colonial relations.
JOURNAL OF CULTURAL ECONOMY
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Alexander R. Galloway
Article
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Indigo Holcombe-James
Summary: The impact of digital exclusion on cultural institutions during the pandemic highlights the importance of digital investments and skills, with a digital inclusion framework providing a way to identify and understand this exclusion. This framework can help guide interventions and work towards a more digitally included cultural sector.
Article
Cultural Studies
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Summary: The essay explores how and why rightwing populists in Europe, North America, and other regions have developed an illiberal politics of memory to oppose the global liberal memory culture. It introduces the concept of illiberal memory and presents a comprehensive typology of the movement's objectives and tactics through empirical examples from different countries. The essay also reflects on the future evolution of illiberal memory.
Article
Cultural Studies
Robert Kozinets, Henry Jenkins
Summary: This scripted adaptation of a podcast interview between Henry Jenkins and Robert Kozinets delves into the relationship between contemporary consumer activism and media studies, synthesizing ideas around activism, fan studies, brand management, and consumer culture theory. It covers a range of topics including participatory culture, anti-racism, consumer conflicts with brands, and the role of civic imagination in civic engagement. The conversation touches on the theoretical and pragmatic concerns of stakeholders in the world of contemporary consumer activism and highlights the impact of intersectionality on activist movements.
JOURNAL OF CONSUMER CULTURE
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Vincent Guermond
Summary: This article explores the intertwining of digital remittances and the behavioral turn in development, highlighting the potential risks of digital financial inclusion in curtailing migrants' and remittance recipients' essential strategies of social reproduction. It offers insights from qualitative field research in Ghana and contributes to the development of a framework that critically analyzes the celebrated turn to fintech and digital financial inclusion in international development.
JOURNAL OF CULTURAL ECONOMY
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Kristal Louise Turner, Jennifer D. Adams, Sarah Elaine Eaton
Summary: This position paper examines the intersection of academic integrity and equity and social justice in STEM higher education and calls for educators to take action to change the current narratives. The researchers have expertise in this field and provide a review of current literature to summarize the impact of COVID-19 and the shift in education conversations caused by the pandemic.
CULTURAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE EDUCATION
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Tao Leigh Goffe
SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Elsa Peralta
Summary: This article explores the memorial vacuum left by the collapse of the Portuguese empire and the resurgence of retornados' memories, using the concept of non-memory to explain the gaps in social memory.
Article
Anthropology
Seung Cheol Lee
Summary: This study examines the experiences and cultural practices of lay bitcoin investors in South Korea during the bitcoin frenzy of 2017-2018, highlighting their identity not only as calculated investors but also as superstitious gamblers who rely on magical formulas and rituals to express their hopes and despair in the face of an uncertain future within contemporary financial capitalism.
Article
Cultural Studies
Sorina Soare, Claudiu D. Tufis
Summary: This study aims to disentangle the intersection of religion and populism by examining the use of religious symbols and content by Romanian parliamentarians during debates on the concept of family.
IDENTITIES-GLOBAL STUDIES IN CULTURE AND POWER
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Andrea Pollio, Liza Rose Cirolia
Summary: This paper argues for a descriptive, ambivalent, and urban reading of the booming fintech in the Global South, using Cape Town as a case study. It explores the city's position and role in fintech innovation in Africa, highlighting the influence of the urban state and the diverse cultural economies of experimentation. The study suggests the importance of understanding how fintech is enabled and mobilized by the urban state, emphasizing the need for research into the ambivalence of financial innovation in Africa.
JOURNAL OF CULTURAL ECONOMY
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Yifat Gutman, Jenny Wustenberg
Summary: This article introduces an analysis framework for studying memory activists, defining them as strategically commemorating the past to challenge or protect dominant views. It discusses a typology for comparative analysis of memory activism and emphasizes the value-neutrality of the concept, applicable to both pro and anti-democratic activism.
Article
Cultural Studies
George Newth
Summary: This article criticizes existing ideational approaches to nativism for equating it with nationalism, xenophobia, and populism, while neglecting the role of racism and racialisation in the construction of non-native 'out-groups' against native 'in-groups'. Inspired by the Discourse Theoretical approach to populism, this article interprets nativism as a racist and xenophobic discourse centered around an exclusionary vision of the nation, providing insights into how xenophobia, nationalism, racism, and racialisation contribute to nativist discourse, how nativism can be distinguished from populism, and how non-far right parties can articulate nativist arguments.
IDENTITIES-GLOBAL STUDIES IN CULTURE AND POWER
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Martin Seeliger, Sebastian Sevignani
Summary: The political public sphere is crucial for democracy and is undergoing transformations including digitalization, commodification, and globalization.
THEORY CULTURE & SOCIETY
(2022)
Article
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Elisa Bonacini, Sonia Caterina Giaccone
Summary: The article discusses the application of serious games in cultural heritage and highlights the increasing involvement of cultural institutions in producing serious games. Through a case study, Mi Rasna game, the article explores the role of games in promoting cultural heritage and tourism.
