Article
Cultural Studies
Sara De Benedictis
Summary: This article analyzes the emergence of the discourse of period poverty in UK news media and examines the reasons and impacts behind this discourse. The study finds that the emergence of the period poverty discourse is closely related to the dismantling of the welfare state, the rise of mainstream feminism, and the support from high-profile individuals.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Laura Minor
Summary: This article examines the status of Huns as memetic figures in the public eye, highlighting their celebration in online spaces with a supposedly progressive and politically aware social and cultural context. However, the laughter directed at Huns is argued to be ambivalent and polysemic. Through analysis of memes on social media, the author showcases the complex and competing representations of Huns. The article questions whether the humor in these memes uplifts the image of Huns or reinforces stereotypes of a derided image of femininity.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES
(2023)
Review
Cultural Studies
Daniel Ross
Summary: In the book "Philosophy of Care", Boris Groys examines the relationship between self-care and care by analyzing key philosophical texts. He challenges current notions of health in biopolitical and algorithmic life and explores the ideas of Socrates, Hegel, Nietzsche, Kojeve, Bataille, Heidegger, and Bogdanov. This article questions Groys' philosophy and offers an alternative perspective through the works of Bernard Stiegler, emphasizing the importance of reorienting our thoughts for a new economy of care.
THEORY CULTURE & SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Dick Howard
Summary: After examining the relevance and political significance of totalitarianism in today's world, the author discusses Claude Lefort's approach to understanding totalitarianism through two distinct phases over the past 60 years. The first phase is influenced by critical Marxism, while the second phase draws on the phenomenology of the late Merleau-Ponty. The author highlights Lefort's important works, including his groundbreaking study on Machiavelli, 'The Critique of Totalitarianism and the Invention of Democracy', 'Man in Excess' (about Solzhenitsyn and the Gulag), and 'The Complication' (which rejects oversimplified interpretations of totalitarianism as mere ideology).
THEORY CULTURE & SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Zahid Khan
Summary: In many Muslim societies, spatial boundaries and gender segregation have become critical issues for women's rights and feminist activism. These concepts, rooted in patriarchal culture and religious interpretations, undermine women's agency and autonomy, leading feminists to challenge them. Feminists in Pakistan have been using various cultural and political activities, including the annual 'Aurat March' and social media campaigns, as well as feminist documentaries, to oppose these restrictions and fight for women's rights. This paper explores how feminist documentaries contest spatial boundaries in Pakistan.
CONTINUUM-JOURNAL OF MEDIA & CULTURAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Brigitte Nerlich, Carol Morris, Catherine Price, Holly Harris
Summary: Mass-media reporting plays a crucial role in raising public awareness and shaping expectations about the risks and benefits of biochar. The use of rhetorical strategies in these reports promotes biochar as a magical solution while downplaying its potential drawbacks, therefore presenting it as a moral good that the public should accept without questioning.
SCIENCE AS CULTURE
(2023)
Article
Area Studies
Ming Gao
Summary: This article explores the sociocultural history of opium consumption in Manchukuo and its popularisation through the beauty of female attendants. It reveals the connection between opium consumption and prostitution, highlighting the impact on society and the damage caused by imperialist forces.
ASIAN STUDIES REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Colleen Macklin
Summary: This paper explores the political potential of urban games as a medium and the strategies developed by urban game makers/organizers to bring inclusive, safe, and enlightening forms of play and public engagement to the city, as revealed through interviews.
Article
Cultural Studies
Morida Siagian
Summary: This article describes the creation of social space between the Chinese and Malay communities in the historical area of Pekan Labuhan. The viharas have become a place that restores harmonious relations between the two communities and also serves as a tool to meet the needs of both ethnicities.
Article
Cultural Studies
Lyrene Kuhn-Botma
Summary: This article examines the possibility of viewers experiencing a moment of melancholy, an eruptive and bodily experience of memory and memorialisation, through the interaction with digital or material picture objects, or engagement with art dealing with the topic of grief and loss. By exploring Barthes' concept of the punctum and Foucault's heterotopia, the potential for printed and digital photographs to become sites of loss for viewers under specific circumstances is considered. The same experience can also be nurtured and investigated in works of art dealing with loss and death.
CRITICAL ARTS-SOUTH-NORTH CULTURAL AND MEDIA STUDIES
(2023)
Review
Cultural Studies
Zhiqiang Zhou
Summary: The metaverse narrative creates a story situation that is opposite to real life, satisfying various human desires and providing a space for interweaving and collision. It forms a story reality that does not require endings and narrators, while also cleverly covering up certain real-life issues.
CRITICAL ARTS-SOUTH-NORTH CULTURAL AND MEDIA STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Julie Vulcan
Summary: This paper reflects on the Australian summer bushfires of 2019/2020 and how different forms of media reporting amplified its effects. It explores the use of apocalyptic words and affective images to question what they reveal about us. The paper also examines the socio-political climate, the climatic atmosphere, and the ongoing anxiety after the fires, as well as the lessons revealed through attention to the land and everyday encounters.
CONTINUUM-JOURNAL OF MEDIA & CULTURAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Minna Niemi
Summary: "Travellers" by Helon Habila is a response to the refugee crisis in 2015, challenging mainstream media's portrayal of immigration issues and exposing structural violence in fortress Europe.
CONTINUUM-JOURNAL OF MEDIA & CULTURAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Carl Harrington
Summary: Niklas Nylund proposed a matrix model to understand the complex position of videogames as museum artifacts. The model was expanded to include the aspect of 'experience', which was further divided into three sub-categories: playable experience, collective experience, and situational experience. This extended view of experience is crucial for videogame display and allows for a wider framework to be utilized in exhibitions.
Article
Cultural Studies
Alastair Fraser
Summary: The spread of mobile phones in Africa has increased the participation of citizens in call-in radio shows, leading to raised awareness and engagement. However, there is a debate about whether these shows are used by governments and aid agencies as a means of control to conform to elite economic systems and technocratic political regimes.
JOURNAL OF AFRICAN CULTURAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Vicki L. Brennan, Harrison Adeniyi, Titilayo Tajudeen
Summary: In this article, a team of researchers documents their investigation into the relationships between sound, urban space, and religious institutions and practices in Lagos, Nigeria. They discuss the conceptual issues surrounding noise, listening, and religion, as well as share samples of the sounds they recorded. The team also reflects on the future development of the project and its contribution to African sound studies.
JOURNAL OF AFRICAN CULTURAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Area Studies
Justin V. Hastings, Andrew Yeo
Summary: This article explores the impact of marketization on social change and everyday politics in North Korea. The study found that market participants employ various strategies to increase trust, while the North Korean government plays a significant role in the process.
ASIAN STUDIES REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Christian Lamour
Summary: This research aims to explore the interplay between nationalism and cosmopolitanism in museum representations in cross-border regions. Through the comparative analysis of two exhibitions, the study results demonstrate how representatives in the curatorship field circulate national bordering and cosmopolitan de-bordering.
IDENTITIES-GLOBAL STUDIES IN CULTURE AND POWER
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Dimitris Soudias
Summary: This article explores the consequences of fusing market-based and social principles for understanding 'the social' and solidarity, using Greece's 'Social and Solidarity Economy' as a case study. The study finds that this fusion, while depleting the political and ethical components of solidarity and 'the social', does not depoliticize them but rather transforms their understanding through processes of economization, entrepreneurialization, and communitarianization.
JOURNAL OF CULTURAL ECONOMY
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Eva Haifa Giraud
Summary: This article introduces the framework of "ethical ecologies" to study the role of media in lifestyle movements. Using digital veganism as a case study, the article explores the changes in veganism media and explains the importance of the ethical ecologies approach in revealing shifts in media mediation within lifestyle movements.
JOURNAL OF CULTURAL ECONOMY
(2023)
