Cultural Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Cultural Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Male youth’s self-narrative and the discourse of meritocracy in South Korea17
Viral justice: how we grow the world we want15
Psy-drama from Martín-Barbero’s perspective14
Settler colonial ways of seeing: documentation, administration, and the interventions of Indigenous art12
Artificial flavors: nostalgia and the shifting landscapes of production in Sino-Japanese animation10
‘Comrade unknown to me’: colonialism, modernity, and conjunctural translation in Familiar Stranger7
Changes in the understandings and practices of village commoning in Hong Kong7
The predicaments of craftsmanship in the knowledge economy: the rise and fall of Caminha’s boatyards in Caminha, Portugal7
Women marrying women in northern Ghana: wading into the homosexuality debate from a Ghanaian perspective7
Oaths and the ethics of automated data: limits to porting the Hippocratic oath from medicine to data science6
Anticipation, abolition, possibility: on riots, networked communication, and listening6
Mexican migration and the struggle for visibility in NYC A Mexican state of mind: New York City and the new borderlands of culture , by Melissa Castillo Planas, New Brun6
Correction6
Tiffany Pollard GIFs and nostalgia for the negative6
Moments of shame in the figural history of trans suicide6
Crisis vision: race and the cultural production of surveillance6
The community forming potential of Cartonera publishing5
Between consciousness and conscience: on ‘restorative commoning’ among moderate youth4
Streaming Black girlhood: biculturality, nostalgia and hypervisibility in Cuties4
‘Water, asylum, metamorphosis, freak show’: flourishing through streaming karaoke play in China4
Locating vernacular creativity outside the ‘urban cool’ in Beijing: ephemeral water calligraphy4
Black media nostalgia in Britain3
Cloned Buddhas: mapping out the DNA of Buddhist heritage preservation3
The mechanical Turk: a short history of ‘artificial artificial intelligence’3
Registering the gang body in pain: violence and haunting in Central America3
Seven theses about the so-called culture war(s) (or some fragmentary notes on ‘cancel culture’)3
Speculative machines and us: more-than-human intuition and the algorithmic condition3
The broken others of the nation state: debility, capacity and dissent3
Multispecies mourning: grieving as resistance on the West Papuan plantation frontier3
Witch camps and witchcraft discourse in Africa: critiquing development practices2
More than just ‘working from home’: domestic space, economies and living infrastructures during and beyond pandemic times2
Policing the Borribles: conjunctural crisis and moral panic in children’s literature2
Michel Foucault and the coloniality of power2
How concepts do activism: as worlds, aids, cells, and currents2
Automated media and commercial populism2
How should the non-Indigenous speak? A discussion of decolonizing academia, positioning, and freedom of speech2
Rewriting the queer potential of She’s Gotta Have It2
Confronting global infrastructural capitalism: the triple logic of the 'vanguard' and its inevitable spatial and class contradictions in China's high-speed rail program2
Black Mediterranean hauntings: border violence, burial, and anti-racist care work in Strange Fish2
Marry My Dead Body , and the queer trouble of confucian-liberal enclosure2
A new model of distilling religion: culturalization as marginality2
Afropolitanizing the local: how cultural imperialism is rewriting the narratives of African entertainment industries2
Feminist economicus : popular feminism, popular finance, and the making of the economic woman in South Korea2
Translating Familiar Stranger into German: the particularities of the historical, cultural and political context2
From mass popular to bastardized popular2
Capturing news, capturing democracy: Trump and the Voice of America2
‘They abscond’: migration and coloniality in the contemporary conjuncture in Europe1
‘It was a departure of sorts’: glocal homes in recent short fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Efemia Chela, Chibundu Onuzo and Lesley Nneka Arimah1
Programming gender: surveillance, identity, and paranoia in Ex Machina1
Challenging the displacement of colonial histories? Isolated memories of colonial deportations from Libya to Italy in Europe’s ‘periphery’1
Anti-Nafta: imagining a continental unification centred on abundance1
Modern slavery legislation and the limits of ethical fashion1
Streaming services and brokerage in the music industry crisis in Nigeria1
Dangerous memories and entangled temporalities: Irish republicanism and the postcolonial politics of time1
Afterword: engendering new century black transnationalisms1
Reordering human waste. Public restrooms as a sign of socialist modernity in China1
Brokering war: Afghan interpreters, western soldiers and unequal encounters in crisis1
The decolonization that could have been but never was1
We don’t need a map: on Australian Aboriginal philosophy and critique1
A narrative of suffering and soil: Swedish migration and settler colonialism in northeast Argentina1
‘“Demo” and “cracy”’: music, trust, and authentication in Mexico’s 2018 elections1
The collateralized personality: creditability and resistance in the age of automated credit-scoring and lending1
Wulumuqi Road1
The more, the better: queer urban spatialities of Seoul in three films1
Making the human: race, allegory, and Asian Americans1
Disrupting the closet: radically recontextualizing sexuality and wildness1
Editors’ introduction: remembering blackly1
Through a southern prism: translating Stuart Hall into Spanish1
The politics of media scarcity1
Settler colonial bordering and post-pandemic futures: disrupting the nation state in Aotearoa/New Zealand1
Religion to culture: who is the ‘Us’?1
Road warriors to digital nomads: portable computers, habitats, and remote work1
The ruse of impurity: Paul Gilroy’sThe Black Atlanticand the politics of hybridity1
Black, white, & read all over: is wearing a keffiyeh enough for Palestinian justice?1
Amphibious subjects: sasso and the contested politics of queer self making in neo-liberal Ghana1
The science and philosophy of martial arts: exploring the connections between the cognitive, physical, and spiritual aspects of martial arts0
The political economy of Egyptian media: business and military elite power and communication after 20110
Writing our stories with hooks and needles: literary women's voices in textiles0
Opening windows: embracing new perspectives and practices in natural resource social sciences0
Protest arts, gender, and social change: fiction, popular songs, and the media in Hausa society across borders0
Migration, crisis and temporality at the Zimbabwe-South Africa border: governing immobilities0
Suburban vogue and other queer survival strategies0
Reading patterns: dressmaking sections in women’s magazines in the 1960s and 1970s0
Navigating the troubles’ tidelands: the push and pull of memory in post-conflict northern Ireland’s film & television industry0
Affect, Protest, Pandemic: Conversations from the crises of 20200
Correction0
Violent spectre of ghost limbs0
Afterword: Crisis broker as method0
Interweaving environment, heritage, and society through Cultures of Water . An introduction0
Jennifer Walshe: A retrospective0
Word and action: the many routes through Jesús Martín-Barbero0
Memoryscapes of liberation: activist mnemonic labour in the queer press0
Publishers’ Note0
‘Blood Money’: a cultural history of the menstrual economy0
Listening to the video: Hip Hop videography and Rural Black Aesthetics0
Stories of decolonial resilience0
Introduction: commoning as unthinkable politics: Hong Kong against hard times0
Changing ‘practical consciousness’ of Shanghai’s middle class under covid lockdowns: a residential community’s defiance and mobilization0
Cultural capital and constrained agency in debt-migration for construction work in India0
Modern African humans effecting Atlantic middle passes0
Siren call of the sea: disenchantment and estrangement of seafarers0
Sex work in popular culture0
Black Space: Negotiating Race, Diversity, and Belonging in the Ivory Tower0
Transnational reproductive brokers in crisis0
The historical uses of the oceans: the Anthropocene in the first global age (1500–1800)?0
Train and its fugitive rhythms: rewriting empire, violence, and the politics of sound0
Feeling against the plot: an African diaspora feminist politics of happiness0
NFTs and the financialization of art0
The woman reader in Rebecca Mead’sMy life in Middlemarch0
Educational commons: resisting neoliberalism through teachers’ voices in Hong Kong0
Reframing the Black Atlantic0
Dripping in molasses: Black feminist nostalgia and Kara Walker’s A Subtlety0
From media to mediations: unexpected readings0
The hashtag: the most conspicuous sign of our times0
Hangtime melancholia0
Gender perspectives on professional and everyday creativities: introduction to the special issue0
Possessing and being possessed by the past: on the ambivalences of heritage as religious return0
MOIRA: (Re)making Algarve’s culture(s) of water through mixed media arts0
Uncovering the uncoverers: identity, performativity and representation in counter-disinformation discourse0
An intersectional analysis of our robotic future0
Tuning machines: an approach to exploring how Instagram’s machine vision operates on and through digital media’s participatory visual cultures0
Matching and mismatching times in the fisheries of South Brittany. Crises in marine ecosystems as seen through the lens of architecture, 1887–19270
The Rebel's clinic: the revolutionary lives of Frantz Fanon0
The price of speculation: fintech risk regimes in Hong Kong0
Introduction – the Unfinished Stuart Hall0
How black is African Noir?: defining blackness through crime fiction0
The concept of experience in the work of Jesús Martín-Barbero: toward a positive theory of the popular0
Lesbian death: desire and danger between feminist and queer0
Female leaders in Japan: from historical dimensions to abenomics Japanese Women in Leadership , edited by Yoshie Tomozumi Nakamura, Mayuko Horimoto, Gary N. McLean, Palg0
Disillusionment in post-punk Leeds No Machos or Pop Stars: when the Leeds art experiment went punk , by Gavin Butt, Durham, Duke University Press, 2022, 312 pp., $27.95 0
Dancing for laughs: signifyin(g) bodies and the Black American sitcom0
Lithium’s buzz: extractivism between booms in Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile0
Conjunctures0
From hope to haunt: digital activism and the cultural politics of hope(lessness) in late-socialism0
Waste commons in motion0
Performing heritage at Cordoba’s Mosque-Cathedral0
Automated culture: introduction0
Aqua/geopolitical conjuncture and disjuncture: invasion, resources, and mining the deep dark sea0
Ecology and labour in the circuit of culture0
Migrating narratives: re-inscribing black diaspora cultures0
Stirring the sugar in the English cup of tea: more notes on the continuing relevance of Stuart Hall0
The cultural politics of teacher strikes in the United States0
China’s prison-house of love Dreadful desires: the uses of love in neoliberal China , by Charlie Yi Zhang, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2022, 261pp., $26.950
The matter of home: repurposed churches, heritage and belonging in Amsterdam0
Aesthetic Programming teaches programming to critical coders0
Children’s digital experiences in Indian slums: technologies, identities and jugaad0
Fandom through generational lenses0
The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality and Humanity in Modern India0
Correction0
Queer tango: a lesson in dialogical embodiment0
Translating cultural studies0
How wanghong is constructing contemporary culture in China Wanghong as social media entertainment in China (Palgrave studies in globalization, culture and society), by D0
Oceanic bellies and liquid feminism in Fatou Diome’sLe Ventre de l’Atlantique0
The griot tradition as remixed through Hip Hop: straight Outta Africa0
On taking the affective turn: interview with Lauren Berlant, Ann Cvetkovich, and Deborah Gould0
New wave of totalitarianism/authoritarianism in East Asia: an editorial introduction0
The child as mediator of racial ambivalence in Australia: ‘Egg Boy’ and the racist girl0
The hunger strike as a biopolitical technology: re-reading the 1981 Irish republican prison protest0
Curriculum and pedagogical shifts from a semi-peripheral perspective0
The future of religious pasts: religion and cultural heritage-making in a secular age – introduction0
Girl spaces: images of girlhood on the internet0
Between knowing and understanding: Israeli Jews and the memory of the Palestinian Nakba0
The proliferation of men’s sheds in Australia: the problematization of masculinity in a neoliberal regime0
The biopolitics of pandemics: interview with Ed Cohen0
Elephant in the room: commoning as an embedded method of cultural studies0
Tech money in civil society: whose interests do digital rights organisations represent?0
The weather proxy: the racial technics of algorithmic surveillance0
Black iconoclasm: public symbols, racial progress, and post/Ferguson America0
Emancipatory imaginaries: the platform transformation of Denver’s urban food system0
Hegemonic mimicry: Korean popular culture of the twenty-first century0
Ship to the door of no return: on haunting, refusal, and imagination in black studies0
Interview: ‘The elephant in the room’: talking (physics of) blackness with Michelle M. Wright0
Mean girl feminism: how white feminists gaslight, gatekeep, and girlboss0
Art markets, epistemic authority, and the institutional curation of knowledge0
Communication and electoral politics in Ghana: interrogating transnational technology, discourse, and multimodalities0
The fire this time: a conversation with Angela Y. Davis, Herman Gray, Gaye Theresa Johnson, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Josh Kun0
Repressive suspicion, or: the problem with conspiracy theories0
Conceptualizing crisis brokerage: brokering crisis or brokers in crisis0
Sonic masquerading in Israeli popular music: self-Imitation, accent, and mockery0
Drawing hearts in the air within new African diaspora spaces: selling Nollywood and consuming nostalgia in London0
Militarized granularity: Sand’s making of men and masculinity in Singapore0
In praise of Arab ‘Defeat’: another reading of Arab struggle0
Memory, comparison, and reciprocal commensuration: searching for the socialist ‘bad life’ in aspirational Vietnam0
Distance and proximity: the spectatorship of trauma and film viewing in postmillennial Hong Kong0
Queering the black Atlantic: transgender spaces in Akwaeke Emezi’s writing and visual art0
Dissonance and defensiveness: orienting affects in online feminist cultures0
Infrastructural awareness0
Love story, ghost story: the Cambodian genocide, labour extraction, and Hout Bophana0
‘Starved for pleasure’: the fashion magazine as a desirous queer archive0
Being water: protest zines and the politics of care in Hong Kong0
Sound mediations: a translocal reading of sonideros0
Feminist sentimentalism? Ambivalent feeling in inclusive digital wedding media0
The tyranny of magicalized science and its collapse by the masses: fear and modernity in the Japanese mask norm0
Fear makes the soul: constituting whiteness through moral panics in postcolonial Germany0
Dedication0
Authoritarian journalism: controlling the news in post-conflict Rwanda0
The use of historical ponds in political campaigns in the Czech Republic0
Bodies that haunt: rethinking the political economy of racialised death0
Acknowledgements0
Antigone in the London office: documentary film, creativity and female agency0
Carbon Democracy at ten: an interview with Timothy Mitchell0
Breaking through the silence of structural heteropatriarchy Complaint! , by Sara Ahmed, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2021, 376 pp., $89.66 (hardback), ISBN 0
Contemporary feminist art by women in North Africa0
God’s wealth, legal frames, and the question of material and immaterial heritage: the case of Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in Kerala, India0
Knitting as a remedy: women’s everyday creativity in response to hopelessness and despair0
Streaming Black to the future: post-soul aesthetics & competing nostalgia in FX’s Snowfall and Pose0
Staging a ‘real’ masculinity in a ‘fake’ world: creativity, (in)authenticity, and the gendering of musical labour0
Fixing the past, mediating the future? Human rights brokers in Nepal and Sri Lanka0
‘The end of the common world’: COVID anxieties, bordered lives and democratic censorship in Taiwan0
Confronting boot strap feminism0
Dancing with Coronaspheres: Expanded Breath Bodies and the Politics of Public Movement in the Age of COVID-190
Cultural physics0
Commoning art for sustainable engagement with Hong Kong’s existential crises: a case study of Tak Cheong Lane Vegetarian Cooperative0
Communication totalitarianism in Japan: ‘Decontextualisation’ and ‘Recontextualisation’ and the digital communication environment0
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