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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
‘Stress-testing’ the system: speculations on the Hong Kong protests from afar31
Male youth’s self-narrative and the discourse of meritocracy in South Korea23
Viral justice: how we grow the world we want21
Psy-drama from Martín-Barbero’s perspective19
COVID-19 and the affective politics of congestion: an exploration of population density debates in Australia15
Rearticulating football fans in Hong Kong: between activism, localism, and consumerism15
Artificial flavors: nostalgia and the shifting landscapes of production in Sino-Japanese animation13
Settler colonial ways of seeing: documentation, administration, and the interventions of Indigenous art13
Keywords and keywording11
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 Brun10
Changes in the understandings and practices of village commoning in Hong Kong10
‘Comrade unknown to me’: colonialism, modernity, and conjunctural translation in Familiar Stranger10
Anticipation, abolition, possibility: on riots, networked communication, and listening10
Crisis vision: race and the cultural production of surveillance9
The predicaments of craftsmanship in the knowledge economy: the rise and fall of Caminha’s boatyards in Caminha, Portugal9
Tiffany Pollard GIFs and nostalgia for the negative8
Resisting political traditionalism: a rejoinder to Ho8
Correction7
Between consciousness and conscience: on ‘restorative commoning’ among moderate youth7
Oaths and the ethics of automated data: limits to porting the Hippocratic oath from medicine to data science7
The community forming potential of Cartonera publishing6
Moments of shame in the figural history of trans suicide6
Speculative machines and us: more-than-human intuition and the algorithmic condition6
Streaming Black girlhood: biculturality, nostalgia and hypervisibility in Cuties6
Locating vernacular creativity outside the ‘urban cool’ in Beijing: ephemeral water calligraphy6
Racism is a public health crisis! Black Power in the COVID-19 pandemic5
‘Water, asylum, metamorphosis, freak show’: flourishing through streaming karaoke play in China5
Black media nostalgia in Britain5
The long and deadly road: the covid pandemic and Indian migrants5
Narratives of the homoerotic soldier: the fleshiness of the South Korean military5
Predicting Covid-19: wearable technology and the politics of solutionism5
Seven theses about the so-called culture war(s) (or some fragmentary notes on ‘cancel culture’)4
Following the science? Covid-19, ‘race’ and the politics of knowing4
More than just ‘working from home’: domestic space, economies and living infrastructures during and beyond pandemic times4
Multispecies mourning: grieving as resistance on the West Papuan plantation frontier4
Cloned Buddhas: mapping out the DNA of Buddhist heritage preservation4
The mechanical Turk: a short history of ‘artificial artificial intelligence’4
Rewriting the queer potential of She’s Gotta Have It4
Afropolitanizing the local: how cultural imperialism is rewriting the narratives of African entertainment industries3
Policing the Borribles: conjunctural crisis and moral panic in children’s literature3
How should the non-Indigenous speak? A discussion of decolonizing academia, positioning, and freedom of speech3
Covid-19 and the mundane practices of privilege3
Translating Familiar Stranger into German: the particularities of the historical, cultural and political context3
A narrative of suffering and soil: Swedish migration and settler colonialism in northeast Argentina2
Marry My Dead Body , and the queer trouble of confucian-liberal enclosure2
Fashion in ‘crisis’: consumer activism and brand (ir)responsibility in lockdown2
Michel Foucault and the coloniality of power2
Witch camps and witchcraft discourse in Africa: critiquing development practices2
‘Go! You are Free!’: rentier politics and the gift logic of the royal pardon in Morocco2
Twilight of the Eidos: rhetoric, ecology, media (and White Noise)2
Capturing news, capturing democracy: Trump and the Voice of America2
Feminist economicus : popular feminism, popular finance, and the making of the economic woman in South Korea2
A new model of distilling religion: culturalization as marginality2
From mass popular to bastardized popular2
Automated media and commercial populism2
Who needs cultural studies in Colombia?2
Remembering what we never were: the law of the victims, nationism and right-wing hegemony in Colombia2
The epiphanic moments of COVID-19: the revelation of painful national truths2
Confronting global infrastructural capitalism: the triple logic of the 'vanguard' and its inevitable spatial and class contradictions in China's high-speed rail program2
How concepts do activism: as worlds, aids, cells, and currents2
Religion to culture: who is the ‘Us’?2
Postsocialist China within global information capitalism1
Settler colonial bordering and post-pandemic futures: disrupting the nation state in Aotearoa/New Zealand1
The ruse of impurity: Paul Gilroy’sThe Black Atlanticand the politics of hybridity1
Zombie capitalism and coronavirus time1
Black, white, & read all over: is wearing a keffiyeh enough for Palestinian justice?1
Brokering war: Afghan interpreters, western soldiers and unequal encounters in crisis1
Through a southern prism: translating Stuart Hall into Spanish1
‘It was a departure of sorts’: glocal homes in recent short fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Efemia Chela, Chibundu Onuzo and Lesley Nneka Arimah1
‘“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
Modern slavery legislation and the limits of ethical fashion1
Wulumuqi Road1
Violent spectre of ghost limbs1
‘They abscond’: migration and coloniality in the contemporary conjuncture in Europe1
Back to the future: lessons of a SARS hysteria for the COVID-19 pandemic1
Programming gender: surveillance, identity, and paranoia in Ex Machina1
We don’t need a map: on Australian Aboriginal philosophy and critique1
The dead-end of ad-hocracy1
Road warriors to digital nomads: portable computers, habitats, and remote work1
Disrupting the closet: radically recontextualizing sexuality and wildness1
Afterword: engendering new century black transnationalisms1
COVID-19 at sea: ‘the world as you know it no longer exists’1
Editors’ introduction: remembering blackly1
COVID bread-porn: social stratification through displays of self-management1
The politics of media scarcity1
The decolonization that could have been but never was1
Parodies for a pandemic: coronavirus songs, creativity and lockdown1
Dancing for laughs: signifyin(g) bodies and the Black American sitcom0
Streaming Black to the future: post-soul aesthetics & competing nostalgia in FX’s Snowfall and Pose0
The science and philosophy of martial arts: exploring the connections between the cognitive, physical, and spiritual aspects of martial arts0
The hunger strike as a biopolitical technology: re-reading the 1981 Irish republican prison protest0
Black iconoclasm: public symbols, racial progress, and post/Ferguson America0
Afterword: Crisis broker as method0
Automated culture: introduction0
How wanghong is constructing contemporary culture in China Wanghong as social media entertainment in China (Palgrave studies in globalization, culture and society), by D0
Suburban vogue and other queer survival strategies0
Knitting as a remedy: women’s everyday creativity in response to hopelessness and despair0
Migrating narratives: re-inscribing black diaspora cultures0
Tuning machines: an approach to exploring how Instagram’s machine vision operates on and through digital media’s participatory visual cultures0
The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality and Humanity in Modern India0
Correction0
Dedication0
Stories of decolonial resilience0
Religion and urban political eco/pathology: exploring communalized coronavirus in South Asia0
Virus government – A twenty-first-century genealogy of the ‘Dusk mask’ as biopolitical technology0
Communication totalitarianism in Japan: ‘Decontextualisation’ and ‘Recontextualisation’ and the digital communication environment0
The weather proxy: the racial technics of algorithmic surveillance0
In praise of Arab ‘Defeat’: another reading of Arab struggle0
Acknowledgements0
Sound mediations: a translocal reading of sonideros0
Hegemonic mimicry: Korean popular culture of the twenty-first century0
Educational commons: resisting neoliberalism through teachers’ voices in Hong Kong0
The spectacle of competence: global pandemic and the redesign of leadership in a post neo-liberal world0
NFTs and the financialization of art0
Opening windows: embracing new perspectives and practices in natural resource social sciences0
Navigating the troubles’ tidelands: the push and pull of memory in post-conflict northern Ireland’s film & television industry0
The griot tradition as remixed through Hip Hop: straight Outta Africa0
Introduction – the Unfinished Stuart Hall0
MOIRA: (Re)making Algarve’s culture(s) of water through mixed media arts0
Commoning art for sustainable engagement with Hong Kong’s existential crises: a case study of Tak Cheong Lane Vegetarian Cooperative0
Re-articulating feminisms: a theoretical critique of feminist struggles and discourse in historical and contemporary China0
Staging a ‘real’ masculinity in a ‘fake’ world: creativity, (in)authenticity, and the gendering of musical labour0
Fear makes the soul: constituting whiteness through moral panics in postcolonial Germany0
Oceanic bellies and liquid feminism in Fatou Diome’sLe Ventre de l’Atlantique0
Doing cultural studies in rough seas: the COVID-19 ocean multiple0
Dancing with Coronaspheres: Expanded Breath Bodies and the Politics of Public Movement in the Age of COVID-190
The hashtag: the most conspicuous sign of our times0
Between knowing and understanding: Israeli Jews and the memory of the Palestinian Nakba0
Waste commons in motion0
The tyranny of magicalized science and its collapse by the masses: fear and modernity in the Japanese mask norm0
Turks against orientalist discourse0
Dissonance and defensiveness: orienting affects in online feminist cultures0
Interview: ‘The elephant in the room’: talking (physics of) blackness with Michelle M. Wright0
Amphibious subjects: sasso and the contested politics of queer self making in neo-liberal Ghana0
‘Give me liberty or give me Covid!’: Anti-lockdown protests as necropopulist downsurgency0
Art markets, epistemic authority, and the institutional curation of knowledge0
The fire this time: a conversation with Angela Y. Davis, Herman Gray, Gaye Theresa Johnson, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Josh Kun0
Copyright’s emerging legal subjectivities0
Lithium’s buzz: extractivism between booms in Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile0
Publishers’ Note0
Collective disorientation in the pandemic conjuncture0
Conjunctures0
‘Starved for pleasure’: the fashion magazine as a desirous queer archive0
Listening to the video: Hip Hop videography and Rural Black Aesthetics0
Children’s digital experiences in Indian slums: technologies, identities and jugaad0
Memoryscapes of liberation: activist mnemonic labour in the queer press0
Militarized granularity: Sand’s making of men and masculinity in Singapore0
The historical uses of the oceans: the Anthropocene in the first global age (1500–1800)?0
Mean girl feminism: how white feminists gaslight, gatekeep, and girlboss0
Fandom through generational lenses0
Drawing hearts in the air within new African diaspora spaces: selling Nollywood and consuming nostalgia in London0
Asian Americans as racial contagion0
The biopolitics of pandemics: interview with Ed Cohen0
Performing heritage at Cordoba’s Mosque-Cathedral0
Black Space: Negotiating Race, Diversity, and Belonging in the Ivory Tower0
Introduction: COVID-19, the multiplier0
Transnational reproductive brokers in crisis0
Reframing the Black Atlantic0
Aqua/geopolitical conjuncture and disjuncture: invasion, resources, and mining the deep dark sea0
From hope to haunt: digital activism and the cultural politics of hope(lessness) in late-socialism0
Girl spaces: images of girlhood on the internet0
Ecology and labour in the circuit of culture0
Communication and electoral politics in Ghana: interrogating transnational technology, discourse, and multimodalities0
Cultural capital and constrained agency in debt-migration for construction work in India0
Being water: protest zines and the politics of care in Hong Kong0
‘The end of the common world’: COVID anxieties, bordered lives and democratic censorship in Taiwan0
Carbon Democracy at ten: an interview with Timothy Mitchell0
No time for fun: the politics of partying during a pandemic0
Feeling against the plot: an African diaspora feminist politics of happiness0
Changing ‘practical consciousness’ of Shanghai’s middle class under covid lockdowns: a residential community’s defiance and mobilization0
Tech money in civil society: whose interests do digital rights organisations represent?0
Infrastructural awareness0
The concept of experience in the work of Jesús Martín-Barbero: toward a positive theory of the popular0
Dripping in molasses: Black feminist nostalgia and Kara Walker’s A Subtlety0
Cultural physics0
Word and action: the many routes through Jesús Martín-Barbero0
Hangtime melancholia0
COVID-19 and ‘crisis as ordinary’: pathological whiteness, popular pessimism, and pre-apocalyptic cultural studies0
Protest arts, gender, and social change: fiction, popular songs, and the media in Hausa society across borders0
Uncovering the uncoverers: identity, performativity and representation in counter-disinformation discourse0
Sonic masquerading in Israeli popular music: self-Imitation, accent, and mockery0
The proliferation of men’s sheds in Australia: the problematization of masculinity in a neoliberal regime0
The problematization of consumers in Swedish financial literacy education0
The cultural politics of teacher strikes in the United States0
Female leaders in Japan: from historical dimensions to abenomics Japanese Women in Leadership , edited by Yoshie Tomozumi Nakamura, Mayuko Horimoto, Gary N. McLean, Palg0
The more, the better: queer urban spatialities of Seoul in three films0
Curriculum and pedagogical shifts from a semi-peripheral perspective0
Reading patterns: dressmaking sections in women’s magazines in the 1960s and 1970s0
Affect, Protest, Pandemic: Conversations from the crises of 20200
Interweaving environment, heritage, and society through Cultures of Water . An introduction0
The woman reader in Rebecca Mead’sMy life in Middlemarch0
Fixing the past, mediating the future? Human rights brokers in Nepal and Sri Lanka0
Writing our stories with hooks and needles: literary women's voices in textiles0
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
Antigone in the London office: documentary film, creativity and female agency0
The political economy of Egyptian media: business and military elite power and communication after 20110
Correction0
An intersectional analysis of our robotic future0
New wave of totalitarianism/authoritarianism in East Asia: an editorial introduction0
Mistranslation as disinformation: COVID-19, global imaginaries, and self-serving cosmopolitanism0
Lesbian death: desire and danger between feminist and queer0
The matter of home: repurposed churches, heritage and belonging in Amsterdam0
Introduction: commoning as unthinkable politics: Hong Kong against hard times0
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
‘Blood Money’: a cultural history of the menstrual economy0
Migration, crisis and temporality at the Zimbabwe-South Africa border: governing immobilities0
Repressive suspicion, or: the problem with conspiracy theories0
Translating cultural studies0
Modern African humans effecting Atlantic middle passes0
Debating with Wertham's ghost: comic books, culture wars, and populist moral panics0
The child as mediator of racial ambivalence in Australia: ‘Egg Boy’ and the racist girl0
Jennifer Walshe: A retrospective0
On taking the affective turn: interview with Lauren Berlant, Ann Cvetkovich, and Deborah Gould0
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
Memory, comparison, and reciprocal commensuration: searching for the socialist ‘bad life’ in aspirational Vietnam0
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
Bio or Zoe?: dilemmas of biopolitics and data governmentality during COVID-190
From media to mediations: unexpected readings0
Elephant in the room: commoning as an embedded method of cultural studies0
Matching and mismatching times in the fisheries of South Brittany. Crises in marine ecosystems as seen through the lens of architecture, 1887–19270
Confronting boot strap feminism0
Gender perspectives on professional and everyday creativities: introduction to the special issue0
Regulation of pornography and criminalization of BL readers and authors in contemporary China (2010–2019)0
Possessing and being possessed by the past: on the ambivalences of heritage as religious return0
Stirring the sugar in the English cup of tea: more notes on the continuing relevance of Stuart Hall0
The Rebel's clinic: the revolutionary lives of Frantz Fanon0
God’s wealth, legal frames, and the question of material and immaterial heritage: the case of Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in Kerala, India0
New normals, from talk to gesture0
Sex work in popular culture0
Conceptualizing crisis brokerage: brokering crisis or brokers in crisis0
Feminist sentimentalism? Ambivalent feeling in inclusive digital wedding media0
The price of speculation: fintech risk regimes in Hong Kong0
Dangerous memories and entangled temporalities: Irish republicanism and the postcolonial politics of time0
Queer tango: a lesson in dialogical embodiment0
How black is African Noir?: defining blackness through crime fiction0
The use of historical ponds in political campaigns in the Czech Republic0
Aesthetic Programming teaches programming to critical coders0
Streaming services and brokerage in the music industry crisis in Nigeria0
The future of religious pasts: religion and cultural heritage-making in a secular age – introduction0
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