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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Psy-drama from Martín-Barbero’s perspective34
Viral justice: how we grow the world we want17
Male youth’s self-narrative and the discourse of meritocracy in South Korea11
Women marrying women in northern Ghana: wading into the homosexuality debate from a Ghanaian perspective10
Making the liberal media: how conservatives built a movement against the press7
Settler colonial ways of seeing: documentation, administration, and the interventions of Indigenous art7
Tiffany Pollard GIFs and nostalgia for the negative6
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
Changes in the understandings and practices of village commoning in Hong Kong6
The predicaments of craftsmanship in the knowledge economy: the rise and fall of Caminha’s boatyards in Caminha, Portugal5
Crisis vision: race and the cultural production of surveillance5
‘Comrade unknown to me’: colonialism, modernity, and conjunctural translation in Familiar Stranger5
‘Water, asylum, metamorphosis, freak show’: flourishing through streaming karaoke play in China4
Streaming Black girlhood: biculturality, nostalgia and hypervisibility in Cuties4
Toward a reparative history: an interview with Catherine Hall4
The community forming potential of Cartonera publishing4
Speculative machines and us: more-than-human intuition and the algorithmic condition4
Between consciousness and conscience: on ‘restorative commoning’ among moderate youth3
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
The broken others of the nation state: debility, capacity and dissent3
Correction3
Written on the subaltern body: Gramsci and the material politics of Sardinian and Italian prison lives3
Food and the class politics of pleasure3
Ecomodernism, cultured meat and the search for the ‘Middle landscape’3
Black media nostalgia in Britain3
The last mixtape: physical media and nostalgic cycles2
Co-Motion: Re-Thinking Power, Subjects, and Feminist and Queer Alliances2
From mass popular to bastardized popular2
Toward the Nth Space: unfixing spatial epistemologies2
On nostalgia, haunting and postsocialism: reading the panel story project2
Spectropolitics, the agency of the Atlantic ghosts: utopia of resurgence in Atlantique by Matia Diop and L’Archipel du Chien 2
How should the non-Indigenous speak? A discussion of decolonizing academia, positioning, and freedom of speech2
Cloned Buddhas: mapping out the DNA of Buddhist heritage preservation2
More than just ‘working from home’: domestic space, economies and living infrastructures during and beyond pandemic times2
A new model of distilling religion: culturalization as marginality2
Playing the waiting game: Temporal violence of asylum seeking2
How concepts do activism: as worlds, aids, cells, and currents2
Religion to culture: who is the ‘Us’?2
Policing the Borribles: conjunctural crisis and moral panic in children’s literature2
Worlds of Unfreedom: West Central Africa in the era of global abolition2
Translating Familiar Stranger into German: the particularities of the historical, cultural and political context2
Black Mediterranean hauntings: border violence, burial, and anti-racist care work in Strange Fish2
Meet the Savarnas: Indian millennials whose mediocrity broke everything2
Marry My Dead Body , and the queer trouble of confucian-liberal enclosure2
Capturing news, capturing democracy: Trump and the Voice of America2
Witch camps and witchcraft discourse in Africa: critiquing development practices2
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
Rewriting the queer potential of She’s Gotta Have It2
The decolonization that could have been but never was1
We don’t need a map: on Australian Aboriginal philosophy and critique1
Conjunctures1
The ruse of impurity: Paul Gilroy’sThe Black Atlanticand the politics of hybridity1
Violent spectre of ghost limbs1
‘They abscond’: migration and coloniality in the contemporary conjuncture in Europe1
When was the ‘smart border’? Towards an agenda for historicising the technopolitics of migration and border control1
Melodies of the toppling trees: the tree farm pastoral, extractivism, and attachment in British Columbia, Canada1
The politics of media scarcity1
Anti-Nafta: imagining a continental unification centred on abundance1
The genealogy of the Moroccan cultural studies turn and the postcolonial politics of scholarly emancipation: re-edit to subvert1
Racializing the ummah: Muslim humanitarians beyond black, brown, and white1
Afterword: engendering new century black transnationalisms1
Amphibious subjects: sasso and the contested politics of queer self making in neo-liberal Ghana1
Editors’ introduction: remembering blackly1
Border matters: situations, technopolitics, and inscriptions1
Letter zero to the director of the Moroccan cultural studies centre: toward a decolonial turn in English studies in Morocco – part I1
Radical motherhood ecologies: towards a mapping of social life, death and resistance in the southwest borderlands1
‘It was a departure of sorts’: glocal homes in recent short fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Efemia Chela, Chibundu Onuzo and Lesley Nneka Arimah1
Challenging the displacement of colonial histories? Isolated memories of colonial deportations from Libya to Italy in Europe’s ‘periphery’1
Settler colonial bordering and post-pandemic futures: disrupting the nation state in Aotearoa/New Zealand1
Neon signs and the red-light district of Hong Kong: from the 1960s to the present1
Brokering war: Afghan interpreters, western soldiers and unequal encounters in crisis1
Making the human: race, allegory, and Asian Americans1
Reordering human waste. Public restrooms as a sign of socialist modernity in China1
Wulumuqi Road1
Through a southern prism: translating Stuart Hall into Spanish1
Dancing for laughs: signifyin(g) bodies and the Black American sitcom0
Protest arts, gender, and social change: fiction, popular songs, and the media in Hausa society across borders0
Elephant in the room: commoning as an embedded method of cultural studies0
Curriculum and pedagogical shifts from a semi-peripheral perspective0
Fandom through generational lenses0
New wave of totalitarianism/authoritarianism in East Asia: an editorial introduction0
The proliferation of men’s sheds in Australia: the problematization of masculinity in a neoliberal regime0
Straight nation: heteronormativity and other exigencies of postcolonial nationalism0
The science and philosophy of martial arts: exploring the connections between the cognitive, physical, and spiritual aspects of martial arts0
Deliberating Ghana: postcolonial rhetorics, culture, and democracy0
Dangerous memories and entangled temporalities: Irish republicanism and the postcolonial politics of time0
The weather proxy: the racial technics of algorithmic surveillance0
‘Blood Money’: a cultural history of the menstrual economy0
Contemporary feminist art by women in North Africa0
‘Rooted in the soil’: defining Dalitness as an ethic and worldview0
Discrowning the king: border performativity, humour and transgression around the Trump Wall0
Dissonance and defensiveness: orienting affects in online feminist cultures0
‘The end of the common world’: COVID anxieties, bordered lives and democratic censorship in Taiwan0
Reframing the Black Atlantic0
Embracing colonialism: how ‘Being Iranian’ subsumes Kurdish identity0
Introduction: commoning as unthinkable politics: Hong Kong against hard times0
The use of historical ponds in political campaigns in the Czech Republic0
From media to mediations: unexpected readings0
The Kaepernick brand: articulating ‘Resistance branding’ in the racial economies of visibility0
Waste commons in motion0
Recreational colonialism and the rhetorical landscapes of the outdoors0
Conjunctures0
Train and its fugitive rhythms: rewriting empire, violence, and the politics of sound0
Hegemonic mimicry: Korean popular culture of the twenty-first century0
The hunger strike as a biopolitical technology: re-reading the 1981 Irish republican prison protest0
Introduction – the Unfinished Stuart Hall0
Cultural physics0
Visual disobedience: art and decoloniality in Central America0
The hashtag: the most conspicuous sign of our times0
Public grief and political transformation: La 72 Hogar-Refugio para Personas Migrantes0
Authoritarian journalism: controlling the news in post-conflict Rwanda0
Technologies of containment: redistributing security through the U.S. driver’s license0
Justice versus care: Judith Butler, Ai Weiwei and the ethics of grievability0
Drawing hearts in the air within new African diaspora spaces: selling Nollywood and consuming nostalgia in London0
Food Sovereignty: A Case for a ‘New Normal’ in the Wake of Two Pandemics0
Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful0
Correction0
Playing mommy and raising the inner child: cyber-mothering practice of cotton doll players in contemporary China0
Translating cultural studies0
Sound mediations: a translocal reading of sonideros0
Changing ‘practical consciousness’ of Shanghai’s middle class under covid lockdowns: a residential community’s defiance and mobilization0
Introduction: imaginaries of food0
‘Unchilding’ Palestine: media representation and the limits of civilizational discourse0
Risk, scale, and smartness: digital infrastructures in European integration0
Opening windows: embracing new perspectives and practices in natural resource social sciences0
Contesting inequalities: mediated labor activism and rural migrant workers in China0
Dedication0
The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality and Humanity in Modern India0
The griot tradition as remixed through Hip Hop: straight Outta Africa0
Lesbian death: desire and danger between feminist and queer0
The matter of home: repurposed churches, heritage and belonging in Amsterdam0
Bodies that haunt: rethinking the political economy of racialised death0
Transnational reproductive brokers in crisis0
Unpacking the ‘smart border’ in South America: ‘irregular migration’, securitization, and the constitution of a technological zone0
Fixing the past, mediating the future? Human rights brokers in Nepal and Sri Lanka0
Streaming services and brokerage in the music industry crisis in Nigeria0
Interview: ‘The elephant in the room’: talking (physics of) blackness with Michelle M. Wright0
Repressive suspicion, or: the problem with conspiracy theories0
We belong here: gentrification, White spacemaking, and a Black sense of place0
Distance and proximity: the spectatorship of trauma and film viewing in postmillennial Hong Kong0
Militarized granularity: Sand’s making of men and masculinity in Singapore0
Conceptualizing crisis brokerage: brokering crisis or brokers in crisis0
The Disturbing Profane: Hip hop, Blackness, and the Sacred0
They remember us: reclaiming Punjabi ancestry through Mirasi genealogical storywork0
Black, white, & read all over: is wearing a keffiyeh enough for Palestinian justice?0
The future of religious pasts: religion and cultural heritage-making in a secular age – introduction0
Streaming Black to the future: post-soul aesthetics & competing nostalgia in FX’s Snowfall and Pose0
MOIRA: (Re)making Algarve’s culture(s) of water through mixed media arts0
Navigating the troubles’ tidelands: the push and pull of memory in post-conflict northern Ireland’s film & television industry0
Fossil Capital at ten: Andreas Malm on capitalism, energy, and resistance0
Black Space: Negotiating Race, Diversity, and Belonging in the Ivory Tower0
Afterword: Crisis broker as method0
Ship to the door of no return: on haunting, refusal, and imagination in black studies0
The concept of experience in the work of Jesús Martín-Barbero: toward a positive theory of the popular0
God’s wealth, legal frames, and the question of material and immaterial heritage: the case of Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in Kerala, India0
Fear makes the soul: constituting whiteness through moral panics in postcolonial Germany0
Uncovering the uncoverers: identity, performativity and representation in counter-disinformation discourse0
Memoryscapes of liberation: activist mnemonic labour in the queer press0
Oceanic bellies and liquid feminism in Fatou Diome’sLe Ventre de l’Atlantique0
Communication and electoral politics in Ghana: interrogating transnational technology, discourse, and multimodalities0
Infrastructural opportunism’s governmental desires: database interoperability’s lessons from the German central register of foreigners0
Kinship surveillance: technology and the weaponization of the family at the border0
Migrating narratives: re-inscribing black diaspora cultures0
The historical uses of the oceans: the Anthropocene in the first global age (1500–1800)?0
Commoning art for sustainable engagement with Hong Kong’s existential crises: a case study of Tak Cheong Lane Vegetarian Cooperative0
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
Breaking through the silence of structural heteropatriarchy0
The political economy of Egyptian media: business and military elite power and communication after 20110
Aqua Audibilis : sonic borders and the making of underwater territory0
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
Dripping in molasses: Black feminist nostalgia and Kara Walker’s A Subtlety0
Reading patterns: dressmaking sections in women’s magazines in the 1960s and 1970s0
Siren call of the sea: disenchantment and estrangement of seafarers0
Ecology and labour in the circuit of culture0
Missing objects, missing subjects: the colonization of Jewish ethnography in the Israel Museum0
Acknowledgements0
Stories of decolonial resilience0
Sex work in popular culture0
What’s (not) on the digital food menu: from ‘visual feasts’ to a sustainable future food imaginary on Instagram0
Letter zero to the director of the Moroccan cultural studies centre: toward a decolonial turn in English studies in Morocco– part II0
The tyranny of magicalized science and its collapse by the masses: fear and modernity in the Japanese mask norm0
Confronting boot strap feminism0
Projecting Jewishness in Moroccan contemporary cinema: Fin Mashi Ya Moshé? and Aida as case studies0
The haunted stages of Calais and London: giving voice to the dead in migration in Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson’s The Jungle and Selina Thompson’s 0
Haunting erotics: theorizing Black erotic aliveness0
Female leaders in Japan: from historical dimensions to abenomics Japanese Women in Leadership , edited by Yoshie Tomozumi Nakamura, Mayuko Horimoto, Gary N. McLean, Palg0
Aqua/geopolitical conjuncture and disjuncture: invasion, resources, and mining the deep dark sea0
The politics of canons and classics: heritage and identity in Swedish copyright law0
Love story, ghost story: the Cambodian genocide, labour extraction, and Hout Bophana0
The more, the better: queer urban spatialities of Seoul in three films0
Interweaving environment, heritage, and society through Cultures of Water . An introduction0
Politics of racialized surveillance: the history of mobility containment in apartheid South Africa0
The Rebel's clinic: the revolutionary lives of Frantz Fanon0
Headstrong: women porters, blackness and modernity in Accra0
Cleansing the nation: India, the Hindu modern, and mediations of gender0
Stirring the sugar in the English cup of tea: more notes on the continuing relevance of Stuart Hall0
Being water: protest zines and the politics of care in Hong Kong0
Communication totalitarianism in Japan: ‘Decontextualisation’ and ‘Recontextualisation’ and the digital communication environment0
Matching and mismatching times in the fisheries of South Brittany. Crises in marine ecosystems as seen through the lens of architecture, 1887–19270
Possessing and being possessed by the past: on the ambivalences of heritage as religious return0
Thanatic ethics: migrant death and communities of care: a transdisciplinary perspective0
‘Starved for pleasure’: the fashion magazine as a desirous queer archive0
Performing heritage at Cordoba’s Mosque-Cathedral0
Word and action: the many routes through Jesús Martín-Barbero0
Memory, comparison, and reciprocal commensuration: searching for the socialist ‘bad life’ in aspirational Vietnam0
How wanghong is constructing contemporary culture in China Wanghong as social media entertainment in China (Palgrave studies in globalization, culture and society), by D0
Tracing histories of the ‘smart’ passport by focusing on infrastructural media0
Migration, crisis and temporality at the Zimbabwe-South Africa border: governing immobilities0
Correction0
‘Strange Fish’ in the Mediterranean Sea: towards a humanities of care0
Fuelling masculinity: how ads for plant-based burgers and electric trucks reinforce gender norms and resist sustainable imaginaries0
Black iconoclasm: public symbols, racial progress, and post/Ferguson America0
Mean girl feminism: how white feminists gaslight, gatekeep, and girlboss0
NFTs and the financialization of art0
Modern African humans effecting Atlantic middle passes0
Children’s digital experiences in Indian slums: technologies, identities and jugaad0
Educational commons: resisting neoliberalism through teachers’ voices in Hong Kong0
Emancipatory imaginaries: the platform transformation of Denver’s urban food system0
On the (past) verge of death: private memory or public concern? From the untold to the visible through ethnography as care0
Unearthing extraction: media infrastructure and the more-than planetary mine0
Feeling against the plot: an African diaspora feminist politics of happiness0
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