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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
‘Stress-testing’ the system: speculations on the Hong Kong protests from afar41
Looking for the clown in the 1980s: the melancholy clients in the Taiwan teahouse and their memories of being a ‘nobody’29
Playing politics digitally: young Chinese people’s political feelings on social media platforms23
How black is African Noir?: defining blackness through crime fiction22
Tech money in civil society: whose interests do digital rights organisations represent?19
‘The world is sinking:’ sand, urban infrastructure, and world-cities19
The new profiling landscape The triumph of profiling: the self in digital culture by Andreas Bernard, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2019, pp. 179, £50.00 (hardback ISBN 9781517
The fire this time: a conversation with Angela Y. Davis, Herman Gray, Gaye Theresa Johnson, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Josh Kun16
The problematization of consumers in Swedish financial literacy education14
Rearticulating football fans in Hong Kong: between activism, localism, and consumerism13
Male youth’s self-narrative and the discourse of meritocracy in South Korea13
Communication totalitarianism in Japan: ‘Decontextualisation’ and ‘Recontextualisation’ and the digital communication environment12
Viral justice: how we grow the world we want11
A new model of distilling religion: culturalization as marginality10
Writing our stories with hooks and needles: literary women's voices in textiles10
Artificial flavors: nostalgia and the shifting landscapes of production in Sino-Japanese animation10
Confronting global infrastructural capitalism: the triple logic of the 'vanguard' and its inevitable spatial and class contradictions in China's high-speed rail program9
Disrupting the closet: radically recontextualizing sexuality and wildness9
The hashtag: the most conspicuous sign of our times9
Conjunctures9
Word and action: the many routes through Jesús Martín-Barbero8
Psy-drama from Martín-Barbero’s perspective8
Recoding the city: cultural mediation of short-term rental platforms in the US8
Oceanic bellies and liquid feminism in Fatou Diome’sLe Ventre de l’Atlantique7
The epiphanic moments of COVID-19: the revelation of painful national truths7
COVID bread-porn: social stratification through displays of self-management7
Smart homes: domestic futurity as Infrastructure7
COVID-19 and the affective politics of congestion: an exploration of population density debates in Australia7
Evangelicals and politicians in Argentina and Brazil: transformations and conservative choices6
COVID-19 at sea: ‘the world as you know it no longer exists’6
Redirected entanglements in the digital supply chain6
Conceptualizing crisis brokerage: brokering crisis or brokers in crisis6
Everyday life and the management of risky bodies in the COVID-19 era6
Regulation of pornography and criminalization of BL readers and authors in contemporary China (2010–2019)6
Affect, Protest, Pandemic: Conversations from the crises of 20205
COVID-19 and ‘crisis as ordinary’: pathological whiteness, popular pessimism, and pre-apocalyptic cultural studies5
Settler colonial ways of seeing: documentation, administration, and the interventions of Indigenous art5
Editors’ introduction: remembering blackly5
Michel Foucault and the coloniality of power5
‘They abscond’: migration and coloniality in the contemporary conjuncture in Europe5
Witch camps and witchcraft discourse in Africa: critiquing development practices4
The future of religious pasts: religion and cultural heritage-making in a secular age – introduction4
From media to mediations: unexpected readings4
Cultural physics4
Tiffany Pollard GIFs and nostalgia for the negative4
From mass popular to bastardized popular4
Hangtime melancholia4
Streaming Black to the future: post-soul aesthetics & competing nostalgia in FX’s Snowfall and Pose4
New normals, from talk to gesture4
‘The end of the common world’: COVID anxieties, bordered lives and democratic censorship in Taiwan4
‘Blood Money’: a cultural history of the menstrual economy4
Stirring the sugar in the English cup of tea: more notes on the continuing relevance of Stuart Hall3
Asian Americans as racial contagion3
Zombie capitalism and coronavirus time3
Anticipation, abolition, possibility: on riots, networked communication, and listening3
Violent spectre of ghost limbs3
Afterword: engendering new century black transnationalisms3
Sonic masquerading in Israeli popular music: self-Imitation, accent, and mockery3
Dissonance and defensiveness: orienting affects in online feminist cultures3
Turks against orientalist discourse3
Girl spaces: images of girlhood on the internet2
Between knowing and understanding: Israeli Jews and the memory of the Palestinian Nakba2
Crisis vision: race and the cultural production of surveillance2
The spectacle of competence: global pandemic and the redesign of leadership in a post neo-liberal world2
Civilizing infrastructure2
The cultural politics of teacher strikes in the United States2
Fixing the past, mediating the future? Human rights brokers in Nepal and Sri Lanka2
Introduction: commoning as unthinkable politics: Hong Kong against hard times2
Fashion in ‘crisis’: consumer activism and brand (ir)responsibility in lockdown2
NFTs and the financialization of art2
Tuning machines: an approach to exploring how Instagram’s machine vision operates on and through digital media’s participatory visual cultures2
Suburban vogue and other queer survival strategies2
Dancing with Coronaspheres: Expanded Breath Bodies and the Politics of Public Movement in the Age of COVID-192
Black, white, & read all over: is wearing a keffiyeh enough for Palestinian justice?2
Keywords and keywording2
Dangerous memories and entangled temporalities: Irish republicanism and the postcolonial politics of time2
Black Space: Negotiating Race, Diversity, and Belonging in the Ivory Tower2
Guarani-kaiowa’s political ontology: singular because common2
Gender perspectives on professional and everyday creativities: introduction to the special issue2
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 Brun2
Aqua/geopolitical conjuncture and disjuncture: invasion, resources, and mining the deep dark sea2
Waste commons in motion2
Amphibious subjects: sasso and the contested politics of queer self making in neo-liberal Ghana1
Oaths and the ethics of automated data: limits to porting the Hippocratic oath from medicine to data science1
An intersectional analysis of our robotic future1
Speculative machines and us: more-than-human intuition and the algorithmic condition1
Re-articulating feminisms: a theoretical critique of feminist struggles and discourse in historical and contemporary China1
The concept of experience in the work of Jesús Martín-Barbero: toward a positive theory of the popular1
Automated culture: introduction1
Twilight of the Eidos: rhetoric, ecology, media (and White Noise)1
Beyond the crisis: transitioning to a better world?1
Repressive suspicion, or: the problem with conspiracy theories1
‘Comrade unknown to me’: colonialism, modernity, and conjunctural translation in Familiar Stranger1
Who needs cultural studies in Colombia?1
Religion and urban political eco/pathology: exploring communalized coronavirus in South Asia1
Translating cultural studies1
Introduction: COVID-19, the multiplier1
Mischievous infrastructure: tactical secrecy through infrastructural friction in police video systems1
Queering the black Atlantic: transgender spaces in Akwaeke Emezi’s writing and visual art1
Memory, comparison, and reciprocal commensuration: searching for the socialist ‘bad life’ in aspirational Vietnam1
‘We don't even know who owns it’: the infrastructural imaginary of Spruce Pine, NC1
The care and feeding of 9-1-1 infrastructure: dispatcher culture as media work and infrastructural transformation1
The more, the better: queer urban spatialities of Seoul in three films1
The Rebel's clinic: the revolutionary lives of Frantz Fanon1
Acknowledgements1
Resisting political traditionalism: a rejoinder to Ho1
In praise of Arab ‘Defeat’: another reading of Arab struggle1
No time for fun: the politics of partying during a pandemic1
‘Go! You are Free!’: rentier politics and the gift logic of the royal pardon in Morocco1
Being water: protest zines and the politics of care in Hong Kong1
Debating with Wertham's ghost: comic books, culture wars, and populist moral panics1
Jennifer Walshe: A retrospective1
Lithium’s buzz: extractivism between booms in Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile1
A narrative of suffering and soil: Swedish migration and settler colonialism in northeast Argentina1
Streaming services and brokerage in the music industry crisis in Nigeria1
Automated media and commercial populism0
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
Staging a ‘real’ masculinity in a ‘fake’ world: creativity, (in)authenticity, and the gendering of musical labour0
Seeing infrastructure: race, facial recognition and the politics of data0
The political economy of Egyptian media: business and military elite power and communication after 20110
Mask as identity? The political subject in the 2019 Hong Kong’s social unrest0
Wulumuqi Road0
Migrating narratives: re-inscribing black diaspora cultures0
Learning From Lana: Netflix’sToo Hot to Handle, COVID-19, and the human-nonhuman entanglement in contemporary technoculture0
We don’t need a map: on Australian Aboriginal philosophy and critique0
‘Starved for pleasure’: the fashion magazine as a desirous queer archive0
From the archives of drone failure Unmanning: How humans, machines and media perform drone warfare. War culture , edited by Katherine Chandler, New Brunswick, Rutgers Un0
Reframing the Black Atlantic0
Modern slavery legislation and the limits of ethical fashion0
Possessing and being possessed by the past: on the ambivalences of heritage as religious return0
Seeing like an infrastructure: avidity and difference in algorithmic recommendation0
Cultural capital and constrained agency in debt-migration for construction work in India0
The tyranny of magicalized science and its collapse by the masses: fear and modernity in the Japanese mask norm0
Children’s digital experiences in Indian slums: technologies, identities and jugaad0
Policing the Borribles: conjunctural crisis and moral panic in children’s literature0
Covid-19 and the mundane practices of privilege0
Commoning art for sustainable engagement with Hong Kong’s existential crises: a case study of Tak Cheong Lane Vegetarian Cooperative0
‘Water, asylum, metamorphosis, freak show’: flourishing through streaming karaoke play in China0
Translating Familiar Stranger into German: the particularities of the historical, cultural and political context0
Brexit and invasive species: a case study of the cognitive and affective encoding of ‘abject nature’ in contemporary nationalist ideology0
Enduring COVID-19, nevertheless0
Coal ground0
How should the non-Indigenous speak? A discussion of decolonizing academia, positioning, and freedom of speech0
‘Give me liberty or give me Covid!’: Anti-lockdown protests as necropopulist downsurgency0
Aesthetic Programming teaches programming to critical coders0
Programming gender: surveillance, identity, and paranoia in Ex Machina0
Fandom through generational lenses0
The collateralized personality: creditability and resistance in the age of automated credit-scoring and lending0
Status economies and frequent flier expertise: YouTube first class travel videos0
Multispecies mourning: grieving as resistance on the West Papuan plantation frontier0
God’s wealth, legal frames, and the question of material and immaterial heritage: the case of Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in Kerala, India0
Listening to the video: Hip Hop videography and Rural Black Aesthetics0
Queer tango: a lesson in dialogical embodiment0
Hegemonic mimicry: Korean popular culture of the twenty-first century0
The child as mediator of racial ambivalence in Australia: ‘Egg Boy’ and the racist girl0
Mistranslation as disinformation: COVID-19, global imaginaries, and self-serving cosmopolitanism0
Modern African humans effecting Atlantic middle passes0
Streaming Black girlhood: biculturality, nostalgia and hypervisibility in Cuties0
Fissures in algorithmic power: platforms, code, and contestation0
More than just ‘working from home’: domestic space, economies and living infrastructures during and beyond pandemic times0
Bio or Zoe?: dilemmas of biopolitics and data governmentality during COVID-190
Between consciousness and conscience: on ‘restorative commoning’ among moderate youth0
The griot tradition as remixed through Hip Hop: straight Outta Africa0
Feeling against the plot: an African diaspora feminist politics of happiness0
Doing cultural studies in rough seas: the COVID-19 ocean multiple0
Lesbian death: desire and danger between feminist and queer0
From hope to haunt: digital activism and the cultural politics of hope(lessness) in late-socialism0
Correction0
Tuning sound for infrastructures: artificial intelligence, automation, and the cultural politics of audio mastering0
Following the science? Covid-19, ‘race’ and the politics of knowing0
The dead-end of ad-hocracy0
Locating vernacular creativity outside the ‘urban cool’ in Beijing: ephemeral water calligraphy0
The woman reader in Rebecca Mead’sMy life in Middlemarch0
Subjectivities and the right-wing in Latin America: mapping out what’s out there0
The matter of home: repurposed churches, heritage and belonging in Amsterdam0
Seven theses about the so-called culture war(s) (or some fragmentary notes on ‘cancel culture’)0
Data(-)based ambivalence regarding NYC 311 data infrastructure0
Art markets, epistemic authority, and the institutional curation of knowledge0
Changing ‘practical consciousness’ of Shanghai’s middle class under covid lockdowns: a residential community’s defiance and mobilization0
Infrastructural awareness0
Performing heritage at Cordoba’s Mosque-Cathedral0
The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality and Humanity in Modern India0
The hunger strike as a biopolitical technology: re-reading the 1981 Irish republican prison protest0
Female leaders in Japan: from historical dimensions to abenomics Japanese Women in Leadership , edited by Yoshie Tomozumi Nakamura, Mayuko Horimoto, Gary N. McLean, Palg0
Fear makes the soul: constituting whiteness through moral panics in postcolonial Germany0
Connection at the price of collusion: an analysis of ‘Hong Kong’s New Identity Politics: longing for the Local in the shadow of China’ (2020)0
Predicting Covid-19: wearable technology and the politics of solutionism0
Dancing for laughs: signifyin(g) bodies and the Black American sitcom0
The politics of media scarcity0
Distance and proximity: the spectatorship of trauma and film viewing in postmillennial Hong Kong0
Virus government – A twenty-first-century genealogy of the ‘Dusk mask’ as biopolitical technology0
Breast cancer photography and the turn-of-the-centurystudium. Two case studies to illustrate a paradigm shift0
Parodies for a pandemic: coronavirus songs, creativity and lockdown0
The weather proxy: the racial technics of algorithmic surveillance0
Educational commons: resisting neoliberalism through teachers’ voices in Hong Kong0
Copyright’s emerging legal subjectivities0
Curriculum and pedagogical shifts from a semi-peripheral perspective0
Uncovering the uncoverers: identity, performativity and representation in counter-disinformation discourse0
Feminist sentimentalism? Ambivalent feeling in inclusive digital wedding media0
Religion to culture: who is the ‘Us’?0
Antigone in the London office: documentary film, creativity and female agency0
Correction0
Collective disorientation in the pandemic conjuncture0
Moments of shame in the figural history of trans suicide0
Reading patterns: dressmaking sections in women’s magazines in the 1960s and 1970s0
The ruse of impurity: Paul Gilroy’sThe Black Atlanticand the politics of hybridity0
The decolonization that could have been but never was0
Mean girl feminism: how white feminists gaslight, gatekeep, and girlboss0
Sweeping the city: infrastructure, informality, and the politics of maintenance0
Afterword: Crisis broker as method0
How wanghong is constructing contemporary culture in China Wanghong as social media entertainment in China (Palgrave studies in globalization, culture and society), by D0
The biopolitics of pandemics: interview with Ed Cohen0
Protest arts, gender, and social change: fiction, popular songs, and the media in Hausa society across borders0
Infrastructural politics amidst the coils of control0
Brokering war: Afghan interpreters, western soldiers and unequal encounters in crisis0
Back to the future: lessons of a SARS hysteria for the COVID-19 pandemic0
Stories of decolonial resilience0
‘“Demo” and “cracy”’: music, trust, and authentication in Mexico’s 2018 elections0
Militarized granularity: Sand’s making of men and masculinity in Singapore0
Blurring life and work: the predicament of young middle-class women in Shanghai0
Dripping in molasses: Black feminist nostalgia and Kara Walker’s A Subtlety0
Cloned Buddhas: mapping out the DNA of Buddhist heritage preservation0
Opening windows: embracing new perspectives and practices in natural resource social sciences0
Correction0
Thermopolitics of data: cloud infrastructures and energy futures0
Rewriting the queer potential of She’s Gotta Have It0
Elephant in the room: commoning as an embedded method of cultural studies0
Knitting as a remedy: women’s everyday creativity in response to hopelessness and despair0
Through a southern prism: translating Stuart Hall into Spanish0
Black media nostalgia in Britain0
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
Road warriors to digital nomads: portable computers, habitats, and remote work0
Racism is a public health crisis! Black Power in the COVID-19 pandemic0
Postsocialist China within global information capitalism0
Infrastructures of discovery: examining podcast ratings and rankings0
Confronting boot strap feminism0
Migration, crisis and temporality at the Zimbabwe-South Africa border: governing immobilities0
The proliferation of men’s sheds in Australia: the problematization of masculinity in a neoliberal regime0
Settler colonial bordering and post-pandemic futures: disrupting the nation state in Aotearoa/New Zealand0
Drawing hearts in the air within new African diaspora spaces: selling Nollywood and consuming nostalgia in London0
The mechanical Turk: a short history of ‘artificial artificial intelligence’0
‘It was a departure of sorts’: glocal homes in recent short fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Efemia Chela, Chibundu Onuzo and Lesley Nneka Arimah0
Communication and electoral politics in Ghana: interrogating transnational technology, discourse, and multimodalities0
New wave of totalitarianism/authoritarianism in East Asia: an editorial introduction0
Interview: ‘The elephant in the room’: talking (physics of) blackness with Michelle M. Wright0
Sound mediations: a translocal reading of sonideros0
The community forming potential of Cartonera publishing0
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
Publishers’ Note0
Latin America’s right-wing shift: cruelty and the government of other bodies during the neoliberal stage of capital0
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