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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
‘Stress-testing’ the system: speculations on the Hong Kong protests from afar31
Looking for the clown in the 1980s: the melancholy clients in the Taiwan teahouse and their memories of being a ‘nobody’23
Playing politics digitally: young Chinese people’s political feelings on social media platforms19
The use of historical ponds in political campaigns in the Czech Republic18
Confronting global infrastructural capitalism: the triple logic of the 'vanguard' and its inevitable spatial and class contradictions in China's high-speed rail program14
How black is African Noir?: defining blackness through crime fiction13
The problematization of consumers in Swedish financial literacy education13
The fire this time: a conversation with Angela Y. Davis, Herman Gray, Gaye Theresa Johnson, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Josh Kun13
Rearticulating football fans in Hong Kong: between activism, localism, and consumerism11
Male youth’s self-narrative and the discourse of meritocracy in South Korea10
Communication totalitarianism in Japan: ‘Decontextualisation’ and ‘Recontextualisation’ and the digital communication environment10
Viral justice: how we grow the world we want9
A new model of distilling religion: culturalization as marginality9
Writing our stories with hooks and needles: literary women's voices in textiles8
Artificial flavors: nostalgia and the shifting landscapes of production in Sino-Japanese animation8
The hashtag: the most conspicuous sign of our times7
Conjunctures7
Disrupting the closet: radically recontextualizing sexuality and wildness7
Word and action: the many routes through Jesús Martín-Barbero6
Psy-drama from Martín-Barbero’s perspective6
COVID-19 and the affective politics of congestion: an exploration of population density debates in Australia6
Affect, Protest, Pandemic: Conversations from the crises of 20205
Conceptualizing crisis brokerage: brokering crisis or brokers in crisis5
Regulation of pornography and criminalization of BL readers and authors in contemporary China (2010–2019)5
‘They abscond’: migration and coloniality in the contemporary conjuncture in Europe5
COVID bread-porn: social stratification through displays of self-management5
The epiphanic moments of COVID-19: the revelation of painful national truths5
Oceanic bellies and liquid feminism in Fatou Diome’sLe Ventre de l’Atlantique5
Streaming Black to the future: post-soul aesthetics & competing nostalgia in FX’s Snowfall and Pose4
Editors’ introduction: remembering blackly4
Tech money in civil society: whose interests do digital rights organisations represent?4
Witch camps and witchcraft discourse in Africa: critiquing development practices4
Settler colonial ways of seeing: documentation, administration, and the interventions of Indigenous art4
COVID-19 and ‘crisis as ordinary’: pathological whiteness, popular pessimism, and pre-apocalyptic cultural studies4
Michel Foucault and the coloniality of power4
Cultural physics3
Anticipation, abolition, possibility: on riots, networked communication, and listening3
From mass popular to bastardized popular3
Stirring the sugar in the English cup of tea: more notes on the continuing relevance of Stuart Hall3
COVID-19 at sea: ‘the world as you know it no longer exists’3
From media to mediations: unexpected readings3
Hangtime melancholia3
The spectacle of competence: global pandemic and the redesign of leadership in a post neo-liberal world2
How concepts do activism: as worlds, aids, cells, and currents2
The cultural politics of teacher strikes in the United States2
Introduction: commoning as unthinkable politics: Hong Kong against hard times2
Guarani-kaiowa’s political ontology: singular because common2
NFTs and the financialization of art2
Suburban vogue and other queer survival strategies2
Zombie capitalism and coronavirus time2
Afterword: engendering new century black transnationalisms2
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
Gender perspectives on professional and everyday creativities: introduction to the special issue2
Tuning machines: an approach to exploring how Instagram’s machine vision operates on and through digital media’s participatory visual cultures2
Black, white, & read all over: is wearing a keffiyeh enough for Palestinian justice?2
Violent spectre of ghost limbs2
Asian Americans as racial contagion2
Turks against orientalist discourse2
Sonic masquerading in Israeli popular music: self-Imitation, accent, and mockery2
‘Comrade unknown to me’: colonialism, modernity, and conjunctural translation in Familiar Stranger2
Dissonance and defensiveness: orienting affects in online feminist cultures2
Fashion in ‘crisis’: consumer activism and brand (ir)responsibility in lockdown1
Girl spaces: images of girlhood on the internet1
Dangerous memories and entangled temporalities: Irish republicanism and the postcolonial politics of time1
Crisis vision: race and the cultural production of surveillance1
‘The end of the common world’: COVID anxieties, bordered lives and democratic censorship in Taiwan1
The more, the better: queer urban spatialities of Seoul in three films1
Acknowledgements1
Lithium’s buzz: extractivism between booms in Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile1
Fixing the past, mediating the future? Human rights brokers in Nepal and Sri Lanka1
Between knowing and understanding: Israeli Jews and the memory of the Palestinian Nakba1
Waste commons in motion1
The Rebel's clinic: the revolutionary lives of Frantz Fanon1
‘Blood Money’: a cultural history of the menstrual economy1
Tiffany Pollard GIFs and nostalgia for the negative1
Transnational reproductive brokers in crisis1
Repressive suspicion, or: the problem with conspiracy theories1
MOIRA: (Re)making Algarve’s culture(s) of water through mixed media arts1
Streaming services and brokerage in the music industry crisis in Nigeria1
The future of religious pasts: religion and cultural heritage-making in a secular age – introduction1
Keywords and keywording1
Black Space: Negotiating Race, Diversity, and Belonging in the Ivory Tower1
Amphibious subjects: sasso and the contested politics of queer self making in neo-liberal Ghana1
Dancing with Coronaspheres: Expanded Breath Bodies and the Politics of Public Movement in the Age of COVID-191
Changes in the understandings and practices of village commoning in Hong Kong1
A narrative of suffering and soil: Swedish migration and settler colonialism in northeast Argentina1
New normals, from talk to gesture1
The predicaments of craftsmanship in the knowledge economy: the rise and fall of Caminha’s boatyards in Caminha, Portugal1
Aqua/geopolitical conjuncture and disjuncture: invasion, resources, and mining the deep dark sea1
Possessing and being possessed by the past: on the ambivalences of heritage as religious return0
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
The dead-end of ad-hocracy0
Road warriors to digital nomads: portable computers, habitats, and remote work0
Capturing news, capturing democracy: Trump and the Voice of America0
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
Migration, crisis and temporality at the Zimbabwe-South Africa border: governing immobilities0
Performing heritage at Cordoba’s Mosque-Cathedral0
‘Give me liberty or give me Covid!’: Anti-lockdown protests as necropopulist downsurgency0
On taking the affective turn: interview with Lauren Berlant, Ann Cvetkovich, and Deborah Gould0
Stories of decolonial resilience0
No time for fun: the politics of partying during a pandemic0
The decolonization that could have been but never was0
Dedication0
Policing the Borribles: conjunctural crisis and moral panic in children’s literature0
Memory, comparison, and reciprocal commensuration: searching for the socialist ‘bad life’ in aspirational Vietnam0
The hunger strike as a biopolitical technology: re-reading the 1981 Irish republican prison protest0
The collateralized personality: creditability and resistance in the age of automated credit-scoring and lending0
The historical uses of the oceans: the Anthropocene in the first global age (1500–1800)?0
The concept of experience in the work of Jesús Martín-Barbero: toward a positive theory of the popular0
Narratives of the homoerotic soldier: the fleshiness of the South Korean military0
‘Starved for pleasure’: the fashion magazine as a desirous queer archive0
Uncovering the uncoverers: identity, performativity and representation in counter-disinformation discourse0
The woman reader in Rebecca Mead’sMy life in Middlemarch0
Queering the black Atlantic: transgender spaces in Akwaeke Emezi’s writing and visual art0
Elephant in the room: commoning as an embedded method of cultural studies0
Translating 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
Migrating narratives: re-inscribing black diaspora cultures0
Resisting political traditionalism: a rejoinder to Ho0
Programming gender: surveillance, identity, and paranoia in Ex Machina0
The community forming potential of Cartonera publishing0
Ecology and labour in the circuit of culture0
Through a southern prism: translating Stuart Hall into Spanish0
Communication and electoral politics in Ghana: interrogating transnational technology, discourse, and multimodalities0
The long and deadly road: the covid pandemic and Indian migrants0
Dancing for laughs: signifyin(g) bodies and the Black American sitcom0
Religion and urban political eco/pathology: exploring communalized coronavirus in South Asia0
The tyranny of magicalized science and its collapse by the masses: fear and modernity in the Japanese mask norm0
Back to the future: lessons of a SARS hysteria for the COVID-19 pandemic0
Resistance, activism and ordinary life: an editorial introduction0
Wulumuqi Road0
Speculative machines and us: more-than-human intuition and the algorithmic condition0
Fear makes the soul: constituting whiteness through moral panics in postcolonial Germany0
Afterword: Crisis broker as method0
The science and philosophy of martial arts: exploring the connections between the cognitive, physical, and spiritual aspects of martial arts0
Sound mediations: a translocal reading of sonideros0
Between consciousness and conscience: on ‘restorative commoning’ among moderate youth0
Following the science? Covid-19, ‘race’ and the politics of knowing0
Confronting boot strap feminism0
How wanghong is constructing contemporary culture in China Wanghong as social media entertainment in China (Palgrave studies in globalization, culture and society), by D0
Lesbian death: desire and danger between feminist and queer0
Doing cultural studies in rough seas: the COVID-19 ocean multiple0
From hope to haunt: digital activism and the cultural politics of hope(lessness) in late-socialism0
Postsocialist China within global information capitalism0
Reframing the Black Atlantic0
Copyright’s emerging legal subjectivities0
Collective disorientation in the pandemic conjuncture0
Bio or Zoe?: dilemmas of biopolitics and data governmentality during COVID-190
Mistranslation as disinformation: COVID-19, global imaginaries, and self-serving cosmopolitanism0
Feminist sentimentalism? Ambivalent feeling in inclusive digital wedding media0
Interweaving environment, heritage, and society through Cultures of Water . An introduction0
Seven theses about the so-called culture war(s) (or some fragmentary notes on ‘cancel culture’)0
New wave of totalitarianism/authoritarianism in East Asia: an editorial introduction0
Debating with Wertham's ghost: comic books, culture wars, and populist moral panics0
Infrastructural awareness0
Opening windows: embracing new perspectives and practices in natural resource social sciences0
Feeling against the plot: an African diaspora feminist politics of happiness0
Being water: protest zines and the politics of care in Hong Kong0
Parodies for a pandemic: coronavirus songs, creativity and lockdown0
The weather proxy: the racial technics of algorithmic surveillance0
The child as mediator of racial ambivalence in Australia: ‘Egg Boy’ and the racist girl0
Introduction: COVID-19, the multiplier0
Multispecies mourning: grieving as resistance on the West Papuan plantation frontier0
‘Water, asylum, metamorphosis, freak show’: flourishing through streaming karaoke play in China0
Interview: ‘The elephant in the room’: talking (physics of) blackness with Michelle M. Wright0
Art markets, epistemic authority, and the institutional curation of knowledge0
Who needs cultural studies in Colombia?0
Queer tango: a lesson in dialogical embodiment0
In praise of Arab ‘Defeat’: another reading of Arab struggle0
Predicting Covid-19: wearable technology and the politics of solutionism0
The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality and Humanity in Modern India0
Locating vernacular creativity outside the ‘urban cool’ in Beijing: ephemeral water calligraphy0
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
God’s wealth, legal frames, and the question of material and immaterial heritage: the case of Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in Kerala, India0
An intersectional analysis of our robotic future0
Rewriting the queer potential of She’s Gotta Have It0
Black media nostalgia in Britain0
Carbon Democracy at ten: an interview with Timothy Mitchell0
Drawing hearts in the air within new African diaspora spaces: selling Nollywood and consuming nostalgia in London0
Automated culture: introduction0
Changing ‘practical consciousness’ of Shanghai’s middle class under covid lockdowns: a residential community’s defiance and mobilization0
Memoryscapes of liberation: activist mnemonic labour in the queer press0
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
Staging a ‘real’ masculinity in a ‘fake’ world: creativity, (in)authenticity, and the gendering of musical labour0
Streaming Black girlhood: biculturality, nostalgia and hypervisibility in Cuties0
How should the non-Indigenous speak? A discussion of decolonizing academia, positioning, and freedom of speech0
Brokering war: Afghan interpreters, western soldiers and unequal encounters in crisis0
Mean girl feminism: how white feminists gaslight, gatekeep, and girlboss0
The matter of home: repurposed churches, heritage and belonging in Amsterdam0
Hegemonic mimicry: Korean popular culture of the twenty-first century0
More than just ‘working from home’: domestic space, economies and living infrastructures during and beyond pandemic times0
Fandom through generational lenses0
Reading patterns: dressmaking sections in women’s magazines in the 1960s and 1970s0
Protest arts, gender, and social change: fiction, popular songs, and the media in Hausa society across borders0
Modern African humans effecting Atlantic middle passes0
Navigating the troubles’ tidelands: the push and pull of memory in post-conflict northern Ireland’s film & television industry0
Aesthetic Programming teaches programming to critical coders0
The ruse of impurity: Paul Gilroy’sThe Black Atlanticand the politics of hybridity0
Introduction – the Unfinished Stuart Hall0
The proliferation of men’s sheds in Australia: the problematization of masculinity in a neoliberal regime0
Distance and proximity: the spectatorship of trauma and film viewing in postmillennial Hong Kong0
Modern slavery legislation and the limits of ethical fashion0
Correction0
Children’s digital experiences in Indian slums: technologies, identities and jugaad0
Cloned Buddhas: mapping out the DNA of Buddhist heritage preservation0
Oaths and the ethics of automated data: limits to porting the Hippocratic oath from medicine to data science0
Commoning art for sustainable engagement with Hong Kong’s existential crises: a case study of Tak Cheong Lane Vegetarian Cooperative0
Settler colonial bordering and post-pandemic futures: disrupting the nation state in Aotearoa/New Zealand0
The mechanical Turk: a short history of ‘artificial artificial intelligence’0
‘Go! You are Free!’: rentier politics and the gift logic of the royal pardon in Morocco0
‘“Demo” and “cracy”’: music, trust, and authentication in Mexico’s 2018 elections0
Moments of shame in the figural history of trans suicide0
Listening to the video: Hip Hop videography and Rural Black Aesthetics0
Educational commons: resisting neoliberalism through teachers’ voices in Hong Kong0
Automated media and commercial populism0
The price of speculation: fintech risk regimes in Hong Kong0
Militarized granularity: Sand’s making of men and masculinity in Singapore0
Correction0
Cultural capital and constrained agency in debt-migration for construction work in India0
Jennifer Walshe: A retrospective0
The biopolitics of pandemics: interview with Ed Cohen0
Religion to culture: who is the ‘Us’?0
Female leaders in Japan: from historical dimensions to abenomics Japanese Women in Leadership , edited by Yoshie Tomozumi Nakamura, Mayuko Horimoto, Gary N. McLean, Palg0
‘It was a departure of sorts’: glocal homes in recent short fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Efemia Chela, Chibundu Onuzo and Lesley Nneka Arimah0
Remembering what we never were: the law of the victims, nationism and right-wing hegemony in Colombia0
Racism is a public health crisis! Black Power in the COVID-19 pandemic0
Dripping in molasses: Black feminist nostalgia and Kara Walker’s A Subtlety0
Twilight of the Eidos: rhetoric, ecology, media (and White Noise)0
The politics of media scarcity0
Blurring life and work: the predicament of young middle-class women in Shanghai0
Denaturalizing natural tropes: thinking through ecocritical discourse in post-handover Hong Kong0
Correction0
Virus government – A twenty-first-century genealogy of the ‘Dusk mask’ as biopolitical technology0
Afropolitanizing the local: how cultural imperialism is rewriting the narratives of African entertainment industries0
The griot tradition as remixed through Hip Hop: straight Outta Africa0
We don’t need a map: on Australian Aboriginal philosophy and critique0
Curriculum and pedagogical shifts from a semi-peripheral perspective0
Publishers’ Note0
Translating Familiar Stranger into German: the particularities of the historical, cultural and political context0
Knitting as a remedy: women’s everyday creativity in response to hopelessness and despair0
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
Covid-19 and the mundane practices of privilege0
Re-articulating feminisms: a theoretical critique of feminist struggles and discourse in historical and contemporary China0
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