European Journal of Cultural Studies

Article	Citations
When in Camelot: Space invaders, neurodiversity and popular culture	71
Journeying into the liminal unknown: Making connections and finding spaces within the communitas of zines	54
The revival of radical popular education in Italy as a new form of cultural and class struggle: The case of popular schools in Rome	51
Hermann Bausinger (1926–2021): An appreciation	38
Cultural omnivorousness in Ukraine: Examining relationships with social indicators via literary preferences among readers	30
We have never been human: Staging subjectivity from Diderot and Artaud to the aesthetics of the European refugee crisis	22
Reality offsets: Climate meets capitalism at the Olympic Games	21
Black cultural intermediaries: Difference, neoliberalism and the negotiation of Black cultural value	20
‘I can live without you’: Self-branding as individuation in young Chinese women’s transnational mobilities	19
Networks revisited: Social media, inequality and network culture in the independent television production sector	19
Past imperfect: Transition narratives, popular discourses and The Informant	19
Becoming apart: Drag and the practice of immanent resistance in postsocialist Belgrade	18
The Good, the Bad and the Disney: Employing princesses to examine Hungarian tweens’ understanding of gender	16
Who are Shunzhi ? Subaltern politics and the making of ‘the other’ in Chinese queer activism	16
Soft nationalism in China: The case of Hanfu style	15
Book review: Štětka V and Mihelj S, The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies	15
Music and dance beyond boundaries? Emphasizing Muslim–Jewish North African commonalities, avoiding politics	13
Space invaders: “Dissonant bodies” in positions of power: A conversation with Nirmal Puwar	12
The Haitang Incident 2024 and the ugliness of danmei culture/industry	12
Rethinking the foundations: Global cultural policy at the crossroads	12
‘The problem is the system’: Luis Rubiales, Jenni Hermoso and the sound of sealed lips	11
Lolcows and the mediation of digital freakshows	11
Intersectionality and the Construction of Humour in Contemporary Stand-up Comedy	11
Laughter in times of distress: Pandemic humor and satire in Iran	11
‘I don’t want to care’: Fandom, politics and affect in post-2019 Hong Kong	11

‘He should’ve killed your ass’: Notes on Black women deserving death in the Black manosphere	10
Urban renewal, contested memories and the politics of cultural production: The case of Jewish–Muslim encounters in Germany	9
Anti-naturalism, technoscientific empowerment and rage: Insurgent feminist knowledge in an online menopause forum	9
‘ Je te crois ’ (‘I believe you’): Pragmatics of a feminist slogan, or silencing and the scene of address in post-#MeToo France	9
Imagining audiences in the age of generative AI	9
Special Cultural Commons section: Roundtable discussion of Catherine Rottenberg’s This Is Not a Feminism Textbook , Goldsmiths University Press (2023)	9
Haunted spaces and unsettling predicaments: An interrogation of (capitalist) sport via the work of Mark Fisher	8
Art in hospitals: The aesthetic-cultural turn of caring space	8
AI Séance: Recounts from designing artificial intelligence for transcendence, interpretive lenses and chance	8
Through the looking glass: Feminism and reactionary politics in the digital hall of mirrors	8
Constructing authority in the digital age: Comparing book reviews of professional and amateur critics	8
Danger, comfort, and silence at the home front: Mediating soldiers’ wives	7
Research on power in musical practices and institutions	7
Anokha emerging: The Asian Underground, new ethnicities, and diversity conservatism	7
The unexpected consequences of a pandemic: Crypto-finance as cultural commons	7
Publication Notice	7
Backlash, white privilege and anger: Resistance to the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda in the British television industry	7
‘I’m just not gay-gay’: Exploring same-sex desire and sexual minority identity formation in SKAM and its Western European remakes	7
Negative justice: The case of the human rights museum	7
International media production, shooting locations, and illiberal spatial projects: The case of Budapest, Hungary	6
Mattering on the margin: Thoughts on cultural participation in creative digital media	6
Work in sustainability crisis: The ecological spirit of capitalism and the spectre of sleepwalking	6
Serial repetition, imperfection and the time loop narrative in women-centric US TV	6
The racialisation of AIDS in Denmark: Tabloid media scandals of sex, race and contagion	6
Between exploitation and autonomy: How participants position themselves within reality television production in the post-socialist Czech Republic	6
Book Review: Johnny Walker, Rewind, Replay: Britain and the Video Boom, 1978–92	6
Book Review: Aomar Boum and Nadjib Berber, Undesirables. A Holocaust Journey through North Africa BoumAomarBerberNadjib, Undesirables. A Holocaust Journe	5
High art on a mug: Art merchandise in China’s contemporary art market	5
Beefed-up feeds: Young men interpreting meat-masculinity scripts on Instagram	5
Navigating privilege and precarity: A reflexive inquiry into identity, academia, and Indian media industries	5
Social mobility is a joke: Working-class women and British TV comedy on ‘the social floor’	5
The travelogue cooking show in a sub-state nation: Representing Scotland in British food television	5
The irony of aging graffiti writers: Negotiating subcultural identities through Internet memes	5
The unprotectables: A critical discourse analysis of older people’s portrayal in UK newspaper coverage of Covid-19	5
A care continuum: Food waste challenge in Hong Kong and its narration in action	5
Brexit, ugly feelings and the power of participatory art in Grayson Perry: Divided Britain	5
Funding arts and culture: Everyday experiences and organisational portfolio precarity	5
POD goes to Westminster: Makeover television, AI discipline, and the classed politics of Hannah Spencer’s body	5
Challengers : A cultural studies commentary on the fire and ice of filmic desires	5
‘It’s almost as good as going to a very good concert!’: But is everyone invited? Examining the cultural world of the Death Café neo-tribe	5
Book review: Castellano CG, Chorus: Sonic Politics of the Carnivalesque in Tragic Times CastellanoCG (2026) Chorus: Sonic Politics of the Carnivalesque i	5
Researching the digital economy and the creative economy: Free gaming shards and commercialised making at the intersection of digitality and creativity	5
‘We live in a capitalist world, we need to survive!’: Feminist cultural work, platform capitalism, and pandemic precarity	5
Flushed but not gone: Brainrot and AI slop as abject excess in data-intensive capitalism	5
The digital pregnancy: A qualitative study of Danish women’s use of pregnancy apps	5
Culturalist and neo-propagandist politics at Eurovision: A triptych analysis of cultural diplomacy approaches of the European Broadcasting Union vis-à-vis Belarus, Russia and Israel	5
Immigrant Audience: Understanding Global Cultural Flow Through Somali Immigrants in Turkey	5
Confinement, imagination, and resistance in Palestine: The caricatures and graphic art of Mohammed Sabaaneh	5
Influencers as emerging actors in global digital propaganda	4
Book review: Lin Zhang, The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy	4

Fungi in popular culture reconsidered: Four more-than-human entanglements	4
Ticking off the (pink) diversity box? Production views on LGBT+ in children’s fiction	4
‘Nobody would believe the protagonist of my story’: From assessing credibility to co-creating (un)reliability in the context of queer asylum narratives	4
Book review: Ya-Hui Cheng, The Evolution of Chinese Popular Music: Modernization and Globalization, 1927 to the Present ChengYa-Hui, The Evolution of Chi	4
Religious migrant women as builders of the new ummah in the Netherlands: A belonging path for Muslims?	4
‘Grand designs?’ Investigating the cultural and spatial logics of Channel 4’s media hub workspaces in Leeds, Bristol and Glasgow	4
Equity, diversity and inclusivity: Once more, with feeling	4
Feed them slop: Alignment, attunement, and the affective lure of slopaganda	4
No room! Of course there’s room	4
Matching energy: The end of caring about reception studies’ racial ambivalence	4
Experiencing disruption and transformation of communal environments: War’s influence on Ukrainian coworking spaces	4
Musical metapolitics and the Alt-Right	4
‘The last thing I would think about is how to dispose of it’: Fashion competence and the circularity of inactive wardrobe items	4
The performative body of disabled women: Toward the politics of visibility in China	4
Degenerative AI: AI slop, brainrot, and the gimmick of generative culture	4
Making the invisible visible	4
Recast(e)ing sports on screen: A critical study of popular postmillennial sports films in India	3
Afro-Italian voices: Podcasting and sonic resistance	3
Book review: Glyn Davis and Jaap Kooijman (eds), The Richard Dyer Reader DavisGlynKooijmanJaap (eds), The Richard Dyer Reader. London: Bloomsbury, 2023,	3
Book review: Jessica Martin, Feminisms and Domesticity in Times of Crisis: The Rise of the Austerity Celebrity MartinJessica, Feminisms and Domesticity i	3
Periods of austerity: The emergence of ‘period poverty’ in UK news media	3
Moving with affects in Finnish academia: Resistance practices of social science and humanities researchers and a possibility of change	3
Aligning to ambivalence: White petty bourgeois masculinities, leisure and the contemporary cultural politics of gender in the UK	3
Logbook of a researcher in sociology in times of crisis: Investigating Jews and Muslims after the 7th of October and the following days	3
ECS-Ecrea Early Career Scholar Prize winner - An astrological genealogy of artificial intelligence: From ‘pseudo-sciences’ of divination to sciences of prediction	3
The ethics of representing perpetrators in documentaries on genocide	3
Book review: Zahra Stardust, Indie Porn: Revolution, Regulation, and Resistance StardustZahra, Indie Porn: Revolution, Regulation, and Resistance. Durham	3
Netflix teen series and the globalization of difference	3
Introduction: Boundary work in Muslim-Jewish encounters in urban Europe	3
‘The small girl with the huge dildo is what we needed’: The politics of sex toy in Cocks Not Glocks protest	3
Towards luminescent ethnography of creative work: Purity, dirt and social inequality in Russian art institutions	3
Unforgetting a desirable future: Hauntological lessons for a foundational culture	3
Space invaders in US immigration courts: Reflections on embodiment, complicities, and the possibility and limits of resistance	3
Trans experiences of epistemic recognition against the backdrop of the Finnish trans act reform	3
Dancing on a tightrope: Uncertainty, risk perception and trust relationships in the live music industry	3
Surveillance and self-care: Performing beauty labor in online video content	3
From femcels to ‘femcelcore’: Women’s involuntary celibacy and the rise of heteronihilism	3
Book review: Joanne Hollows, Celebrity Chefs, Food Media and the Politics of Eating JoanneHollows, Celebrity Chefs, Food Media and the Politics of Eating	3
Desired or disillusioned urban dreams? How Weibo discursively construct digitalized cruel mobility for Chinese skilled migrants	3
Woman, Life, Freedom: Revolting space invaders in Iran	3
Space invading at the museum	3
Exploring the gendered experiences of British lifestyle migrants in Spain in the context of Brexit	3
Zine-making the commons: Reflections on a DIY workshop	3
Silver-haired heroines: Representations of ageing femininities in Belgian fiction films (1945–2022)	3
‘Were they nice people? Were they asking good questions?’: Searching for an ethics of love in the history of communication research	3
‘Rocking the establishment’: Subculture, authenticity and the populist radical right in Sweden	3
Romantic opportunism: Doing the work of structures in post-feminist creative industries	3
Computational Gallerte : Compressions of culture	3
‘I want to be judged on my work, I don’t want to be judged as a person’: Inequality, expertise and cultural value in UK craft	3
Weaving the network of collectivism – Kuqing as affective glue in China: Analyzing the reality show X-Change	3
Theory, culture, care	3
‘Pack your patience’: US air travel discourse in Summer 2022	2
#GirlBossing the university side hustle: Entrepreneurial femininities, postfeminism and the veneer of ‘female success’ in times of crisis	2
A fox in search of ‘neo/non-liberal China’ WallisCara, Social Media and Ordinary Life: Affect, Ethics, and Aspiration in Contemporary China. New York: New York University Press, 2025, 285 pp, £21.25 (	2
Re-meme-bering pedagogies of Great Patriotic War: Time-shifting and Russian mnemonic imperialism on TikTok	2
Remembering voices: Singing and critical cosmopolitan memory in the Bengali diaspora	2
Bodies of whiteness: Space invading Viktor Orbán’s ethnonationalism	2
Peripheral allegories of platform capitalism: Carnival Row , Prague and the materiality of local labor	2
Rethinking polysemy and negotiated reading of gender representation in television dramas	2
Enduring inequalities: Fifty years of gender equality talk in the media and cultural industries	2
#MeToo in British schools: Gendered differences in teenagers’ awareness of sexual violence	2
‘Navigating the travel blogger dispositif’: The importance of aesthetic labour within the digital work of British travel bloggers	2
Book review: Fong Siao Yuong, Performing Fear in Television Production: Practices of an Illiberal Democracy	2
Cultivating memory of the future: The meaning of collective watching Ten Years in 2025 Australia	2
A plea for promiscuous creativity	2
The British state, citizenship rights and gendered folk devils: The case of Shamima Begum	2
The menopause moment: The rising visibility of ‘the change’ in UK news coverage	2
Wounded men of feminism: Exploring regimes of male victimhood in the Spanish manosphere	2
Mapping the material logic of a field: Producer perceptions and autonomy in Australian art music	2
Book Review: Antonio A Casilli, Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation CasilliAntonio A, Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation. Ch	2
Erratum to “Rethinking the foundations: Global cultural policy at the crossroads”	2
A pub for England: Race and class in the time of the nation	2
Screen agencies as cultural intermediaries: Delivering gender equality in the film and television sectors?	2
On joining the editorial team of European Journal of Cultural Studies in its 25th year	2
Marginalized disappearances: Shaping the power relations of the search for the missing	2
No such thing as peacetime: Notes on Gaza, Hannah Arendt and cultural studies	2
Imagining happy ageing: Shipping older female celebrities in China	2
Book review: Yiu Fai Chow, Jeroen de Kloet and Leonie Schmidt, ‘It’s My Party’: Tat Ming and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong Chow	2
The monstrous-digital: Data necropolitics, social media, and the assassination of Brian Thompson	2
Queer dialogues with the global south: Western fans and the appeal of Thai boys’ love	2

Affective capitalism and the (new) entrepreneurial mood: Slush as a field configuring event	2
Beyond cut, copy and paste: How editors stitch Bollywood’s disability affect	2
Book Review: Margreth Lünenborg and Birgitt Röttger-Rössler (eds), Affective Formation of Publics: Places, Networks, and Media LünenborgMargrethRöttger-R	2
Europe, Islam and the Roma: Liberalism and the manufacture of cultural difference	2
Book review: Nahuel Ribke, Multilingual Fiction Series: Genres, Geographies and Performances RibkeNahuel, Multilingual Fiction Series: Genres, Geographie	2
Autosociobiography and social mobility: An introduction to the special issue	2
Science as an ‘object of love’ – affective milieus in the neoliberal university	2
Working with EJCS for a decade	2
Calibrated structures of feeling: Cultural citizenship and the reproduction of the military in Singapore	2
Book review: Briony Hannell, Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr HannellBriony, Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms	2
Book review: Eleftheria J. Lekakis, Consumer Activism: Promotional Culture and Resistance	1
Talking back: Social mobility, class and reflexivity in Darren McGarvey’s ‘Poverty Safari’	1
Psychic disjunctures in Denmark: Danish female musicians’ anxieties as a labour of believability	1
Space oddity – Reading Nirmal Puwar’s Space Invaders: race, gender and bodies out of place in decolonial times	1
Home and beyond: Housework as aesthetic engagement with everyday environment	1
Book review	1
Sound, power and participation: A conversation on the aurality of the House of Commons	1
Slow resistance: Feminist and queer activism in ‘illiberal’ contexts	1
‘Even if the algorithm is a terrible workmate, you just need to learn to live with it’: Perceptions of data analytics among game industry professionals	1
‘Punch up, punch down o! All I know is there is punch’: Jokes about Africa(ns) in cross-cultural contexts	1
Nostalgia and cultural creativity: The case of contemporary Athens	1
Music streaming, cultural consumption and the everyday routines of algorithm management: Exploring how trust and objective setting shape everyday encounters with algorithmic systems	1
Epistemologies with no name: Normalistas- teachers and their metaphorical knowledge	1
Book Review: Mohamed Zayani and Joe F Khalil, The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East	1
Don’t Look Up: Satirical cli-fi movies as a catalyst for online environmental debate	1
‘With you, sister @JenniHermoso’: Productive rage in the viralization of #SeAcabó	1
He said, she said	1
White and gendered aesthetics and attitudes of #pandemicbaking and #quarantinebaking	1
The mediated circulation of the United Kingdom’s YouthStrike4Climate movement’s discourses and actions	1
Material not available: ‘Sharing’ audience research	1
‘One of our own’: Statues of comedians, popular culture, and nostalgia in English towns	1
Brainrot, AI slop, and the enshittification of the Internet	1
Manosphere creep: Emotional and hermeneutic labour in Netflix’s Adolescence	1
Differentiating space invaders: Negotiating ‘the migrant’ through moving difference	1
Rack focusing: Making visible everyday violence against women in Polish cinema. The case of Wojtek Smarzowski	1
‘I’m an androgynous tomboy with tattoos’: Amber and (re)imaginations of gender and Koreanness in K-pop	1
Pure love and shadow desire: Navigating censorship, queer fantasy and ressentiment in Chinese Boys’ Love (BL) erotica	1
Book Review: Zhen Troy Chen, China’s Music Industry Unplugged: Business Models, Copyright and Social Entrepreneurship in the Online Platform Economy	1
‘U OK hun’? Classed femininities, meme culture and locating humour in the celebrity ‘hun’	1
Feminist activists discuss practices of monetisation: Digital feminist activism, neoliberalism and subjectivity	1
‘When showing Hanfu to foreigners, I feel very proud’: The imagined community and affective economies of Hanfu (Chinese traditional couture) among Chinese migrant youth in the United Kingdom	1
Beyond door policies: Cultural production as a form of spatial regulation in Amsterdam nightclubs	1
From victimhood to victim could : Hypothetical injury and the ‘criminalization’ of Donald Trump	1
Unveiling the colonial violence of space in the Gaza genocide	1
‘If MPs have immunity, then why are they so afraid of the Coronavirus?’ Political humor during the first COVID-19 pandemic wave in Europe	1
‘Mindfulness for modern life’: The blending of Orientalism and neoliberal self-care strategies in the branding of Rituals	1
The persistence of the housewife ideology: Shifts in women’s roles in production of Sumbanese handwoven cloth	1
Urban/image: Conceptualizing Amsterdam as urban environment in virtual renderings	1
Intergenerational divides as a mechanism of class inequality in UK television drama: From age-segmented commissioning to networked gatekeeping	1
(Re)thinking culture thickly: The public realm from Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition to the Bennett Institute report	1
Technologies of the self (-deception): Confidence, optimism and effort of Chinese esports players	1
Analyzing the Justice and Development Party’s changing discourse on the headscarf issue as the constitutive part of its drift toward authoritarian politics in Turkey	1
Trash, dirt, glitch: The imperfect turn	1
Old Ghosts, New Regrets? Hardcore punk in the Necrocene	1
‘Show me your phone!’: Affect, neoliberal rationality and nationalism in Türkiye’s street interviews	1
In conversation with Deirdre Figueiredo MBE, Director of Craftspace	1
Women as ‘space invaders’ in a gendered billiards hall: The male space and moments of change	1
Corrigendum to Space invaders: “Dissonant bodies” in positions of power: A conversation with Nirmal Puwar	1
Motherhood, diet culture and intergenerational conflict in the #almondmom archetype on TikTok	1
Online sex workers’ absence from gig economy discourse: The politics of seeing in the neoliberal sexual agenda	1
Employment motivations and values in the creative industries: Reorienting from creativity to well-being among Generation Zs in Ireland	1
In the name of help: Anti-interracial marriage discourse in China and the intersection of racial discrimination, patriarchy, and nationalism	1
Listening to the cultural acoustics of migrant voices: The archived conversations of the British Broadcasting Corporation and the British Library’s ‘Listening Project’	1
Book review: Cristina Moreno-Almeida, Memes, Monsters, and the Digital Grotesque	1
Performative resistance and aestheticized conflicts: Barbie ’s ambivalent feminist practice	1
Director for hire? Negotiating creativity and work in the Irish television sector	1
Preface: Space Invaders revisited	1
Exploring the impact of social media on Orientalist representations and its effects on Syrian refugees in Turkiye	1
Art heterotopias against hegemonic discourses: Dancing the Cyprus conflict	1
Note from the Editors	1
Fatal feminisation: Problematising endocrine-disrupting chemicals in Denmark	1
‘Remember the time we sing’: A caring inquiry	1
Book Review: Koen Leurs, Digital Migration	1
Talking on oppression: A feminist exploration of female sexuality in À Nos Amours and Benim Sinemalarım th	1
“Sacré Mormont”: Disciplinary constellations and rhetorical contestations around nature in the context of accelerated urbanization	1
Mapping for change: A manifesto for teaching audience research to (future) professional practitioners	1