European Journal of Cultural Studies

Article	Citations
Past imperfect: Transition narratives, popular discourses and The Informant	83
The revival of radical popular education in Italy as a new form of cultural and class struggle: The case of popular schools in Rome	32
We have never been human: Staging subjectivity from Diderot and Artaud to the aesthetics of the European refugee crisis	24
When in Camelot: Space invaders, neurodiversity and popular culture	19
‘I can live without you’: Self-branding as individuation in young Chinese women’s transnational mobilities	18
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	18
Cultural omnivorousness in Ukraine: Examining relationships with social indicators via literary preferences among readers	17
Reality offsets: Climate meets capitalism at the Olympic Games	16
Networks revisited: Social media, inequality and network culture in the independent television production sector	14
Soft nationalism in China: The case of Hanfu style	13
Keywords as method	13
Intersectionality and the Construction of Humour in Contemporary Stand-up Comedy	13
Black cultural intermediaries: Difference, neoliberalism and the negotiation of Black cultural value	13
Space invaders: “Dissonant bodies” in positions of power: A conversation with Nirmal Puwar	12
Glitch, the Post-digital Aesthetic of Failure and Twenty-First-Century Media	11
Book review: Štětka V and Mihelj S, The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies	11
‘The problem is the system’: Luis Rubiales, Jenni Hermoso and the sound of sealed lips	10
‘The world’s shortest highway’: Entrepreneurial populism and the making of a personal campaign	10
Rethinking the foundations: Global cultural policy at the crossroads	10
Music and dance beyond boundaries? Emphasizing Muslim–Jewish North African commonalities, avoiding politics	10
Constructing authority in the digital age: Comparing book reviews of professional and amateur critics	9
Laughter in times of distress: Pandemic humor and satire in Iran	9
The Haitang Incident 2024 and the ugliness of danmei culture/industry	9
‘I don’t want to care’: Fandom, politics and affect in post-2019 Hong Kong	9

‘Je te crois’ (‘I believe you’): Pragmatics of a feminist slogan, or silencing and the scene of address in post-#MeToo France	8
Special cultural commons section: Roundtable discussion of Catherine Rottenberg’s This Is Not a Feminism Textbook, Goldsmiths University Press (2023)	8
Urban renewal, contested memories and the politics of cultural production: The case of Jewish–Muslim encounters in Germany	7
I was never in it for the money: Media narratives of celebrity chefs and the gastro-capitalist social entrepreneur	7
Through the looking glass: Feminism and reactionary politics in the digital hall of mirrors	7
High art on a mug: Art merchandise in China’s contemporary art market	6
The unprotectables: A critical discourse analysis of older people’s portrayal in UK newspaper coverage of Covid-19	6
Danger, comfort, and silence at the home front: Mediating soldiers’ wives	6
‘We live in a capitalist world, we need to survive!’: Feminist cultural work, platform capitalism, and pandemic precarity	6
Resilience is a feminist issue: A response to Angela McRobbie’s Feminism and the Politics of Resilience in the context of Britain during the coronavirus pandemic	5
Anokha emerging: The Asian Underground, new ethnicities, and diversity conservatism	5
The racialisation of AIDS in Denmark: Tabloid media scandals of sex, race and contagion	5
Book Review: Johnny Walker, Rewind, Replay: Britain and the Video Boom, 1978–92	5
Publication Notice	4
Negative justice: The case of the human rights museum	4
From Cinéfondation’s Résidence to film production: The experience of Brazilian filmmakers in an international labour market	4
Dirt(y) media: Dirt in ecological media art practices	4
Fulfilling the self through food in wellness blogs: Governing the healthy subject	4
Fatherhood and gender relations in the manosphere: Exploring an Italian non-resident fathers’ online forum	4
The travelogue cooking show in a sub-state nation: Representing Scotland in British food television	4
The unexpected consequences of a pandemic: Crypto-finance as cultural commons	4
Backlash, white privilege and anger: Resistance to the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda in the British television industry	4
The performative body of disabled women: Toward the politics of visibility in China	4
Funding arts and culture: Everyday experiences and organisational portfolio precarity	4
Expat anxieties: Risk and safety in Cape Town, South Africa and Santiago de Chile	4
‘I’m just not gay-gay’: Exploring same-sex desire and sexual minority identity formation in SKAM and its Western European remakes	4
Book Review: Aomar Boum and Nadjib Berber, Undesirables. A Holocaust Journey through North Africa BoumAomarBerberNadjib, Undesirables. A Holocaust Journey through North	4
Brexit, ugly feelings and the power of participatory art in Grayson Perry: Divided Britain	4
Researching the digital economy and the creative economy: Free gaming shards and commercialised making at the intersection of digitality and creativity	4
The digital pregnancy: A qualitative study of Danish women’s use of pregnancy apps	4
Challengers: A cultural studies commentary on the fire and ice of filmic desires	4
Making the invisible visible	3
Surveillance and self-care: Performing beauty labor in online video content	3
No more jokes: Comic complexity, Adult Swim and a political aesthetic model of humour	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
Trans experiences of epistemic recognition against the backdrop of the Finnish trans act reform	3
ECS-Ecrea Early Career Scholar Prize winner - An astrological genealogy of artificial intelligence: From ‘pseudo-sciences’ of divination to sciences of prediction	3
Weaving the network of collectivism –Kuqingas affective glue in China: Analyzing the reality showX-Change	3
‘Grand designs?’ Investigating the cultural and spatial logics of Channel 4’s media hub workspaces in Leeds, Bristol and Glasgow	3
Experiencing disruption and transformation of communal environments: War’s influence on Ukrainian coworking spaces	3
The nation as an imagined commodity: Branding ‘Melania’	3
The ethics of representing perpetrators in documentaries on genocide	3
Periods of austerity: The emergence of ‘period poverty’ in UK news media	3
Romantic opportunism: Doing the work of structures in post-feminist creative industries	3
Netflix teen series and the globalization of difference	3
Book review: Ya-Hui Cheng, The Evolution of Chinese Popular Music: Modernization and Globalization, 1927 to the Present	3
No room! Of course there’s room	3
Equity, diversity and inclusivity: Once more, with feeling	3
Musical metapolitics and the Alt-Right	3
Ticking off the (pink) diversity box? Production views on LGBT+ in children’s fiction	3

Book review: Lin Zhang, The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy	3
Mediating American hospitality: Mark Zuckerberg’s challenge to Donald Trump?	3
‘Rocking the establishment’: Subculture, authenticity and the populist radical right in Sweden	3
Woman, Life, Freedom: Revolting space invaders in Iran	3
Book review: Joanne Hollows, Celebrity Chefs, Food Media and the Politics of Eating JoanneHollows, Celebrity Chefs, Food Media and the Politics of Eating. London: Blooms	3
Book review: Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism	3
From femcels to ‘femcelcore’: Women’s involuntary celibacy and the rise of heteronihilism	3
Religious migrant women as builders of the new ummah in the Netherlands: A belonging path for Muslims?	3
Fat shaming, feminism and Facebook: What ‘women who eat on tubes’ reveal about social media and the boundaries of women’s bodies	3
Tell the story of a virus	3
Platformed intimacies: Professional belonging on social media	3
Aligning to ambivalence: White petty bourgeois masculinities, leisure and the contemporary cultural politics of gender in the UK	2
Space invaders in US immigration courts: Reflections on embodiment, complicities, and the possibility and limits of resistance	2
‘The small girl with the huge dildo is what we needed’: The politics of sex toy in Cocks Not Glocks protest	2
Introduction: Boundary work in Muslim-Jewish encounters in urban Europe	2
A pub for England: Race and class in the time of the nation	2
Remembering voices: Singing and critical cosmopolitan memory in the Bengali diaspora	2
Peripheral allegories of platform capitalism: Carnival Row , Prague and the materiality of local labor	2
Book review: Fong Siao Yuong, Performing Fear in Television Production: Practices of an Illiberal Democracy	2
Religion and faith: The missing index of inequality in culture and the arts	2
Personal stories in migration museums and our notions of hospitality: A case study from France’s National Museum of the History of Immigration	2
Towards luminescent ethnography of creative work: Purity, dirt and social inequality in Russian art institutions	2
Dancing on a tightrope: Uncertainty, risk perception and trust relationships in the live music industry	2
Logbook of a researcher in sociology in times of crisis: Investigating Jews and Muslims after the 7th of October and the following days	2
On joining the editorial team of European Journal of Cultural Studies in its 25th year	2
Disavowing dependency: On Angela McRobbie’s Feminism and the Politics of Resilience	2
Screen agencies as cultural intermediaries: Delivering gender equality in the film and television sectors?	2
Telephone networks and transactional motherhood in Channel 4’s It’s A Sin	2
Affective academic time management in the neoliberal university: From timeliness to timelessness	2
Affective capitalism and the (new) entrepreneurial mood: Slush as a field configuring event	2
Enduring inequalities: Fifty years of gender equality talk in the media and cultural industries	2
Book review: Nahuel Ribke, Multilingual Fiction Series: Genres, Geographies and Performances	2
Science as an ‘object of love’ – affective milieus in the neoliberal university	2
More than perfect: Cosmetic surgery and ageing single women in contemporary China	2
#MeToo in British schools: Gendered differences in teenagers’ awareness of sexual violence	2
Moving with affects in Finnish academia: Resistance practices of social science and humanities researchers and a possibility of change	2
Book Review: Michelle Phillipov and Katherine Kirkwood (eds), Alternative Food Politics: From the Margins to the Mainstream	2
Football and the sounds of the Black Atlantic	2
Wounded men of feminism: Exploring regimes of male victimhood in the Spanish manosphere	2
Book Review: Antonio A Casilli, Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation CasilliAntonio A, Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation. Chicago, IL: The U	2
Book review: Margreth Lünenborg and Birgitt Röttger-Rössler (eds), Affective Formation of Publics: Places, Networks, and Media	2
The continuum of regaining one’s body: Childbirth and reproductive choice under beauty pressure in Taiwan	2
No such thing as peacetime: Notes on Gaza, Hannah Arendt and cultural studies	2
The consequences of the television closet: It’s a Sin (Red Production Company for Channel 4/HBO Max, 2021) as a meditation on the presence and absence of queer lives on British television	2
Marginalized disappearances: Shaping the power relations of the search for the missing	2
Theory, culture, care	2
Book Review: Zhen Troy Chen, China’s Music Industry Unplugged: Business Models, Copyright and Social Entrepreneurship in the Online Platform Economy	1
Jack Monroe and the cultural politics of the austerity celebrity	1
In conversation with Deirdre Figueiredo MBE, Director of Craftspace	1
Book review: Maryann Erigha, The Hollywood Jim Crow: The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry	1
Fatal feminisation: Problematising endocrine-disrupting chemicals in Denmark	1
Unveiling the colonial violence of space in the Gaza genocide	1
Book Review: Koen Leurs, Digital Migration	1
‘U OK hun’? Classed femininities, meme culture and locating humour in the celebrity ‘hun’	1
Urban/image: Conceptualizing Amsterdam as urban environment in virtual renderings	1
Bodies of whiteness: Space invading Viktor Orbán’s ethnonationalism	1
Home and beyond: Housework as aesthetic engagement with everyday environment	1
He said, she said	1
Women as ‘space invaders’ in a gendered billiards hall: The male space and moments of change	1
Europe, Islam and the Roma: Liberalism and the manufacture of cultural difference	1
The British state, citizenship rights and gendered folk devils: The case of Shamima Begum	1
Slow resistance: Feminist and queer activism in ‘illiberal’ contexts	1
White and gendered aesthetics and attitudes of #pandemicbaking and #quarantinebaking	1
Trash, dirt, glitch: The imperfect turn	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
Art heterotopias against hegemonic discourses: Dancing the Cyprus conflict	1
The mediated circulation of the United Kingdom’s YouthStrike4Climate movement’s discourses and actions	1
Feminist activists discuss practices of monetisation: Digital feminist activism, neoliberalism and subjectivity	1
Ascriptions of migration: Racism, migratism and Brexit	1
In the name of help: Anti-interracial marriage discourse in China and the intersection of racial discrimination, patriarchy, and nationalism	1
Book review	1
Performative resistance and aestheticized conflicts: Barbie’s ambivalent feminist practice	1
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	1
The menopause moment: The rising visibility of ‘the change’ in UK news coverage	1
#GirlBossing the university side hustle: Entrepreneurial femininities, postfeminism and the veneer of ‘female success’ in times of crisis	1
Feminism and the Politics of Resilience: Spectacular girls and the place of psychoanalytic approaches in feminist media and cultural studies during the Coronavirus crisis	1
The limits of humanisation: ‘ideal’ figures of the refugee and depoliticisation of displacement in virtual reality filmClouds Over Sidra	1
Corrigendum to Space invaders: “Dissonant bodies” in positions of power: A conversation with Nirmal Puwar	1
Exploring the impact of social media on Orientalist representations and its effects on Syrian refugees in Turkiye	1
‘Scatter my ashes at Saks Fifth Avenue’: Boundary work and intermediation in the fashion landscape	1

Employment motivations and values in the creative industries: Reorienting from creativity to well-being among-Generation Zs in Ireland	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
‘Mindfulness for modern life’: The blending of Orientalism and neoliberal self-care strategies in the branding of Rituals	1
Epistemologies with no name: Normalistas-teachers and their metaphorical knowledge	1
At home with Gumtree: A cultural analysis of Australia’s popular secondhand online marketplace	1
Online sex workers’ absence from gig economy discourse: The politics of seeing in the neoliberal sexual agenda	1
Space oddity – Reading Nirmal Puwar’s Space Invaders: race, gender and bodies out of place in decolonial times	1
‘Pack your patience’: US air travel discourse in Summer 2022	1
Conceptualising change in equality, diversity and inclusion: A case study of the Irish film and television sector	1
Don’t Look Up: Satirical cli-fi movies as a catalyst for online environmental debate	1
Inheriting a dynasty: Family succession dramas and the moral economy of Downton Abbey	0
Ambivalent affective labor: The datafication of qing and danmei writers in the cultural industry	0
The transgender space invader: Out of time and out of affect	0
The unbearable oldness of generative artificial intelligence: Or the re-making of digital narratives in times of ChatGPT	0
Introduction: #(No)SeAcabó/it is (not) over: The Rubiales/Hermoso non-consensual kiss and the growth of a culture of concern	0
Book review: Tiziano Bonini & Emiliano Treré, Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight Against Platform Power	0
Eating (with) the other: Jewish-Muslim gastronomic encounters	0
Corrigendum to ‘Slow resistance: feminist and queer activism in “illiberal” contexts’	0
Loving cultural work at Southbank Centre: Evolutions of emotional, embodied, collaborative labour	0
Raymond Williams: Tomorrow is also yesterday’s day	0
A new day for Hulk Hogan: Celebrity selves and racial diversity in contemporary professional wrestling	0
Wild Intimacies: Justice-Seeking Mothers in Iran, Networked Activism and the Affective Politics of Mourning	0
Grey people in an ordinary world: Navigating the politics of migration at the Eurovision Song Contest	0
Book review: Billy Holzberg, Jacqueline Gibbs and Aura Lehtonen, Bad Sex: Sexuality, Gender and Affect in Contemporary TV HolzbergBillyGibbsJacquelineLehtonenAura, Bad S	0
A life lasts longer than the body through which it moves: An introduction to a special Cultural Commons section on Raymond Williams	0
‘I’m no diversity slut’’: Diasporic cinema and public film funding through a critical media industry studies lens	0
Retracing the racial semiotics of the other-lingual (anderstalige) in Dutch and Afrikaans: Exploring its emergence in South Africa and its (re-)emergence in Flanders	0
Representation of climate change and global warming in comics: From apocalyptic fiction to educational tool	0
Book review: Dorothy Way Sim Lau, Celebrity Activism and Philanthropy in Asia: Toward a Cosmopolitical Imaginary LauDorothy Way Sim, Celebrity Activism and Philanthropy	0
Purging the neoliberal poison? Marina Diamandis and the cultural grammar of popular left politics	0
Tourismification narratives and the ‘Transformative turn’ in tourism. An analysis derived from the Spanish press debate on the Barcelona tourism model	0
‘The man that got away’: Gender inequalities in the consumption and production of jazz	0
Politics of humour in extremis: Cabaret and propaganda in the Netherlands during the Second World War	0
A feminism of the soul? Postfeminism, postsecular feminism and contemporary feminine spiritualities	0
Artificial Intelligence and the question of creativity: Art, data and the sociocultural archive of AI-imaginations	0
Crafting professionals: Skills and resources for graduates entering the craft economy	0
‘I think it takes balls, girl balls, to challenge those stereotypes’: Women’s perceptions of board game culture	0
Book Review: Anne M Cronin, Secrecy in Public Relations, Mediation and News Cultures	0
The (de-)radical(-ising) potential of r/IncelExit and r/ExRedPill	0
Unveiling the girl boss sexual contract: A multimodal discourse analysis of female influencers in the United Kingdom, Sweden and Slovenia	0
‘All at the tap of a button’: Mapping the food app landscape	0
Rescreening history from below: Spanish women’s participation in the empire’s project in Morocco: Love in Times of War	0
Book Review: Diaspora as Revolution – Book review of Stuart Hall’ Familiar Stranger: a Life between Two Islands, Stephanie Kaczynski	0
Gendering the history of cinemagoing in Izmir, Turkey: Middle-class women’s experiences of cinema in the 1960s and 1970s	0
‘Youth trauma TV’ in Israeli Euphoria : Overcoming social limitations and generic conventions	0
‘Healthy Publics’ and the pedagogy of It’s a Sin	0
Access and diversity in South African craft and design: The work of craft intermediaries in Cape Town	0
What is needed to promote gender equality in the cultural sector? Responses from cultural professionals in Catalonia	0
Black dis/engagement: negotiating mainstream media presence and refusal	0
British history at Tate Britain post-Brexit: Rich, white men and space invaders	0
Selling feminist stories: Popular feminism, authenticity and happiness	0
Palpating history: Magical healing and revolutionary care in Rural Serbia and Macedonia	0
Living in the wake of punk	0
First contact: Reading Raymond Williams	0
Stuck inside: Context, precarity and the effect of COVID-19 on Romanian performers	0
Economic martyrs and moralised others: The construction of social class in UK media during the ‘age of austerity’	0
Talking football: Discourses about race/ethnicity among Spanish youth	0
‘Things that can only happen on . . . TikTok’: A case study of a female Ukrainian refugee’s use of a voice-enabling platform	0
Jauría: Documentary fiction and the transformative potential of sexual violence testimony	0
‘Those who laugh as a body today, will march as a body tomorrow’: Critical comedy and the politics of community	0
‘Fighting for breath’: Inhabiting uninhabitable places	0
The sci-commodity sensibilities of performative Covid-19 face masking	0
Feminist flashpoints and the burning question of accountability	0
Humour under occupation: Jokes and humorous anecdotes and their reflections in Palestine	0
Sohn-Rethel in Naples. On plebeian creativity	0
‘Life itself is kinship’: Care and disgust in more-than-human worlds	0
Book Review: Catherine McDermott, Feel-Bad Postfeminism: Impasse, Resilience and Female Subjectivity in Popular Culture	0
Book review: Glitch Feminism	0
Best friends forever – really? The group of friends as the ideal model of sociability in children’s animations	0
The work of documentary relationships	0
Crisis	0
Book review	0
Identity construction and collusion in documentary of the Gaelic-speaking community: A filmmaker’s perspective	0
In Denmark we eat pork and shake hands! Islam and the anti-Islamic emblems of cultural difference in Danish neo-nationalism	0
Blending In and Sticking Out: Performing legitimacy claims to become (a) representative	0
Water, earth, fire, air: Banal nationalism and Avatar: The Last Airbender	0
Narrating the pandemic: COVID-19, China and blame allocation strategies in Western European popular press	0
Book review: Kay Dickinson, Supply Chain Cinema: Producing Global Film Workers	0
Book review: Sarah Banet-Weiser and Kathryn Claire Higgins, Believability: Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt	0
Book review: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War Abdul-AhadGhaith, A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle E	0
Femonationalism, gendered anti-Muslim racism and reproductive anxiety: Perspectives from the United Kingdom and Germany	0
From high camp to post-modern camp: Queering post-Soviet pop music	0
Spotlight on discrimination at work: Italian actresses’ construction of digital spaces of feminist struggle	0
Queer media production as soft activism: Insights from a Chinese community project	0
Platforms, politics and precarity: Hong Kong television workers amid the new techno-nationalist media agenda	0
‘In the end you adapt to anything’: Responses to narratives of resilience and entrepreneurship in post-recession Spain	0
Jews and Muslims in the 19 th district of Paris: Together or apart?	0
Anticonsumerist marketers: Cultural intermediaries in an era of consumer activism	0
Book review: Rosalind Gill, Perfect: Feeling Judged on Social Media	0
Redrawing women’s later-in-life desires: Representations of ageing femininities, intimacies and the promise of happiness in graphic novels	0
Introduction to a special Cultural Commons section on It’s a Sin	0
Downward professional mobility, cultural difference and immigrant niches: Dynamics of and changes to migrants’ attitudes towards interpersonal communication and work performance	0
‘It’s not who I want to be!’: Negotiating the ‘illegible’ single woman in US–UK popular culture	0
Ways of hoping: Variegated hope among theatre freelancers during COVID-19	0
Migrants as ‘pawns’: Antimigrant debates on Twitter and their affinity to European border politics and discourses	0