European Journal of Cultural Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of European Journal 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
We have never been human: Staging subjectivity from Diderot and Artaud to the aesthetics of the European refugee crisis90
‘I can live without you’: Self-branding as individuation in young Chinese women’s transnational mobilities37
The Good, the Bad and the Disney: Employing princesses to examine Hungarian tweens’ understanding of gender30
The revival of radical popular education in Italy as a new form of cultural and class struggle: The case of popular schools in Rome21
Black cultural intermediaries: Difference, neoliberalism and the negotiation of Black cultural value19
Becoming apart: Drag and the practice of immanent resistance in postsocialist Belgrade19
Reality offsets: Climate meets capitalism at the Olympic Games18
Journeying into the liminal unknown: Making connections and finding spaces within the communitas of zines18
Soft nationalism in China: The case of Hanfu style16
Past imperfect: Transition narratives, popular discourses and The Informant15
Cultural omnivorousness in Ukraine: Examining relationships with social indicators via literary preferences among readers14
Networks revisited: Social media, inequality and network culture in the independent television production sector13
When in Camelot: Space invaders, neurodiversity and popular culture13
Glitch, the Post-digital Aesthetic of Failure and Twenty-First-Century Media13
‘The problem is the system’: Luis Rubiales, Jenni Hermoso and the sound of sealed lips12
‘The world’s shortest highway’: Entrepreneurial populism and the making of a personal campaign12
Music and dance beyond boundaries? Emphasizing Muslim–Jewish North African commonalities, avoiding politics12
‘I don’t want to care’: Fandom, politics and affect in post-2019 Hong Kong11
Laughter in times of distress: Pandemic humor and satire in Iran10
Rethinking the foundations: Global cultural policy at the crossroads10
Constructing authority in the digital age: Comparing book reviews of professional and amateur critics9
The Haitang Incident 2024 and the ugliness of danmei culture/industry9
Book review: Štětka V and Mihelj S, The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies9
Intersectionality and the Construction of Humour in Contemporary Stand-up Comedy9
Space invaders: “Dissonant bodies” in positions of power: A conversation with Nirmal Puwar9
Urban renewal, contested memories and the politics of cultural production: The case of Jewish–Muslim encounters in Germany7
Je te crois’ (‘I believe you’): Pragmatics of a feminist slogan, or silencing and the scene of address in post-#MeToo France7
AI Séance: Recounts from designing artificial intelligence for transcendence, interpretive lenses and chance7
Special cultural commons section: Roundtable discussion of Catherine Rottenberg’s This Is Not a Feminism Textbook, Goldsmiths University Press (2023)6
Art in hospitals: The aesthetic-cultural turn of caring space6
Danger, comfort, and silence at the home front: Mediating soldiers’ wives6
I was never in it for the money: Media narratives of celebrity chefs and the gastro-capitalist social entrepreneur6
High art on a mug: Art merchandise in China’s contemporary art market6
Through the looking glass: Feminism and reactionary politics in the digital hall of mirrors6
Book Review: Johnny Walker, Rewind, Replay: Britain and the Video Boom, 1978–926
‘We live in a capitalist world, we need to survive!’: Feminist cultural work, platform capitalism, and pandemic precarity6
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 pandemic6
‘I’m just not gay-gay’: Exploring same-sex desire and sexual minority identity formation in SKAM and its Western European remakes5
The unexpected consequences of a pandemic: Crypto-finance as cultural commons5
Anokha emerging: The Asian Underground, new ethnicities, and diversity conservatism5
The racialisation of AIDS in Denmark: Tabloid media scandals of sex, race and contagion5
Backlash, white privilege and anger: Resistance to the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda in the British television industry5
Publication Notice5
Fatherhood and gender relations in the manosphere: Exploring an Italian non-resident fathers’ online forum4
Fulfilling the self through food in wellness blogs: Governing the healthy subject4
The digital pregnancy: A qualitative study of Danish women’s use of pregnancy apps4
The unprotectables: A critical discourse analysis of older people’s portrayal in UK newspaper coverage of Covid-194
A care continuum: Food waste challenge in Hong Kong and its narration in action4
From Cinéfondation’s Résidence to film production: The experience of Brazilian filmmakers in an international labour market4
Dirt(y) media: Dirt in ecological media art practices4
The performative body of disabled women: Toward the politics of visibility in China4
Funding arts and culture: Everyday experiences and organisational portfolio precarity4
The travelogue cooking show in a sub-state nation: Representing Scotland in British food television4
Mattering on the margin: Thoughts on cultural participation in creative digital media4
Immigrant Audience: Understanding Global Cultural Flow Through Somali Immigrants in Turkey4
Tell the story of a virus4
Researching the digital economy and the creative economy: Free gaming shards and commercialised making at the intersection of digitality and creativity4
Ticking off the (pink) diversity box? Production views on LGBT+ in children’s fiction4
Book Review: Aomar Boum and Nadjib Berber, Undesirables. A Holocaust Journey through North Africa BoumAomarBerberNadjib, Undesirables. A Holocaust Journey through North 4
Negative justice: The case of the human rights museum4
Brexit, ugly feelings and the power of participatory art in Grayson Perry: Divided Britain4
Fat shaming, feminism and Facebook: What ‘women who eat on tubes’ reveal about social media and the boundaries of women’s bodies3
Influencers as emerging actors in global digital propaganda3
Mediating American hospitality: Mark Zuckerberg’s challenge to Donald Trump?3
Space invaders in US immigration courts: Reflections on embodiment, complicities, and the possibility and limits of resistance3
Logbook of a researcher in sociology in times of crisis: Investigating Jews and Muslims after the 7th of October and the following days3
Surveillance and self-care: Performing beauty labor in online video content3
Book review: Ya-Hui Cheng, The Evolution of Chinese Popular Music: Modernization and Globalization, 1927 to the Present3
‘Rocking the establishment’: Subculture, authenticity and the populist radical right in Sweden3
‘The last thing I would think about is how to dispose of it’: Fashion competence and the circularity of inactive wardrobe items3
ECS-Ecrea Early Career Scholar Prize winner - An astrological genealogy of artificial intelligence: From ‘pseudo-sciences’ of divination to sciences of prediction3
Challengers : A cultural studies commentary on the fire and ice of filmic desires3
Experiencing disruption and transformation of communal environments: War’s influence on Ukrainian coworking spaces3
Religious migrant women as builders of the new ummah in the Netherlands: A belonging path for Muslims?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 craft3
Periods of austerity: The emergence of ‘period poverty’ in UK news media3
Romantic opportunism: Doing the work of structures in post-feminist creative industries3
Making the invisible visible3
No room! Of course there’s room3
Musical metapolitics and the Alt-Right3
‘Grand designs?’ Investigating the cultural and spatial logics of Channel 4’s media hub workspaces in Leeds, Bristol and Glasgow3
Weaving the network of collectivism –Kuqingas affective glue in China: Analyzing the reality showX-Change3
Book review: Lin Zhang, The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy3
Platformed intimacies: Professional belonging on social media3
Book review: Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism3
Book review: Joanne Hollows, Celebrity Chefs, Food Media and the Politics of Eating JoanneHollows, Celebrity Chefs, Food Media and the Politics of Eating. London: Blooms3
Moving with affects in Finnish academia: Resistance practices of social science and humanities researchers and a possibility of change3
No more jokes: Comic complexity, Adult Swim and a political aesthetic model of humour3
From femcels to ‘femcelcore’: Women’s involuntary celibacy and the rise of heteronihilism3
Netflix teen series and the globalization of difference3
The ethics of representing perpetrators in documentaries on genocide3
Equity, diversity and inclusivity: Once more, with feeling3
Book Review: Michelle Phillipov and Katherine Kirkwood (eds), Alternative Food Politics: From the Margins to the Mainstream2
Theory, culture, care2
Science as an ‘object of love’ – affective milieus in the neoliberal university2
Wounded men of feminism: Exploring regimes of male victimhood in the Spanish manosphere2
Book review: Margreth Lünenborg and Birgitt Röttger-Rössler (eds), Affective Formation of Publics: Places, Networks, and Media2
Book review: Nahuel Ribke, Multilingual Fiction Series: Genres, Geographies and Performances2
Remembering voices: Singing and critical cosmopolitan memory in the Bengali diaspora2
Telephone networks and transactional motherhood in Channel 4’s It’s A Sin2
Marginalized disappearances: Shaping the power relations of the search for the missing2
No such thing as peacetime: Notes on Gaza, Hannah Arendt and cultural studies2
Afro-Italian voices: Podcasting and sonic resistance2
Personal stories in migration museums and our notions of hospitality: A case study from France’s National Museum of the History of Immigration2
Towards luminescent ethnography of creative work: Purity, dirt and social inequality in Russian art institutions2
Woman, Life, Freedom: Revolting space invaders in Iran2
More than perfect: Cosmetic surgery and ageing single women in contemporary China2
Enduring inequalities: Fifty years of gender equality talk in the media and cultural industries2
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 U2
Book review: Fong Siao Yuong, Performing Fear in Television Production: Practices of an Illiberal Democracy2
Affective academic time management in the neoliberal university: From timeliness to timelessness2
Zine-making the commons: Reflections on a DIY workshop2
On joining the editorial team of European Journal of Cultural Studies in its 25th year2
Aligning to ambivalence: White petty bourgeois masculinities, leisure and the contemporary cultural politics of gender in the UK2
Dancing on a tightrope: Uncertainty, risk perception and trust relationships in the live music industry2
‘Were they nice people? Were they asking good questions?’: Searching for an ethics of love in the history of communication research2
Trans experiences of epistemic recognition against the backdrop of the Finnish trans act reform2
Religion and faith: The missing index of inequality in culture and the arts2
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 television2
Affective capitalism and the (new) entrepreneurial mood: Slush as a field configuring event2
Peripheral allegories of platform capitalism: Carnival Row , Prague and the materiality of local labor2
A pub for England: Race and class in the time of the nation2
Introduction: Boundary work in Muslim-Jewish encounters in urban Europe2
‘The small girl with the huge dildo is what we needed’: The politics of sex toy in Cocks Not Glocks protest2
#MeToo in British schools: Gendered differences in teenagers’ awareness of sexual violence2
Talking on oppression: A feminist exploration of female sexuality in À Nos Amours and Benim Sinemalarım through the eyes of activist women1
Differentiating space invaders: Negotiating ‘the migrant’ through moving difference1
At home with Gumtree: A cultural analysis of Australia’s popular secondhand online marketplace1
‘One of our own’: Statues of comedians, popular culture, and nostalgia in English towns1
‘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 Kingdom1
In conversation with Deirdre Figueiredo MBE, Director of Craftspace1
(Re)thinking culture thickly: The public realm from Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition to the Bennett Institute report1
Exploring the impact of social media on Orientalist representations and its effects on Syrian refugees in Turkiye1
The continuum of regaining one’s body: Childbirth and reproductive choice under beauty pressure in Taiwan1
Epistemologies with no name: Normalistas-teachers and their metaphorical knowledge1
Conceptualising change in equality, diversity and inclusion: A case study of the Irish film and television sector1
Book review1
#GirlBossing the university side hustle: Entrepreneurial femininities, postfeminism and the veneer of ‘female success’ in times of crisis1
‘Mindfulness for modern life’: The blending of Orientalism and neoliberal self-care strategies in the branding of Rituals1
Disavowing dependency: On Angela McRobbie’s Feminism and the Politics of Resilience1
Women as ‘space invaders’ in a gendered billiards hall: The male space and moments of change1
Urban/image: Conceptualizing Amsterdam as urban environment in virtual renderings1
‘I’m an androgynous tomboy with tattoos’: Amber and (re)imaginations of gender and Koreanness in K-pop1
White and gendered aesthetics and attitudes of #pandemicbaking and #quarantinebaking1
Book Review: Koen Leurs, Digital Migration1
Comedy clubs that platform marginalised identities: Prefigurative politics in Sophie Duker’s Wacky Racists1
Feminism and the Politics of Resilience: Spectacular girls and the place of psychoanalytic approaches in feminist media and cultural studies during the Coronavirus crisis1
Feminist activists discuss practices of monetisation: Digital feminist activism, neoliberalism and subjectivity1
Analyzing the Justice and Development Party’s changing discourse on the headscarf issue as the constitutive part of its drift toward authoritarian politics in Turkey1
Online sex workers’ absence from gig economy discourse: The politics of seeing in the neoliberal sexual agenda1
‘Pack your patience’: US air travel discourse in Summer 20221
Unveiling the colonial violence of space in the Gaza genocide1
Fatal feminisation: Problematising endocrine-disrupting chemicals in Denmark1
Calibrated structures of feeling: Cultural citizenship and the reproduction of the military in Singapore1
‘U OK hun’? Classed femininities, meme culture and locating humour in the celebrity ‘hun’1
The menopause moment: The rising visibility of ‘the change’ in UK news coverage1
Home and beyond: Housework as aesthetic engagement with everyday environment1
In the name of help: Anti-interracial marriage discourse in China and the intersection of racial discrimination, patriarchy, and nationalism1
Performative resistance and aestheticized conflicts: Barbie’s ambivalent feminist practice1
Don’t Look Up: Satirical cli-fi movies as a catalyst for online environmental debate1
Corrigendum to Space invaders: “Dissonant bodies” in positions of power: A conversation with Nirmal Puwar1
Book Review: Zhen Troy Chen, China’s Music Industry Unplugged: Business Models, Copyright and Social Entrepreneurship in the Online Platform Economy1
Book review: Eleftheria J. Lekakis, Consumer Activism: Promotional Culture and Resistance1
The mediated circulation of the United Kingdom’s YouthStrike4Climate movement’s discourses and actions1
Jack Monroe and the cultural politics of the austerity celebrity1
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 Kong1
Technologies of the self (-deception): Confidence, optimism and effort of Chinese esports players1
Space oddity – Reading Nirmal Puwar’s Space Invaders: race, gender and bodies out of place in decolonial times1
Employment motivations and values in the creative industries: Reorienting from creativity to well-being among-Generation Zs in Ireland1
He said, she said1
Slow resistance: Feminist and queer activism in ‘illiberal’ contexts1
‘Scatter my ashes at Saks Fifth Avenue’: Boundary work and intermediation in the fashion landscape1
Bodies of whiteness: Space invading Viktor Orbán’s ethnonationalism1
Art heterotopias against hegemonic discourses: Dancing the Cyprus conflict1
Europe, Islam and the Roma: Liberalism and the manufacture of cultural difference1
Ascriptions of migration: Racism, migratism and Brexit1
Screen agencies as cultural intermediaries: Delivering gender equality in the film and television sectors?1
The British state, citizenship rights and gendered folk devils: The case of Shamima Begum1
‘It’s not who I want to be!’: Negotiating the ‘illegible’ single woman in US–UK popular culture0
Blending In and Sticking Out: Performing legitimacy claims to become (a) representative0
A feminism of the soul? Postfeminism, postsecular feminism and contemporary feminine spiritualities0
Ways of hoping: Variegated hope among theatre freelancers during COVID-190
‘Fighting for breath’: Inhabiting uninhabitable places0
Best friends forever – really? The group of friends as the ideal model of sociability in children’s animations0
Book review: Glitch Feminism0
Book Review: Diaspora as Revolution – Book review of Stuart Hall’ Familiar Stranger: a Life between Two Islands, Stephanie Kaczynski0
Book review: Tiziano Bonini & Emiliano Treré, Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight Against Platform Power0
A new day for Hulk Hogan: Celebrity selves and racial diversity in contemporary professional wrestling0
Book Review: Anne M Cronin, Secrecy in Public Relations, Mediation and News Cultures0
Grey people in an ordinary world: Navigating the politics of migration at the Eurovision Song Contest0
‘I’m no diversity slut’’: Diasporic cinema and public film funding through a critical media industry studies lens0
Introduction: #(No)SeAcabó/it is (not) over: The Rubiales/Hermoso non-consensual kiss and the growth of a culture of concern0
Ambivalent affective labor: The datafication of qing and danmei writers in the cultural industry0
Retracing the racial semiotics of the other-lingual (anderstalige) in Dutch and Afrikaans: Exploring its emergence in South Africa and its (re-)emergence in Flanders0
Black dis/engagement: negotiating mainstream media presence and refusal0
‘Things that can only happen on . . . TikTok’: A case study of a female Ukrainian refugee’s use of a voice-enabling platform0
Representation of climate change and global warming in comics: From apocalyptic fiction to educational tool0
Book review: Rosalind Gill, Perfect: Feeling Judged on Social Media0
Talking football: Discourses about race/ethnicity among Spanish youth0
Jews and Muslims in the 19 th district of Paris: Together or apart?0
Book review: Kay Dickinson, Supply Chain Cinema: Producing Global Film Workers0
The sci-commodity sensibilities of performative Covid-19 face masking0
Book review: Sarah Banet-Weiser and Kathryn Claire Higgins, Believability: Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt0
Pressing back with Jenni Hermoso: Understanding the non-consensual kiss as abusive0
‘Life itself is kinship’: Care and disgust in more-than-human worlds0
Wild Intimacies: Justice-Seeking Mothers in Iran, Networked Activism and the Affective Politics of Mourning0
Unveiling the girl boss sexual contract: A multimodal discourse analysis of female influencers in the United Kingdom, Sweden and Slovenia0
Tragic symbolism in Soviet Armenian visual art: The legacy of Valentin Podpomogov0
Migrants as ‘pawns’: Antimigrant debates on Twitter and their affinity to European border politics and discourses0
Eating (with) the other: Jewish-Muslim gastronomic encounters0
Inheriting a dynasty: Family succession dramas and the moral economy of Downton Abbey0
British history at Tate Britain post-Brexit: Rich, white men and space invaders0
Selling feminist stories: Popular feminism, authenticity and happiness0
‘Healthy Publics’ and the pedagogy of It’s a Sin0
Book review0
Book review: Billy Holzberg, Jacqueline Gibbs and Aura Lehtonen, Bad Sex: Sexuality, Gender and Affect in Contemporary TV HolzbergBillyGibbsJacquelineLehtonenAura, Bad S0
‘All at the tap of a button’: Mapping the food app landscape0
In Denmark we eat pork and shake hands! Islam and the anti-Islamic emblems of cultural difference in Danish neo-nationalism0
Palpating history: Magical healing and revolutionary care in Rural Serbia and Macedonia0
Corrigendum to ‘Slow resistance: feminist and queer activism in “illiberal” contexts’0
Femonationalism, gendered anti-Muslim racism and reproductive anxiety: Perspectives from the United Kingdom and Germany0
Platforms, politics and precarity: Hong Kong television workers amid the new techno-nationalist media agenda0
Loving cultural work at Southbank Centre: Evolutions of emotional, embodied, collaborative labour0
‘Those who laugh as a body today, will march as a body tomorrow’: Critical comedy and the politics of community0
Access and diversity in South African craft and design: The work of craft intermediaries in Cape Town0
Economic martyrs and moralised others: The construction of social class in UK media during the ‘age of austerity’0
Crafting professionals: Skills and resources for graduates entering the craft economy0
Book Review: Catherine McDermott, Feel-Bad Postfeminism: Impasse, Resilience and Female Subjectivity in Popular Culture0
The transgender space invader: Out of time and out of affect0
‘I think it takes balls, girl balls, to challenge those stereotypes’: Women’s perceptions of board game culture0
Downward professional mobility, cultural difference and immigrant niches: Dynamics of and changes to migrants’ attitudes towards interpersonal communication and work performance0
The (de-)radical(-ising) potential of r/IncelExit and r/ExRedPill0
Feminist flashpoints and the burning question of accountability0
Identity construction and collusion in documentary of the Gaelic-speaking community: A filmmaker’s perspective0
Narrating the pandemic: COVID-19, China and blame allocation strategies in Western European popular press0
‘Youth trauma TV’ in Israeli Euphoria : Overcoming social limitations and generic conventions0
Rescreening history from below: Spanish women’s participation in the empire’s project in Morocco: Love in Times of War0
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 E0
Crisis0
The work of documentary relationships0
Living in the wake of punk0
Redrawing women’s later-in-life desires: Representations of ageing femininities, intimacies and the promise of happiness in graphic novels0
Introduction to a special Cultural Commons section on It’s a Sin0
Jauría: Documentary fiction and the transformative potential of sexual violence testimony0
Book review: Dorothy Way Sim Lau, Celebrity Activism and Philanthropy in Asia: Toward a Cosmopolitical Imaginary LauDorothy Way Sim, Celebrity Activism and Philanthropy 0
Anticonsumerist marketers: Cultural intermediaries in an era of consumer activism0
Tourismification narratives and the ‘Transformative turn’ in tourism. An analysis derived from the Spanish press debate on the Barcelona tourism model0
Water, earth, fire, air: Banal nationalism and Avatar: The Last Airbender0
Politics of humour in extremis: Cabaret and propaganda in the Netherlands during the Second World War0
Gendering the history of cinemagoing in Izmir, Turkey: Middle-class women’s experiences of cinema in the 1960s and 1970s0
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