European Journal of Cultural Studies

Article	Citations
Humour under occupation: Jokes and humorous anecdotes and their reflections in Palestine	75
Contrasting media representations of race and national identity: The case of England and Italy at the Union of European Football Associations Euro 2020	61
Book review: Kaitlynn Mendes, Jessica Ringrose and Jessalynn Keller, Digital Feminist Activism Girls and Women Fight Back Against Rape Culture	29
Deconstructing the stigma of ageing: The rise of the mature female influencers	21
‘Pack your patience’: US air travel discourse in Summer 2022	20
Religious migrant women as builders of the new ummah in the Netherlands: A belonging path for Muslims?	15
We have never been human: Staging subjectivity from Diderot and Artaud to the aesthetics of the European refugee crisis	15
‘I don’t want to be known for it’: Girls, leadership role models and the problem of representation	14
When in Camelot: Space invaders, neurodiversity and popular culture	14
The Good, the Bad and the Disney: Employing princesses to examine Hungarian tweens’ understanding of gender	13
‘It’s not who I want to be!’: Negotiating the ‘illegible’ single woman in US–UK popular culture	13
AIDS melodrama now: Queer tears in It’s a Sin and Pose	13
The scales of ecological care: Reflections from Harvard Forest	13
Crafting professionals: Skills and resources for graduates entering the craft economy	13
The revival of radical popular education in Italy as a new form of cultural and class struggle: The case of popular schools in Rome	12
Emotional scapes in Mediterranean port cities: Walking Barcelona, Marseille and Genova	11
Musical metapolitics and the Alt-Right	11
Space oddity – Reading Nirmal Puwar’s Space Invaders: race, gender and bodies out of place in decolonial times	10
Becoming apart: Drag and the practice of immanent resistance in postsocialist Belgrade	10
Women as ‘space invaders’ in a gendered billiards hall: The male space and moments of change	10
Gendering the history of cinemagoing in Izmir, Turkey: Middle-class women’s experiences of cinema in the 1960s and 1970s	10
‘Grand designs?’ Investigating the cultural and spatial logics of Channel 4’s media hub workspaces in Leeds, Bristol and Glasgow	10
Equity, diversity and inclusivity: Once more, with feeling	10
Book Review: Anne M Cronin, Secrecy in Public Relations, Mediation and News Cultures	9
From ‘girlboss’ to #stayathomegirlfriend: The romanticisation of domestic labour on TikTok	9

The political economy of fanzines on the threshold of state socialism and post-socialism: The story of Czech(o)slovak fanzines	9
Book review: Lin Zhang, The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy	9
Book review: Laura Clancy, Running the Family Firm: How the Monarchy Manages its Image and our Money	8
Beyond ‘reifying whiteness’ in feminist media studies	8
Past imperfect: Transition narratives, popular discourses and The Informant	8
Artificial Intelligence and the question of creativity: Art, data and the sociocultural archive of AI-imaginations	7
‘If I don’t do some couching I will burst’	7
HIV/AIDS and its monsters. Negotiating criminalisation along the monster–human continuum	7
Fat shaming, feminism and Facebook: What ‘women who eat on tubes’ reveal about social media and the boundaries of women’s bodies	7
Classical music as genre: Hierarchies of value within freelance classical musicians’ discourses	6
Contemporary curating: Gift-giving in the Zürcher Theater Spektakel performing arts festival	6
Microcelebrities’ identity construction on social media: A systematic review and synthesis	6
Networks revisited: Social media, inequality and network culture in the independent television production sector	6
How time flows making games: An ethnographic analysis of experiences of temporality in an indie videogame studio	6
Listening to the cultural acoustics of migrant voices: The archived conversations of the British Broadcasting Corporation and the British Library’s ‘Listening Project’	6
Advocacy for territorial and people-centered approaches to development in Romania: Place attachment based on industrial heritage	5
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	5
Book Review: Catherine McDermott, Feel-Bad Postfeminism: Impasse, Resilience and Female Subjectivity in Popular Culture	5
Beyond the Giralda: Residents’ interpretations of the Seville portrayed in fictional movies and TV series	5
Discourses of cultural diversity and inclusion in film policy: The case of Flanders (2002–2022)	4
The social positions of taste between and within music genres: From omnivore to snob	4
Nobody cares for men anymore: Affective-discursive practices around men’s victimisation across online and offline contexts	4
Keywords as method	4
‘Good food’ in an Instagram age: Rethinking hierarchies of culture, criticism and taste	4
Photographable femininities in women’s magazines and on Instagram	4
Pansy asses and terrorists: Sensibilities of anti-environmentalist toxic speech against Extinction Rebellion Finland	4
‘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	4
Cultural omnivorousness in Ukraine: Examining relationships with social indicators via literary preferences among readers	4
Mapping the music of migration: Emergent themes and challenges	4
The British state, citizenship rights and gendered folk devils: The case of Shamima Begum	4
From progressiveness to perfection: Mothers’ descriptions of their children in print media, 1970–1979 versus 2010–2019	4
The music business case for diversity: Multiculturalism, pop music and the 1990s	4
Stuck inside: Context, precarity and the effect of COVID-19 on Romanian performers	3
Don’t Look Up: Satirical cli-fi movies as a catalyst for online environmental debate	3
Feminism and the Politics of Resilience: Spectacular girls and the place of psychoanalytic approaches in feminist media and cultural studies during the Coronavirus crisis	3
The ethics of representing perpetrators in documentaries on genocide	3
Machinic, inadequate, entrepreneurial: Uncovering the citizen subject of the human-centric welfare state	3
In the name of help: Anti-interracial marriage discourse in China and the intersection of racial discrimination, patriarchy, and nationalism	3
He said, she said	3
The semiotic heritage of grunge and the distressed sneakers trend	3
Space invaders: “Dissonant bodies” in positions of power: A conversation with Nirmal Puwar	3
‘Come and get a taste of normal’: Advertising, consumerism and the Coronavirus pandemic	3
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	3
Book review: Romit Chowdhury, City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport	3
The unbearable oldness of generative artificial intelligence: Or the re-making of digital narratives in times of ChatGPT	3
‘It’s like almost hypnotised people’: An exploration of vernacular discourses and social imaginaries of terrorism in the United Kingdom	3
‘I can live without you’: Self-branding as individuation in young Chinese women’s transnational mobilities	3
Black cultural intermediaries: Difference, neoliberalism and the negotiation of Black cultural value	3
From London to Bali: Raymond Williams and communication as transport and social networks	3
Glitch, the Post-digital Aesthetic of Failure and Twenty-First-Century Media	3

Finding fun in the fatigue: Exploring healthism among group fitness instructors	3
The mediated circulation of the United Kingdom’s YouthStrike4Climate movement’s discourses and actions	3
Markers of self-identities for young Polish diasporic female viewers of The Magnificent Century (Turkish TV series, 2011–2014)	3
A life lasts longer than the body through which it moves: An introduction to a special Cultural Commons section on Raymond Williams	3
‘In the end you adapt to anything’: Responses to narratives of resilience and entrepreneurship in post-recession Spain	3
Talking football: Discourses about race/ethnicity among Spanish youth	3
Reality offsets: Climate meets capitalism at the Olympic Games	3
The politics of vulnerability in the influencer economy	3
What is needed to promote gender equality in the cultural sector? Responses from cultural professionals in Catalonia	3
Book Review: Zhen Troy Chen, China’s Music Industry Unplugged: Business Models, Copyright and Social Entrepreneurship in the Online Platform Economy	3
Civic stage fright: Motivation and news satire engagement	2
Genres at work: A holistic approach to genres in book publishing	2
At home with Gumtree: A cultural analysis of Australia’s popular secondhand online marketplace	2
‘The man that got away’: Gender inequalities in the consumption and production of jazz	2
Book Review: Koen Leurs, Digital Migration	2
Purging the neoliberal poison? Marina Diamandis and the cultural grammar of popular left politics	2
‘The world’s shortest highway’: Entrepreneurial populism and the making of a personal campaign	2
Jauría: Documentary fiction and the transformative potential of sexual violence testimony	2
Intersectionality and the Construction of Humour in Contemporary Stand-up Comedy	2
WhatsAppening Donald: The social uses of Trump memes	2
Beyond fact and fiction: Cultural memory and transmedia ethics in Netflix’sThe Crown	2
Representation of climate change and global warming in comics: From apocalyptic fiction to educational tool	2
The Haitang Incident 2024 and the ugliness of danmei culture/industry	2
Book review: Ya-Hui Cheng, The Evolution of Chinese Popular Music: Modernization and Globalization, 1927 to the Present	2
Book review: Jia Tan, Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China	2
Deepfakes and the promise of algorithmic detectability	2
Envisioning cultural commoning: New Cultural Commons editors’ dialogue on Global South perspectives, inclusivity and Cultural Studies	2
‘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	2
Anticonsumerist marketers: Cultural intermediaries in an era of consumer activism	2
Need for belonging: Exploring subcultural identity in the Chinese Lolita online community	2
Netflix teen series and the globalization of difference	2
Mediating American hospitality: Mark Zuckerberg’s challenge to Donald Trump?	2
#ButNotMaternity: Analysing Instagram posts of reproductive politics under pandemic crisis	2
‘We haven’t got here just on our own. It’s a conversation’: An interview with Carol Tulloch	2
Book review: Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism	2
Jo Cox, public feeling and British political culture: #MoreInCommon	2
Book review: Štětka V and Mihelj S, The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies	2
Ageing and unruliness: Articulations of gaga feminism in representations of ageing, gender and sexuality	2
Fatal feminisation: Problematising endocrine-disrupting chemicals in Denmark	2
ECS-Ecrea Early Career Scholar Prize winner - An astrological genealogy of artificial intelligence: From ‘pseudo-sciences’ of divination to sciences of prediction	2
When the dancing went wrong, the evening went right: An argument for ageing and changing cultural practice	2
No room! Of course there’s room	2
Book review: Karen Wells, The Visual Cultures of Childhood: Film and Television from The Magic Lantern to Teen Vloggers	2
Book review: Joanne Hollows, Celebrity Chefs, Food Media and the Politics of Eating	2
Performative resistance and aestheticized conflicts: Barbie’s ambivalent feminist practice	2
Making the invisible visible	2
The emergence and undermining of sex worker-led freelance feminism	2
‘Scatter my ashes at Saks Fifth Avenue’: Boundary work and intermediation in the fashion landscape	2
Weaving the network of collectivism –Kuqingas affective glue in China: Analyzing the reality showX-Change	2
Queer media production as soft activism: Insights from a Chinese community project	2
Unveiling the colonial violence of space in the Gaza genocide	1
Who counts, and is counted, in craft?	1
Book Review: Movers and Makers: Uncertainty, Resilience and Migrant Creativity in Worlds of Flux	1
Black dis/engagement: negotiating mainstream media presence and refusal	1
Genre, gender and television screenwriting: The problem of pigeonholing	1
Book review: Kay Dickinson, Supply Chain Cinema: Producing Global Film Workers	1
Subverting superhero and meiga imaginaries in street art narrative Fenómenas do rural	1
Influencer responsibility in practice: The role of Instagram debates for individualised politics during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Special issue introduction: Craft economies and inequalities	1
Crisis	1
No more jokes: Comic complexity, Adult Swim and a political aesthetic model of humour	1
Music and dance beyond boundaries? Emphasizing Muslim–Jewish North African commonalities, avoiding politics	1
Twists and turns in the 360 deal: Spinning the risks and rewards of artist–label relations in the streaming era	1
The morbid romance of the good job: News and the emotional social imaginary in late capitalism	1
Generic visuals in the news as public images: Activating emotions, experiences and identities	1
#CannesYouNot? Oppositional and asymmetrical versions of believability in the Depp/Heard case	1
Coming to voice: Community radio production as critical pedagogy	1
Fear: Introduction to special issue	1
Book review	1
Migrant youth and the idea of the ‘migrant experience’	1
Constructing authority in the digital age: Comparing book reviews of professional and amateur critics	1
Friends tell it like it is: Therapy culture, postfeminism and friendships between women	1
Ascriptions of migration: Racism, migratism and Brexit	1
Online sex workers’ absence from gig economy discourse: The politics of seeing in the neoliberal sexual agenda	1
Special cultural commons section: Roundtable discussion of Catherine Rottenberg’s This Is Not a Feminism Textbook, Goldsmiths University Press (2023)	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
Redrawing women’s later-in-life desires: Representations of ageing femininities, intimacies and the promise of happiness in graphic novels	1
‘The problem is the system’: Luis Rubiales, Jenni Hermoso and the sound of sealed lips	1
From femcels to ‘femcelcore’: Women’s involuntary celibacy and the rise of heteronihilism	1
‘Je te crois’ (‘I believe you’): Pragmatics of a feminist slogan, or silencing and the scene of address in post-#MeToo France	1

Nationalized anti-feminism: A collusion between nationalism and gender-equal sexism	1
Through the looking glass: Feminism and reactionary politics in the digital hall of mirrors	1
The minor as major: Outsiderness and social class in Saara Turunen’s prose	1
Woman, Life, Freedom: Revolting space invaders in Iran	1
Periods of austerity: The emergence of ‘period poverty’ in UK news media	1
Palpating history: Magical healing and revolutionary care in Rural Serbia and Macedonia	1
Dancing on a tightrope: Uncertainty, risk perception and trust relationships in the live music industry	1
Slow resistance: Feminist and queer activism in ‘illiberal’ contexts	1
Epistemologies with no name: Normalistas-teachers and their metaphorical knowledge	1
‘All at the tap of a button’: Mapping the food app landscape	1
Trans experiences of epistemic recognition against the backdrop of the Finnish trans act reform	1
Pressing back with Jenni Hermoso: Understanding the non-consensual kiss as abusive	1
Romantic opportunism: Doing the work of structures in post-feminist creative industries	1
Women’s football, sexism and media representation: Contextualising the Rubiales/Hermoso kiss	1
‘Rocking the establishment’: Subculture, authenticity and the populist radical right in Sweden	1
Loving cultural work at Southbank Centre: Evolutions of emotional, embodied, collaborative labour	1
Moving with affects in Finnish academia: Resistance practices of social science and humanities researchers and a possibility of change	1
Otherness as a Commodity: Rethinking Islamophobia and anti-Semitism in Central and Eastern Europe from the time of ‘Global Socialism’	0
Ambivalent affective labor: The datafication of qing and danmei writers in the cultural industry	0
‘Life itself is kinship’: Care and disgust in more-than-human worlds	0
Book Review: Mohamed Zayani and Joe F Khalil, The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East	0
The nation as an imagined commodity: Branding ‘Melania’	0
Technology of optimization: An emerging configuration of productivity among professional software employees	0
The transgender space invader: Out of time and out of affect	0
Contestations and cooperation in Muslim–Jewish neighbourhood encounters: A London case study	0
Director for hire? Negotiating creativity and work in the Irish television sector	0
Brexit, ugly feelings and the power of participatory art in Grayson Perry: Divided Britain	0
Book review: Susan Liddy (ed.), Women, Ageing and the Screen Industries: Falling off a Cliff?	0
The work of documentary relationships	0
Telephone networks and transactional motherhood in Channel 4’s It’s A Sin	0
#GirlBossing the university side hustle: Entrepreneurial femininities, postfeminism and the veneer of ‘female success’ in times of crisis	0
Grey people in an ordinary world: Navigating the politics of migration at the Eurovision Song Contest	0
It’s a Sin: AIDS as incipient crisis	0
‘It takes a long time to become young’: A critical feminist intersectional study ofVogue’s Non-Issue	0
Book review: Eleftheria J. Lekakis, Consumer Activism: Promotional Culture and Resistance	0
Book review: Tiziano Bonini & Emiliano Treré, Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight Against Platform Power	0
Feminist flashpoints and the burning question of accountability	0
Corrigendum to Space invaders: “Dissonant bodies” in positions of power: A conversation with Nirmal Puwar	0
The continuum of regaining one’s body: Childbirth and reproductive choice under beauty pressure in Taiwan	0
Affective academic time management in the neoliberal university: From timeliness to timelessness	0
Ticking off the (pink) diversity box? Production views on LGBT+ in children’s fiction	0
Ridiculing the unreasonable: The political aesthetic of Zondag met Lubach	0
Re-claiming resilience and re-imagining welfare: A response to Angela McRobbie	0
First contact: Reading Raymond Williams	0
Book review: Cristina Moreno-Almeida, Memes, Monsters, and the Digital Grotesque	0
Economic martyrs and moralised others: The construction of social class in UK media during the ‘age of austerity’	0
Iconographies of the everyday: Mediated whiteness and food hospitality activism	0
The digital pregnancy: A qualitative study of Danish women’s use of pregnancy apps	0
Book review: Jian Lin, Chinese Creator Economies: Labor and Bilateral Creative Workers	0
Narrating the pandemic: COVID-19, China and blame allocation strategies in Western European popular press	0
Book review: Sarah Banet-Weiser and Kathryn Claire Higgins, Believability: Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt	0
Eating (with) the other: Jewish-Muslim gastronomic encounters	0
Migrants as ‘pawns’: Antimigrant debates on Twitter and their affinity to European border politics and discourses	0
No such thing as peacetime: Notes on Gaza, Hannah Arendt and cultural studies	0
In conversation with Deirdre Figueiredo MBE, Director of Craftspace	0
Book review: Fong Siao Yuong, Performing Fear in Television Production: Practices of an Illiberal Democracy	0
Drama production and audiences as ‘affective superaddressee’ in an illiberal democracy	0
Alt. Health Influencers: how wellness culture and web culture have been weaponised to promote conspiracy theories and far-right extremism during the COVID-19 pandemic	0
‘One of our own’: Statues of comedians, popular culture, and nostalgia in English towns	0
Mummy influencers and professional sharenting	0
The menopause moment: The rising visibility of ‘the change’ in UK news coverage	0
Water, earth, fire, air: Banal nationalism and Avatar: The Last Airbender	0
Nation branding through the lens of soccer: Using a sports nation branding framework to explore the case of China	0
The female entrepreneur: Fragments of a genealogy	0
Downward professional mobility, cultural difference and immigrant niches: Dynamics of and changes to migrants’ attitudes towards interpersonal communication and work performance	0
Introduction to a special Cultural Commons section on It’s a Sin	0
The persistence of the housewife ideology: Shifts in women’s roles in production of Sumbanese handwoven cloth	0
Football and the sounds of the Black Atlantic	0
Book Review: Rosalind Gill and Shani Orgad, Confidence Culture	0
Trash, dirt, glitch: The imperfect turn	0
Remembering voices: Singing and critical cosmopolitan memory in the Bengali diaspora	0
Affective capitalism and the (new) entrepreneurial mood: Slush as a field configuring event	0
Living in the wake of punk	0
Unveiling the girl boss sexual contract: A multimodal discourse analysis of female influencers in the United Kingdom, Sweden and Slovenia	0
Fulfilling the self through food in wellness blogs: Governing the healthy subject	0
Documentary imaginary: Production and audience research of The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence	0
Narrating refusals of work: Feeling through two European novels and the organizing potential of sharing stories	0
Differentiating space invaders: Negotiating ‘the migrant’ through moving difference	0
A pub for England: Race and class in the time of the nation	0
Book Review: Diaspora as Revolution – Book review of Stuart Hall’ Familiar Stranger: a Life between Two Islands, Stephanie Kaczynski	0
Book review: Margreth Lünenborg and Birgitt Röttger-Rössler (eds), Affective Formation of Publics: Places, Networks, and Media	0
Ways of hoping: Variegated hope among theatre freelancers during COVID-19	0
Challengers: A cultural studies commentary on the fire and ice of filmic desires	0
‘How Goopy are you?’ Women, Goop and cosmic wellness	0
‘With you, sister @JenniHermoso’: Productive rage in the viralization of #SeAcabó	0
The intimacy triple bind: Structural inequalities and relational labour in the influencer industry	0
A feminism of the soul? Postfeminism, postsecular feminism and contemporary feminine spiritualities	0
Home in question: Uncovering meanings, desires and dilemmas of non-home	0
Comedy clubs that platform marginalised identities: Prefigurative politics in Sophie Duker’s Wacky Racists	0
‘Punch up, punch down o! All I know is there is punch’: Jokes about Africa(ns) in cross-cultural contexts	0
Book review	0
Note from the Editors	0
Technologies of the self(-deception): Confidence, optimism and effort of Chinese esports players	0
Tell the story of a virus	0
Book review: Clive Nwonka and Anamik Saha (eds), Black Film British Cinema II	0