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In "Musical metapolitics and the Alt-Right", Sam de Boise (Örebro universitet) argues that Alt-Right media and its proponents simultaneously encouraged ironic consumption of mainstream musics and advocated an aesthetic pluralism. Read in #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1177/136754…

What happens when the skills & stories of older rural women are translated into superheroine stories? Powerful research by Beatriz Carbajal-Carrera in European Journal of Cultural Studies (EJCS) (2022), discovered during my MetaKLuB global literature review: doi.org/10.1177/136754… derrubandomuros.gal/mural/fina-de-…

Trending in #CulturalStudies: ooir.org/index.php?fiel… 1) Global perspectives on platforms & cultural production (International Journal of Cultural Studies) 2) Village YouTubers in S. India 3) China as data coloniser? 4) Cultural & spatial logics of Channel 4’s media hub workspaces (European Journal of Cultural Studies (EJCS))

A book with “vast implications for a deepened understanding of Hong Kong popular music”: Yiu-Wai Chu reviews “‘It’s My Party’: Tat Ming and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong” by Chow Yiu Fai, @JeroendeKloet and Leonie Schmidt. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Waiting for the results of the US #Election2024? This might be a great time to (re)read Eeva Sointu and David W Hill’s “Trump Therapy” and Neil O’Boyle’s “WhatsAppening Donald” in our digital archive. Both #OpenAccess here doi.org/10.1177/136754… & here doi.org/10.1177/136754…

"The contemplative vividness of Performing Fear lends significant depth of discussion that renders it an important addition to Singapore media scholarship." Thank you to Howard Lee for reviewing my book for European Journal of Cultural Studies (EJCS) .

"Pansy asses and terrorists": In this #OpenAccess article, Heidi Kosonen (University of Jyväskylä) and Riku Löf (@HelsinkiUni) analyse anti-environmentalist speech and actions against Extinction Rebellion Global in Finland through the concept of ‘toxic speech’. Read here: doi.org/10.1177/136754…

To render the asymmetries in air pollution exposure not only visible but sense-able, this article by Louise Rondel (Goldsmiths, University of London) draws on a mobile, emplaced and embodied methodology of walking and cycling through #London. doi.org/10.1177/136754…

From ‘girlboss’ to #stayathomegirlfriend: Isabel Sykes (@bruneluni) argues that the romanticisation of domesticity on TikTok US ultimately serves to exacerbate the societal disavowal of social reproduction labour under neoliberal capitalism. doi.org/10.1177/136754… #TikTok

Wow! Brilliant reflection on Wronged in European Journal of Cultural Studies (EJCS).Kat Higgins (aka Kathryn Claire) 🙏 Wronged opens new ways of thinking about the centrality of pain in political life, while inviting us to meet the challenge of reclaiming victimhood to build a more just, less painful world. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

It was a pleasure to write this review of Lilie Chouliaraki’s brilliant new book Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood for European Journal of Cultural Studies (EJCS). Wronged is an essential text for this crazymaking moment in public moral politics, and I can’t recommend it highly enough 👇

In "Anokha emerging: The Asian Underground, new ethnicities, and diversity conservatism", Tariq Jazeel (UCL) places British-Asian club and music aesthetics in a broader terrain of avant-garde cultural production and representational politics. doi.org/10.1177/136754… #OpenAccess

New article authored by student and staff in Media&Comm: 'Need for belonging: Exploring subcultural identity in the Chinese Lolita online community - Dr Jiayixiu Zhao & Dr Yimei Zhu Yimei Zhu #lolitafashion #lolitastyle in European Journal of Cultural Studies (EJCS) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

In “Performing Fear in Television Production” (Amsterdam Univ Press), Siao Yuong (Rong) Fong turns to the lived everyday of media producers in Singapore to explore what it takes to perpetuate authoritarian resilience in the media. Read the #review by Howard Lee here: doi.org/10.1177/136754…

Drawing on qualitative interviews and ethnographic research, this article by Jiayixiu Zhao and Yimei Zhu aims to understand Lolita participants’ perception of Lolita dressing culture and their experience with the Lolita online communities. Read here: doi.org/10.1177/136754…

“Refugee Voices: Performativity and the Struggle for Recognition” (Media, Cultural and Communication Studies) by @_robsharp explores how participatory creative production allows refugees to be recognised in emotional, legal and social ways. Read the #bookreview by dr moé suzuki / moesz.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.1177/136754…

Why is being a victim such a potent identity today? Read Kat Higgins (aka Kathryn Claire)'s #bookreview of "Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood" (Columbia University Press) by Lilie Chouliaraki here: doi.org/10.1177/136754…

Really pleased to share this new article, written with Sharon Lockyer, where we examine intersectionality in stand-up comedy. Comedy Studies European Journal of Cultural Studies (EJCS) Intersectionality and the Construction of Humour in Contemporary Stand-up Comedy journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

Short piece with @JamesKneale & Vallu for Points summarising & expanding arguments we made in our paper for European Journal of Cultural Studies (EJCS) w/ some personal family history The Desi Pub: postcolonial, anti-racist histories of ‘the British pub’ pointshistory.org/post/the-desi-…

New Pub alert -- 'The music business case for diversity: Multiculturalism, pop music and the 1990s,' in European Journal of Cultural Studies (EJCS)! Looked at the role of "multiculturalism" in how the music biz marketed (and the world received) Lauryn Hill, Whitney Houston & Santana journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…