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Paul Bowman

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Professor of Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. Founding Editor of Martial Arts Studies. Author of books on cultural theory, Bruce Lee, Rey Chow, orientalism, film, media & physical culture. Recovering martial arts addict. CV: http://bit.ly/4mrJE1C .. more

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Paul Bowman is a British academic specialising in cultural and media studies. He is a Professor of Cultural Studies and Deputy Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University. .. more

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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 2d

What a clegg-nut!

Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 2d

I'm old. Just signed a contract to write a textbook. I've written a dozen books before - research monographs. But I've never had the audacity to think I could write about an entire field. But now I have. Check back in 12 months for info on "The East in Western Media: A Critical Introduction".

Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 4d

New article: my response to Peter Katz's connection of karate, self-defence & fascism. In my response, I connect fascism to Donald Trump (quelle surprise!), masculine BS, the film 'Nobody' & 'A History of Violence', among a few other things.
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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 4d

Lecture

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Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media and Culture @cujournmedcul.bsky.social · 4d

📣New open-access article from Dr Galina Miazhevich which introduces the notion of post-Soviet post-feminism (PSPF), highlighting its dimensions and unpicking points of tension and ambivalence 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Russian ‘De/Fault’ Feminism, or the Phenomenon of Post-Soviet Post-Feminism

Russian feminism remains undertheorised and overlooked by international scholarship, partially reflecting the (post-)colonial hierarchies of knowledge production. This article introduces the notion...

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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 5d

I hear the next spin off of Narcos is called Bezos
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Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 5d

@danhf.bsky.social That is a very sensible decision. It is now, has always been and will forever be a huge wobbling studio set of twee British children’s telly tedium

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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 9d

Holy Shit. Gilead is coming

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Children’s literature professor fired by Texas university over ‘gender’ content

Texas A&M also removes two senior administrators from roles after student’s video sparked Republican pressure

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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 11d

Brilliant stuff from Conor Heffernan @physcstudy.bsky.social on “expertise creep” and platform authority

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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 12d

Trump is a cheap conjuror. His words are the distractions. The media looks where he says to look. Then he pulls fascism out of a hat.
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The week in Trump absurdities: from Turkey’s ‘rigged elections’ to ‘your countries are going to hell’

The president, in five days, has claimed Tylenol causes autism, he was sabotaged at the UN and pronounced his rivals ‘guilty as hell’

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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 12d

And then the man who made up lies about the Mayor of London puts soldiers on evermore city streets in his country

Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 14d

All power has thick walls. All power insulates from reality. Absolute power – absolute loss of reality. - Lindqvist

Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 14d

That would be what we call “Saturday”. Just wait till you work out what a “Sunday” is for.

Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 15d

News just in: Tommy Robinson seen feeding swans to Nigel Farage! Then they wrestled naked on the swans’ carcasses and laughed about tax avoidance and how morality is now a one-way street. Them’s the facts, as I’ve heard them, from reliable sources.

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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 15d

Here's the abstract for a talk I'm giving on 12th November: 'Can the Bodybuilder Speak?'

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Can the Bodybuilder Speak?

Can the Bodybuilder Speak? Research Seminar – School of Journalism, Media and Culture – Cardiff University – 12 Nov 2025 Paul Bowman The ste...

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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 16d

I was asked to make a short video on research methods. Here it is. May Reviewer 2 choke on it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqkx...

Introduction to Approaching Media Research

YouTube video by Paul Bowman

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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 17d

Nuff for-profit network thingies. I've resurrected an old blog.

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Cultural Studies

Ideas, Speculations, Drafts, Works in Progress, and stuff like that, by some professor of cultural studies or other

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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 17d

I honestly think that this, most of what is going on in the world, and most of what goes on in and around martial arts and combat sports in general, should be analysed through the lens provided by Klaus Theweleit in his epic 2 volume study, 'Male Fantasies'.

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Eric Shmeric @ericdienstfrey.bsky.social · 17d

OMG