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European Journal of Cultural Studies is a major international peer-reviewed journal which has been publishing cultural studies scholarship for over 25 yrs. Read: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ecs Follow: https://www.instagram.com/ejcs_journal/

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European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social · Nov 20

The European Journal of Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary platform for charting new questions and new research – and we are very much looking forward to sharing and discussing #culturalstudies with you here ✨

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European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social · 9d

In "A plea for promiscuous creativity", Jeroen de Kloet employs the notion of promiscuity to emphasise creativity’s collaborative relationality and move beyond its anthropocentric underpinnings. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social · 11d

In "Space invading at the museum", @siobhan.bsky.social claims that networks of collective action and solidarity remain essential in the museum sector if ‘space invading’ is to continue being a productive act of dissent. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social · 13d

In "Preface: Space Invaders revisited", Jo Littler and Anamik Saha introduce the special issue dedicated to Nirmal Puwar's monumental book. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social · 15d

Anila Anandan and Shyamkiran Kaur reviewed Åsa Johannesson's 'Queer Methodology for Photography' for us. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social · 21d

In "Investment obligations for global streamers as a wind of hope for the peripheral markets in Europe", Ivana Kostovska et al. analyse effects of investment obligations for transnational streamers as policy measures in Croatia and Poland. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social · 23d

In "Rogue readings of a flashpoint moment: The double-edged sword of Adolescence", Debbie Ging and Catherine R. Baker argue that 'Adolescence' inadvertently operates in the service of anti-progressive agendas. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social · 24d

Annelot Prins reviewed Briony Hannell's "Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr" for us. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social · 26d

In "‘Adolescence’, manufactured outrage and instructed victimhood: How the discourse on boys’ alienation is fuelled by anti-feminist agendas", Steven Roberts et al. advocate for relational and ethical understandings of masculinity. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social · 27d

In "Sound, power and participation: A conversation on the aurality of the House of Commons", @duncanwhitley.bsky.social explores how the sounding cultures of the House of Commons affect whose voices are heard. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social · 29d

In "Man enough to kill, boy enough to cry: Liminality and irresolvability in Adolescence", Kathryn Claire Higgins (@kat-hig.bsky.social) considers the television show Adolescence, using the show’s title as an entry point for analysis and critique. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social · Sep 7

In "International media production, shooting locations, and illiberal spatial projects", Timothy Havens examines international media production in Budapest (HU) to think through the intersections of film/television locations and spatial politics. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social · Sep 5

In "Haunted spaces and unsettling predicaments: An interrogation of (capitalist) sport via the work of Mark Fisher", Jack Black, Jim Cherrington and Samuel M. Clevenger critically interrogate contemporary manifestations of capitalist sport. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social · Sep 3

In "Navigating privilege and precarity: A reflexive inquiry into identity, academia, and Indian media industries", Smith Mehta (@mediaindustries.bsky.social) explores the interplay of identity, privilege, and precarity in academic research. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social · Aug 25

In "‘As I get older, I am more and more comfortable in myself’", Sanna Kivimäki and Kirsi Lumme-Sandt provide an overview of understandings of older age and gender in the Finnish 50 + magazine ET from the 1970s to the 2010s. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social · Aug 25

In "Rethinking polysemy and negotiated reading of gender representation in television dramas", @ozanmask.bsky.social and Selinay Yılmazer Öcal explore how viewers engage with the diverse and conflicting meanings presented in television dramas. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social · Aug 23

In "‘He should’ve killed your ass’: Notes on Black women deserving death in the Black manosphere", Danielle Procope Bell argues that acknowledging the existence of the Black manosphere is important to combat violence against Black girls and women. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social · Aug 21

In "The significance of place in book publishing: Insights from community publishing in regional Australia", Beth Driscoll et al. demonstrate how researching local places and community publishing reveals a new story of the future of the book. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social · Aug 19

In "The racial optics of crisis: Racialized innocence and the politics of care in adolescence", @capableheart.bsky.social argues that Adolescence depends on the racial legibility of both its perpetrator and his victim. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social · Aug 17

In "Manosphere creep: Emotional and hermeneutic labour in Netflix's Adolescence", Meaghan Furlano examines the depiction of emotional and hermeneutic labour in the Netflix series Adolescence. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social · Aug 15

In "The economic logic of right-wing populism in the culture industry", Rico Isaacs demonstrates the importance of focusing on cultural sites in explaining contemporary shifts towards right-wing populism and conspiratorial discourse. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social · Aug 13

In "A care continuum", Daren Shi-Chi Leung examines Hong Kong’s food waste management through the concept of a ‘care continuum’ that spans from technologically-driven governance to community-embedded practices. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social · Aug 11

In "‘Were they nice people? Were they asking good questions?’", Esperanza Herrero tries to recover some of the alternative approaches and epistemic practices in the history of the field of communication. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social · Aug 9

In "Silver-haired heroines", Femke de Sutter examines the tropes used to portray older women in popular Belgian fiction films from 1945 to 2022 through qualitative content analysis. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social · Aug 7

In "Meme-ing while the world burns", Benjamin Litherland and Rachel Wood make a case for the value and urgency of a cultural study’s contextual approach to researching how climate change news events are interpreted by audiences. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social · Aug 5

In "Art in hospitals: The aesthetic-cultural turn of caring space", Eric Fan Feng demonstrates how hospital artworks reveal today’s caring space’s aesthetic and cultural transformation. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....