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In our concluding post for Volume 39, Issue 5 of Cultural Studies—a special issue on the topic of “Cultures of Water: Heritage, Environment and Society”—we would like to once more share with you the cover artwork of this issue: “Agriculture Is Fruitful” by Job Olego Anomet.
November 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Volume 39, Issue 5 of Cultural Studies includes six book reviews. We would like to feature the concluding three today, written by Haniyeh Pasandi, Raphaela Pavlakos, and Rosie Nguyen. Learn more about each their book reviews below:
November 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Volume 39, Issue 5 of Cultural Studies includes six book reviews, and we would like to feature the first three today, written by Mattie Hamilton, Vivien J. Bediako, and Skyler Meeks. Learn more about each their book reviews below:
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“The Historical Uses of the Oceans: The Anthropocene in the First Global Age (1500–1800)?” by Amélia Polónia is the seventh and final article in Volume 39, Issue 5, a special issue on the theme of “Cultures of Water: Heritage, Environment and Society": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Ana Gago and Diogo Marques’ article “‘MOIRA: (Re)Making Algarve’s Culture(s) of Water Through Mixed Media Arts” is the sixth article featured in Volume 39, Issue 5, a special issue on the topic of “Cultures of Water: Heritage, Environment and Society": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
“The Use of Historical Ponds in Political Campaigns in the Czech Republic” by Michal Vokurka is the fifth article in Volume 39, Issue 5, a special issue on the theme of Cultures of Water: Heritage, Environment and Society.  Subscribers can read the article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The second open access article featured from Volume 39, Issue 5 of Cultural Studies—a special issue on “Cultures of Water: Heritage, Environment and Society”—is “Siren Call of the Sea: Disenchantment and Estrangement of Seafarers” by Johanna Markkula: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The third article in Issue 39.5— a special issue on “Cultures of Water: Heritage, Environment and Society”—is António Ferreira’s “The Predicaments of Craftsmanship in the Knowledge Economy: The Rise and Fall of Caminha’s Boatyards in Caminha, Portugal": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
“Matching and Mismatching Times in the Fisheries of South Brittany. Crises in Marine Ecosystems as Seen Through the Lens of Architecture, 1887–1927” by André Tavares & Alice Nouvet is the second article featured in Issue 39.5, a special issue on “Cultures of Water: Heritage, Environment and Society”
October 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
The first article in Volume 39, Issue 5 of Cultural Studies—a special issue on “Cultures of Water: Heritage, Environment and Society”—was provided by the guest editors of this issue: Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld, Ana Clara Roberti, Bruno Lopes, and Gisele C. Conceição.
October 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Volume 39, Issue 5 of Cultural Studies is a special issue guest edited by Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld, Ana Clara Roberti, Bruno Lopes, and Gisele C. Conceição on the theme of “Cultures of Water: Heritage, Environment and Society”: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcus20/3...
October 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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September 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
In our concluding post for Volume 39, Issue 4 of Cultural Studies, we would like to share with you once more the cover artwork for this issue: “Imagine” by Rosy Cortez.
 
Her artist bio begins: “Rosy Cortez (she/her) is a Chicana oil painter and muralist based in Riverside, CA."
September 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
“NFTs and the Financialization of Art” by Barbara Jenkins is the seventh and final article included in Volume 39, Issue 4 of Cultural Studies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Roberto Filippello’s article “‘Starved for Pleasure’: The Fashion Magazine as a Desirous Queer Archive” is the fourth open access article and sixth article overall featured in Volume 39, Issue 4 of Cultural Studies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
“Reading Patterns: Dressmaking Sections in Women’s Magazines in the 1960s and 1970s” by Gunilla Törnvall is the fifth article overall and third open access article in Volume 39, Issue 4. Read the full text here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The next article we would like to feature is “Uncovering the Uncoverers: Identity, Performativity and Representation in Counter-Disinformation Discourse" by Stephen C. Hutchings. This article is the second open access article and fourth overall in Issue 39.4: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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New pub: @culturalstudies.bsky.social has just posted the interview that @imreszeman.bsky.social and I did with Andreas Malm re: Fossil Capital, the development of his thought, and plenty more. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....
September 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
"Repressive Suspicion, or: The Problem with Conspiracy Theories”—the third article featured in Volume 39, Issue 4 by Philip R. Conway—is an open access contribution, so we invite all interested to read Conway’s work: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
"The Weather Proxy: The Racial Technics of Algorithmic Surveillance” by Gary Kafer is the second article featured in Volume 39, Issue 4. Cultural Studies subscribers can read the full article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The first article in Volume 39, Issue 4 is John Lowe’s contribution, “Militarized Granularity: Sand’s Making of Men and Masculinity in Singapore," which subscribers to Cultural Studies can read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Over the next few weeks as many universities enter the new semester, we will be sharing information about Volume 39, Issue 4 (July/August) of Cultural Studies with you: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcus20/3... . There are seven articles in this issue, four of which are open access and available to all.
August 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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"Black Mediterranean hauntings: border violence, burial & anti-racist care work in Strange Fish"

recognizing death at sea as not strictly a migration issue but quotidian reality entangled in Qs of labor & social justice
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Black Mediterranean hauntings: border violence, burial, and anti-racist care work in Strange Fish
This article explores forms of haunting that shape lives and livelihoods in the Mediterranean, recognising the sea as a site of movement, labour, and death. The Mediterranean is now widely understo...
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August 3, 2025 at 7:25 AM
In our concluding post for Volume 39, Issue 3 of Cultural Studies—a special issue on “Rethinking the Commons in Hard Times”—we would like to share with you once more the cover artwork for this issue: “Climate Anxiety” by Stephanie Singleton (@stephaniesing on Instagram).
July 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
We would like to thank Husseina Ahmed, Saibu Mutaru, Tejas Harad, and Roxana Mika Muenster for their book review contributions to Volume 39, Issue 3 of Cultural Studies. Learn more about each their book reviews below:
July 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM