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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.

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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 ✨
In "‘Show me your phone!’" @bltergin.bsky.social and Başak Can make a call for theorizing global neoliberal populisms through ordinary citizens’ affective and networked performances around everyday objects. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
November 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM
In "Hermann Bausinger (1926–2021): An appreciation", David Morley celebrates Bausinger's analyses of the interfaces of ritual, science and magic. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
November 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
In "‘More safeguarded and among friends’: Negotiating platformised (in)visibility in feminist Instagram Stories" @sofiapcaldeira.bsky.social explores ambivalent perceptions and relationships with the notion of platformised (in)visibility. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
October 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
In "Disruption and resistance in sonic spaces", June Reid interviews DJ Chillz to consider what it means to be a Black female DJ. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
October 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Kyle Barnett reviewed Carolyn Birdsall's 'Radiophilia' and Elodie Roy's 'Shellac in Visual and Sonic Culture' for us. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
October 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
In "#Cuéntalo [#TellIt]", @fionafnoble.bsky.social argues that contemporary Spanish television and streaming is a vital site for the articulation of new modes of feminist engagement and expression. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
October 15, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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....
September 29, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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....
September 27, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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/...
September 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Anila Anandan and Shyamkiran Kaur reviewed Åsa Johannesson's 'Queer Methodology for Photography' for us. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
September 23, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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....
September 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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....
September 15, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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....
September 14, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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....
September 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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....
September 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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....
September 9, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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....
September 7, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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....
September 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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....
September 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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/...
August 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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....
August 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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....
August 23, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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....
August 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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....
August 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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....
August 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM