Emily Shuman
@eqshuman.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies (Radboud University, Nijmegen); contemporary popular music, media, and visual cultures
But wow, a disturbingly absurd reminder that, "The meaning of a cultural form and its place or position in the cultural field is not inscribed inside its form. Nor is its position fixed once and forever."
June 15, 2025 at 9:47 AM
But wow, a disturbingly absurd reminder that, "The meaning of a cultural form and its place or position in the cultural field is not inscribed inside its form. Nor is its position fixed once and forever."
I spend a lot of time arguing that pop culture aesthetics matter (still very much believe that they do, including in the battle for strategic positions in the cultural field)...
June 15, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I spend a lot of time arguing that pop culture aesthetics matter (still very much believe that they do, including in the battle for strategic positions in the cultural field)...
You can preorder it here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Criminalizing the Casbahs by Danielle Beaujon | Paperback | Cornell University Press
Criminalizing the Casbahs explores how French police officers in Marseille and Algiers associated the spaces they saw as North African—the "Casbahs"—with a particular form of criminality, one they...
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
May 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
You can preorder it here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
And in the course "Culture and Power", students explored the neocolonial dynamics at play in France's restitution of looted artworks through Mati Diop's Dahomey
February 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
And in the course "Culture and Power", students explored the neocolonial dynamics at play in France's restitution of looted artworks through Mati Diop's Dahomey