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This is also a call to scholars:
Pop culture isn’t trivial.
It’s a political terrain, and we need methods that treat it with the complexity it deserves.
Pop culture isn’t trivial.
It’s a political terrain, and we need methods that treat it with the complexity it deserves.
March 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This is also a call to scholars:
Pop culture isn’t trivial.
It’s a political terrain, and we need methods that treat it with the complexity it deserves.
Pop culture isn’t trivial.
It’s a political terrain, and we need methods that treat it with the complexity it deserves.
If we want to understand the Right’s appeal, especially among women, young people, and people of color, we can’t ignore the TikToks, Spotify playlists, and YouTube rabbit holes.
March 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
If we want to understand the Right’s appeal, especially among women, young people, and people of color, we can’t ignore the TikToks, Spotify playlists, and YouTube rabbit holes.
We make the case for using interpretive methods, like ethnography, narrative, and media analysis, to make sense of how culture shapes far-right politics. Especially how it mobilizes people through emotion and identity.
March 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
We make the case for using interpretive methods, like ethnography, narrative, and media analysis, to make sense of how culture shapes far-right politics. Especially how it mobilizes people through emotion and identity.
This isn’t just about nostalgia.
It’s about creating new forms of belonging, rooted in race, gender, religion, and nationalism, through cultural consumption.
It’s about creating new forms of belonging, rooted in race, gender, religion, and nationalism, through cultural consumption.
March 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This isn’t just about nostalgia.
It’s about creating new forms of belonging, rooted in race, gender, religion, and nationalism, through cultural consumption.
It’s about creating new forms of belonging, rooted in race, gender, religion, and nationalism, through cultural consumption.
Conservatives have long used pop culture to craft political identities. Think: Reagan’s cowboy persona or MAGA memes online.
But today’s Right increasingly blurs politics and culture into one aesthetic project.
But today’s Right increasingly blurs politics and culture into one aesthetic project.
March 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Conservatives have long used pop culture to craft political identities. Think: Reagan’s cowboy persona or MAGA memes online.
But today’s Right increasingly blurs politics and culture into one aesthetic project.
But today’s Right increasingly blurs politics and culture into one aesthetic project.
In our new @politicsgenderj.bsky.social article, we argue that right-wing politics aren’t just shaped by policy—they’re deeply cultural. And to study them, we need to take pop culture seriously.
March 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
In our new @politicsgenderj.bsky.social article, we argue that right-wing politics aren’t just shaped by policy—they’re deeply cultural. And to study them, we need to take pop culture seriously.
In "Pop Culture and the Evolving Politics of the Right", my coauthor and I demonstrate how interpretive analysis of pop culture and media allow for a deeper understanding of gender and race in right-wing politics. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Pop Culture and the Evolving Politics of the Right: The Potential of Interpretive Methods for Studying Gender, Race, and Politics | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core
Pop Culture and the Evolving Politics of the Right: The Potential of Interpretive Methods for Studying Gender, Race, and Politics
www.cambridge.org
March 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
In "Pop Culture and the Evolving Politics of the Right", my coauthor and I demonstrate how interpretive analysis of pop culture and media allow for a deeper understanding of gender and race in right-wing politics. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...