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Journal of @The_CSA_US Peer-reviewed and open access, published semiannually #culturalstudies #racism #capitalism #sexuality #gender #ability #colonialism
Joined March 2020
Inside our latest issue (12.2) -cultural studies toward a free Palestine -craft, ritual & music in precolonial South Africa -analysis of video from Jan 6 US Capitol riot -gig work in 1970s Singapore -Towards Third Worlding forum -Positions podcast ep. 2 https://t.co/5wT5vImoMO
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Episode 3 of @LateralJournal #PositionsPodcast features The World as Abyss authors @jonnypugh1974 and @DavidCh27992090. Listen now at https://t.co/YTuc9IUB82 and on Spotify and Apple Podcasts! @The_CSA_US
#anthropocene
#Caribbean
#criticalthought
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Andrew Culp and Cultural Studies Association’s Black and Race Studies Working Group Co-Host Shauna Rigaud discuss The World as Abyss: The Caribbean and Critical Thought in the Anthropocene (Univers...
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It’s no secret that I am pretty damn cringeworthy, but being perceived as “cringe” is a pretty common crip experience. In “Cringe Theory,” for @LateralJournal, I offer some language for why that is. As always, I spilled my heart for this one 🖤 https://t.co/DJksCrgntU
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Cringe theory is a framework intended to make sense of cringe as a cultural and political phenomenon that has come to condition how disability is understood in the contemporary American public...
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We're seeking book reviewers for a wide range of recent titles. If you're interested, please see the list and sign up at
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New #PositionsPodcast episode featuring @jonnypugh1974 and @DavidCh27992090, “The World as Abyss,” is now live on @LateralJournal and Spotify and Apple Podcasts! #CSA2024 #EXPAND2024 Listen and read commentary by Richard T. Stafford: https://t.co/tASG5XPEkt
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Heather Davis's Plastic Matter (@DukePress) sheds light on the implications of plastic's synthetic universality, inviting readers to reflect critically on their relationship with plastic material and also with matter more generally, writes Chayene Wild
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Heather Davis's Plastic Matter sheds light on the implications of plastic's synthetic universality, inviting readers to reflect critically on their relationship with plastic material and also with...
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In Feels Right (@DukePress), Kemi Adeyemi shows how Black queer women’s moves on the dance floor reveal, navigate, bend, and upset entanglements that overdetermine their rights to feel, to belong, and to take place in the city, writes Naz Oktay
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Following the movements of Black queer women on queer dance floors in Chicago, Kemi Adeyemi shows how race, feeling, and the geography of the neoliberal city are spatially entangled. Black queer...
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Sampada Aranke’s Death’s Futurity (@DukePress) centers generative politics of fugitivity & futurity while directing readers to “politicized looking,” turning state-sanctioned violence & repression into galvanizing moments of action, writes @jennamwilson1
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Sampada Aranke’s Death’s Futurity: The Visual Life of Black Power begins by insisting on the importance of visual culture to the Black Panther Party’s platform before exploring the Party’s use of...
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In Passionate Work (@DukePress), @HongRenyi argues that passion at work is an affective structure perpetuated by capitalism to maintain its injustices and discipline workers
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In Passionate Work, Hong argues that passion at work is an affective structure perpetuated by capitalism to maintain its injustices and discipline workers. Examining historical managerial texts and...
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In her second book, Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Social Media’s Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property (@DukePress), Minh-ha T. Pham continues her examination of fashion’s digital labors, by analyzing crowdsourced intellectual property regulation
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In her second book, Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Social Media’s Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property, Minh-ha T. Pham continues her examination of fashion’s digital labors, by analyzing what...
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Renyi Hong & Zachary Mun Wei Chan explore the gendered nature of gig culture and how a taxi workers' cooperative created possibilities and restraints for working-class Singaporeans in and beyond the 1970s
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Against the scholarly emphasis on precariousness, this article focuses on how gig work in 1970s Singapore was developed with the specific vision of enabling life for the working-class Singaporean...
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Co-authors James N. Gilmore, Madeline Hamer, Valerie Erazo, and Patrick Hayes return to January 6, 2021, examining how affect and social media help to cultivate and disseminate extremist political views
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This article analyzes videos shared during the United States Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, where supporters of then-President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol Building in an attempt to disrupt...
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The CSA invites proposals on all topics relevant to cultural studies, with priority given to those that engage this year's theme of “Expansions" Deadline for Submissions: Sunday, February 11, 2024 11:59pm EST
2024 Cultural Studies Association (CSA) Annual Conference: Expansions May 30 - June 1, 2024 Online and in-person, hosted by The Cultural Studies Association & Georgia Southern University, Armstrong Campus in Savannah, Georgia, USA https://t.co/FH9nwEEGq2
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Thokozani N Mhlambi analyzes craft specializations in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) in relation to cultural and ritual repertoires that predate European colonialism, offering a wider regional and continental history that can inform African identities today
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This article tracks my intellectual journey in trying to understand the role played by craft specializations before the colonial era in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), which is the area where I come...
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Responding to Palestinian organizers’ calls to use our voice, continue to engage in conversations, and to speak out, this statement articulates what we see as the abolitionist and anti-colonial way forward—the only way we can commit to a #FreePalestine
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Responding to Palestinian organizers' calls to use our voice, continue to engage in conversations, and to speak out, this statement articulates what we see as the abolitionist and anti-colonial way...
Inside our latest issue (12.2) -cultural studies toward a free Palestine -craft, ritual & music in precolonial South Africa -analysis of video from Jan 6 US Capitol riot -gig work in 1970s Singapore -Towards Third Worlding forum -Positions podcast ep. 2 https://t.co/5wT5vImoMO
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Brave and powerful editors’ introduction in this issue of @lateraljournal, foregrounding a twin commitment to #abolition and anti-colonial praxis as the bedrock of the work of cultural studies. Take heart and breath! And read: "Cultural Studies toward a Free #Palestine”
Inside our latest issue (12.2) -cultural studies toward a free Palestine -craft, ritual & music in precolonial South Africa -analysis of video from Jan 6 US Capitol riot -gig work in 1970s Singapore -Towards Third Worlding forum -Positions podcast ep. 2 https://t.co/5wT5vImoMO
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Ben Davis’ Art in the After-Culture (@haymarketbooks) pushes against exploitative capitalist systems and ambitions towards decentralization, advocating for creative practitioners to strategically influence the direction of society
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The eight essays in Ben Davis’ Art in the After-Culture are centered on the interchanges between cultural production and economic development in contemporary society. Largely told through the lens of...
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