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Cultural Studies is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published bi-monthly by Routledge. Editor-in-Chief: Ted Striphas, University of Colorado Boulder, USA

10/03/2024

"A New Model of Distilling Religion: Culturalization as Marginality," written by Mariam Goshadze, is the second article featured in the current special issue on "The Future of Religious Pasts: Religion and Cultural Heritage-Making in a Secular Age."

Godshadze's article is also the second open access article featured in Volume 38, Issue 5, meaning it is available to read by all regardless of your current Cultural Studies subscription status.

Here is the full abstract:
"The culturalization of religion has received considerable scholarly attention in recent years as a compelling restatement of religion in the secular public sphere. Existing research has focused primarily on Western contexts where Christianity, as the dominant religion, is relabelled as culture in order to sanction its continued presence in the secular and multi-religious public sphere. Building on the treatment of non-majority religions in postcolonial contexts, particularly in contemporary Ghana, the article proposes a second model of culturalization in which non-dominant religions undergo culturalization as a sign of marginalisation, restriction, and exclusion. The model of culturalization adopted, the article argues, is determined by the presumed compatibility of the given religious tradition with a specific understanding of ‘modernity’. Looking at culturalization as a form of marginality adds much-needed regional and thematic breadth to the ongoing discussion, as it allows for moving beyond the mostly Western Christian framework to include post-colonial and post-imperial contexts."

The full, open access text for "A New Model of Distilling Religion: Culturalization as Marginality" can be read here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09502386.2024.2363189

If you are intrigued by this article—complemented by the open-access introduction by Marian Burchardt and Nur Yasemin Ural, which you can find at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09502386.2024.2363200 —we would encourage you to consider reading through the rest of this special issue.

We will also be sharing more about the remaining six article contributions in the next few weeks and invite you to continue following along.

10/01/2024

In addition to editing this special issue, Dr. Marian Burchardt and Dr. Nur Yasemin Ural also collaboratively authored the opening article: "The Future of Religious Pasts: Religion and Cultural Heritage-Making in a Secular Age – Introduction."

Their contribution is the first of four open access articles in Volume 38, Issue 5—so regardless of your current subscription status to Cultural Studies, we would like to invite you to learn more about what you can find in this special issue through Burchardt and Yasemin Ural's introduction.

Here is the full abstract:
"The question of how to symbolize collective identities in an age marked by both nationalist fervor and diversity politics has dominated public debates and highlighted the political role of religion. But what happens to religious objects, sites, and practices when they are framed as cultural heritage? What are the forces behind the ways in which religion is drawn into the dynamics around cultural heritage and heritage-making in secular societies? And why and how do some religious places become iconic sites of cultural heritage, arousing both national sentiments and global concerns? In this article, we explore the complex politics around religion and cultural heritage and scrutinize how they intersect with processes of secularization, and regimes of diversity and secularism. We argue that there is a growing tendency in contemporary societies to culturalize religion, suggesting that the framing of collective heritage is closely linked to what counts as religion and as culture in everyday life and in official discourse. We theorize this dynamic through the concept of ‘heritage religion’ and contend that it offers a distinctive material perspective on the culturalisation of religion. Drawing on Durkheim, we point out how processes of religious heritage-making produce new forms of sacredness."

The full text for this open access introduction to this special issue on "The Future of Religious Pasts: Religion and Cultural Heritage-Making in a Secular Age" can be found here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09502386.2024.2363200

We look forward to sharing more about the following seven articles in the coming weeks.

09/25/2024

Frederic Jameson (1934-2024) may not have identified with cultural studies, but his ideas, teachings, and voluminous writings were certainly adjacent. He's left an indelible mark on both this journal and the broader field. Thank you, Fred. Here's his 1993 review of the Cultural Studies "doorstop" for anyone interested | https://www.jstor.org/stable/466353

09/19/2024

Volume 38, Issue 5 of Cultural Studies is a special issue on "The Future of Religious Pasts: Religion and Cultural Heritage-Making in a Secular Age," edited by Dr. Marian Burchardt and Dr. Nur Yasemin Ural.

In the upcoming weeks, we will be sharing posts dedicated to each contribution that makes up this special issue—including the articles, book reviews, and cover art by Solange Roberdeau ().

Here are the eight articles you will find in Issue 5 and featured on our account in the coming weeks:
• "The Future of Religious Pasts: Religion and Cultural Heritage-Making in a Secular Age – Introduction" by editors Marian Burchardt and Nur Yasemin Ural
• "A New Model of Distilling Religion: Culturalization As Marginality" by Mariam Goshadze
• "Religion to Culture: Who Is the ‘Us’?" by Lori G. Beaman
• "Possessing and Being Possessed by the Past: On the Ambivalences of Heritage As Religious Return" by Simon Coleman and Evgenia Mesaritou
• "God’s Wealth, Legal Frames, and the Question of Material and Immaterial Heritage: The Case of Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerala, India" by Anindita Chakrabarti, Ayushi Dube, and Shriram Venkatraman
• "Performing Heritage at Cordoba’s Mosque-Cathedral" by Mar Griera, Avi Astor, and Marian Burchardt
• "The Matter of Home: Repurposed Churches, Heritage and Belonging in Amsterdam" by Daan Beekers
• "Cloned Buddhas: Mapping Out the DNA of Buddhist Heritage Preservation" by Paulina Kolata

We will also be sharing information about the five book reviews—contributed by Jackline F Kemigisa, Hannah L. Westwood, Amy Whiteside, Zakir Hussain, and Judith Fathallah—and the cover artwork by Solange Roberdeau.

The digital version of the current special issue and all of the listed articles above can be accessed here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcus20/38/5?nav=tocList ; physical editions should begin arriving in your mailboxes within the next month.

We would like to take a moment to thank Dr. Marian Burchardt and Dr. Nur Yasemin Ural for their collaborative work editing this issue, and we look forward to being able to dedicate some time and space on our account for each contribution in the coming weeks.

09/17/2024

Over the next few weeks, we will be doing a series of posts focused on Volume 38, Issue 5 of Cultural Studies, a special issue on "The Future of Religious Pasts: Religion and Cultural Heritage-Making in a Secular Age."

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We look forward to beginning our series of posts centered on Issue 5, a special issue on "The Future of Religious Pasts: Religion and Cultural Heritage-Making in a Secular Age."

In the meantime, thank you for already following us here and sharing this space on your social media feed with us.

09/10/2024

In our concluding post related to Volume 38, Issue 4 of Cultural Studies, we would like to share with you once more the cover artwork for this issue: "Grenville Car Park" by Elizabeth Lander ( ). Lander describes herself as: “Born and raised on the small island of Grenada. Her work is inspired by architecture, culture and travel. She would describe her style as documentary image making."

Lander shares more about this artwork: "Her piece ‘Grenville Car Park’ was done during Covid lockdowns in Grenada where locals purchased and sold essentials in large open spaces. This Car Park is a landmark to the town and known more for its commercial purposes and events."

If you would like to see more of Elizabeth Lander's art, you can find her on Instagram at or visit her website at www.elizabethlander.com.

We would like to thank the artist for preserving and sharing the everyday life of this moment in time with us, immersing us in an environment illustrated with detailed watercolor textures. Thank you to Elizabeth Lander for allowing us to use this piece as the cover artwork for Volume 38, Issue 4; we are truly honored.

All print copies of Volume 38, Issue 4, featuring Lander's cover artwork, should have been delivered by now; if you have not received yours, please file a claim at https://help.tandfonline.com/s/contactsupport —including your full name, address, and customer account and/or order number—as well as information about the issue you are missing (Cultural Studies, 2024, Volume 38, Issue 4).

Thank you for allowing us to share Issue 4 with you over these past few weeks. We hope you will continue to follow along as we pivot to Issue 5, a special issue on "The Future of Religious Pasts: Religion and Cultural Heritage-Making in a Secular Age."

09/05/2024

There are five book reviews included in Volume 38, Issue 4 of Cultural Studies. This post is the second of two dedicated to showcasing these book reviews, concluding with:

4) Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz's review titled, "Disillusionment in Post-Punk Leeds," reviewing 'No Machos or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk' by Gavin Butt: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09502386.2023.2230973

5) Rebekka Kiesewetter's review titled "The Community Forming Potential of Cartonera Publishing," reviewing 'Taking Form, Making Worlds: Cartonera Publishers in Latin America' by Lucy Bell, Alexander Ungprateeb Flynn, and Patrick O’Hare: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09502386.2023.2244507

An excerpt from the beginning of these two book reviews can be found in the corresponding images.

These two book reviews—along with the other three we shared earlier this week—can all be found in Issue 4 of Cultural Studies. Subscribers with online access can read the full issue here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcus20/38/4

You can find these book reviews in the print edition of Issue 4, specifically:
4) Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz's review "Disillusionment in Post-Punk Leeds" on pages 704-707
5) Rebekka Kiesewetter's review "The Community Forming Potential of Cartonera Publishing" on pages 707-711

We would like to thank Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz, Rebekka Kiesewetter, and the three other scholars who wrote book reviews—Michael Richardson, Darren Berkland, and Qin Qin—for their contributions to Volume 38, Issue 4 of Cultural Studies.

We will be spotlighting the cover artwork for Issue 4 next week before transitioning into sharing about Issue 5 in the following weeks. Thank you for following along.

09/03/2024

There are five book reviews included in Volume 38, Issue 4 of Cultural Studies. This post is the first of two dedicated to showcasing these book reviews, beginning with:

1) Michael Richardson's review titled, "From the Archives of Drone Failure," reviewing 'Unmanning: How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare,' edited by Katherine Chandler: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09502386.2021.1905676

2) Darren Berkland's review titled, "The New Profiling Landscape," reviewing 'The Triumph of Profiling: The Self in Digital Culture' by Andreas Bernard: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09502386.2021.1905677

3) Qin Qin's review titled, "Female Leaders in Japan," reviewing 'From Historical Dimensions to Abenomics: Japanese Women in Leadership,' edited by Yoshie Tomozumi Nakamura, Mayuko Horimoto, and Gary N. McLean: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09502386.2023.2217823

An excerpt from the beginning of each book review can be found in the corresponding images.

You can also find these book reviews in the print edition of Issue 4, specifically:
1) Richardson's review "From the Archives of Drone Failure" on pages 697-699
2) Berkland's review "The New Profiling Landscape" on pages 699-701
3) Qin's review "Female Leaders in Japan" on pages 702-704

We will be sharing another post with two additional book reviews later this week; in the meantime, we would like to thank Michael Richardson, Darren Berkland, and Qin Qin for their book review contributions to Volume 38, Issue 4 of Cultural Studies.

08/31/2024

"Being Water: Protest Zines and the Politics of Care in Hong Kong" by Shui-yin Sharon Yam and Carissa Ma is the sixth and final article in Volume 38, Issue 4 of Cultural Studies.

Here is the abstract for "Being Water":
"During the 2019 Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti-ELAB) protest, Hong Kong protesters invented, adapted, and deployed a variety of decentralized grassroots tactics of resistance. While understudied, the proliferation of protest zines during the Anti-ELAB movement contributed to an affective community among movement supporters and protesters, allowing them to engage in self- and communal care as they resisted state violence. We argue that protest zines foregrounded a grassroots community of care that encourages political change in the following ways: expand the emotional habitus among protesters and movement supporters to accommodate debilitating bad feelings; promote self-care and embodied emotional reflection as a form of resistance against state violence; contribute to voluntary kinship among protesters beyond the state-sanctioned nuclear family model; and articulate nuclear familial relations as a site of political resistance. By examining how protest zines articulate voluntary kinship among movement supporters, we illustrate how the zines challenge dominant paternalistic institutions to reimagine a more open political future."

Subscribers with online access to Cultural Studies can read "Being Water: Protest Zines and the Politics of Care in Hong Kong" here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09502386.2023.2191123

Those with print editions of Issue 4 can find this article on pages 668-696.

This post concludes our series about the articles from Volume 38, Issue 4. We will now shift the focus over the next two weeks, sharing information about the five book reviews included in Issue 4 and spotlighting the cover artwork. We hope you will continue to follow along.

08/29/2024

Congratulations to Isis Giraldo, recipient of this year's SHF x Cultural Studies Award. Giraldo's winning essay, ‘SoHo as virtual theatre: performing gender, race, and class in 21st-century Colombia,‘ was published in vol. 36, no. 1 (January 2022).

The award recognises articles by early career scholars that best capture or make the most significant contribution to Cultural Studies as Stuart Hall envisioned it, furthering Hall's interests, commitments and spirit as a political intellectual.

The awarding committee praised Giraldo's article for its theoretical boldness, liveliness and the range of illuminating observations it offers blending Colombian cultural politics with 'Hallian' cultural studies.

Learn more about the award and read Giraldo's article online - link in bio.

08/27/2024

Akane Kanai and Julia Coffey's article "Dissonance and Defensiveness: Orienting Affects in Online Feminist Cultures" is the third open access article included in Volume 38, Issue 4 of Cultural Studies and the fifth article overall.

Here is the abstract for Kanai and Coffey's article:
"Are there certain shared feelings that orient contemporary feminists? And what does it mean to feel like a feminist now, at a time when digital networks and media culture significantly shape the conditions for what feminism ‘is’ (Banet-Weiser 2018)? This paper considers how digital culture, as a crucial but potentially disorienting site of feminist encounter and contestation, may reshape norms of feminist feeling, and what feminist feeling is used to do. Feminists have long understood feeling as an ‘orienting device’ (Ahmed 2006) in the question of how subjects come to know the world and situate themselves in it. Feminism itself has been associated with a ‘willfulness’ creating dissident subjectivities moving against the grain of prevailing patriarchal gender norms. Following Ahmed’s q***r phenomenology where feeling is theorized as an ‘orientation’ towards objects, this paper considers how the affective infrastructures and dynamics of digital culture orient and draw boundaries for feminists along particular lines. We explore self-identifying feminists’ accounts of learning, interaction and deliberation as feminists within digital environments, suggesting that what it means to be feminist is significantly determined by what it means to feel feminist. While digital culture makes feminism more ‘accessible’ to many, we suggest that the commercialized architectures and rhythms of digital culture complicate and intensify the politics of emotion connected to differences and histories of power relations within feminism."

The open access status of Kanai and Coffey's article means that it can be read by all. If you would like to read "Dissonance and Defensiveness: Orienting Affects in Online Feminist Cultures," you can find the full text here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09502386.2023.2183971

Subscribers with print editions of Cultural Studies can find the article on pages 645-667.

08/22/2024

The fourth article featured in Volume 38, Issue 4 of Cultural Studies is "The Proliferation of Men’s Sheds in Australia: The Problematization of Masculinity in a Neoliberal Regime" by Leigh Boucher.

Here is the abstract for Boucher's article:
"Men’s sheds emerged in Australia with a promise to restore men to health and happiness through the provision of a gender-exclusive communal space and access to ‘traditional’ masculine activities. This article traces their emergence in order to examine how anti-feminist claims about the rights and needs of men have been yoked together with ideas about health and wellbeing in late modernity. Deploying Foucault’s concept of governmentality, moreover, reveals how community men’s sheds have both responded and contributed to the problematization of the ‘older man’ in a neoliberal regime. The history of their emergence and widespread support reveals how masculinity can function as a site of neoliberal intervention, responsibilization and privilege, particularly when viewed in contrast to the decline in funding and support for women’s services."

Subscribers with online access to Cultural Studies can read "The Proliferation of Men’s Sheds in Australia: The Problematization of Masculinity in a Neoliberal Regime" here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09502386.2023.2169731

Those with print editions of Issue 4 can find this article on pages 611-644.

08/20/2024

"‘This Is a Tale of Friendship, a Story of Togetherness’: The British Monarchy, Grenfell Tower, and Inequalities in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea" by Laura Clancy is the third article in Volume 38, Issue 3; it is the second of three open access articles featured in Issue 3, meaning it is available to all to read.

Here is the abstract for Clancy's article:
"The fire at Grenfell Tower, a block of public housing flats in The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, in June 2017 has come to epitomize the growing divide between Britain’s rich and poor in the last decade. Yet, the proximity of Kensington Palace, home of many senior British royals, has been almost entirely ignored in scholarship and commentary on the Grenfell Tower atrocity. This is especially remarkable given the philanthropic ‘work’ the monarchy has undertaken since the fire’s aftermath. This paper explores Together: Our Community Cookbook (The Hubb Community Kitchen. 2018. Together: Our community cookbook. London: Ebury Press), a cookbook released by Meghan Markle as part of her royal charitable ‘duties’, to raise money for The Hubb Community Kitchen – a group of women displaced in the fire, who prepared meals for survivors in the aftermath. The cookbook repeatedly emphasizes unity, collectivity and togetherness: the importance of a local community response to rehabilitate Grenfell survivors. By analysing the cultural politics of Together through radical contextualization, this paper argues that in releasing the cookbook, the British monarchy itself is incorporated into this narrative of community and recovery, which erases the classed and racialised inequalities between the monarchy and Grenfell survivors (and, indeed, those in similar socioeconomic positions). Fundamentally, the cookbook obscures the ongoing culpability of ‘the elites’ for the sociopolitical and socioeconomic inequalities experienced by citizens in Britain. Together evidences how inequalities in contemporary Britain are normalized and legitimized in the public imaginary through media representations, obscuring the structural inequalities that underpinned the conditions at Grenfell, and instead individualizing the survivors as ‘responsiblised’ neoliberal subjects."

This article is open access, so you can read the full text of "‘This Is a Tale of Friendship, a Story of Togetherness’: The British Monarchy, Grenfell Tower, and Inequalities in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea" here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09502386.2020.1863997

Subscribers who receive print editions of Cultural Studies can find this article on pages 588-610.

08/15/2024

"Policing the Borribles: Conjunctural Crisis and Moral Panic in Children’s Literature" by J. Macgregor Wise is the second article published in Volume 38, Issue 4 of Cultural Studies.

Here is the abstract for Wise's article:
"Michael de Larrabeiti’s controversial series of novels for youth (published in 1975, 1981, and 1986) about the Borribles, children who grow feral and live in anarchic communities in London, were influential for the urban fantasy genre. The novels describe a fictional fantasy subculture but nevertheless engage with issues of the rise of a law-and-order society in the U.K. in the 1970s and police harassment of black youth. Drawing from the work of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, the paper argues that the trilogy represents an imaginary political solution, grounded in anticapitalist, antiauthority, and antiracist ethics, to the conjunctural crisis of the 1970s and the rise of Thatcherism. The paper reads the structure of feeling of Borrible culture and argues how its narrative functions through a series of displacements to engage with racist police tactics, anarchist squats, and anticapitalist and antiwork ethics."

Subscribers with online access to Cultural Studies can read "Policing the Borribles: Conjunctural Crisis and Moral Panic in Children’s Literature" here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09502386.2022.2154816

Those with print editions of Issue 4 can find this article on pages 567-587.

Thank you for letting us share this article with you. In the upcoming weeks, we look forward to dedicating time toward the additional four articles, the five book reviews, and the cover art all featured in this issue.

08/13/2024

"Stories of Decolonial Resilience" by Kevin Glynn and Julie Cupples is the first article featured in Volume 38, Issue 4. It is an open access article, so we extend an invitation to current subscribers and all other followers to read this work by Glynn and Cupples.

Here is the abstract for "Stories of Decolonial Resilience":
"Many scholars, analysts and commentators have noted that the neoliberal conjuncture has seen the rise of a veritable explosion of discourses and theories of resilience. Some regard this discursive and narrative profusion as integral to the ongoing project of a neoliberal ‘worlding’ that seeks to reconfigure all aspects of human subjectivities and social relations. Meanwhile, the ongoing outpouring of neoliberal discourses and narratives of resilience is accompanied by the expansion of disasterscapes across the planet as we speed apparently toward what the Caribbean scholar Sylvia Wynter calls an ‘unparalleled catastrophe for our species’. Some of these expanding disasterscapes are emerging across the terrain of a five-hundred-year history of genocidal and appropriative colonial practices. The people and communities inhabiting these disasterscapes have been struggling to develop counter-praxes of collective cultural resilience and survival in the face of the many catastrophes wrought over the centuries by coloniality. We turn to Wynter’s concept of homo narrans to examine Indigenous praxes for the performative enactment of alternative genres of the human that contest the worlding of neoliberal discourses and apparatuses of resilience. Wynter’s contributions to the de-universalization and thus relativization of Eurocentric ‘Man’ aim to make the present proliferation of the genres of humanity, our storytelling species, culturally intelligible in ways that might not only undercut the work done by neoliberal discourses of resilience toward the production of disastrous consequences in places like Guatemala and the obliteration of our capacities to imagine the world otherwise, but perhaps even ward off the potentially impending ‘unparalleled catastrophe for our species’. This paper draws on our ongoing research in Guatemala, which involves Indigenous and poor ladino survivors of the 2018 eruption of the Fuego Volcano, as well as survivors of the 2005 landslide that followed Hurricane Stan."

The full open access article can be found here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09502386.2022.2144398

Subscribers who receive print editions of Cultural Studies can find "Stories of Decolonial Resilience" on pages 537-566 in Issue 4.

We look forward to sharing more information with you about the articles following this one in Issue 4 throughout the coming weeks.

08/08/2024

Did you know that Cultural Studies regularly posts to most of the leading social media platforms?

In today's scattered social media landscape, we want to make it as simple and straightforward as possible to stay up-to-date with Cultural Studies. That's why we consistently share our posts across Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, and LinkedIn—and we would like to invite you to follow us wherever else you might be.

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Regardless of what platform(s) you follow us on, we strive to keep you informed about both current and past issues of Cultural Studies, to share information about featured articles on salient topics that resonate today, and to update you on other details related to the journal—like this very post.

We hope that, regardless of where you spend your time on social media, you will consider following us there and allowing us to be a part of that space with you.

08/06/2024

Amid what tends to be a busy time for many of us, we would like to take a moment to acknowledge the scholarship featured in our most recent issue of Cultural Studies. Three of the six articles in Volume 38, Issue 4 are open access, meaning they are accessible to both subscribers and non-subscribers alike.

Over the next few weeks, we look forward to sharing posts with you about each of the six articles, the five book reviews included in this issue, and the cover artwork created by Elizabeth Lander ( ).

Here are the articles you will find in Issue 4 and featured on this account in the coming weeks:

• "Stories of Decolonial Resilience" by Kevin Glynn and Julie Cupples (open access)

• "Policing the Borribles: Conjunctural Crisis and Moral Panic in Children’s Literature" by J. Macgregor Wise

• "‘This Is a Tale of Friendship, a Story of Togetherness’: The British Monarchy, Grenfell Tower, and Inequalities in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea" by Laura Clancy (open access)

• "The Proliferation of Men’s Sheds in Australia: The Problematization of Masculinity in a Neoliberal Regime" by Leigh Boucher

• "Dissonance and Defensiveness: Orienting Affects �in Online Feminist Cultures" by Akane Kanai and Julia Coffey (open access)

• "Being Water: Protest Zines and the Politics of Care in Hong Kong" by Shui-yin Sharon Yam and Carissa Ma

We will also be sharing some information about each of the five book reviews—provided by Michael Richardson, Darren Berkland, Qin Qin, Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz, and Rebekka Kiesewetter—and the cover art, "Grenville Car Park" by Elizabeth Lander ( ).

Subscribers with digital access to Cultural Studies can access all the articles now using this link: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcus20/38/4?nav=tocList; print editions should also arrive soon, if they haven't already.

Thank you for reading, and we look forward to taking some time to highlight each of the meaningful contributions featured in Volume 38, Issue 4 with you soon.

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Cultural Studies, Past & Present

Cultural Studies began life in 1987 as the Australian Journal of Cultural Studies, serving a small but highly engaged community of scholars interested in producing politically-engaged intellectual work, much of it focusing on popular culture and everyday practices. As the sources of our manuscript traffic expanded far beyond Australia, the UK, and the US, the journal grew from a modest intersection into a bustling global crossroads. Today, Cultural Studies is one of our publisher’s flagship publications in the humanities and social sciences.

Cultural Studies’ mission is to engage in sustained empirical investigation, in an effort to theorize the complex connections between culture, technology, media/infrastructure, religion, the state, the law, the war machine, economics and industry, the natural world, and other, perhaps less well-established, aspects of reality. The mandate, always, is to eschew the formalism and reductionism that too often lead the way in neighboring fields of study. As Stuart Hall long ago observed, the work of cultural studies happens best in the “twilight zone between disciplines.”