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Christy Kulz

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Sociologist and Counsellor. she/her

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Hannah Jones @uncomfiest.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

New article out with @ckulz.bsky.social :"Culture Wars as a War on the Young: Understanding the UK Culture Wars Through the Lens of Young People's Political and Civic Resistance" #CultureWar #CultureWars #ChildQ #LGBTQ #antiracism #AcademicSky #Sociology #OpenAccess rdcu.be/euZdt

Article abstract text, reading:
Culture Wars as a War on the Young: Understanding the UK
Culture Wars Through the Lens of Young People’s Political
and Civic Resistance
Hannah Jones1
· Christy Kulz2
Accepted: 9 June 2025
© The Author(s) 2025
Abstract
This article puts forward an analysis of contemporary ‘culture wars’ in the UK,
engaging with these ‘wars’ as fundamentally political and material power struggles
which are largely enacted on the bodies and lives of young people (among others).
Refusing to be drawn in by a widespread scholarly inclination to treat culture wars
as simply ideological disagreements, or as tactical froth and distraction, or as rheto-
ric to be endlessly debated, this article takes its cue from acts of resistance by chil-
dren who fnd themselves at the sharp end of the punitive discipline, disempower-
ment and erasure which is a fundamental outcome of the culture war’s performative
struggles. By engaging with three specifc case studies of youth-led resistance, we
identify and apply the analysis implicit in these acts. Tethering this to the theoretical
resources of cultural studies and a historical perspective on the disciplining func-
tions of educational institutions, we suggest that understanding the current culture
wars as an actual war—on young people and the futurity they represent and on ‘oth-
ers’—is a useful analytic for understanding their cultural and political signifcance
and for developing a political, cultural and analytical response. We conclude by rec-
ognising the coalitional politics that young people manifest, and sometimes literally
articulate, to resist the embodied control and erasure enacted on them. We set this
alongside a recognition of the ongoing trauma that the culture wars impose on them
and society at large.
Keywords Culture wars · Young people · Education · Race · Nation · Gender

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Christy Kulz @ckulz.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Really happy to share that our new edited collection is available open access. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

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Intersectionality and the City | Exploring Violence and Inequality in

This book combines intersectional perspectives and urban research to demonstrate the importance of intersectionality as a concept that can complement

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Christy Kulz @ckulz.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Very happy to have written this paper with @naazrashid.bsky.social. bsky.app/profile/ejcs...

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Christy Kulz @ckulz.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

New paper examining the purchase of sensory methods to explore how whiteness is (re-)produced on a diverse street in Berlin www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...

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Frontiers | Researching urban diversity and the (re-)production of whiteness: reflections on the purchase and challenges of sensory methods

In this paper, we reflect on the purchase of sensory methodologies to research urban diversity and the (re-)production of whiteness. In the social sciences, ...

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Naaz Rashid @naazrashid.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Going to re-up this article. Note section b) where we write about Starmer dog whistling even while in opposition. As such, not really sure at centrist pearl clutching in response to today's speech

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