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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You’re invited to an online launch event on October 16th for an upcoming and open access special issue in Cultural Studies on the topic “When was the ‘Smart Border’?”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We would like to share a retrospective on Eva Hemmungs Wirtén’s “Out of Sight and Out of Mind: On the Cultural Hegemony of Intellectual Property (Critique)”—included in Volume 20, Issue 2-3 (2006), a special issue on intellectual property—written by our social media editor, Lore FitzWhittemore.

This graphic primarily features text. It reads: “Retrospective: Out of Sight and Out of Mind: On the Cultural Hegemony of Intellectual Property (Critique)” and then contains the author name and issue number: “Eva Hemmungs Wirtén” and “Volume 20, Issue 2-3 (2006).”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We would like to share a retrospective on David Sanjek’s “Ridiculing the ‘White Bread Original’: The Politics of Parody and Preservation of Greatness in Luther Campbell a.k.a. Luke Skyywalker et al. v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.”—included in Volume 20, Issue 2-3—written by our social media editor:

This graphic primarily features text. It reads: “Retrospective: Ridiculing the ‘White Bread Original’: The Politics of Parody and Preservation of Greatness in Luther Campbell a.k.a. Luke Skyywalker et al. v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.,” and then contains the author name and issue number: “David Sanjek” and “Volume 20, Issue 2-3 (2006).”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We would like to share a retrospective on Jane M. Gaines’ “Early Cinema’s Heyday of Copying: The Too Many Copies of L’Arroseur Arrosé (The Waterer Watered)”—included in Volume 20, Issue 2-3 (2006), a special issue on intellectual property—written by our social media editor, Lore FitzWhittemore.

This graphic primarily features text. It reads: “Retrospective: Early Cinema’s Heyday of Copying: The Too Many Copies of L’Arroseur Arrosé (The Waterer Watered),” and then contains the author’s name and issue number: “Jane M. Gaines” and “Volume 20, Issue 2-3 (2006).”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We would like to share a retrospective on Steve Jones’ “Reality© and Virtual Reality©: When Virtual and Real Worlds Collide”—included in Volume 20, Issue 2-3 (2006), a special issue on intellectual property—written by our social media editor, Lore FitzWhittemore.

This graphic primarily features text. It reads: “Retrospective: Reality© and Virtual Reality©: When Virtual and Real Worlds Collide,” and then contains the author name and issue number: “Steve Jones” and “Volume 20, Issue 2-3 (2006).”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

We would like to share a retrospective on McKenzie Wark’s “Information Wants to Be Free (But Is Everywhere in Chains)”—included in Volume 20, Issue 2-3 (2006), a special issue on intellectual property—written by our social media editor, Lore FitzWhittemore.

This graphic primarily features text. It reads: “Retrospective: Information Wants to Be Free (But Is Everywhere in Chains)” and then contains the author name and issue number: “McKenzie Wark” and “Volume 20, Issue 2-3 (2006).”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

We would like to share a retrospective on Adrian Johns' “Intellectual Property and the Nature of Science”—included in Volume 20, Issue 2-3 (2006), a special issue on intellectual property—written by our social media editor, Lore FitzWhittemore.

This graphic primarily features text. It reads: “Retrospective: Intellectual Property and the Nature of Science,” and then contains the author name and issue number: “Adrian Johns” and “Volume 20, Issue 2-3 (2006).”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

We would like to share a retrospective on Ted Striphas and Kembrew McLeod's “Strategic Improprieties: Cultural Studies, The Everyday, and the Politics of Intellectual Properties”—included in Volume 20, Issue 2-3—written by our social media editor, Lore FitzWhittemore.

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Two decades ago, Cultural Studies published Volume 20, Issue 2-3, a special issue edited by Ted Striphas and Kembrew McLeod on the theme of intellectual property (IP). One objective of the issue was to encourage an interdisciplinary interrogation of the politics of and everyday interactions with IP.

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

In our concluding post for Volume 39, Issue 2 of Cultural Studies—a special issue on “Imaginaries of Food”—we would like to share with you once more the cover artwork for this issue: “Artisan Organics” by Narsiso Martinez.

This graphic is titled “Featured Cover Art.” It then specifies the title of the artistic piece, “Artisan Organics”; the author’s name, “by Narsiso Martinez”; and the issue information, “For Volume 40, Issue 2 (2026).” The featured piece of artwork is a photograph of painted artwork—specifically of a masculine person picking fruit—painted on a flattened “Artisan Organics” cardboard box.

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

We would like to thank Ruiyao Wang, Storm Jade Brown, and Eirene Nsudoon Binabiba for their book review contributions to Volume 40, Issue 2 of Cultural Studies. Learn more about each their book reviews below:

This image is titled “Book Reviews: Volume 40, Issue 2 (2026).” It lists three book reviews: (1) “Contesting Inequalities: Mediated Labor Activism and Rural Migrant Workers in China by Siyuan Yin; Review by Ruiyao Wang,” (2) “Visual Disobedience: Art and Decoloniality in Central America by Kency Cornejo; Review by Storm Jade Brown,” and (3) “Technocolonialism: When Technology for Good Is Harmful by Mirca Madianou; Review by Eirene Nsudoon Binabiba.”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

“What’s (Not) on the Digital Food Menu: From ‘Visual Feasts’ to a Sustainable Future Food Imaginary on Instagram” by Tania Lewis, Helen Addison-Smith, and Bhavna Middha is the seventh article included in Issue 40.2, our special issue on "Imaginaries of Food": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This graphic primarily features text. The first text reads, “New Article • Current Issue,” and then it shares the title of the article: “What’s (Not) on the Digital Food Menu: From ‘Visual Feasts’ to a Sustainable Future Food Imaginary on Instagram.” The bottom of the graphic then specifies the author, issue, and access information: “Tania Lewis, Helen Addison-Smith, and Bhavna Middha,” “Volume 40, Issue 2 (2026),” and “Open Access Article.”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Hillary Quarles’ article, “Emancipatory Imaginaries: The Platform Transformation of Denver’s Urban Food System,” is the sixth article featured from Volume 40, Issue 2, our recent special issue on "Imaginaries of Food." Subscribers can read the full article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This graphic primarily features text. The first text reads, “New Article • Current Issue,” and then it shares the title of the article: “Emancipatory Imaginaries: The Platform Transformation of Denver’s Urban Food System.” The bottom of the graphic then specifies the author and issue information: “Hillary Quarles” and “Volume 40, Issue 2 (2026).”

The second image is titled “Abstract,” and it features the first part of the abstract for the article: “Understanding the urban food system requires an examination of how people choose what to eat, how food moves through the city and how people incorporate food into their daily life. These choices, movements and practices are fundamentally influenced by platform technology and food imaginaries. This research examines how platform technology produces urban food imaginaries, influencing how we think about and access food in the city. It asks: (1) how does platform technology shape urban food imaginaries; and (2) how do these urban food imaginaries frame food access in the future? Using a media content analysis based on insights from STS, food studies, communications and urban geography, the research focuses on urban food imaginaries promoted by three food-based organizations active in Denver, Colorado: DoorDash, Fresh Food Connect and Ekar Farm.” The abstract is continued on the next image.

The third and final image is titled “Abstract (Continued),” and it includes the rest of the abstract: “The findings suggest that DoorDash leverages platform technology to promote a convenience food imaginary that reinforces the impacts of food apartheid and convenience food on low-income communities. In contrast, Fresh Food Connect and Ekar Farm cultivate food collective and food commons imaginaries, offering a counter-capitalist vision of food system transformation through the growing and distribution of fresh produce and community building.” At the bottom of the graphic, it reads: “Continue Reading at the Link in Our Description.”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

“Ecomodernism, Cultured Meat and the Search for the ‘Middle Landscape’” by Andreja Vezovnik is the fifth article included in Volume 40, Issue 2, the current special issue on "Imaginaries of Food."

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The next article we would like to feature is “Fuelling Masculinity: How Ads for Plant-Based Burgers and Electric Trucks Reinforce Gender Norms and Resist Sustainable Imaginaries” by Emily J.H. Contois: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This graphic primarily features text. The first text reads, “New Article • Current Issue,” and then it shares the title of the article: “Fuelling Masculinity: How Ads for Plant-Based Burgers and Electric Trucks Reinforce Gender Norms and Resist Sustainable Imaginaries.” The bottom of the graphic then specifies the author and issue information: “Emily J.H. Contois” and “Volume 40, Issue 2 (2026).”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

“Anti-Nafta: Imagining a Continental Unification Centred on Abundance” by Alyshia Gálvez is the third article featured in Volume 40, Issue 2, the current special issue on "Imaginaries of Food." Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This graphic primarily features text. The first text reads, “New Article • Current Issue,” and then it shares the title of the article: “Anti-Nafta: Imagining a Continental Unification Centred on Abundance.” The bottom of the graphic then specifies the author and issue information: “Alyshia Gálvez • Volume 40, Issue 2 (2026).”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

"Food Sovereignty: A Case for a ‘New Normal’ in the Wake of Two Pandemics”—authored by Shorlette Ammons—is the second article featured in Volume 40, Issue 2, the current special issue on "Imaginaries of Food": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This graphic primarily features text. The first text reads, “New Article • Current Issue,” and then it shares the title of the article: “Food Sovereignty: A Case for a ‘New Normal’ in the Wake of Two Pandemics.” The bottom of the graphic then specifies the author and issue information: “Shorlette Ammons • Volume 40, Issue 2 (2026)”

The second image is titled “Abstract,” and it features the abstract for the article: “This essay is about the challenges of achieving food sovereignty by Black, Brown, and Indigenous peoples in the United States, as seen through the lens of the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic is now past, but the explanation below of the cultural practices of food sovereignty in that moment remain just as relevant and vital today for vulnerable populations in the United States as they were long before the pandemic. Equally important for the purposes of the theme of this special issue, the author interrogates a hopeful imaginary from that period, that crisis would inspire widespread consensus and commitment to a ‘new normal,’ premised on principles of social justice for the most vulnerable among us.” At the bottom of the graphic, it reads: “Continue Reading at the Link in Our Description.”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Opening this special issue on "Imaginaries of Food" is Andrew Calabrese and Andreja Vezovnik's contribution, "Introduction: Imaginaries of Food." Subscribers with online access can read the article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This graphic primarily features text. The first text reads, “New Article • Current Issue,” and then it shares the title of the article: “Introduction: Imaginaries of Food.” The bottom of the graphic then specifies the author and issue information: “Andrew Calabrese and Andreja Vezovnik” and “Volume 40, Issue 2 (2026).”

The second image is titled “A Look Inside,” and it features the first part of the abstract for the article: “Food draws deserved attention as an important object of analysis across multiple disciplines, including cultural studies. Representations of food are ubiquitous in popular culture, including dedicated food TV channels featuring how-to and travel shows; food magazines; cookbooks; influential documentaries about food's connection to human health, the environment, and the welfare of the creatures we eat; the popular genre of food-focused narrative films; countless professional and amateur social media outlets featuring every imaginable aspect of food production and consumption; and a multi-billion dollar food advertising industry. Food practices, also an important and well-developed focus of cultural analysis, have long been understood in anthropology and linguistics as signifiers of class, race, gender, status, and power [...]” At the bottom of the graphic, it reads: “Continue Reading at the Link in Our Description.”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Our second issue of Volume 40 is a special issue on the topic of "Imaginaries of Food”: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcus20/4... . Two of the featured articles are published open access, meaning that those articles are available to all to read regardless of current subscription status.

This graphic is titled “New Issue: Cultural Studies” and includes the following information: “Volume 40, Number 2” and “April 2026.” It also features an image of painted artwork—specifically of a masculine person picking fruit—painted on a flattened “Artisan Organics” cardboard box.

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Did you know that Cultural Studies posts to Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook, in addition to Bluesky? In today's scattered social media landscape, we want to make it as simple as possible to stay informed about the newest issues and articles.

Titled "Cultural Studies: Where Else to Find Us," this graphic includes artwork from four past covers and written out information about where to find Cultural Studies on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Bluesky. All written information is also included in the caption of the post.

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Constance Gordon @cogophd.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Some reflections on the first two years as Art Director of Cultural Studies, with more to come.

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

We wanted to share a reminder that “What’s Become of Australian Cultural Studies?: The Legacies of Graeme Turner” is available for all to read for the next two weeks in honor of the life of Graeme Turner: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcus20/2... .

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

When I assumed the role of Art Director, I felt responsibility to collaborate with artists whose work helps us grapple with cascading crises and envision a more just world. We dreamed up the idea of an art series “Against Extraction: Desires for Life-Sustaining Futures,” […]

A collage of thirteen Cultural Studies covers. This graphic is titled “Against Extraction: Desires for Life-Sustaining Futures.” It includes the following text: “Cultural Studies Cover Artwork Series,” “Art Director: Constance Gordon,” and “Volume 38, Issue 1 (January 2024) - Volume 40, Issue 1 (January 2026).”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

We would like to share the cover artwork for Volume 40, Issue 1: “Inheritance of Fire and Chaos” (2025) by Siddhesh Gautam. This is the final installment in our series on the theme of “Against Extraction: Desires for Life-Sustaining Futures.”

This graphic is titled “Featured Cover Art.” It then specifies the title of the piece, “Inheritance of Fire and Chaos (2025)” and the following written snippet: “Featured Cover Art • By Siddhesh Gautam” and “For Volume 40, Issue 1 (2026).”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

We would like to thank E. Chebrolu, Mary Ainomugisha, and Constance Awinpoka Akurugu for their book review contributions to Volume 40, Issue 1 of Cultural Studies. Learn more about each their book reviews below:

This graphic is titled “Book Reviews,” followed by the subtitle, “Volume 40, Issue 1 (2026).” There are three boxes with text beneath, each corresponding to one of the book reviews.

The first box has the heading, “Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans by Corinne Sugino”; beneath it in smaller text, reads: “Review by E. Chebrolu.”

The second box is titled, “Authoritarian Journalism: Controlling the News in Post-Conflict Rwanda by Ruth Moon”; beneath it in smaller text, reads: “Review by Mary Ainomugisha.”

The third and final box has the heading, “Women Marrying Women in Northern Ghana: Wading into the Homosexuality Debate from a Ghanaian Perspective by Eva Mmah Agana”; beneath it in smaller text, reads: “Review by Constance Awinpoka Akurugu.”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

“Fossil Capital at Ten: Andreas Malm on Capitalism, Energy, and Resistance” is the seventh and final article included in Issue 40.1. This contribution features the transcription of an interview with Andreas Malm, as facilitated by Caleb Wellum and Imre Szeman: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This graphic primarily features text. The first text reads, “New Article • Current Issue,” and then it shares the title of the article: “Fossil Capital at Ten: Andreas Malm on Capitalism, Energy, and Resistance.” The bottom of the graphic then specifies the author and issue information: “Caleb Wellum, Imre Szeman, and Andreas Malm” and “Volume 40, Issue 1 (2026).”

The second image is titled “Abstract,” and it features the first part of the abstract for the article: “With the publication of Fossil Capital in 2016, Andreas Malm reshaped how scholars understand the relationship between capitalism and fossil fuels. Energy humanities scholars Caleb Wellum and Imre Szeman interviewed Malm in November 2024 about the arguments and impact of Fossil Capital, the development of his thought in several subsequent books, and the shifting landscape of climate politics. At a time when the stakes of climate politics have never been higher, Malm's work is indispensable. This interview provides an opportunity to revisit Fossil Capital in light of the past decade's developments while also exploring the more radical propositions his recent work has put forth.” The abstract is continued on the next image.

The third and final image is titled “Abstract (Continued),” and it includes the rest of the abstract: “From the role of sabotage in climate activism to the geopolitical entanglements of energy politics, Malm dissects the complex forces obstructing climate action and explores the strategies that might still be able to disrupt them, however powerful they might be. Readers will find in this conversation reflections on Malm's intellectual evolution and a considered engagement with the urgent question that has animated his work: how to bring about the end of fossil capitalism before it brings about the end of all of us.” At the bottom of the graphic, it reads: “Continue Reading at the Link in Our Description.”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Hyung Kwon Choi and Jonathan Jae-an Crisman’s article “The More, the Better: Queer Urban Spatialities of Seoul in Three Films” is the sixth article featured in Volume 40, Issue 1 of Cultural Studies. Subscribers can read Choi and Crisman's work here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This graphic primarily features text. The first text reads, “New Article • Current Issue,” and then it shares the title of the article: “The More, the Better: Queer Urban Spatialities of Seoul in Three Films.” The bottom of the graphic then specifies the author and issue information: “Hyung Kwon Choi and Jonathan Jae-an Crisman • Volume 40, Issue 1 (2026).”

The second image is titled “Abstract,” and it features the first part of the abstract for the article: “Queer space in South Korea’s primate city Seoul has historically remained excluded or invisible across multiple temporalities: in official histories and accounts of the past, in present urban life, and in planning for the future. This is especially noticeable in the municipal government’s numerous revitalization plans which focus on known ‘gayborhoods’ such as Jongno 3-ga. This article identifies and analyzes the structure of differing queer spatialities present in Seoul through close reading and examination of three films: the auteur produced A Cheonggyecheon Dog (2008), the realist documentary Miracle on Jongno Street (2010), and the archival art film Dadaikseon (2018).” The abstract is continued on the next image.

The third and final image is titled “Abstract (Continued),” and it includes the rest of the abstract: “In these filmic representations, we observe multiple spatialities in Seoul that reflect the precarity and isolation faced by queer individuals in processes of urban redevelopment, the Janus-faced nature of urban space during the night versus the day which can allow or inhibit queer collectivity, and the dynamic erasure of urban spaces which fall outside of hegemonic norms in the face of urban change and gentrification. In the face of the homogenization of Seoul’s urban space, we argue that the identification of a multiplicity of queer spatialities opens up possibility and alternatives to dominant processes and patterns of urbanization, modernization and homogenization – that is, the more non-normative spatialities, the better.” At the bottom of the graphic, it reads: “Continue Reading at the Link in Our Description.”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

“We Don’t Need a Map: On Australian Aboriginal Philosophy and Critique” by Max Brierty is the third open access article included in Volume 40, Issue 1 of Cultural Studies. It can be read by all here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This graphic primarily features text. The first text reads, “New Article • Current Issue,” and then it shares the title of the article: “We Don’t Need a Map: On Australian Aboriginal Philosophy and Critique.” The bottom of the graphic then specifies the author and issue information: “Max Brierty • Volume 40, Issue 1 (2026)” and “Open Access Article.”

The second image is titled “Abstract,” and it features the first part of the abstract for the article: “The late Anangu artist Kunmanara (Mumu Mike) Williams wrote mapa wiya (‘We don’t need a map’) across a map of Australia as part of an attempt to unsettle the settler State. This essay draws on those words, mapa wiya, to think through the relationship between Aboriginal philosophy and strong Indigenous critique, and how their combination can be involved in unsettling and resurgence. It begins by considering the place of this philosophy within and beyond the academy, as something which is seen to both exist and not exist at the same time.” The abstract is continued on the next image.

The third and final image is titled “Abstract (Continued),” and it includes the rest of the abstract: “It then draws a comparison between Aboriginal and European cosmologies, conceiving of their opposition and some possibilities that exist therein. Lastly, this essay argues for sustained Indigenous critique in the making of Aboriginal philosophy, which can respond to and seek to transform the political reality of Aboriginal people and the Country that they belong to.” At the bottom of the graphic, it reads: “Continue Reading at the Link in Our Description.”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

The next article we would like to feature from Volume 40, Issue 1 is “Navigating the Troubles’ Tidelands: The Push and Pull of Memory in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland’s Film & Television Industry" by Lennart Soberon. Subscribers can read the article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This graphic primarily features text. The first text reads, “New Article • Current Issue,” and then it shares the title of the article: “Navigating the Troubles’ Tidelands: The Push and Pull of Memory in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland’s Film & Television Industry.” The bottom of the graphic then specifies the author and issue information: “Lennart Soberon • Volume 40, Issue 1 (2026).”

The second image is titled “Abstract,” and it features the first part of the abstract for the article: “The screen representation of Northern Ireland has since long been a hotbed for issues of remembering and reimagining. Loaded with symbolic questions on authorship and authenticity, the treatment of the nation’s years of (para)military conflict, colloquially dubbed the ‘troubles’, remains a complex question for filmmakers and other creative agents. Considering film and television’s power to intervene in the collective memory and serve reconciliatory agendas helps to further understand screen media’s particularly poignant potential in the context of Northern Ireland’s post-conflict society. Yet apart from the socio-political, film and television representation doubles as an industry sensitive to certain commercial and institutional demands. Since the commercial success of HBO’s hit television show Game of Thrones, Northern Ireland has employed its screen industries as means of economic development and tourist rebranding.” The abstract is continued on the next image.

The third image is titled “Abstract (Continued),” and it features the second part of the abstract for the article: “Within this context, the role of the past remains a dubious one. Caught between past, present, and future filmmakers become instrumental actors in (re)imagining a country long associated with military occupation and terrorist violence. Departing from the commemorative tensions that stem forward from the intersection between the commercial and the political, this article undertook an ethnographic study that focuses on different modes of remembering in the context of Northern Ireland’s contemporary film and television industry. Based on over 50 in-depth interviews with directors, screenwriters, producers, distributors, activists, archivists, and (screen)institutional agents in research sites such as Belfast, Dublin, Derry, and beyond, the complex position of memory in post-conflict Northern Ireland’s screen industries is discussed.” The abstract is continued on the next image.

The fourth and final image is titled “Abstract (Continued),” and it includes the rest of the abstract: “The results of this research show how filmmakers are drawn towards and pushed away from the countries troubled past by various institutional, economical, ideological, and symbolic factors. Moreover, these creative actors engage in an affectively intimate and deeply symbolic negotiation of the stories they tell in relation to the longstanding legacy of Northern Ireland’s screen representation.” At the bottom of the graphic, it reads: “Continue Reading at the Link in Our Description.”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Liam Farrell and Gary Hussey’s “Dangerous Memories and Entangled Temporalities: Irish Republicanism and the Postcolonial Politics of Time” is the third article included in Volume 40, Issue 1 of Cultural Studies. Subscribers can read the article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This graphic primarily features text. The first text reads, “New Article • Current Issue,” and then it shares the title of the article: “Dangerous Memories and Entangled Temporalities: Irish Republicanism and the Postcolonial Politics of Time.” The bottom of the graphic then specifies the author and issue information: “Liam Farrell and Gary Hussey” and “Volume 40, Issue 1 (2026).”

The second image is titled “Abstract,” and it features the first part of the abstract for the article: “In this article we develop a ‘hauntological’ reading of republicanism in postcolonial Ireland. This reading takes as its object the ways in which the politics of remembering – and remembering republican politics in particular – is equally a politics of time. Exploring the politics of republicanism through the lens of entangled temporalities, we develop an understanding of a particular mode of political desire. This republican political desire holds open the demand for a radical interrogation of the (post)colonial given. As such, it takes the form of a ‘dangerous memory’. Through the concept of a ‘dangerous memory’, we excavate a certain republican politics of refusal, that haunts the legitimacy and automatic reproduction of the postcolonial settlement and the attendant proprietary relations of inequality that it formalizes – culturally, politically, economically and legally.” The abstract is continued on the next image.

The third and final image is titled “Abstract (Continued),” and it includes the rest of the abstract: “This theoretical interpretation of Irish republican hauntology is empirically explored through three historical layers and entangled temporalities that are organized around the ghosts of Roger Casement, a radical republican figure. The dangerous memories of Casement not only disrupt the canonical or official interpretation of Irish republicanism, but also open up the left-republican possibility to further interrogate the postcolonial present, both in Ireland and beyond.” At the bottom of the graphic, it reads: “Continue Reading at the Link in Our Description.”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

“The Hunger Strike as a Biopolitical Technology: Re-Reading the 1981 Irish Republican Prison Protest” by Sarah Bufkin is the second article featured in Volume 40, Issue 1 of Cultural Studies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... It is also the second open access article featured in this issue.

This graphic primarily features text. The first text reads, “New Article • Current Issue,” and then it shares the title of the article: “The Hunger Strike as a Biopolitical Technology: Re-Reading the 1981 Irish Republican Prison Protest.” The bottom of the graphic then specifies the author and issue information: “Sarah Bufkin • Volume 40, Issue 1 (2026)” and “Open Access Article.”

The second image is titled “Abstract,” and it features the first part of the abstract for the article: “This article uses the case of the 1981 Irish republican prison protest to show that indefinite hunger strikes can force Euromodern states to the negotiating table by undercutting their commitment to good government. Drawing on a Foucauldian analysis of biopower and political reason, I argue that these acts of willed self-starvation exert pressure on state officials by exploiting a tension between the modern state’s juridical claim to sovereignty and its biopolitical investment in fostering life. In the case of the famed IRA hunger strike on the H-Blocks, the archive shows that the Thatcher government experienced more pressure to reach a negotiated settlement than the prime minister or her top advisers publicly acknowledged.” The abstract is continued on the next image.

The third and final image is titled “Abstract (Continued),” and it includes the rest of the abstract: “Such pressure, however, stemmed not from a moral or humanitarian investment in saving the individual hunger strikers’ lives, but instead from officials’ biopolitical concern that the protest was undermining British attempts to restore ‘life as usual’ in the conflicted region. Ultimately, Thatcher was willing to let ten of the Irish republican strikers die rather than grant them any concessions that might indicate they were political prisoners. The article closes by showing how an indefinite hunger strike’s efficacy is often foreclosed in securitized and postcolonial contexts like that of Northern Ireland, where the protesters can be framed as a ‘biopolitical remainder’ that is allowed to die so that the broader society might thrive.” At the bottom of the graphic, it reads: “Continue Reading at the Link in Our Description.”

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Dr Liam Farrell @liamfarrellphd.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

So great to see my and Gary Hussey’s article on the temporality of Irish republicanism and the politics of memory in the latest issue of @culturalstudies.bsky.social

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Caleb Wellum @calebwellum.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Check out the latest issue of Cultural Studies for an interview that @imreszeman.bsky.social and I did with Andreas Malm on Fossil Capital, climate politics, and more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

The first contribution in Volume 40, Issue 1 of Cultural Studies is Davina Cooper’s open access article “How Concepts Do Activism: As Worlds, Aids, Cells, and Currents," which can be read by all regardless of subscription status here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This graphic primarily features text. The first text reads, “New Article • Current Issue,” and then it shares the title of the article: “How Concepts Do Activism: As Worlds, Aids, Cells, and Currents.” The bottom of the graphic then specifies the author and issue information: “Davina Cooper • Volume 40, Issue 1 (2026)” and “Open Access Article.”

The second image is titled “Abstract,” and it features the first part of the abstract for the article: “What is conceptual activism and how should we understand the form and affordances of the concept as it takes shape within it? Drawing on interviews with twenty-three interdisciplinary academics, along with social theoretical and empirical research, this article offers an onto-methodological approach to the concept, focused on the work of concepts (qua concepts) in critical, prefigurative, campaigning and counter-institutional projects. Foregrounding the materiality of the concept, the discussion focuses on four figures through which the concept assumes shape: the aid, world, animate cell and current. While the ‘aid’ (or ‘tool’) is a familiar conceptual figure, concerned with the different ways that concepts get used – to know, act, stimulate, etc., the others are less familiar.” The abstract is continued on the next image.

The third and final image is titled “Abstract (Continued),” and it includes the rest of the abstract: “In this article, the ‘world’ reveals how concepts are inhabited as people enter, move around, cultivate and care for them. The ‘cell’ reveals how concepts move and thrive, live, fight and die, cluster and disperse. The ‘current’ reveals how concepts exert a force that ebbs and alters, impacting on those who intentionally or otherwise get caught up in it. Tracing these different figures shows how concepts are inhabited, used, observed and felt within conceptual activism. However, aids, worlds, cells and currents are not discrete and distinct conceptual existences, nor is one (or other) better at explaining what concepts are. Rather, these figures combine in different patterns, including sequentially, and the concept qua concept acquires shape as it occupies and travels between them.” At the bottom of the graphic, it reads: “Continue Reading at the Link in Our Description.”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

With the release of the inaugural issue of Volume 40 of Cultural Studies, we would like to take some time to share with you the contributions that comprise Issue 1, which span articles, book reviews, and the compelling cover artwork.

This graphic primarily features both text and artwork. The text begins with “New Issue: Cultural Studies” and shares the issue information: “Volume 40, Number 1” and “January 2026.” The artwork features two pairs of hands. One set of hands includes burning vegetation with layers of sand and rock—and it looks like it is about to pass off burning trees to the second set of hands, which are of a dark skin tone and have tattoos of a cat and eyes. This is against a backdrop of the sky, with clouds partially obscuring the sun.

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

To mark and memorialize the passing of Graeme Turner, the 2015 special issue of Cultural Studies on Turner’s scholarship and impact—“What’s Become of Australian Cultural Studies?: The Legacies of Graeme Turner”—is available to read by all through the end of April: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcus20/2...

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

In our final post related to Volume 39, Issue 6 (2025) of Cultural Studies—a special issue on the theme of Bodies that Haunt: Rethinking the Political Economy of Racialised Death—we would like to share with you once more the cover artwork for this issue: “Gaza Freedom Flotilla” by Sacha Bezrutchka.

This graphic is titled “Featured Cover Art.” It then specifies the title of the artistic piece, “Gaza Freedom Flotilla”; the author’s name, “By Sacha Bezrutchka”; and the issue information, “For Volume 39, Issue 6 (2025).” The featured piece of artwork includes a collage-style collection of elements, including a hand holding a cross-section of watermelon, a white rose, birds, an eye, and paper ripped to reveal the ocean.

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

The final featured article of 2025 is Rachmi Diyah Larasati’s “Train and Its Fugitive Rhythms: Rewriting Empire, Violence, and the Politics of Sound.” This contribution concludes Volume 39, Issue 6, an edited collection on “Bodies that Haunt: Rethinking the Political Economy of Racialised Death.”

This graphic primarily features text. The first text reads, “New Article • Current Issue,” and then it shares the title of the article: “Train and Its Fugitive Rhythms: Rewriting Empire, Violence, and the Politics of Sound” The bottom of the graphic then specifies the author and issue information: “Rachmi Diyah Larasati” and “Volume 39, Issue 6 (2025)”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Naimah Petigny’s “Haunting Erotics: Theorizing Black Erotic Aliveness” is the eighth article featured in Volume 39, Issue 6, a special issue on the theme of “Bodies that Haunt: Rethinking the Political Economy of Racialised Death." Subscribers can read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This graphic primarily features text. The first text reads, “New Article • Current Issue,” and then it shares the title of the article: “Haunting Erotics: Theorizing Black Erotic Aliveness” The bottom of the graphic then specifies the author and issue information: “Naimah Petigny” and “Volume 39, Issue 6 (2025)”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

“Radical Motherhood Ecologies: Towards a Mapping of Social Life, Death and Resistance in the Southwest Borderlands” by José Manuel Santillana Blanco is an open access article in Volume 39, Issue 6, a special issue on “Bodies that Haunt: Rethinking the Political Economy of Racialised Death."

This graphic primarily features text. The first text reads, “New Article • Current Issue,” and then it shares the title of the article: “Radical Motherhood Ecologies: Towards a Mapping of Social Life, Death and Resistance in the Southwest Borderlands” The bottom of the graphic then specifies the author and issue information: “José Manuel Santillana Blanco” and “Volume 39, Issue 6 (2025),” as well as “Open Access Article.”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

“Registering the Gang Body in Pain: Violence and Haunting in Central America,” by María José Méndez, is the sixth article in Volume 39, Issue 6, an edited collection on the topic of “Bodies that Haunt: Rethinking the Political Economy of Racialised Death": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This graphic primarily features text. The first text reads, “New Article • Current Issue,” and then it shares the title of the article: “Registering the Gang Body in Pain: Violence and Haunting in Central America” The bottom of the graphic then specifies the author and issue information: “María José Méndez • Volume 39, Issue 6 (2025)”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

“Black Mediterranean Hauntings: Border Violence, Burial, and Anti-Racist Care Work in Strange Fish” by Eleanor Paynter is the fifth article in Volume 39, Issue 6, a special issue on "Bodies that Haunt: Rethinking the Political Economy of Racialised Death": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This graphic primarily features text. The first text reads, “New Article • Current Issue,” and then it shares the title of the article: “Black Mediterranean Hauntings: Border Violence, Burial, and Anti-Racist Care Work in Strange Fish.” The bottom of the graphic then specifies the author and issue information: “Eleanor Paynter” and “Volume 39, Issue 6 (2025)”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The fourth article from Volume 39, Issue 6—a special issue on “Bodies that Haunt: Rethinking the Political Economy of Racialised Death”—is “Ship to the Door of No Return: On Haunting, Refusal, and Imagination in Black Studies,” written by Colin Wingate: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This graphic primarily features text. The first text reads, “New Article • Current Issue,” and then it shares the title of the article: “Ship to the Door of No Return: On Haunting, Refusal, and Imagination in Black Studies.” The bottom of the graphic then specifies the author and issue information: “Colin Wingate • Volume 39, Issue 6 (2025)”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

The third article in Volume 39, Issue 6 of Cultural Studies—a special issue on “Bodies that Haunt: Rethinking the Political Economy of Racialised Death”—is Sayan Bhattacharya’s “The Broken Others of the Nation State: Debility, Capacity and Dissent": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This graphic primarily features text. The first text reads, “New Article • Current Issue,” and then it shares the title of the article: “The Broken Others of the Nation State: Debility, Capacity and Dissent.” The bottom of the graphic then specifies the author and issue information: “Sayan Bhattacharya” and “Volume 39, Issue 6 (2025).”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

The second article from Issue 39.6—“Love Story, Ghost Story: The Cambodian Genocide, Labour Extraction, and Hout Bophana”—is written by Emily Mitamura, a guest editor of this special collection on “Bodies that Haunt: Rethinking the Political Economy of Racialised Death."

This graphic primarily features text. The first text reads, “New Article • Current Issue,” and then it shares the title of the article: “Love Story, Ghost Story: The Cambodian Genocide, Labour Extraction, and Hout Bophana.” The bottom of the graphic then specifies the author and issue information: “Emily Mitamura • Volume 39, Issue 6 (2025).”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Our final issue of 2026 is a special issue on "Bodies that Haunt: Rethinking the Political Economy of Racialised Death.” The introduction was written by the guest editors of this issue, Emily Mitamura & Rachmi Diyah Larasati: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This graphic primarily features text. The first text reads, “New Article • Current Issue,” and then it shares the title of the article: “Bodies That Haunt: Rethinking the Political Economy of Racialised Death.” The bottom of the graphic then specifies the author and issue information: “Emily Mitamura and Rachmi Diyah Larasati” and “Volume 39, Issue 6 (2025).”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Volume 39, Issue 6 of Cultural Studies—our final issue of 2025—is a special issue edited by Emily Mitamura and Rachmi Diyah Larasati on the theme of “Bodies that Haunt: Rethinking the Political Economy of Racialised Death": www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcus20/3...

This graphic primarily features both text and artwork. The text begins with “Cultural Studies” and shares the issue information: “Volume 39, Number 6” and “November 2025.” The artwork includes a collage-style collection of elements, including a hand holding a cross-section of watermelon, a white rose, birds, an eye, and paper ripped to reveal the ocean.

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

In our concluding post for Volume 39, Issue 5 of Cultural Studies—a special issue on the topic of “Cultures of Water: Heritage, Environment and Society”—we would like to once more share with you the cover artwork of this issue: “Agriculture Is Fruitful” by Job Olego Anomet.

This graphic is titled “Featured Cover Art.” It then specifies the title of the artistic piece, “Agriculture Is Fruitful”; the author’s name, “By Job Olego Anomet”; and the issue information, “For Volume 39, Issue 5 (2025).” The featured piece of artwork prominently shows a spiral design that entwines iconography of water—an ocean with fish, river within an ocean, a water faucet—with symbols of the land, including a farm, vegetables in the dirt, and trees growing from the soil.

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Volume 39, Issue 5 of Cultural Studies includes six book reviews. We would like to feature the concluding three today, written by Haniyeh Pasandi, Raphaela Pavlakos, and Rosie Nguyen. Learn more about each their book reviews below:

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The first box has the heading, “Contemporary Feminist Art by Women in North Africa by Ramona Mielusel”; beneath it in smaller text, reads: “Review by Haniyeh Pasandi.”

The second box is titled, “Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing: Documentation, Administration, and the Interventions of Indigenous Art by Danielle Taschereau Mamers”; beneath it in smaller text, reads: “Review by Raphaela Pavlakos.”

The third and final box has the heading, “Sex Work in Popular Culture by Lauren Kirshner”; beneath it in smaller text, reads: “Review by Rosie Nguyen.”

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Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Volume 39, Issue 5 of Cultural Studies includes six book reviews, and we would like to feature the first three today, written by Mattie Hamilton, Vivien J. Bediako, and Skyler Meeks. Learn more about each their book reviews below:

This graphic is titled “Book Reviews,” followed by the subtitle, “Part 1 • Volume 39, Issue 5 (2025).” There are three boxes with text beneath, each corresponding to one of the book reviews.

The first box has the heading, “Breaking Through the Silence of Structural Heteropatriarchy - Reviewing
Complaint! by Sara Ahmed”; beneath it in smaller text, reads: “Review by Mattie Hamilton.”

The second box is titled, “Migration, Crisis and Temporality at the Zimbabwe-South Africa Border: Governing Immobilities by Kudakwashe Vanyoro”; beneath it in smaller text, reads: “Review by Vivien J. Bediako.”

The third and final box has the heading, “Black Iconoclasm: Public Symbols, Racial Progress, and Post/Ferguson America by Charles Athanasopoulos”; beneath it in smaller text, reads: “Review by Skyler Meeks.”

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