International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. Stand-up comedy has recently become a primary site where representations of pregnancy are increasingly prevalent. Yet little academic work focuses on pregnant stand-up comedians and their perfo…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. This article investigates a Japanese transmedia regional promotion project known as Chita Musume Jikkō Iinkai (or the Executive Committee of Daughters of Chita); it critically discusses how the…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. This article presents a history of Sydney’s New Year’s Eve event. First established when a crowd gathered outside Sydney’s General Post Office in 1897 to celebrate the inauguration of Internati…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. In recent years an increasing number of cultural products have come under fire for moral or political reasons, such as racist or sexist content, in the mainstream (White) public sphere. An outs…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. The concept of resilience has become widely used to account for how people respond both to acute crisis and, increasingly, to protracted precarity. Yet, cultural studies theorists have also vig…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. The concept of the Synthetic is developed to trace and trouble the prevailing popular mythology of Alberta’s oil sands and place the omnipresence of petro-hegemony into focus in a time of crisi…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. In this article we discuss the entanglement of apps, mobilities, and migration – and the way that apps work as migrant infrastructure in a Covid context. We develop our analysis through a case …
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. This article foregrounds the benefits and challenges of deploying remote interviews to investigate the digital practices of older adults from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgr…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print.
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. The article relates taxidermy to oil in the subculture associated with the oil sands in the Canadian West. Kitsch as it relates to postmodernism, and postmodernism to oil, share a sense of mela…