International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. This article charts the pandemic-engendered configurations of moviegoing cultures, leisure, and collective spectatorship in the Indian subcontinent and locates it within the discourses of perso…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. National governments have played a key role in constructing the Covid-19 pandemic through their communications. Drawing on thematic, discursive and visual analyses of Covid-19 campaigns from 12…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. This article defines ‘carewashing’ as commercial branding strategies which commodify care and attempt to increase corporate profit, and provides the first theorisation and historicisation of th…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, images of the virus molecule and ‘flatten-the-curve’ line charts were inescapable. There is now a vast visual repertoire of vaccines, people wearing …
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. In this article, we examine publicness during the pandemic, with a particular focus on the conditions it creates or constricts for engagement, solidarity and collective action. We interrogate t…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. This short piece explores what cultural theory should learn from the experience of the global pandemic. It argues that the main lesson should not be about how the crisis of the pandemic has bee…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Volume 25, Issue 2, Page 121-140, March 2022. This article analyzes Nancy YouTuber, a popular doll and companion app that is part of a growing trend of children’s toys modeled on YouTube influencers. Nancy You…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Volume 25, Issue 2, Page 157-173, March 2022. This article examines Anglo-American portrayals of sexual inactivity in Japan, a media narrative that has been critically overlooked, yet offers much insight into …
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Volume 25, Issue 2, Page 141-156, March 2022. Teen film is a space where stories about young people’s engagement with technology are told and where relationships and communication are represented. How do girls…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Volume 25, Issue 2, Page 210-230, March 2022. The article interrogates whether citizens’ (embodied) encounters with migrant populations (newcomers and settled) enable or hinder convivial reflexivity in a multi…