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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102059

Vera Borges

{"title":"Grant-flipping across Europe: How Portuguese artists navigate precarity to sustain aspirations beyond recognition","authors":"Vera Borges","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102059","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102059","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article examines how artists navigate precarious labour conditions through a practice we conceptualize as <strong>grant-flipping</strong>: the sequential pursuit of grants across national and institutional boundaries. We propose this concept as an analytical lens to understand how artists develop reactive strategies not only to sustain their careers, but also to pursue meaningful artistic aspirations amid growing dependence on institutional funding. While the literature on artistic labour often emphasizes reputational hierarchies and structural constraints, grant-flipping foregrounds the adaptive agency of artists and the core values that shape their professional trajectories. Drawing on Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation art grants, we carried out documental analysis of two databases, alongside 60 qualitative interviews and an online survey (<em>N</em> = 488) on grant-based funding. We present six paradigmatic artistic trajectories spanning different career stages and disciplines. Our findings portray how, rather than pursuing global recognition, artists seek <strong>relational embeddedness</strong> within transnational circuits, often moving through conservatories, residencies, and institutional collaborations. Grant infrastructures enable them to mitigate economic risks, navigate structural inequalities, and sustain long-term careers. By theorizing grant-flipping as a <strong>constrained strategy</strong> in response to national structural precarity, this article contributes to debates on artistic labour, cultural policy, and the uneven geographies of artistic production. It furthermore provides insights into how Portuguese artists exercise agency within increasingly global and institutionally mediated art fields.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 102059"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145325261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Of centers and peripheries: Explaining the macro-structure of book translation flows in Europe 中心与边缘：解读欧洲图书翻译流动的宏观结构

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102054

Matthias Kuppler

{"title":"Of centers and peripheries: Explaining the macro-structure of book translation flows in Europe","authors":"Matthias Kuppler","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102054","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102054","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study analyzes the exchange of book translations between countries. Existing research is split over the question of whether translation flows are driven by literary, economic, political, or cultural factors. The forces that stratify countries into centers and peripheries are thus debated. To advance the debate, this study leverages newly collected data on <em>N</em> = 147,443 translations of literary works to reconstruct the network of translation flows between 32 European countries for the time period from 2018 to 2020. The relative impacts of literary prestige, economic infrastructure, state support, and cultural proximity on translation flows are estimated with Generalized Additive Models and the Quadratic Assignment Procedure. Results indicate that translation flows are best explained by a combination of literary prestige and economic infrastructure. Translations flow from countries with high literary prestige and a strong publishing infrastructure to countries with little prestige and weak infrastructure. The transnational circulation of literature appears as a game in which economic infrastructure confers power and in which the accumulation of literary prestige is the ultimate stake. This suggests a logic of competition in which translations are the medium through which economic power is converted into symbolic recognition. In this view, the market logic and the artistic logic are not contradictory orientations but different steps in ongoing accumulation processes. Although these conclusions are specific to the European literary field, they document a novel viewpoint that is not reducible to established arguments that point to either convergence or divergence of art and commerce.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 102054"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145096893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Engaging with Bot Narratives: The Audience Experience and Perceptions of Machine Script Writers 参与机器人叙事：观众体验和机器编剧的感知

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102057

Rachel Son , Qingyuan Yang , Benjamin T. Vollmer , Benjamin K. Johnson

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Detailing social influence in predicting cinema attendance: a vignette approach 预测电影出勤率的详细社会影响：一个小插曲的方法

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102041

Yevhen Voronin

{"title":"Detailing social influence in predicting cinema attendance: a vignette approach","authors":"Yevhen Voronin","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102041","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102041","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The movie market is full of incommensurable products, encouraging consumers to rely on various judgment devices of a social nature (e.g., ratings and recommendations) to make choices. However, the role of movie genres and individual characteristics in relying on judgment devices remains uncertain.</div><div>Drawing upon Karpik’s theory of the economics of singularities, this study examines social influence in a movie market by employing a factorial survey to investigate the role of movie ratings and recommendations in predicting the likelihood of going to the cinema to watch a movie across four genres: romance, sci-fi, documentary and horror — genres distinguished by their varying levels of social stratification and popularity. The vignettes are presented in the form of pictures, depicting either low, middle or high ratings by movie experts, broad audience and peers, as well as personal recommendations from close friends, parents or neither.</div><div>First, the results reveal that the ratings by experts, broad audience and peers emerge as positive predictors; the gain from each rating's increase from the middle level to the highest level is greater than the loss from a decrease from the middle level to the lowest level among all movie genres. Second, personal recommendation by close friends, rather than parents, holds the highest significance regardless of the genre. Third, orientation toward specific judgment devices depends on individual characteristics of respondents, such as trust in family and importance of friends, genre preferences and the level of cultural omnivorousness.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 102041"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145020466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The embeddedness of marketing: Queer representation in advertisements by mainstream Chinese companies in mainland China, 2012–2023 营销的嵌入性：2012-2023年中国大陆主流企业广告中的酷儿表现

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102022

Xingshu Liu

{"title":"The embeddedness of marketing: Queer representation in advertisements by mainstream Chinese companies in mainland China, 2012–2023","authors":"Xingshu Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102022","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102022","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Much of the existing research on corporate portrayals of queerness in advertising reflects liberal-centric assumptions, with limited attention to gay and lesbian marketing in tightly regulated media and cultural contexts. This study addresses this gap by examining queer representation in the mainstream marketing by Chinese companies in mainland China from 2012 to 2023. Capitalizing on public unfamiliarity with queer culture, mainstream Chinese companies strategically mobilized subcultural codes in their marketing practices. Gay and lesbian marketing in China has been shaped by gender norms, which are rooted in the country’s heteropatriarchal and patrilineal systems, resulting in distinct portrayals of gay men and lesbians in advertisements. The creative strategies and visual aesthetics of some advertisements were strongly influenced by the boom in <em>danmei</em> culture and the rise of the China-Chic economy. This research demonstrates how gay and lesbian marketing is embedded in the complex social fabric of contemporary China, highlighting the dynamics among state power, sociocultural norms, cultural trends, and multiple subcultural groups that mainstream marketing sought to engage.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 102022"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145568518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Loot, legitimacy, and provenance: Intermediaries and the legitimation of looted cultural objects 掠夺、合法性和来源：被掠夺文物的中介和合法性

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102062

Isra Saymour

{"title":"Loot, legitimacy, and provenance: Intermediaries and the legitimation of looted cultural objects","authors":"Isra Saymour","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102062","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102062","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The trade of cultural heritage operates at the boundary between legitimate and illegitimate spaces. While provenance is widely accepted as a barrier to the trade of loot, a growing body of work finds it may enable loot to enter legitimate institutions. This study builds on literature on legitimacy and grey markets to investigate how intermediaries in the antiquities market use provenance to legitimize looted cultural heritage. Drawing on interviews with curators, dealers, and auctioneers and scripting analysis of institutional records, the study identifies three \"legitimizing provenance practices\": an accumulative market setting that encourages collection at all costs; exclusionary professional networks that protect permissive practices; and everyday obfuscation techniques that mask looted origins. These practices operate within a polarized landscape of competing \"pro-loot\" and \"anti-loot\" applications of provenance. This reconceptualizes provenance as a relational social process shaped by competing value systems and unequal power relations. Interpreting legitimacy and provenance through the lens of “loot” demonstrates how such practices perpetuate colonial systems of dispossession in contemporary forms.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 102062"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145575556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Extending the quadruple articulation framework to study media use moments: Deconstructing content, platform, device and context 延伸四重衔接框架研究媒介使用时刻：解构内容、平台、装置、语境

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102058

Kristin Van Damme, Tom Evens

{"title":"Extending the quadruple articulation framework to study media use moments: Deconstructing content, platform, device and context","authors":"Kristin Van Damme, Tom Evens","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102058","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102058","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Digitisation has not only impacted how media are created and distributed, but also how they are consumed. Consequently, media use has become an elusive concept. This challenges researchers, media organisations, and the audience measurement industry to conceptualize what it means to ‘use media’. The primary objective of this paper is to present a comprehensive taxonomy for delineating the various articulations that constitute media use. To do so, we extend the concept of quadruple articulation by deconstructing and operationalizing the four articulations (i.e. content, platform, object and context) as a taxonomy to study media use. We introduce the notion of ‘individual media use moments’, which we define as discrete, situated instances of media engagement shaped by content, platform, object, and context. This taxonomy complements media repertoires or ensembles approaches, as the different media use moments serve as the building blocks for media repertoires (i.e. the sum of people's frequently occurring media use moments). Although the taxonomy is rooted in digital media environments, its articulations can be extended to analogue media use when applied thoughtfully.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 102058"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145325262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Power, precarity and diversity in the field of publicly funded arts and culture: An analysis of Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisations 公共资助艺术和文化领域的权力、不稳定性和多样性：英国艺术委员会国家投资组合组织分析

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102055

Adrian Leguina , Anna Zsubori , Carlos Poblete-Lagos

{"title":"Power, precarity and diversity in the field of publicly funded arts and culture: An analysis of Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisations","authors":"Adrian Leguina , Anna Zsubori , Carlos Poblete-Lagos","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102055","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102055","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Issues around diversity in the arts have been widely examined, revealing significant inequalities in public funding and the concentration of resources. However, studies on cultural production logics and their impact on programming diversity are limited. This paper uses Bourdieusian field analysis to provide an organisational overview of cultural production, examining how the distribution of key economic, material, and symbolic resources within cultural organisations shapes the diversity of their programming. Using survey data from publicly funded Arts Council England's (ACE) National Portfolio Organisations (NPOs), we construct a field of NPO cultural production. Through multiple correspondence analysis, we investigate two key questions: (1) How are NPOs distributed in terms of resources, disciplines, and their organisational structure within the field of NPO production? (2) How strong is the association, or homology, between positions in the field of NPO cultural production and the programming of activities for diverse audiences? The resulting field is primarily shaped by economic resilience and precarity, as well as by disciplinary and organisational differences. Our analysis reveals that larger, more economically resilient organisations show a lower commitment to diversity, while these efforts are concentrated among smaller and less resilient organisations. Despite strategic calls for diversity from funding bodies, the diversity of cultural offerings is predominantly structured around economic principles. Except for programming oriented to LGBTQ+, small organisations appear to bear a heavier burden than legacy institutions in catering to groups traditionally excluded and underrepresented in the arts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 102055"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145267841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Making fast fashion past fashion? How UN, EU, and Dutch green political intervention shift a cultural field 让快时尚过时？联合国、欧盟和荷兰的绿色政治干预如何改变文化领域

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102042

Luuc Brans

{"title":"Making fast fashion past fashion? How UN, EU, and Dutch green political intervention shift a cultural field","authors":"Luuc Brans","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102042","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102042","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The climate crisis compels governments to adopt sustainability policies for cultural fields with substantial ecological footprints. While it is tempting to consider this as mere market regulation, this article approaches sustainability policies as an opportunity to study political intervention in the symbolic production of culture – correcting a bias in the literature on cultural production to focus on markets over states. Taking the strategic case of fashion, this article asks how UN, EU, and Dutch sustainable fashion policies impact discourses of cultural legitimacy and the structure of the cultural field. Combining field theory with a constructionist policy approach, this article analyses 927 pages of UN, EU and Dutch policy, 7 hours of UN and EU policy meetings, and 74 Instagram posts from an EU sustainable fashion campaign. This analysis demonstrates that political intervention reproduces and restructures symbolic hierarchies in the cultural field. Political actors predominantly target commercial fast fashion, leaving high fashion untouched. Instead, they stimulate a competing discourse of legitimacy based on materiality, and recruit allies in the field to implement this discourse. Based on this analysis, I argue that green political intervention opens a third front in the cultural field, next to the autonomous aesthetic and heteronomous economic poles. Political intervention in culture through sustainability policy thus shifts cultural fields from a dual economy of art vs money to a triple economy that includes sustainability politics too. This suggests the need to reformulate or even entirely reconsider field theory for the study of culture in times of climate crisis.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 102042"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144933689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The duality of class and love 阶级和爱情的二元性

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102060

Dustin S. Stoltz

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