Cultural StudiesPub Date : 2022-04-20DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2022.2066146
Giang Nguyen-Thu
{"title":"From hope to haunt: digital activism and the cultural politics of hope(lessness) in late-socialism","authors":"Giang Nguyen-Thu","doi":"10.1080/09502386.2022.2066146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2066146","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores the formation and diminishment of collective hope in Vietnam by tracing the Facebook-based circulation, intensification, and attenuation of affective engagement with the Đồng Tâm land dispute in Hanoi from April 2017 to September 2020. The dispute enables us to conceptualize online activism as essentially fueled by collective embodiment of hope, understood as temporalized openness toward the ‘not-yet’ that stretches beyond pre-existing agendas. The magnitude of online activism depends not on the network itself but on how new media facilitate an attunement between the public and the latent force of subaltern dissensus. When such connection was disrupted, political hope faded when it was enveloped by endless crises habituated by the network. With implications in Vietnam and beyond, the article highlights hope as a political affect and a political capacity indispensable in social struggles, which enables us to embrace instead of enclosing precarious possibilities of change.","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"846 - 871"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44136955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cultural StudiesPub Date : 2022-04-11DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2022.2056219
N. Pun, Peier Chen
{"title":"Confronting global infrastructural capitalism: the triple logic of the 'vanguard' and its inevitable spatial and class contradictions in China's high-speed rail program","authors":"N. Pun, Peier Chen","doi":"10.1080/09502386.2022.2056219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2056219","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT We take infrastructure as a ‘keyword’ in foregrounding the production and the reproduction of contemporary capitalism as well as its complexities and contradictions. To tease out the capitalist dynamics of the contemporary moment as infrastructural capitalism, this paper moves beyond a dichotomous constellation of the logic of capital and the territorial logic of power, to argue how a triple logic- capital, power, and culture informs the cultural politics, attempting to simultaneously resolve the economic crisis and glorify China’s fast-speed capitalism. As the vanguard of Chinese infrastructural politics, the high-speed rail spearheads the Chinese spatial economic system towards one that is not an alternative to capitalism but, at best, a variegated form of moving capitalism, which we call infrastructural capitalism. Illuminating the political role of the infrastructural projects in creating invisible social contradictions, this article highlights a wide array of affected working-class masses who take individual and collective actions that result in the reversion of ‘the vanguard’, dissolving the condensation of the materiality of infrastructural capitalism into the global assemblage of unpredictable but inescapable contradictions driving China into global imperial rivalries and class conflicts. (178 words)","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"872 - 893"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43244251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cultural StudiesPub Date : 2022-04-06DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2022.2040562
Lauren Berlant, A. Cvetkovich, Deborah B. Gould, M. Boler, Elizabeth Davis
{"title":"On taking the affective turn: interview with Lauren Berlant, Ann Cvetkovich, and Deborah Gould","authors":"Lauren Berlant, A. Cvetkovich, Deborah B. Gould, M. Boler, Elizabeth Davis","doi":"10.1080/09502386.2022.2040562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2040562","url":null,"abstract":"Megan: Elizabeth and I have been working for four years together on questions of emotion, affect, media, and politics. Since 2016, emotion has come to have a new currency in political discussion and we’re curious about how you have reacted to this so-called post-truth phenomenon – the mix of disinformation, crises of trust in institutions, and the overt discussions of emotionality in politics that have been dominating headlines. As someone writing a dissertation on emotion in the 1980s, I can testify to the dearth of scholarship taking a critical approach to emotions and affect at that time. Thankfully, each of your scholarly contributions have opened up trajectories in the study of emotion and affect for generations of scholars. We hope you might each talk about how you came to the study of emotion and affect.","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":"36 1","pages":"360 - 377"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42538944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cultural StudiesPub Date : 2022-04-06DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2022.2041682
Edward L. Cohen, M. Boler, Elizabeth Davis
{"title":"The biopolitics of pandemics: interview with Ed Cohen","authors":"Edward L. Cohen, M. Boler, Elizabeth Davis","doi":"10.1080/09502386.2022.2041682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2041682","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Responding to the Covid-19 pandemic, in ‘The Biopolitics of Pandemics,’ Ed Cohen discusses the contradictions in medical, juridical, and popular thought that conceive of both disease and immunity as things that happen to individual bodies, belying our profound interconnectedness and interdependence.","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":"36 1","pages":"396 - 409"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42829595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cultural StudiesPub Date : 2022-04-06DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2022.2040561
Angela Davis, H. Gray, G. T. Johnson, Robin D. G. Kelley, Josh Kun
{"title":"The fire this time: a conversation with Angela Y. Davis, Herman Gray, Gaye Theresa Johnson, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Josh Kun","authors":"Angela Davis, H. Gray, G. T. Johnson, Robin D. G. Kelley, Josh Kun","doi":"10.1080/09502386.2022.2040561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2040561","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents discussion on environmental degradation. Topics include understanding the devastating kind of health impacts of the pandemic of Covid-19 disproportionately attacking black and brown people;and acceleration of border closings, more barriers to asylum seekers, expanding immigrant detention.","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":"36 1","pages":"378 - 395"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43363734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cultural StudiesPub Date : 2022-04-06DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2022.2040560
Elizabeth Davis, M. Boler
{"title":"Affect, Protest, Pandemic: Conversations from the crises of 2020","authors":"Elizabeth Davis, M. Boler","doi":"10.1080/09502386.2022.2040560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2040560","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The conversations collected in this Special Section speak to the events and upheavals of 2020 and the political climate that led up to these events, particularly focusing on the shifting emphasis on emotion in politics that emerged in so-called ‘post-truth’ discourse. The Covid-19 pandemic was initially hailed as a unifying experience, but this conception quickly shattered as the unequal effects of the pandemic were made visible. At the same time, the highly publicized police murder of George Floyd and other black Americans incited mass uprisings. The conversations collected here open up a series of critical forays of thought concerning the long year of 2020 and the inequalities and crises it made undeniably visible.","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":"36 1","pages":"355 - 359"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45287663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cultural StudiesPub Date : 2022-03-30DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2022.2056221
Imre Szeman, Caleb Wellum
{"title":"Carbon Democracy at ten: an interview with Timothy Mitchell","authors":"Imre Szeman, Caleb Wellum","doi":"10.1080/09502386.2022.2056221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2056221","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT With the publication of Carbon Democracy, Timothy Mitchell made a major contribution to the political study of energy resources that helped launch an exciting era of energy studies. Energy humanities scholars Imre Szeman and Caleb Wellum interviewed Mitchell in 2021 about the genesis, arguments, and legacies of Carbon Democracy. This wide-ranging conversation explores how the political context of the early 2000s informed the book, how the book has shaped the study of oil and energy, and the new directions Mitchell’s research has taken since the book’s publication. The conversation also includes discussion of Mitchell’s methodological approach to technopolitical subjects and where the study of energy needs to go from here.","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"351 - 369"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45275205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cultural StudiesPub Date : 2022-03-28DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2022.2055096
J. Hatfield
{"title":"Moments of shame in the figural history of trans suicide","authors":"J. Hatfield","doi":"10.1080/09502386.2022.2055096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2055096","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This is an article about trans suicide – a longstanding consequence of a necropolitical order that perpetuates the disposability of trans life as a strategy of social subjugation and institutional maintenance. Although having become a more widely publicized crisis in recent years, trans suicide is not a new problem. Evidence of trans suicide dates to the early twentieth century, verifying its status as a malady that victimizes both youth and adults, stretches beyond American borders, and populates a range of discourses since well before the popularization of more contemporary identity categories, such as ‘transsexual’ or ‘transgender.’ In this article, I trace the historical circulation of trans suicide, with a primary focus on its movement across U.S. public culture. I show how trans people have long shaped meanings of trans suicide using a variety of communication channels. I argue that recurrent public renderings of trans suicide accrue force as potent articulations of trans shame, which arise directly from embodied experiences of gender dysphoria and other often hidden intersecting systems of oppression that make trans lives less livable. Thus, the figural history of trans suicide is a multi-generational structure of feeling constituted by an ongoing series of moments of shame that have shifted in tandem with evolutions in media culture and changing norms of trans visibility. These moments of shame open possibilities for challenging transnormative logics of representation and dismantling the necropolitical foundations of anti-trans death worlds.","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"813 - 845"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41465468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cultural StudiesPub Date : 2022-03-28DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2022.2056218
Corey J. Miles
{"title":"Listening to the video: Hip Hop videography and Rural Black Aesthetics","authors":"Corey J. Miles","doi":"10.1080/09502386.2022.2056218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2056218","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Black Hip Hop tradition, specifically rap, has appropriated and rechanneled music technologies and inscribed new meanings for cultural, economic, social, and political gains, videography included. Through an ethnographic study of Hip Hop in rural northeast North Carolina, USA, this project incorporates the voices of local Hip Hop videographers and rap artists to suggest that Hip Hop videography is a form of performative Blackness that exemplifies how the visual is a site of vernacular possibility. It shows how Black artists in rural northeast North Carolina work within the specific structure of the trap subgenre, which originated in urban centres, only to rupture it with visuals of rural Blackness. By demanding audiences to ‘listen’ to images, Hip Hop artists in the area known as ‘the 252’ use local history and the visual subjectivity of the surrounding region to alter the sonic experience of songs to set forth a local identity. This research positions Hip Hop videography as a relational space where identities are inhabited, imagined, and transformed.","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"969 - 992"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46517614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cultural StudiesPub Date : 2022-03-21DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2022.2052920
Sophie Chao
{"title":"Multispecies mourning: grieving as resistance on the West Papuan plantation frontier","authors":"Sophie Chao","doi":"10.1080/09502386.2022.2052920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2052920","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 This article explores the cultural, political, and affective significance of mourning among the Indigenous Marind communities of rural Merauke West Papua, whose intimate and ancestral relations to native plants, animals, and ecosystems are increasingly threatened by mass deforestation and monocrop oil palm expansion. Cross-pollinating Indigenous more-than-human philosophies with environmental humanities scholarship, I examine three emergent practices of ‘multispecies mourning’ on the Papuan oil palm frontier – the weaving of sago bags as a form of collective healing, the creation of songs prompted by encounters with roadkill, and the transplanting of bamboo shoots as part of customary land reclaiming activities. Multispecies mourning offers potent avenues for Marind to memorialize the radical loss of lives and relations prompted by capitalist landscape transformations. At the same time, multispecies mournings constitute forms of active resistance and creative refusal in the face of extractive capitalism’s ecocidal logic. Bringing together plants, people, and places, their dispersed sentience and materiality offer hopeful pathways for multispecies solidarities, in and against the rubble of agro-industrialism and its necropolitical undergirdings.","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"553 - 579"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46782811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}