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{"title":"The transgender space invader: Out of time and out of affect","authors":"Chloe Turner","doi":"10.1177/13675494241265609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494241265609","url":null,"abstract":"This short article builds on Nirmal Puwar’s concept of ‘space invaders’ – individuals deemed anomalously ‘out of place’ due to discordant identity markers of gender and/or race. I offer a transgender reading of Puwar’s work, to argue how following ‘out of place’ trans individuals are also positioned as both ‘out of time’ and ‘out of affect’ in a cisgender world. This piece highlights critical work on space, time and transgender feeling in the past decade following the percieved watershed moment of the ‘trangender tipping point’ in 2014.","PeriodicalId":502446,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Cultural Studies","volume":"90 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141921676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Challengers: A cultural studies commentary on the fire and ice of filmic desires","authors":"Francesca Sobande","doi":"10.1177/13675494241264208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494241264208","url":null,"abstract":"Challengers is filled with depictions of desire and the power of perception. It continues Luca Guadagnino’s cinematic work, known for lushly lingering in the ‘what ifs’ of life and love. Challengers portrays the back and forth dynamic of intimacy and competition in the exclusive world of professional tennis. Throughout the film are references to heat and coldness, and forms of watching and being watched. Addressing that, I reflect on the fire and ice – temperature, temperamentality and tensions – of desire in Challengers, and in surrounding commentaries. Informed by Stuart Hall’s work on fantasy and the media, this reflection includes a close reading of the representation of Challengers protagonist, Tashi Duncan (played by Zendaya, who is also a producer on the film). Overall, I analyse ideas about desire in film, in audience responses and in cultural studies. Building on my research on the pop culture concept of ‘the Internet’s boyfriend’, I also consider what online discourse on Challengers suggests about societal imaginaries of desire.","PeriodicalId":502446,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Cultural Studies","volume":"19 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141800893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Representation of climate change and global warming in comics: From apocalyptic fiction to educational tool","authors":"Noelia Ibarra-Rius, Álvaro M. Pons","doi":"10.1177/13675494241264449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494241264449","url":null,"abstract":"Comics have been cultural and artistic artefacts throughout their history, providing documentary and testimonial representations of their times, stemming from the deep connection between contemporary authors and the society they live in. Climate change and global warming, as the main challenges facing humanity in the 21st century, have also been depicted in comics, allowing for a chronological evolutionary analysis of the perception of climate change in comics and their cultural impact. Furthermore, their educational potential can be harnessed to convey rigorous information to the public about the causes and action that must be taken to tackle it. The introduction of non-fiction in comics allows for an analysis from two perspectives: fiction, which provides thematic reading through the reflection inspired by plots that often stem from dystopia as a warning of the future; and non-fiction, which allows for a reflection based on explanation from the scientific world adapted to every type of reader by leveraging comics’ language capabilities. This corpus of works provides a space for addressing challenges in reader education, whose essential aim is to train competent, critical readers, as well as in scientific education by transmitting scientific knowledge in an accessible way to foster ecological awareness through culture.","PeriodicalId":502446,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Cultural Studies","volume":"31 49","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141800515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘I think it takes balls, girl balls, to challenge those stereotypes’: Women’s perceptions of board game culture","authors":"R. Scoats, Marcus Maloney","doi":"10.1177/13675494241264202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494241264202","url":null,"abstract":"Despite growing sociocultural interest in, and engagement with, tabletop hobby games, and in particular board games, the surrounding culture(s) remain underexamined. Drawing from 43 semi-structured interviews, this article explores board gaming culture from the perspective of women who play modern board games. The findings highlight women’s experiences as a minority and the difficulties they face when entering board games spaces – often perceived as ‘male spaces’ and associated with geek masculinity. The findings also show a ‘gender-gap’ in board games, where women’s reduced levels of experience, awareness and integration into board game culture act as a barrier to their participation and negatively impact their sense of belonging. Despite these barriers, the presence and experience of other women helped to deconstruct the notion that board games were solely for men. Furthermore, the findings also show how men and women are actively constructing newer, more inclusive board games cultures which eschew exclusion and challenge board game’s associations with geek masculinity. This research provides insight into some of the barriers to entry women face as well as the changing nature of contemporary board game culture.","PeriodicalId":502446,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Cultural Studies","volume":"24 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141804170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘The small girl with the huge dildo is what we needed’: The politics of sex toy in Cocks Not Glocks protest","authors":"Lotta Kähkönen","doi":"10.1177/13675494241264650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494241264650","url":null,"abstract":"The University of Texas at Austin became the epicenter of the gun debate in fall 2016 as a student-led protest against the campus carry law grew into a movement known as Cocks Not Glocks. Utilizing humor and slogans, the activists adapted the dildo as a symbol of defiance. This article focuses on how the dildo as a protest tool gained agency. The subversive potential of the dildo was in its affective ambivalence, which was augmented in Texas, where the state law censors the public brandishing of sex toys. Through an analysis of media coverage and interviews with activists, students and faculty belonging to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) community, the article demonstrates the cultural meaning-making and complex relationality of the dildo, an object shaped by competing meanings in relation to obscenity laws, sex-positivism and debates on gendered gun culture. Drawing from Sara Ahmed’s theorization of how objects may become sticky as an effect of substitutions, the article argues that the affective ambivalence of the dildo worked in the protest as a gesture that moved between sexual desires and political demands about gendered gun culture and public security in the United States.","PeriodicalId":502446,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Cultural Studies","volume":"46 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141807718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"#CannesYouNot? Oppositional and asymmetrical versions of believability in the Depp/Heard case","authors":"Karen Boyle, Emma Flynn, Melody House, Chamil Rathnayake","doi":"10.1177/13675494241262438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494241262438","url":null,"abstract":"Johnny Depp’s contentious return to the red carpet at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival sparked fervent debate online about domestic abuse, believability, #MeToo and the rehabilitation of men accused of abuse. In this article, we analyse two oppositional hashtags that became central to this discussion on Twitter: #CannesYouNot, created by supporters of Depp’s ex-wife Amber Heard; and #YesYouCannes, the response offered by Depp’s supporters. Drawing on a dataset of 18,000 tweets, we combine a network analysis with a qualitative analysis of the top tweets using each hashtag in order to understand how the hashtags circulated, their affective orientations and the evidence they use to support their positions. Our findings show that networked media allow the (re)construction of existing hierarchies of power; thus, we argue that although these appear to be straightforwardly oppositional hashtags, they operate asymmetrically in ways that have implications for our understandings of issue publics as well as ramifications for feminist digital activism.","PeriodicalId":502446,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Cultural Studies","volume":"64 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141810429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Backlash, white privilege and anger: Resistance to the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda in the British television industry","authors":"David Lee","doi":"10.1177/13675494241261812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494241261812","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the manifestation and dissemination of reactionary attitudes and discourses within the British television production community, explicitly and implicitly opposing the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda that has gained prominence in recent years. Utilising anonymous, in-depth qualitative interviews with 14 white, male, able-bodied, neurotypical and heterosexual industry professionals, predominantly from middle- or upper-class backgrounds, working in various production roles around London, the study explores their perspectives on the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda within both the industry and broader society. The research sheds light on pockets within the screen industries where awareness of social and male ‘white privilege’ is lacking. Positioned within the context of increased diversity and inclusion initiatives, the article critically analyses the growing circulation of ‘diversity backlash’ narratives. It aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of resistance to equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives within the industry, advocating for informed challenges to these attitudes. The article explores connections between anti-diversity discourses in the media industry and wider societal discourses on race, gender and identity. By examining links to meritocratic and individualistic narratives around ‘hard work’, individualism and ‘fairness’, the research contributes to the socio-cultural analysis of how equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives are experienced within the screen industries. The study explores diversity fatigue and white privilege framed within the ideology of meritocracy, to investigate the dynamics of resistance and opposition to equality, diversity and inclusion measures. It highlights the need for an understanding of these discourses to successfully embed equality, diversity and inclusion agendas within media institutions and practices, particularly in the face of societal and industry-wide resistance. The research concludes by emphasising the systemic resistance within privileged pockets of the screen industries, calling for a deeper examination of the emergence and circulation of reactionary discourses that may impede the progress of essential equality, diversity and inclusion programmes and activities within the cultural economy.","PeriodicalId":502446,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Cultural Studies","volume":"129 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141811520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cultural omnivorousness in Ukraine: Examining relationships with social indicators via literary preferences among readers","authors":"Yevhen Voronin","doi":"10.1177/13675494241256891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494241256891","url":null,"abstract":"The ability to accumulate extensive tastes, which is known as cultural omnivorousness, can play a significant role in social stratification and marking social groups. The omnivore argument posits that higher-status cultural tastes tend to be broad and diverse (omnivore). In contrast, lower-status cultural tastes are limited and exclusive (univore). This study investigates cultural omnivorousness in Ukraine by (1) examining latent classes of audiences and (2) exploring the relationship between cultural omnivorousness and positions in the social structure, considering educational attainment, financial situation, age, gender and type of settlement. Relying on the data from the survey ‘Reading in the context of media consumption and life construction’ conducted in 2020, this study focuses on the breadth/volume of behavioral preferences in literary genres among readers in Ukraine (N = 1302). The latent class analysis presents evidence of the distinctiveness of the omnivore class. Subsequent regression analysis shows a strong positive association between high education and omnivorous taste, whereas the financial situation bears no significant direct effect. Regression coefficients for socio-demographic variables indicate a more omnivorous taste amongst women and residents of big cities. The study concludes by discussing potential limitations and further perspectives for investigating the relationships between cultural omnivorousness and social stratification.","PeriodicalId":502446,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Cultural Studies","volume":"111 14","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141812100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book review: Romit Chowdhury, City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport","authors":"M. Baas","doi":"10.1177/13675494241249543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494241249543","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":502446,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Cultural Studies","volume":" 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140992317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Artificial Intelligence and the question of creativity: Art, data and the sociocultural archive of AI-imaginations","authors":"M. Baas","doi":"10.1177/13675494241246640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494241246640","url":null,"abstract":"Increasingly artificial intelligence (AI) is employed by artists for creative purposes. At the same time, AI causes significant concerns among creative professionals in terms of copyright violations and possible job loss. To understand how it may be possible to (co)create with AI this article will enter into conversation with Indian artist Harshit Agrawal who is both a designer with Adobe and an artist who works with AI for creative purposes. Introducing the concept of the sociocultural archive comprising AI imaginations as they have featured in popular culture, this article suggests that when we seek to understand how we now live, work and create with AI in the ‘present’, we must also interrogate how this was once envisioned in the ‘past’. This will facilitate a more productive approach to AI for the ‘future’.","PeriodicalId":502446,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Cultural Studies","volume":"301 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141012558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}