Table of contents for European Journal of Cultural Studies, 23, 4, Aug 01, 2020

This article uses the concept of cultural citizenship to understand engagement in political comedy. The concept stresses popular culture’s value for identity an...

This article troubles the intuitive link between emancipatory portrayals of sexual and gender diversity and ‘quality television’ by focusing on three Flemish ‘p...

Digital videos depicting the unboxing of new objects have become a lucrative revenue stream in the YouTube economy and are beginning to attract critical interes...

The article investigates non-linear dynamics of networked culture, emphasizing the entangled relations of power that transcend the dialectic of the vernacular a...

This article presents an analysis of life-political themes in online discussions about the hikikomori phenomenon, acute social withdrawal. In a Finnish online i...

In this article, we draw on the growing Euro-American literature on cultural recognition, legitimacy, and film criticism and focus on the classificatory struggl...

The COVID-19 pandemic stirs up strong nationalist and localist sentiments; places pride themselves on containing the virus more effectively: We are doing better...

This article offers some initial commentary on the cultural impacts of COVID-19. It first considers how the pandemic might already have shifted the focus - or c...

A critical intellectual, someone whose job is to think, reflect and critique can be the last thing one needs in times of practical urgency. If anything such peo...