“Ecomodernism, Cultured Meat and the Search for the ‘Middle Landscape’” by Andreja Vezovnik is the fifth article included in Volume 40, Issue 2, the current special issue on "Imaginaries of Food."

The next article we would like to feature is “Fuelling Masculinity: How Ads for Plant-Based Burgers and Electric Trucks Reinforce Gender Norms and Resist Sustainable Imaginaries” by Emily J.H. Contois: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Anti-Nafta: Imagining a Continental Unification Centred on Abundance” by Alyshia Gálvez is the third article featured in Volume 40, Issue 2, the current special issue on "Imaginaries of Food." Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Food Sovereignty: A Case for a ‘New Normal’ in the Wake of Two Pandemics”—authored by Shorlette Ammons—is the second article featured in Volume 40, Issue 2, the current special issue on "Imaginaries of Food": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Opening this special issue on "Imaginaries of Food" is Andrew Calabrese and Andreja Vezovnik's contribution, "Introduction: Imaginaries of Food." Subscribers with online access can read the article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our second issue of Volume 40 is a special issue on the topic of "Imaginaries of Food”: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcus20/4... . Two of the featured articles are published open access, meaning that those articles are available to all to read regardless of current subscription status.

Did you know that Cultural Studies posts to Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook, in addition to Bluesky? In today's scattered social media landscape, we want to make it as simple as possible to stay informed about the newest issues and articles.

Some reflections on the first two years as Art Director of Cultural Studies, with more to come.

We wanted to share a reminder that “What’s Become of Australian Cultural Studies?: The Legacies of Graeme Turner” is available for all to read for the next two weeks in honor of the life of Graeme Turner: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcus20/2... .

When I assumed the role of Art Director, I felt responsibility to collaborate with artists whose work helps us grapple with cascading crises and envision a more just world. We dreamed up the idea of an art series “Against Extraction: Desires for Life-Sustaining Futures,” […]

We would like to share the cover artwork for Volume 40, Issue 1: “Inheritance of Fire and Chaos” (2025) by Siddhesh Gautam. This is the final installment in our series on the theme of “Against Extraction: Desires for Life-Sustaining Futures.”

We would like to thank E. Chebrolu, Mary Ainomugisha, and Constance Awinpoka Akurugu for their book review contributions to Volume 40, Issue 1 of Cultural Studies. Learn more about each their book reviews below:

“Fossil Capital at Ten: Andreas Malm on Capitalism, Energy, and Resistance” is the seventh and final article included in Issue 40.1. This contribution features the transcription of an interview with Andreas Malm, as facilitated by Caleb Wellum and Imre Szeman: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hyung Kwon Choi and Jonathan Jae-an Crisman’s article “The More, the Better: Queer Urban Spatialities of Seoul in Three Films” is the sixth article featured in Volume 40, Issue 1 of Cultural Studies. Subscribers can read Choi and Crisman's work here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“We Don’t Need a Map: On Australian Aboriginal Philosophy and Critique” by Max Brierty is the third open access article included in Volume 40, Issue 1 of Cultural Studies. It can be read by all here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The next article we would like to feature from Volume 40, Issue 1 is “Navigating the Troubles’ Tidelands: The Push and Pull of Memory in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland’s Film & Television Industry" by Lennart Soberon. Subscribers can read the article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Liam Farrell and Gary Hussey’s “Dangerous Memories and Entangled Temporalities: Irish Republicanism and the Postcolonial Politics of Time” is the third article included in Volume 40, Issue 1 of Cultural Studies. Subscribers can read the article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“The Hunger Strike as a Biopolitical Technology: Re-Reading the 1981 Irish Republican Prison Protest” by Sarah Bufkin is the second article featured in Volume 40, Issue 1 of Cultural Studies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... It is also the second open access article featured in this issue.

So great to see my and Gary Hussey’s article on the temporality of Irish republicanism and the politics of memory in the latest issue of @culturalstudies.bsky.social

Check out the latest issue of Cultural Studies for an interview that @imreszeman.bsky.social and I did with Andreas Malm on Fossil Capital, climate politics, and more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The first contribution in Volume 40, Issue 1 of Cultural Studies is Davina Cooper’s open access article “How Concepts Do Activism: As Worlds, Aids, Cells, and Currents," which can be read by all regardless of subscription status here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

With the release of the inaugural issue of Volume 40 of Cultural Studies, we would like to take some time to share with you the contributions that comprise Issue 1, which span articles, book reviews, and the compelling cover artwork.

To mark and memorialize the passing of Graeme Turner, the 2015 special issue of Cultural Studies on Turner’s scholarship and impact—“What’s Become of Australian Cultural Studies?: The Legacies of Graeme Turner”—is available to read by all through the end of April: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcus20/2...

In our final post related to Volume 39, Issue 6 (2025) of Cultural Studies—a special issue on the theme of Bodies that Haunt: Rethinking the Political Economy of Racialised Death—we would like to share with you once more the cover artwork for this issue: “Gaza Freedom Flotilla” by Sacha Bezrutchka.

The final featured article of 2025 is Rachmi Diyah Larasati’s “Train and Its Fugitive Rhythms: Rewriting Empire, Violence, and the Politics of Sound.” This contribution concludes Volume 39, Issue 6, an edited collection on “Bodies that Haunt: Rethinking the Political Economy of Racialised Death.”

Naimah Petigny’s “Haunting Erotics: Theorizing Black Erotic Aliveness” is the eighth article featured in Volume 39, Issue 6, a special issue on the theme of “Bodies that Haunt: Rethinking the Political Economy of Racialised Death." Subscribers can read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Radical Motherhood Ecologies: Towards a Mapping of Social Life, Death and Resistance in the Southwest Borderlands” by José Manuel Santillana Blanco is an open access article in Volume 39, Issue 6, a special issue on “Bodies that Haunt: Rethinking the Political Economy of Racialised Death."

“Registering the Gang Body in Pain: Violence and Haunting in Central America,” by María José Méndez, is the sixth article in Volume 39, Issue 6, an edited collection on the topic of “Bodies that Haunt: Rethinking the Political Economy of Racialised Death": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Black Mediterranean Hauntings: Border Violence, Burial, and Anti-Racist Care Work in Strange Fish” by Eleanor Paynter is the fifth article in Volume 39, Issue 6, a special issue on "Bodies that Haunt: Rethinking the Political Economy of Racialised Death": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The fourth article from Volume 39, Issue 6—a special issue on “Bodies that Haunt: Rethinking the Political Economy of Racialised Death”—is “Ship to the Door of No Return: On Haunting, Refusal, and Imagination in Black Studies,” written by Colin Wingate: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The third article in Volume 39, Issue 6 of Cultural Studies—a special issue on “Bodies that Haunt: Rethinking the Political Economy of Racialised Death”—is Sayan Bhattacharya’s “The Broken Others of the Nation State: Debility, Capacity and Dissent": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The second article from Issue 39.6—“Love Story, Ghost Story: The Cambodian Genocide, Labour Extraction, and Hout Bophana”—is written by Emily Mitamura, a guest editor of this special collection on “Bodies that Haunt: Rethinking the Political Economy of Racialised Death."

Our final issue of 2026 is a special issue on "Bodies that Haunt: Rethinking the Political Economy of Racialised Death.” The introduction was written by the guest editors of this issue, Emily Mitamura & Rachmi Diyah Larasati: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Volume 39, Issue 6 of Cultural Studies—our final issue of 2025—is a special issue edited by Emily Mitamura and Rachmi Diyah Larasati on the theme of “Bodies that Haunt: Rethinking the Political Economy of Racialised Death": www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcus20/3...

In our concluding post for Volume 39, Issue 5 of Cultural Studies—a special issue on the topic of “Cultures of Water: Heritage, Environment and Society”—we would like to once more share with you the cover artwork of this issue: “Agriculture Is Fruitful” by Job Olego Anomet.

Volume 39, Issue 5 of Cultural Studies includes six book reviews. We would like to feature the concluding three today, written by Haniyeh Pasandi, Raphaela Pavlakos, and Rosie Nguyen. Learn more about each their book reviews below:

Volume 39, Issue 5 of Cultural Studies includes six book reviews, and we would like to feature the first three today, written by Mattie Hamilton, Vivien J. Bediako, and Skyler Meeks. Learn more about each their book reviews below:

“The Historical Uses of the Oceans: The Anthropocene in the First Global Age (1500–1800)?” by Amélia Polónia is the seventh and final article in Volume 39, Issue 5, a special issue on the theme of “Cultures of Water: Heritage, Environment and Society": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Ana Gago and Diogo Marques’ article “‘MOIRA: (Re)Making Algarve’s Culture(s) of Water Through Mixed Media Arts” is the sixth article featured in Volume 39, Issue 5, a special issue on the topic of “Cultures of Water: Heritage, Environment and Society": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“The Use of Historical Ponds in Political Campaigns in the Czech Republic” by Michal Vokurka is the fifth article in Volume 39, Issue 5, a special issue on the theme of Cultures of Water: Heritage, Environment and Society.  Subscribers can read the article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The second open access article featured from Volume 39, Issue 5 of Cultural Studies—a special issue on “Cultures of Water: Heritage, Environment and Society”—is “Siren Call of the Sea: Disenchantment and Estrangement of Seafarers” by Johanna Markkula: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The third article in Issue 39.5— a special issue on “Cultures of Water: Heritage, Environment and Society”—is António Ferreira’s “The Predicaments of Craftsmanship in the Knowledge Economy: The Rise and Fall of Caminha’s Boatyards in Caminha, Portugal": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Matching and Mismatching Times in the Fisheries of South Brittany. Crises in Marine Ecosystems as Seen Through the Lens of Architecture, 1887–1927” by André Tavares & Alice Nouvet is the second article featured in Issue 39.5, a special issue on “Cultures of Water: Heritage, Environment and Society”

The first article in Volume 39, Issue 5 of Cultural Studies—a special issue on “Cultures of Water: Heritage, Environment and Society”—was provided by the guest editors of this issue: Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld, Ana Clara Roberti, Bruno Lopes, and Gisele C. Conceição.

Volume 39, Issue 5 of Cultural Studies is a special issue guest edited by Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld, Ana Clara Roberti, Bruno Lopes, and Gisele C. Conceição on the theme of “Cultures of Water: Heritage, Environment and Society”: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcus20/3...

Before we post about Issue 5, we would like to invite you to follow along on whichever social media platform(s) you prefer: • Instagram: www.instagram.com/culturalstudiesjournal • LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/cultural-studies Thank you for following us here and sharing this space with us.

In our concluding post for Volume 39, Issue 4 of Cultural Studies, we would like to share with you once more the cover artwork for this issue: “Imagine” by Rosy Cortez.   Her artist bio begins: “Rosy Cortez (she/her) is a Chicana oil painter and muralist based in Riverside, CA."

“NFTs and the Financialization of Art” by Barbara Jenkins is the seventh and final article included in Volume 39, Issue 4 of Cultural Studies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Roberto Filippello’s article “‘Starved for Pleasure’: The Fashion Magazine as a Desirous Queer Archive” is the fourth open access article and sixth article overall featured in Volume 39, Issue 4 of Cultural Studies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Reading Patterns: Dressmaking Sections in Women’s Magazines in the 1960s and 1970s” by Gunilla Törnvall is the fifth article overall and third open access article in Volume 39, Issue 4. Read the full text here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....