“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....

The next article we would like to feature is “Uncovering the Uncoverers: Identity, Performativity and Representation in Counter-Disinformation Discourse" by Stephen C. Hutchings. This article is the second open access article and fourth overall in Issue 39.4: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New pub: @culturalstudies.bsky.social has just posted the interview that @imreszeman.bsky.social and I did with Andreas Malm re: Fossil Capital, the development of his thought, and plenty more. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....

"Repressive Suspicion, or: The Problem with Conspiracy Theories”—the third article featured in Volume 39, Issue 4 by Philip R. Conway—is an open access contribution, so we invite all interested to read Conway’s work: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"The Weather Proxy: The Racial Technics of Algorithmic Surveillance” by Gary Kafer is the second article featured in Volume 39, Issue 4. Cultural Studies subscribers can read the full article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The first article in Volume 39, Issue 4 is John Lowe’s contribution, “Militarized Granularity: Sand’s Making of Men and Masculinity in Singapore," which subscribers to Cultural Studies can read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Over the next few weeks as many universities enter the new semester, we will be sharing information about Volume 39, Issue 4 (July/August) of Cultural Studies with you: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcus20/3... . There are seven articles in this issue, four of which are open access and available to all.

Now online @culturalstudies.bsky.social "Black Mediterranean hauntings: border violence, burial & anti-racist care work in Strange Fish" recognizing death at sea as not strictly a migration issue but quotidian reality entangled in Qs of labor & social justice www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YKUZU... 1/

In our concluding post for Volume 39, Issue 3 of Cultural Studies—a special issue on “Rethinking the Commons in Hard Times”—we would like to share with you once more the cover artwork for this issue: “Climate Anxiety” by Stephanie Singleton (@stephaniesing on Instagram).

We would like to thank Husseina Ahmed, Saibu Mutaru, Tejas Harad, and Roxana Mika Muenster for their book review contributions to Volume 39, Issue 3 of Cultural Studies. Learn more about each their book reviews below:

Vincci W.S. Mak’s article “Changes in the Understandings and Practices of Village Commoning in Hong Kong” is the seventh and final article included in Volume 39, Issue 3, a special issue on the theme of “Rethinking the Commons in Hard Times": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Daren Shi-Chi Leung’s article “Waste Commons in Motion” is the fourth open access article and sixth article overall featured from Volume 39, Issue 3 of Cultural Studies, a special issue on “Rethinking the Commons in Hard Times." Find the full article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Commoning Art for Sustainable Engagement with Hong Kong’s Existential Crises: A Case Study of Tak Cheong Lane Vegetarian Cooperative” by Hong Zeng and Kimburley Wing Yee Choi is the fifth article in Volume 39, Issue 3, a special issue on the theme of “Rethinking the Commons in Hard Times.”

This has been available for two years, but now officially published by @culturalstudies.bsky.social Exploring settler colonialism in Aotearoa: the fab @fmcc.bsky.social , Priya Kurian, Rolande Paekau, Cayathri Divakalala & Sharayne Bennett www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The next open access article we would like to feature from the current special issue on "Rethinking the Commons in Hard Times" is "Educational Commons: Resisting Neoliberalism Through Teachers’ Voices in Hong Kong" by Suzannie Kit-ying Leung & Sally Wai-yan Wan: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Between Consciousness and Conscience: On ‘Restorative Commoning’ Among Moderate Youth" by John Nguyet Erni is the third article featured in Volume 39, Issue 3, a special issue on "Rethinking the Commons in Hard Times.” Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Elephant in the room: commoning as an embedded method of cultural studies”—co-authored by Ngai Pun and Gina Chin-Yi Yang—is the second article overall and first open access article from Vol. 39 Issue 3, a special issue on "Rethinking the Commons in Hard Times”: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Introducing this special issue on "Rethinking the Commons in Hard Times" is John Nguyet Erni and Ngai Pun's contribution, "Introduction: commoning as unthinkable politics: Hong Kong against hard times.” Subscribers with online access can read the article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our third issue of Volume 39 is a special issue on the topic of "Rethinking the Commons in Hard Times”: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcus20/3... . Over half of the articles are published open access, meaning that those articles are available to all to read regardless of current subscription status.

Before we conclude posting about Issue 39.2—a special issue on Crisis Brokers—we would like to thank Yasemin Sayibas Akyüz for providing this cover artwork for us, titled "Disconnected" and part of our ongoing cover art series on the theme “Against Extraction: Desires for Life-Sustaining Futures.”

Johan Lindquist's article "Afterword: Crisis Broker as Method" is the final article included in Volume 39, Issue 2 of Cultural Studies, a special issue on the theme of "Crisis Brokers." It is open access, so we invite you to read the afterword here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Jonathan Goodhand and Oliver Walton's article "Fixing the Past, Mediating the Future? Human Rights Brokers in Nepal and Sri Lanka" is the second open access article and fifth article overall from Issue 39.2, a special issue on "Crisis Brokers." Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sara de Jong's article "Brokering War: Afghan Interpreters, Western Soldiers and Unequal Encounters in Crisis" is the first open access article and fourth article overall in Issue 39.2, a special issue on "Crisis Brokers." Find the full open access article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The next article from Volume 39, Issue 2 of Cultural Studies—a special issue on "Crisis Brokers"—is "Streaming Services and Brokerage in the Music Industry Crisis in Nigeria" by Wale Adedeji and Ute Röschenthaler, which subscribers can access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Andrea Whittaker and Anika König's "Transnational reproductive brokers in crisis" is the second article featured in Volume 39, Issue 2, the current special issue on "Crisis Brokers." Subscribers with online access can read the full article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Introducing this special issue on "Crisis Brokers" is Birgit Bräuchler, Nadeeka Arambewela-Colley, and Kathrin Knodel's contribution, "Conceptualizing crisis brokerage: brokering crisis or brokers in crisis." This article summarizes the framing for this issue: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our second issue released this year—Volume 39, Issue 2—is a special issue on "Crisis Brokers": www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcus20/3... . We would like to thank all contributing authors and @yaseminsayibas.bsky.social, the artist who provided the cover art, for making this issue everything that it is.

We will soon begin sharing about Issue 2 of Volume 39—but, before that, we invite you to also follow along on our other platforms: • Instagram: www.instagram.com/culturalstudiesjournal • LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/cultural-studies

As we conclude the release of Issue 39.1, we want to share more details about the striking cover artwork “Endless Tears” by Fatima Al-Jaabari (@fatmaaljabari on Instagram). Drawn in 2024 after being displaced from the north of the Gaza Strip, Al-Jaabari describes:

There are two book reviews included in Volume 39, Issue 1:

Shuwen Qu's article "‘Water, asylum, metamorphosis, freak show’: flourishing through streaming karaoke play in China" is the seventh and final article included in Volume 39, Issue 1 of Cultural Studies, and subscribers with online access can read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Daniele Salerno's article "Memoryscapes of liberation: activist mnemonic labour in the queer press" is the fifth open access article and sixth article overall featured from Volume 39, Issue 1 of Cultural Studies. Read the full article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Settler Colonial Bordering and Post-Pandemic Futures: Disrupting the Nation State in Aotearoa/New Zealand" by Fiona McCormack, Bronwyn Isaacs, Priya Kurian, Rolande Paekau, Cayathri Divakalala, and Sharayne Bennett is the next open access article in Issue 39.1: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The next article from Volume 39, Issue 1 is titled "Seven Theses About the So-Called Culture War(s) (Or Some Fragmentary Notes on ‘Cancel Culture’)," written by Sean Phelan. It is an open access article, and we invite you to read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Digital subscribers to Cultural Studies can read Armanc Yildiz's article—"Fear makes the soul: constituting whiteness through moral panics in postcolonial Germany," the third article from Volume 39, Issue 1—here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"‘They abscond’: migration and coloniality in the contemporary conjuncture in Europe" by Prem Kumar Rajaram is the second article published in Volume 39, Issue 1 and available to read by all with open access. Find the full text here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"How should the non-Indigenous speak? A discussion of decolonizing academia, positioning, and freedom of speech" by Stine Agnete Sand is the first article featured in Volume 39.1. It is open access and can be read by all here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We would like to take a moment to acknowledge the seven articles featured in our first issue of Cultural Studies in 2026, five of which are open access and accessible to all. Learn more and start reading Volume 39, Issue 1 here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcus20/3...

One beautiful role I have is as Art Director for Cultural Studies. Thank you to all the artists—from Grenada, Germany, South Africa, and the U.S.—who shared their work with us this year. We’re continuing this series into 2025, with many moving works to come. We also welcome submissions/suggestions.

We would like to take a moment to express our gratitude for all of the artists who have contributed to our ongoing cover artwork series on "Against Extraction: Desires for Life-Sustaining Futures."

Before we conclude posting about Volume 38, Issue 6, we would like to thank Christina S. Zhu for providing this cover artwork for us. It is titled “Ich kann mich nicht verstecken,” which roughly translates to "I can't hide" in English.

There are twelve book review contributions in Volume 38, Issue 6 of Cultural Studies. This post will introduce the first six, and it will be followed up later this week by a second post featuring the remaining book reviews. The featured book reviews are:

Yutaka Yoshida's article "‘Comrade Unknown to Me’: Colonialism, Modernity, and Conjunctural Translation in Familiar Stranger" is the third and final article in Volume 38, Issue 6 of Cultural Studies, a special issue centering on "Stuart Hall in Translation": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Translating Familiar Stranger Into German: The Particularities of the Historical, Cultural and Political Context" by Victor Rego Diaz, Natascha Khakpour, Jan Niggemann, Ingo Pohn-Lauggas and Nora Räthzel is the second article in Issue 38.6 and can be read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Through a Southern Prism: Translating Stuart Hall Into Spanish," by Eduardo Restrepo, is the second article featured in this special issue on "Stuart Hall in Translation": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Introducing this special issue on the theme of "Stuart Hall in Translation," Kuntal Biswas wrote "Introduction – the Unfinished Stuart Hall." The introduction to Volume 38, Issue 6 can be found here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In honor of the release of Issue 38.6 of Cultural Studies, we would like to take some time to acknowledge the thoughtful scholarship that went into the final issue of Volume 38, a special issue with the theme "Stuart Hall in Translation": www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcus20/3...

Cultural Studies is officially returning to Bluesky—but before we begin sharing details about our final issue of Volume 37, we first wanted to let you know that we also post on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn and wanted to invite you to follow us wherever else you might also be.