Opera in the Jazz Age: Cultural Politics in 1920s Britain
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DOI: 10.1080/01411896.2020.1714375
Abstract: That operatic repertoires and institutions are routinely positioned as elitist cultural products of the ruling classes is perhaps well known to contemporary audiences and music consumers. Solidifie... read more here.
Keywords: cultural politics; 1920s britain; politics 1920s; jazz age ... See more keywords
Dirt redeployed: the cultural politics of dirt continued
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DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2018.1504711
Abstract: On a visit to the Nigerian city of Ibadan in 1900, William MacGregor, the colonial governor of Lagos Colony and a qualified medical practitioner, described the traditional Yoruba practice for acknowledging the power and authority… read more here.
Keywords: cultural politics; redeployed cultural; politics dirt; dirt continued ... See more keywords
So ‘foreign’ it’s good: the cultural politics of accented cult cinema
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DOI: 10.1080/10304312.2019.1677983
Abstract: ABSTRACT While the canon of so-bad-it’s-good cinema has predominantly centred upon American films, it is notable that a significant number of recent entries – including Miami Connection, Troll 2, Samurai Cop, The Room and Birdemic:… read more here.
Keywords: accented cult; cult cinema; cultural politics; cinema ... See more keywords
Spectacular Intimacies: Texture, Ethnicity, and a Touch of Black Cultural Politics
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DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2016.1239170
Abstract: In this article I forward an appraisal of the cultural politics of black hair and skin texture, apprehended in visual and tactile terms, in order to stimulate critical conversation on the role of the act… read more here.
Keywords: ethnicity; cultural politics; skin texture; hair ... See more keywords
Argumentum ad misericordiam: the cultural politics of victim media
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DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2016.1259176
Abstract: Abstract This article discusses the widespread use of victim tropes in contemporary Anglo-American culture by using cultural theory to analyse key social media memes circulating on Facebook in 2015. Since the growth of social media,… read more here.
Keywords: misericordiam cultural; cultural politics; argumentum misericordiam; victim media ... See more keywords
Egypt’s 2011 uprising, subaltern cultural politics, and revolutionary weakness
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DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2020.1837101
Abstract: Explanations for the weakness and failure of the uprisings in the Arab world of 2011 range from the hard-power and structure-centred accounts of conventional political science to interactionist stu... read more here.
Keywords: 2011 uprising; cultural politics; weakness; egypt 2011 ... See more keywords
Agonistic failures: Following policy conflicts in Berlin’s urban cultural politics
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098020949080
Abstract: The paper intervenes in critical policy studies to challenge the ‘success bias’ lingering in public policy accounts of collaborative governance. I suggest conflict, rather than consensus, is a productive resource to navigate collaborations between state… read more here.
Keywords: policy; cultural politics; urban cultural; berlin urban ... See more keywords
Architecture, Time, and Cultural Politics
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DOI: 10.1177/1749975520905416
Abstract: Architecture is inextricably entangled with time. Illustrating this point, the article explores two moments of architectural production centred on London in the mid-19th century: the ‘Battle of the Styles’, a struggle over the social meaning… read more here.
Keywords: time cultural; cultural politics; temporality; time ... See more keywords