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Is television reformable? The ‘reformist tendency’ in inequality research in the cultural and creative industries (2024)
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This article engages with research on UK Television (UKTV) and the wider cultural and creative industries by interrogating the role of academic research in industrial and social change. We argue that a ‘reformist tendency’ implicitly structures much... Read More about Is television reformable? The ‘reformist tendency’ in inequality research in the cultural and creative industries.

Radical Left Culture and Heritage, the Politics of Preservation and Memorialisation, and the Promise of the Metaverse (2024)
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Radical left culture and heritage—understood as incarnations of leftist artefacts and praxis both past and present—have taken risks in challenging hegemonic machinations often when it is unpopular to do so. To the ire of hegemons, leftist projects ac... Read More about Radical Left Culture and Heritage, the Politics of Preservation and Memorialisation, and the Promise of the Metaverse.

Decoding AI in Contemporary Art: A Five-Trope Classification for Understanding and Categorisation (2024)
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Postcards from the past: fascist site-seeing in post-war Italy (2023)
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This article examines picture postcards of Fascist-era sites that were mailed after the fall of the regime. Sent between the 1940s and the 1980s, the postcards carry images of both highly recognisable and less well-known examples of Fascism’s symboli... Read More about Postcards from the past: fascist site-seeing in post-war Italy.

Digital video activism: Fan Popo’s queer Asian diasporic politics (2023)
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This article examines queer Chinese filmmaker Fan Popo's fiction films and curatorial practices since he moved from Beijing to Berlin in 2017. It focuses on how Fan's subject position as queer Asian diaspora impacts on his filmmaking, identity and po... Read More about Digital video activism: Fan Popo’s queer Asian diasporic politics.

Betwixt and between creativity and heritage: remaking a traditional festival and creating festivals to remake traditions in a historic neighbourhood in Taiwan (2023)
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This article endeavours to advance scholarship on the relationship among festivals, cultural heritage, sustainable development, and the connection between cultural heritage and creativity. The article positions festivals as sites to negotiate creativ... Read More about Betwixt and between creativity and heritage: remaking a traditional festival and creating festivals to remake traditions in a historic neighbourhood in Taiwan.

士紳化以外： 臺北大稻埕的文化經濟 與舊城襲產再／創造 (2023)
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In East and Southeast Asia, culture-led urban regeneration has been criticized for bringing in cultural economy activities that have few connections, if at all, with the local contexts, and leading to gentrification of the historic districts and evic... Read More about 士紳化以外： 臺北大稻埕的文化經濟 與舊城襲產再／創造.

Locked down and locked out: mothers and UKTV work during the COVID-19 pandemic (2023)
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COVID-19 and the associated government lockdowns in the UK had dramatic impacts on the UK’s creative industries. This article explores these impacts on mothers working in UK Television (UKTV), on their ability to work, finances, and mental health. It... Read More about Locked down and locked out: mothers and UKTV work during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The wedding complex: Chinese queer performance art as social activism (2023)
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Through public, intentional and interventionist displays of the queer body, queer Chinese artists have used performance art for identity expression, community building and social activism. This article focuses on some of these queer performance artwo... Read More about The wedding complex: Chinese queer performance art as social activism.

In Queer Memory: Mediating Queer Chinese History in Digital Video Documentaries (2023)
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This article examines the digital and cinematic mediation of queer memory in four independent Chinese documentaries: Queer China, "Comrade" China (dir. Cui Zi"en 2008), Our Story (dir. Yang Yang, 2011), We Are Here (dir. Shi Tou and Jing Zhao, 2016)... Read More about In Queer Memory: Mediating Queer Chinese History in Digital Video Documentaries.

The Independent Press Standards Organisation and accuracy: A comparative study of complaints-handling procedures in four UK newspapers (2023)
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This study examines the attitudes of four Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO)-regulated UK newspapers towards redressing inaccuracies in their print editions. It analyses the ways in which the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, The Times an... Read More about The Independent Press Standards Organisation and accuracy: A comparative study of complaints-handling procedures in four UK newspapers.

Infrastructures for Virtual Volunteering at Online Music Festivals (2023)
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Volunteering benefits recipients, volunteers, communities, and society, while digital technologies establish new opportunities for virtual volunteering. We describe how volunteers transitioned the UK's long-established Oxjam grassroots music festival... Read More about Infrastructures for Virtual Volunteering at Online Music Festivals.

Demonic Surrealism in Bucharest: Revolutionary Nihilism in the Writings and Objects of Gherasim Luca, 1939-1945 (2023)
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This article explores the wartime works of Gherasim Luca and the Romanian surrealists during the 1940s, and considers how surrealist discourse was idiosyncratically reconfigured around the central themes of demons and black magic. Hermetically sealed... Read More about Demonic Surrealism in Bucharest: Revolutionary Nihilism in the Writings and Objects of Gherasim Luca, 1939-1945.

Chinese LGBTQ+ Online Social Movements: A Comparative Study Between the Collective Identity Framings in the #IAmGay and #IAmLes Protests (2023)
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Collective identity framing is the process by which activists identify protagonists, antagonists, and audiences, three identity fields in social movements. Connective action facilitated by information communication technologies decentralizes social m... Read More about Chinese LGBTQ+ Online Social Movements: A Comparative Study Between the Collective Identity Framings in the #IAmGay and #IAmLes Protests.

Queer screens with Chinese characteristics?: Reimagining queer Chinese screen studies in the twenty-first century (2023)
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This introductory essay briefly reviews existing academic understandings and sociocultural imbrications of queer representations of and research on contemporary Chinese-language media and culture. We propose to conceptualize ‘queer Chinese screen stu... Read More about Queer screens with Chinese characteristics?: Reimagining queer Chinese screen studies in the twenty-first century.

‘Sissy capital’ and the governance of non-normative genders in China’s platform economy (2023)
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This article examines Chinese government censorship in the intersection between queer and fan cultures and the government’s regulation of big tech companies and platform economies in the 2020s conjuncture. In the context of booming platform industrie... Read More about ‘Sissy capital’ and the governance of non-normative genders in China’s platform economy.

Curating queerness and queering curation: Exhibiting queer Chinese art in Europe (2022)
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This article examines the curatorial strategies of the Secret Love exhibition, the biggest queer Chinese art exhibition outside Asia to date. The exhibition brought together 150 works created by 27 queer Chinese artists. It first took place at the Mu... Read More about Curating queerness and queering curation: Exhibiting queer Chinese art in Europe.

The (Un)Changing Political Economy of Arts, Cultural and Community Engagement, the Creative Economy and Place-Based Development during Austere Times (2022)
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This article explores arts, cultural and community engagement (ACCE) in the context of enduring austerity in England. Working with a methodically crafted synthesis of theoretical perspectives drawn from (1) the critical political economy (CPE) tradit... Read More about The (Un)Changing Political Economy of Arts, Cultural and Community Engagement, the Creative Economy and Place-Based Development during Austere Times.

The new generation: Contemporary Chinese art in the diaspora (2022)
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This Special Issue of Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art focuses on the social significance and political relevance of diaspora Chinese art in the contemporary era. Although artists and authors may hold different stances towards Chinese and diaspora... Read More about The new generation: Contemporary Chinese art in the diaspora.

'Unity in Desire': Imagining Queer Bandung (2022)
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This article introduces the Queer Bandung project as an exemplary site of transnational solidarity amongst queer of color and strategies of queer decolonization operating at a grassroots level outside the purview of nation states. The research proces... Read More about 'Unity in Desire': Imagining Queer Bandung.