culturalstudies

Dennis Broe on Steven Knight (“Peaky Blinders” et al.), the Los Angeles fires, and neoliberalism. Toby on Mexico

You can watch Dennis’ “LA is Burning” talk here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4oHeJboBXw

and Karen Bass discourteously, if tellingly, doorstepped by Sky News here:

https://news.sky.com/video/la-mayor-asked-if-she-owes-citizens-apology-over-handling-of-wildfires-13285730

Robin Andersen, Nolan Higdon, and Steve Macek on Jeff Bezos, Silicon Valley, the bourgeois media, the Democratic Party, the orange combover and the manchild's assault on scientific inquiry

You can read about their work here

https://education.ucsc.edu/people/lecturers.php?uid=nhigdon

https://faculty.fordham.edu/andersen/

https://www.northcentralcollege.edu/profile/shmacek

Thomas Scanlon on life in California versus London, the ancient Mediterranean world and the US, classics, sports, violence, gender, and empires

You can read about his work here: https://ucriverside.academia.edu/TScanlon

Sharika Thiranagama on war, difference, and Sri Lanka

You can read about her work here:

https://anthropology.stanford.edu/people/sharika-thiranagama

Joe Maguire on Ireland, sports, Elias, sociology, and Marxism

You can read about his work here:

https://www.lboro.ac.uk/schools/sport-exercise-health-sciences/people/joseph-maguire/

Jennifer Smith Maguire on sociology, consumption, wine, fitness, and intermediation.

You can read about her work here:

https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/jennifer-smith-maguire

Smith Maguire, J. 2021. Towards a sociology from wine and vina aperta. Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change, 6(2), 10: 1-12.  [Open Access]

Smith Maguire, J., Bridgeman, N-M., Marco-Thyse, S. & Erasmus, C. 2022. Wine farmworkers, provenance stories and ethical value claims. Journal of Wine Research. 33(4): 214-234. [Open Access here]

Smith Maguire, J., Ocejo, R. & DeSoucey, M. 2023. Mobile trust regimes: Modes of attachment in an age of banal omnivorousness. Journal of Consumer Culture. 23(3): 597-616. [Open Access here]

Lever, J., Smith Maguire, J. & Kapek-Goodridge, A. (Eds). 2024. Towards an Eliasian Understanding of Food in the 21st Century: Established Foundations and New Directions. Palgrave.

Dennis Broe on his new novel, The Dark Ages, Hollywood, and LA yesterday and today

You can read (all) about it here:

https://books.apple.com/es/book/the-dark-ages/id6739433342

Bruce Williams and Michael Delli Carpini on US politics

You can read more about their work here:

https://mediastudies.as.virginia.edu/people/bruce-williams

https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/michael-x-delli-carpini-phd

Toni Pape on higher education, media aesthetics, stealth, process philosophy, editing, and games

You can read about Toni’s work here:

https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/p/a/t.pape/t.pape.html?cb

https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5847/The-Aesthetics-of-StealthDigital-Culture-Video

https://www.dukeupress.edu/figures-of-time

Fernanda Peñaloza on indigenous cultures, Argentina, Latin America and Australia, film festivals, and Patagonia

You can read about her work here:

https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/fernanda-penaloza.html