culturalstudies

Stuart Cunningham on semi-enforced semi-retirement, the relevance of research, cultural criticism and policy, creative industries, Griffith University, the humanities, grad school, Sylvia Plath, Frederick Wiseman, Charles Chauvel, writing poetry, innovation, René Girard, and Joseph Schumpeter

You can read about Stuart’s work here:

https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/s.cunningham

Juan Cole on Gaza, white nationalism, US foreign policy, Israeli colonialism, 19th-century European nationalism, race, the Quran, peace studies and Islam, public intellectuals, and area studies

You can read about Juan’s work here:

https://www.juancole.com/

https://lsa.umich.edu/history/people/faculty/jrcole.html

https://tomdispatch.com/authors/juancole/

Phaedra Pezzullo on plastics and crisis, impure politics, toxic tourism, climate justice, colonialism, conjunctural analysis, and gender

You can read about Phaedra’s work and interests here:

https://phaedracpezzullo.com/

https://www.stopformosa.org/

https://twitter.com/ecorethink?lang=en

Jo Caust on local political funding of sports, arts funding, cultural policy, creative industries, cultural work, management, gender, and ethnicity

You can read about Jo’s work here:

https://jocaustarts.com/

https://www.routledge.com/Art-and-Politics-Government-and-the-Arts-in-Australia-A-Historical-and-Critical-Analysis/Caust/p/book/9781032040721

Karen Lee Ashcraft on the global rise of the far right and the role of gender, aggrieved manhood, affect, communication, organization, work, race, trans issues, evangelical families

You can read about her work here:

https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/communication/karen-ashcraft

Gabriella Coleman on x/Twitter, Palestine, US politics, group chats, hacking, Anonymous, WikiLeaks, and ethnography

You can read about her work here:

https://gabriellacoleman.org/

https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/people/gabriella-coleman

Jara Fernández Meneses sobre el cine Español, las políticas fílmicas y genero, el intento de crear un nuevo cine post-dictadura, los lenguajes nacionales, y la exportación

Se puede leer sobre su obra aquí:

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/629p5t/doctor-jara-fernandez-meneses

John Quiggin on the threat of US dictatorship, the end of neoliberalism, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, financial markets, privatization, economics, Australia, the environment and technology, the state, the positive future, and cultural struggles

You can read about John’s work here:

https://substack.com/@jquiggin

Wendy Su on China and the US, Chinese youth culture,  nationalism,  interviewing as a journalist versus scholar, China and Hollywood, co-production, US racism, and cultural studies

You can read about Wendy’s work here:

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/wendysu

Kelly Gates on artificial intelligence, data centers, drone photography, facial recognition, communications and energy and water use, police video, media forensics, and personal history

You can read about Kelly’s work here:

https://communication.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/gates-kelly.html