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This issue of Lateral introduces new features and significant original scholarship, including the Feeding the Civic Imagination forum, debut of Aporias, new additions to Years in Cultural Studies and Positions, along with three original ar…
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Responding to Palestinian organizers' calls to use our voice, continue to engage in conversations, and to speak out, this statement articulates what we see as the abolitionist and anti-colonial way forward—the only way we can commit to a f…
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This issue marks the addition of a new co-editor and several special projects, including Lateral‘s first podcast, Positions. This issue presents two important sections of work, both building on conversations in the field and across publica…
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In this introduction, the editors continue their reflections on scholarly editing in the pandemic, welcome two new co-editors, and announce a grant-funded initiative that builds on Lateral Forums. This issue features three regular articles…
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As we begin this second decade of Lateral, we reflect on the origins of the journal and new initiatives underway. We also consider the precarious nature of scholarly publishing and editing in the pandemic and reaffirm our commitment to thi…
View article: Editors' Introduction: Materializing Immaterial Labor in Cultural Studies
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This introduction frames the six original articles in this issue and the forum on "Corona A(e)ffects: Radical Affectivities of Dissent and Hope" around the concept of immaterial labor. Two full years into a pandemic that has uprooted place…
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This issue marks the tenth year of publishing Lateral. We reflect here on this milestone and highlight work in the current issue, including a new forum on Cultural Constructions of Race and Racism in the Middle East and North Africa / Sout…
View article: Riotous Epistemology: Open Referentiality and Reconfigured Temporalities in AK Thompson’s Black Bloc, White Riot
Riotous Epistemology: Open Referentiality and Reconfigured Temporalities in AK Thompson’s Black Bloc, White Riot Open
This paper suggests that AK Thompson’s text be viewed through the twin lenses of what I describe as “open referentiality” and “reconfigured temporalities” in order to broadly understand the pedagogical and epistemological contributions of …
View article: Cultural Studies in the Interregnum
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This issue of Lateral contributes to a number of ongoing questions and conversations. In it, we see a range of methodologies that span particular sites, take up theoretical debates, and cross borders and boundaries, both political and cult…
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Cultural studies continues to develop its schools of thought, methodologies, and disciplines that are abolitionist. The articles in this issue encounter cultural studies across a range of sites: India, Spain, China, the US, and other geogr…
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This introduction discusses the importance of open access scholarship and its relation to the academy. The introduction provides an overview of the articles in the journal, which include responses to the forum on universal basic income (UB…
View article: A Materialist and Standpoint Critique of Social Movements’ Theoretical Presumptions
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This paper explores a selective intellectual historiography in contemporary social movements scholarship and offers a critique of it.I argue that although the study of social movements, especially in the context of globalization, is inhere…
View article: Theories of Ideology: The Powers of Alienation and Subjection. By Jan Rehmann.
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Jan Rehmann’s Theories of Ideology: The Powers of Alienation and Subjection is a study of the concept of ideology rooted in the Marxist tradition. The book also includes several interlocutions, outside of the Marxist tradition, such as Aus…
View article: Race, Class and Media: An Introduction
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In attempting to re-ignite an academic journal that remains particularly important within the conjuncture of today’s political and societal upheaval, we present a special issue for the Democratic Communique. With more recent social movemen…
View article: Review of <i>Foucault and Neoliberalism</i>, edited by Daniel Zamora and Michael C. Behrent (Polity)
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Foucault & Neoliberalism modestly argues that Foucault's project, particularly after May 1968, bore striking similarities with neoliberalism. Although scholars have debated this issue since at least the French publication of The Birth of B…
View article: Review of <i>Gramsci's Common Sense: Inequality and Its Narratives</i> by Kate Crehan (Duke University Press)
Review of <i>Gramsci's Common Sense: Inequality and Its Narratives</i> by Kate Crehan (Duke University Press) Open
In Gramsci's Common Sense, Kate Crehan offers us another excellent book, this time focused expressly on three important and often not well or fully understood categories in Gramsci's work: 'subalterns,' 'intellectuals,' and 'common sense.'…