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Author:   Tina Sikka ,  Gareth Longstaff ,  Steve Walls
Publisher:   Haymarket Books
Imprint:   Haymarket Books
ISBN:  

9798888902325

Pages:   322
Publication Date:   28 May 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: ‘Then, There and Everywhere’ – Situating Disrupted Knowledge   Tina Sikka, Gareth Longstaff, and Steve Walls 1 ‘Pubs, Primark & Pasta-Making Machines’: Social Class, the ‘Covidiot’ & Neoliberal Narratives of Consumer Practice   Steve Walls 2 ‘A Huge Social Experiment’: Postdigital Social Connectivity under Lockdown Conditions   Deborah Chambers 3 The Colour of Technology: Covid-19, Race, and the Pulse Oximeter   Tina Sikka 4 The Pedagogy of the Distressed: Truth-Twisters and Toxification of Higher Education   Joss Hands 5 ‘This Is Britain, Get a Grip’: Race and Racism in Britain Today   David Bates 6 Traditional Chinese Medicine Is Fake: Politicised Medical Commentaries in China in the covid -19 Pandemic   Altman Yuzhu Peng 7 Representing the Stasi: Archives, Knowledge, and Citizenship in the Former German Democratic Republic   Alexander D. Brown and Joanne Sayner 8 (Not) Being the ‘Cool Disabled Person’: Queering / Cripping Postfeminist Girlhood on Social Media   Sarah Hill 9 ‘Self, Self, Self’: Masculine Modes of Sexual Self-representation and the Disruptive Politics of Jouissance on OnlyFans.com   Gareth Longstaff 10 Pandemic Dating: Masculinity, Dating Practice and Risk within the Context of Covid-19   Abbey Couchman 11 Post-lockdown Sex: Uncertain Intimacies, Cultures of Desire, and UK Sex Clubs   Chris Haywood 12 Pain and Suffering, Uterus Trumpets and the Wild Ride: Autoethnographic Aca-Fandom, Para-Social Relationships and Diane Podcast   Michael Waugh 13 ‘Standing in Your Cardigan’: Evocative Objects, Ordinary Intensities, and Queer Sociality in the Swiftian Pop Song   James Barker, Richard Elliott, and Gareth Longstaff 14 My Doubtful Cézanne Assembling Emergent Knowledges of Matter and Mattering through Painting-by-Numbers and Autoethnography during Covid   Briony A. Carlin Conclusion   Tina Sikka, Gareth Longstaff, and Steve Walls Index

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Tina Sikka is Reader in Technoscience and Intersectional Justice at Newcastle University, UK. She has published two monographs and several articles on a range of topics including gender, race, and health/environmental science; sexual ethics; restorative justice; and continental philosophy. Gareth Longstaff is Lecturer in Media & Cultural Studies at Newcastle University, UK. His research is connected to queer theory, history, archiving, and the contours of how this relates to gay male sexuality, celebrity, pornography and the self. In his book Celebrity, Pornography, and the Politics of Desire he engages and applies this approach to self-representational media, pornography/sexual representation, and digital/networked archives of desire. Steve Walls is Lecturer in Media & Cultural Studies at Newcastle University, UK. He has previously published Examining Male Service Work: Gendered and Sexualised Aesthetics. His research/scholarship explores advertising and consumption, fashion communications, masculinities and sexuality.

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