Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies

Everyday politics of the outside: investigating the digital bordering-crossing practice of “scaling the wall” among VPN users in China

Published on 17 May 2026

by Chenhao Ye Hao Wang Department of Media and Communications, LSE, London, UK

Against the aesthetics of cruelty: #MahsaAmini, vulnerability, and feminist resistance in Iran

Published on 17 May 2026

by Dilyana Mincheva Niloofar Hooman Communication Studies & Media Arts, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Transitional justice and the political place of football in South America

Published on 16 May 2026

by Jorge Knijnik School of Education, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia

The gentlemen’s agreement in American soccer: Pito Villalon, Brookhattan, and the FIFA World Cup

Published on 6 May 2026

by Jermaine Scott Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

The gentlemen’s agreement in American soccer: Pito Villalon, Brookhattan, and the FIFA World Cup

Published on 6 May 2026

by Jermaine Scott Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

Africapitalism and local development in Ghanaian football academies

Published on 6 May 2026

by Itamar Dubinsky The Program in African Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Africapitalism and local development in Ghanaian football academies

Published on 6 May 2026

by Itamar Dubinsky The Program in African Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Kolkata derby: football as colonial resistance and the amplification of the legacies of pain

Published on 6 May 2026

by Sneha Goswami Soham Sen a Department of Communication and Film, University of Memphis, Tennessee, USAb Department of Communication and Journalism, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA

Kolkata derby: football as colonial resistance and the amplification of the legacies of pain

Published on 6 May 2026

by Sneha Goswami Soham Sen a Department of Communication and Film, University of Memphis, Tennessee, USAb Department of Communication and Journalism, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA

How “national” are national teams? A typology of national teams

Published on 6 May 2026

by Cas Mudde Nicolas Roulier Department of International Affairs, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

How “national” are national teams? A typology of national teams

Published on 6 May 2026

by Cas Mudde Nicolas Roulier Department of International Affairs, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

The soccer GOAT: Pelé, Black Genius, and the politics of the beautiful game

Published on 23 Apr 2026

by Kalemba Kizito Department of Communication, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA

The soccer GOAT: Pelé, Black Genius, and the politics of the beautiful game

Published on 23 Apr 2026

by Kalemba Kizito Department of Communication, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA

Writing hidden in stitches: Chinese women's secret language and (Un)translatability as resistance

Published on 23 Apr 2026

by Yiqing Ran Department of Communication, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Writing hidden in stitches: Chinese women's secret language and (Un)translatability as resistance

Published on 23 Apr 2026

by Yiqing Ran Department of Communication, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Extending the critique: the (men’s) world cup as a gendered mega event

Published on 23 Apr 2026

by Rachel Allison Department of Sociology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, USA

Extending the critique: the (men’s) world cup as a gendered mega event

Published on 23 Apr 2026

by Rachel Allison Department of Sociology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, USA

“Breaking the silence”: excavating cultural trauma at the Survivors Memorial

Published on 15 Mar 2026

by Kaylee Mulholland Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

“Breaking the silence”: excavating cultural trauma at the Survivors Memorial

Published on 15 Mar 2026

by Kaylee Mulholland Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

Feminism, so confusing: Charli XCX’s Brat and nihilistic feminism

Published on 15 Mar 2026

by Amy Whiteside Department of Communication Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA

Feminism, so confusing: Charli XCX’s Brat and nihilistic feminism

Published on 15 Mar 2026

by Amy Whiteside Department of Communication Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA

Cycles of (Im)mobilities flowing through race, class and refuge

Published on 17 Feb 2026

by Kellie D. Hay Department of Communication, Journalism, and Public Relations, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA

Cycles of (Im)mobilities flowing through race, class and refuge

Published on 17 Feb 2026

by Kellie D. Hay Department of Communication, Journalism, and Public Relations, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA

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Too indigent for citizenship: Okie refuge, class, and (im)mobilities

Published on 16 Feb 2026

by Kellie Hay Department of Communication, Journalism and Public Relations, Oakland University, Rochester MI, USA

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Too indigent for citizenship: Okie refuge, class, and (im)mobilities

Published on 16 Feb 2026

by Kellie Hay Department of Communication, Journalism and Public Relations, Oakland University, Rochester MI, USA

Affective routes and the politics of possibility

Published on 13 Feb 2026

by Dusty Martinez Lisa A. Flores a Department of Communication, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USAb Departments of Communication Arts & Sciences and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

Affective routes and the politics of possibility

Published on 13 Feb 2026

by Dusty Martinez Lisa A. Flores a Department of Communication, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USAb Departments of Communication Arts & Sciences and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

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Differentiated mobility and national belonging in Gonzales v. Williams

Published on 13 Feb 2026

by Leslie J. Harris Alexandra Parr Balaram Department of Communication, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA

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Differentiated mobility and national belonging in Gonzales v. Williams

Published on 13 Feb 2026

by Leslie J. Harris Alexandra Parr Balaram Department of Communication, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA

Lived mobilities: from a telos of freedom to a heuristic of mobilities and agency

Published on 9 Feb 2026

by Mai Nou Xiong-Gum Communication Studies Department, Furman University, Greenville, SC, USA

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