Emerald Studies In The Politics Of Popular Culture
Please note that Emerald Publishing are no longer commissioning new projects for this series. Liverpool University Press are now accepting proposals for the series in its new form - please contact them directly.
The election in 2016 of a reality TV star to the American presidency has sent shockwaves around the world. Among other ramifications of this turn of events are the things that it suggests about the contemporary importance of popular culture. Prior to the 2016 election Donald Trump was known to the American public primarily as the host of The Apprentice. In shows such as this reality TV ican be seen as a manifestation of what a number of sociologists have called neoliberalism's theatre of cruelty"(see for example Couldry 2008). In the 2016 election this popular cultural formula was transposed to the political arena.
Little wonder then that sociologists are reporting a resurgence of interest in popular culture. To engage with popular culture is to engage in any number of debates about power ideology hegemony (dis)order resistance and reproduction. The purpose of this new series is to engage with these concepts not as abstract ideas circulating in the grand corridors of government and academe but rather as Raymond Williams (1958) once put it manifest in the everyday lives of "ordinary" people.
This new series looks at popular culture in its broadest sense including television music cinema social media games Internet memes literature comics and graphic novels radio subcultures countercultures and celebrity cultures advertising and consumerism sports and more. Contributions are welcome from across the disciplines and subject fields of sociology cultural sociology cultural studies sociology of identity and community popular music studies youth studies fashion studies gender studies and sport and leisure studies.
To submit a proposal to this series please contact the series editors via email:
Stephen Wagg
Leeds Beckett University
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Brett Lashua
Brock University
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