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The Academic Bubble is the newsletter of historian Dion Georgiou. I also maintain a regular record of all these in the ‘Notes’ section of my website.

Subscribers to The Academic Bubble will receive regular posts about recent and contemporary politics and culture. There are two models of subscription:

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All free subscribers will receive posts from the following series:

Historical Currents (monthly): A series of posts putting current affairs in their historical contexts. Present Pasts (monthly): A series of posts examining con

temporary representations of history (as well as of the future, and of time and memory more generally). Stop, Look, and Listen (weekly): A digest of articles and podcasts (and occasionally programmes and films) that I’ve enjoyed over the past week. Paid subscription:

In addition to these, paid subscribers will receive posts from the following series, for £2.50 a month for the first 12 months:

The Long Nineties (monthly): A series of posts reflecting on the culture and politics of the period roughly between the end of the Cold War and the start of the Great Recession, and its ongoing legacies. Comparisons and Connections (monthly): A series of posts reflecting upon cultural and political phenomena across different locations and periods, or within a more broadly regional and transnational framework. Long Reads (twice monthly): A series of more extended posts based upon my ongoing academic research projects.

31/10/2025

My new piece looks at American Samoa’s 2-1 win over Tonga in 2011 that ended a long losing streak and captured international media attention, and at the narrative they and the press told about this victory.

American Samoa’s 2-1 win over Tonga in 2011 ended a lengthy losing streak and was portrayed by international media as completing a redemption arc from their 31-0 loss to Australia a decade earlier.

23/10/2025

My new piece on Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke's Honey Don't!, its q***ring of the private detective genre, and its treatment of themes of class and religion in contemporary America.

The second instalment in Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s planned ‘lesbian B-movie trilogy’ offers a q***r perspective on the detective genre and on class and religion in contemporary America.

17/10/2025

Really pleased that my new article, ‘‘Shall James K. Hardy be renominated for District Judge?’: Classical Jurisprudence, Politics, and Patriarchy in A Family Affair’ is now out in Law and Humanities journal.

If anyone wants to give it a read but doesn't have institutional access to the journal, just let me know and I'd be happy to send you a PDF of it.

This article examines the treatment of questions of jurisprudence, and its social and political connotations, in Hollywood cinema against the backdrop of the Great Depression and the New Deal, with...

07/10/2025

ICYMI: My piece on Eddington’s depiction of radicalisation and polarisation in the age of COVID and smartphones.

This portrayal of a small New Mexico town at the outset of the pandemic meditates on how individual self-interest, ambition, and resentments fuel political ideology, polarisation, and violence.

04/10/2025

My latest weekly round-up of reading and listening recommendations, taking in authoritarian politics and international relations within the Middle East and Post-Soviet space, among other topics.

A round-up of what I have been reading and listening to this past week.

24/09/2025

My new piece on Eddington and its blackly comical depiction of political ideology, polarisation, and violence in contemporary America.

This portrayal of a small New Mexico town at the outset of the pandemic meditates on how individual self-interest, ambition, and resentments fuel political ideology, polarisation, and violence.

22/09/2025

ICYMI: My piece on how changing UK children’s TV theme tunes capture transformations in their protagonists, the communities they represent, and the impact of globalisation.

The evolution of the theme tunes of popular British children’s television programmes offers a useful prism for looking through at processes of ideological change and globalisation.

20/09/2025

My latest (50th!) weekly round-up of reading and listening recommendations, taking in colonialism and conflict in the Middle East, professional football, and the relationship between American film and politics.

A round-up of what I have been reading and listening to this past week.

19/09/2025

Really excited that my article ‘‘Shall James K. Hardy be Renominated for District Judge?’: Classical Jurisprudence, Politics, and Patriarchy in A Family Affair’ has now been accepted for publication in the journal Law and Humanities.

You can check out the preprint here.

PDF | This article examines the treatment of questions of jurisprudence, and its social and political connotations, in Hollywood cinema against the... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

16/09/2025

ICYMI: My piece on how the discourse around the film Beautiful Girls captured some of the chauvinism, misogyny, and obsession with teen girls’ sexuality in mid-90s Hollywood culture.

Television interviews conducted with the director and cast of the 1996 film Beautiful Girls further captured the gender dynamics not just of the film, but of mid-1990s American culture more broadly.

10/09/2025

ICYMI: My piece on the Superman reboot and its location of its hero in contemporary American and world politics.

The latest big-screen carnation of the Man of Steel defies some of the dominant conventions of superhero movies, while concerning itself explicitly with corporate power, geopolitics, and polarisation.

09/09/2025

My article, 'For club, country, and capitalism? Footballers’ autobiographies and the political and moral economies of post-war Britain', has now been published in the latest issue of Contemporary British History.

This article examines the emergent cultural format of the British footballer’s autobiography between the 1940s and 1960s, as a case study into how tensions in the post-war settlement evolved and we...

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