Cultural Analysis

08/04/2024

Check out Volume 22.1! https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~culturalanalysis/
Featuring:
- Stephen Olbrys Gencarella: Folk Research: A Query and a Critique (Responses by Simon J. Bronner, Anthony Bak Buccitelli)
- Sarita Ray Chaudhury: “Laugh like Surpanakha:” Modern Literary Re-Imagining of a Famous Villainess in Indian Folkloric Traditions (Response by Sritama Maitra)
- Tiago Pires: Ethnopsychiatry of the Devil: Demonic Possession as a Cultural Language for Subjective Suffering in Contemporary Italy (Responses by Joseph P. Laycock, Sean McCloud)
- Book reviews by Gregory Hansen, Mary L. Sellers.

Image by Mirko Stödter from Pixabay

19/12/2023

We are happy to release Volume 21.2: Approaching Climate Change Adaptation: Knowledge, Power, Communication with special guest editors Sophie Elpers, Arnika Peselmann, Silja Klepp, and Domenica Farinella.

Articles by:
- Laura K. Otto: Whose Beach Paradise? Tourism and the Governance of Sargassum Algae Along Mexico’s Caribbean Coast
- Monica Musolino, Fabio Mostaccio, Erika D’Aleo, and Agatino Nicita: Political Consumerism for the Energy Transition and Collaborative Housing: Two Experimental Cases in Italy
- Arno Pascht: Adaptation to Climate Change in Vanuatu?
- Sanna Lillbroända-Annala: When Nature Becomes a Risk: Solastalgia and Entanglement in Human-Tick Relations

and a response by Janna oud Ammerveld

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Photo: Laura McAdam-Otto

06/05/2023

Have you checked out our first Series: Pandemics & Politics? We are open for additions and responses.

07/04/2023

Read Volume 21.1 Creative Methodologies with guest editors Jenni Rinne and Kim Silow.

Articles by:

Ann-Charlotte Palmgren
Your Roundabout in My Ear Lobe: Poetic Inquiry as Creative and Embodied Knowledge Production

Robert Willim
Probing Mundania: Using Art and Cultural Analysis to Explore Emerging Technologies

Cecilia Fredriksson
Beyond Urban Sketching: Ethnographic Drawing as a Visual Analytical Method

Response by Helena Wulff

Book review by Myriam Odile Blin

Image by Cecilia Fredriksson
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04/03/2023

Cultural Analysis Forum Series 1: Pandemics & Politics is available on our website! Featuring articles and essays relating to the COVID-19 pandemic, including:

- Dom Tartaglia, Kaitlyn L. Kinney, Christine J. Widmayer, Annamarie Morel, Daisy Ahlstone, Jared L. Schmidt: Becoming Folkwise: Sustaining Digital Community While Socially Distant (Essay)
- Juwen Zhang: Making Sense of the Pandemic of Racism: From the Asian Exclusion Act in 1924 to the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act in 2021 Response: Fariha I. Khan
- Lucy M. Long: Refrigerators, Cupboards, and Canning Jars: Emergent Meanings and Subversive Practices in Food Preservation and Storage During the COVID-19 Pandemic Response: Janet C. Gilmore
Andrew Kitta: God is My Vaccine: Religious Belief and COVID in the United States (Essay)
- Levi Bochantin & James I. Deutsch: The Folkloric Roots and Pandemic Popularity of the QAnon Conspiracy Theory (Essay)
- Malay Bera: Interrogating Social Distancing: Pandemic and Farmers’ Protest in India

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20/10/2022

We are pleased to announce the release of Volume 20.2: Approaching Trauma through Laughter, Betrayal, and Othering.

Introduction - Guest Editors Tuulikki Kurki, Tiiu Jaago, Saija Kaskinen, Kirsi Laurén, and Tarja Tanttu

Laughing Through Tears: Online Reactions to Trauma-related Humor in Estonia - Liisi Laineste

The Story of Migration and Betrayal: Finnish-Americans Coming Down with Karelian Fever - Saija Kaskinen

Odd One Out: Writers Addressing Othering and Exclusion in Finland - Tarja Tanttu & Tuulikki Kurki

Response: Trauma at the Borders - Jopi Nyman

and book review by Judith Lepore.

Cultural Analysis is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to investigating expressive and everyday culture. The journal features analytical research articles, but also includes notes, reviews, and cross-disciplinary responses.

30/04/2022

We are pleased to announce the release of Volume 20.1!

Katharine Young: The Mimetic Series of the Body: Memory, Narrative, and Time in Somatic Psychology
Response: Reconfiguring Trauma Memories in Narrative by Amy Shuman

Sina Wohlgemuth: Demographic Change: Translating Future Visions in Rural Development Projects in Germany
Response: Grounding Future Visions: A Response to Wohlgemuth by Mary Hufford and Betsy Taylor

Barbara Sieferle: Becoming an “Ex-Con”: When Ritual Fails and Liminality Endures
Response:
Social Inequalities After Prison Release: The Aspiration of Future within Permanent Liminality by Hannah Rotthaus

Book Review
Megan McGee Yinger
Sunny Days: The Children’s Television Revolution That Changed America (David Camp)

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21/06/2021

We are pleased to announce the release of Volume 19.2: Tracking Knowledge: On The History of Changing Disciplinary Identities After 1945 with guest editors: Konrad J. Kuhn & Magdalena Puchberger.

Contents include:
Kaisa Langer
Becoming a Folklorist in Early Soviet Estonia: Learning the Rhetoric of the Socialist Research

Rita Grīnvalde
Scholarly Infrastructure: Latvian Folklore Editions in Exile

Eija Stark
Was folklore studies Finlandized? Changing scholarly trends in Finnish folklore studies in the Cold War

Indrek Jääts
The Revival of Finno-Ugric Studies in Soviet Estonian Ethnography: Expeditions to the Veps, 1962-1970

Hande Birkalan-Gedik
Folklore “Outside” the Academe: Tracking and Critically Reassessing Folklore Knowledge in Turkey 1950s-1980s

Ingrid Slavec Gradišnik
Against the “Aversion to Theory”: Tracking “Theory” in Postwar Slovenian Ethnology

with responses by: Jiří Woitsch, Simon J. Bronner, & Karin Bürkert

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06/06/2021

Last Call for Submissions: Pandemic & Politics Issue
Theme: Hindsight 2020

We are still accepting:

Notes & Reports (2,000-3,000 words): Fieldwork notes, Conference Reports

Critical Reflective Essays (5,000 words)

Deadline: July 31, 2021

Suggested Topics:

2020 Internet Folklore
Citizen Protests and Social Justice
Conspiracy Theories
DIY Health
Fact-checking and narrative formations
Masks, Anti-Mask, and Cultural Signification
Racism/Violence Against Asians or other Groups
Role of folkloristics and ethnology in pandemic studies
Vernacular Expressive Responses

During the New Year transition, we are still amid the COVID-19 Pandemic facing times of profound uncertainty. While the pandemic continues to be the epicenter and catalyst for worldwide change, the year 2020 itself has developed a distinct mnemonic temporality. It was a year of unprecedented political unrest, isolation, virtuality. However, 2020 is also rapidly transitioning from lived reality to collective, cultural and social memory. How have our disciplines, our fieldwork, our institutions and our relationships been altered by this marked year of fundamental revisioning?

What kind of folklore has emerged, intervened, and shaped perceptions of 2020? What vernacular modalities have come about to make sense of these times of unrest?

Cultural Analysis is interested in hearing from various perspectives internationally and at the boundaries of our disciplines as we have all navigated the challenges of this past year.

Submission Formats:

Notes & Reports (2,000-3,000 words): Fieldwork notes, Conference Reports

Critical Reflective Essays (5,000 words)

Critical Reflective Essays, Notes & Reports Due: July 31, 2021.

Revisions due: Mid-Sept

Copy-editing / Production: End-Nov

Cultural Analysis is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to investigating expressive and everyday culture. The journal features analytical research articles, but also includes notes, reviews, and cross-disciplinary responses.

29/05/2021

We are pleased to announce Volume 19.1: Ethnographies of Silence, with special guest editors Katja Hrobat Virloget & Nevena Škrbić Alempijević. Articles by Katja Hrobat Virloget, Marion Hamm & Janine Schemmer, Michele Bianchi, Marijana Belaj, Amy E. Skillman, and Thomas A. McKean. Responses by Cristina Sánchez-Carretero, Michèle Baussant, and Johana Wyss.

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