In Confidence Culture, Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill argue that imperatives directed at
women to “love your body” and “believe in yourself” imply that psychological blocks rather …

Reading the current conjuncture is challenging. Alongside the exigencies of the current
global pandemic, we live in a moment of resurgence of right-wing nationalism, populism …

How did cultural consumption change during the Covid-19 pandemic? Whilst the impact of
the pandemic on cultural production has been given significant attention, work on …

Examining women's magazines and lifestyle coaching, the article explores how positivity
imperatives in contemporary culture call forth a happy, confident, hopeful, and vibrant …

Abstract This chapter,“Creative Industries: a Review of the Effects of the COVID-19
Pandemic,” is devoted to the problems of the functioning of creative industries (theaters …

This is the Introduction to the special issue on Covid-19 and the cultural constructions of a
global crisis. Contextualizing understandings of the pandemic in relation to the concepts of …

COVID-19 has loosened neoliberalism's hegemonic grip on the future. Amid the enormous
suffering experienced internationally, there is much discussion of how to 'Build Back Better' …

Creative occupations are well-known for inequalities and exclusions. This article focuses on
one such excluded group—creative workers who are the parents of young children—to …

As COVID-19 hit the world, social media formed an immediate online archive of the crisis
that enfolded. This essay examines how this moment of collapse intersects with Instagram …

Creative occupations are well-known for inequalities and exclusions. This article focuses on
one such excluded group—creative workers who are the parents of young children—to …