Abstract
This provocation considers engagements with popular and media cultures in Social and Cultural Geography. I celebrate the journal’s major achievement in creating a space for substantial empirical-theoretical consideration of popular and media cultures, notably via sustained work on popular geopolitics, postcolonial cultures, and subcultural scenes. However, I also note the absence of so many iconic figures and forms of popular culture. In short: where are Elvis, Trump, Aretha, Godzilla, Gaga, Bowie, Beyoncé, Micky Mouse, Father Christmas and countless others, and how might we understand their absence from the journal? I argue that engagements with popular and media cultures in Social and Cultural Geography have been weirdly coy, time-lagged and uneven. I call for more scholarship attuned to, and alive with, these affecting, life-changing, identity-defining, power-laden geographies.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 265-274 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Social and Cultural Geography |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 24 Dec 2018 |
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| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 24 Dec 2018 |