[csaa-forum] Pandemic Citizenship Special Edition of Continuum

[Sean Redmond]

Pandemic Citizenship Special Edition of Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies
Guest editors, Sean Redmond and Jian Xu

The cultural representations and discourses of the Covid-19 pandemic have taken up two central pillars: one where citizenship and civility are seen to break down and the forces of exploitative global capitalism take greater hold; and one where productive citizenship is activated through acts of kindness, generosity, and heroism, or through resistance and protest strategies. These representations and discourses often sit side by side, revealing both the ideological contradictions inherent in the representations and discourses of Covid-19, and the economic and social divisions that in part have shaped human responses to the pandemic.

What interests this special edition is this dialectic: Covid-19 being the prism through which we can see how contemporary life moves and is moved by the tectonic plates of global capitalism. This dialectical approach allows us to explore how the pandemic has been majorly mobilized to shine a light on productive citizenship and the way ‘everyday’ agency has energized and renewed forms of creative participation in the social world. Conversely, the dialectic of the pandemic has also allowed us to question whether these forms of productive citizenship have in fact destabilized the power structures of global capitalism or are demotic only – illusionary in their ability to be reformatory.

Contents

Sean Redmond and Xian Ju: Pandemic Citizenship<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10304312.2021.2023096>

Isabel Delano, Mehitabel Glenhaber, Do Own (Donna) Kim, Paulina Lanz, Ioana Mischie, Tyler Quick, Khaliah Peterson-Reed, Christopher J. Persaud, Becky Pham, Rahul Reddy, Javier Rivera, Essence L. Wilson, Henry Jenkins & Sangita Shresthova: Flying Cars and Bigots<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10304312.2021.2003303>

Sean Redmond: A Pandemic of Creative Loneliness<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10304312.2021.1962249>

Andreas Hepp & Anne Schmitz: The Limits of the Maker Ideology<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10304312.2021.2003755>

Toby Miller, André Dorcé, Enrique Uribe Jongbloed & Jorge Saavedra: Citizenship and neoliberalism: pandemic horror in Latin America<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10304312.2021.2020724>

Spring Duvall: Quiet celebrity in the time of pandemic: stripping away artifice in performances of self, cultures of citizenship, and community care<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10304312.2021.1998372>

Joke Hermes & Linda Kopitz: ‘We can sh*t for another 10 years.’ Toilet paper, pandemic politics and cultural citizenship<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10304312.2021.1998373>

Jian Xu & Xinyu Zhao: Coping with the ‘double bind’ through vlogging: pandemic digital citizenship of Chinese international students<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10304312.2021.2008319>

Jilly Boyce Kay & Helen Wood: ‘The race for space’: capitalism, the country and the city in Britain under COVID-19<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10304312.2021.2001435>

Jamie Hakim, Ingrid Young & James Cummings: Sex in the time of coronavirus: queer men negotiating biosexual citizenship during the COVID-19 pandemic<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10304312.2021.1992350>

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