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Disrupted Knowledge
Scholarship in a Time of Change
Series: - Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume: 248
Disrupted Knowledge: Scholarship in a Time of Change is a collection of essays that reflects the important work being done by the faculty in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University since 2020. It focuses on the intersecting disruptions of Covid-19, #BlackLivesMatter, political extremism, gender justice, the commodification of LGBTQ lives, and social media influence. Chapters in this book interrogate the themes of discourse, materiality, and affect; neoliberalism and commodification; media, citizenship, social relations and objects; the cultural politics of (in)visibility; and self-reflexivity and auto-ethnography.
Contributors are: James Barker, David Bates, Alexander Brown, Briony Carlin, Deborah Chambers, Abbey Couchman, Richard Elliott, Chris Haywood, Joss Hands, Sarah Hill, Gareth Longstaff, Joanne Sayner, Tina Sikka, Steve Walls, Michael Waugh, and Altman Yuzhu Peng.
Contributors are: James Barker, David Bates, Alexander Brown, Briony Carlin, Deborah Chambers, Abbey Couchman, Richard Elliott, Chris Haywood, Joss Hands, Sarah Hill, Gareth Longstaff, Joanne Sayner, Tina Sikka, Steve Walls, Michael Waugh, and Altman Yuzhu Peng.
Tina Sikka, Ph.D. (2008), is Reader in Technoscience and Intersectional Justice at Newcastle University, UK. She has published two monographs and several articles on a range of topics including gender, race, and health/environmental science; sexual ethics; restorative justice; and continental philosophy.
Gareth Longstaff, Ph.D. (2015), is Lecturer in Media & Cultural Studies at Newcastle University, UK. His research is connected to queer theory, history, archiving, and the contours of how this relates to gay male sexuality, celebrity, pornography and the self. In his book Celebrity, Pornography, and the Politics of Desire (2023, Bloomsbury) he engages and applies this approach to self-representational media, pornography/sexual representation, and digital/networked archives of desire.
Steve Walls, Ph.D. (2008), is Lecturer in Media & Cultural Studies at Newcastle University, UK. He has previously published Examining Male Service Work: Gendered and Sexualised Aesthetics (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2012). His research/scholarship explores advertising and consumption, fashion communications, masculinities and sexuality.
Gareth Longstaff, Ph.D. (2015), is Lecturer in Media & Cultural Studies at Newcastle University, UK. His research is connected to queer theory, history, archiving, and the contours of how this relates to gay male sexuality, celebrity, pornography and the self. In his book Celebrity, Pornography, and the Politics of Desire (2023, Bloomsbury) he engages and applies this approach to self-representational media, pornography/sexual representation, and digital/networked archives of desire.
Steve Walls, Ph.D. (2008), is Lecturer in Media & Cultural Studies at Newcastle University, UK. He has previously published Examining Male Service Work: Gendered and Sexualised Aesthetics (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2012). His research/scholarship explores advertising and consumption, fashion communications, masculinities and sexuality.
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: âThen, There and Everywhereâ â Situating Disrupted Knowledge
ââTina Sikka, Gareth Longstaff, and Steve Walls
1ââPubs, Primark & Pasta-Making Machinesâ: Social Class, the âCovidiotâ & Neoliberal Narratives of Consumer Practice
ââSteve Walls
2ââA Huge Social Experimentâ: Postdigital Social Connectivity under Lockdown Conditions
ââDeborah Chambers
3âThe Colour of Technology: Covid-19, Race, and the Pulse Oximeter
ââTina Sikka
4âThe Pedagogy of the Distressed: Truth-Twisters and Toxification of Higher Education
ââJoss Hands
5ââThis Is Britain, Get a Gripâ: Race and Racism in Britain Today
ââDavid Bates
6âTraditional Chinese Medicine Is Fake: Politicised Medical Commentaries in China in thecovid -19 Pandemic
ââAltman Yuzhu Peng
7âRepresenting the Stasi: Archives, Knowledge, and Citizenship in the Former German Democratic Republic
ââAlexander D. Brown and Joanne Sayner
8â(Not) Being the âCool Disabled Personâ: Queering / Cripping Postfeminist Girlhood on Social Media
ââSarah Hill
9ââSelf, Self, Selfâ: Masculine Modes of Sexual Self-representation and the Disruptive Politics of Jouissance on OnlyFans.com
ââGareth Longstaff
10âPandemic Dating: Masculinity, Dating Practice and Risk within the Context of Covid-19
ââAbbey Couchman
11âPost-lockdown Sex: Uncertain Intimacies, Cultures of Desire, and UK Sex Clubs
ââChris Haywood
12âPain and Suffering, Uterus Trumpets and the Wild Ride: Autoethnographic Aca-Fandom, Para-Social Relationships and Diane Podcast
ââMichael Waugh
13ââStanding in Your Cardiganâ: Evocative Objects, Ordinary Intensities, and Queer Sociality in the Swiftian Pop Song
ââJames Barker, Richard Elliott, and Gareth Longstaff
14âMy Doubtful Cézanne Assembling Emergent Knowledges of Matter and Mattering through Painting-by-Numbers and Autoethnography during Covid
ââBriony A. Carlin
Conclusion
ââTina Sikka, Gareth Longstaff, and Steve Walls
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: âThen, There and Everywhereâ â Situating Disrupted Knowledge
ââTina Sikka, Gareth Longstaff, and Steve Walls
1ââPubs, Primark & Pasta-Making Machinesâ: Social Class, the âCovidiotâ & Neoliberal Narratives of Consumer Practice
ââSteve Walls
2ââA Huge Social Experimentâ: Postdigital Social Connectivity under Lockdown Conditions
ââDeborah Chambers
3âThe Colour of Technology: Covid-19, Race, and the Pulse Oximeter
ââTina Sikka
4âThe Pedagogy of the Distressed: Truth-Twisters and Toxification of Higher Education
ââJoss Hands
5ââThis Is Britain, Get a Gripâ: Race and Racism in Britain Today
ââDavid Bates
6âTraditional Chinese Medicine Is Fake: Politicised Medical Commentaries in China in the
ââAltman Yuzhu Peng
7âRepresenting the Stasi: Archives, Knowledge, and Citizenship in the Former German Democratic Republic
ââAlexander D. Brown and Joanne Sayner
8â(Not) Being the âCool Disabled Personâ: Queering / Cripping Postfeminist Girlhood on Social Media
ââSarah Hill
9ââSelf, Self, Selfâ: Masculine Modes of Sexual Self-representation and the Disruptive Politics of Jouissance on OnlyFans.com
ââGareth Longstaff
10âPandemic Dating: Masculinity, Dating Practice and Risk within the Context of Covid-19
ââAbbey Couchman
11âPost-lockdown Sex: Uncertain Intimacies, Cultures of Desire, and UK Sex Clubs
ââChris Haywood
12âPain and Suffering, Uterus Trumpets and the Wild Ride: Autoethnographic Aca-Fandom, Para-Social Relationships and Diane Podcast
ââMichael Waugh
13ââStanding in Your Cardiganâ: Evocative Objects, Ordinary Intensities, and Queer Sociality in the Swiftian Pop Song
ââJames Barker, Richard Elliott, and Gareth Longstaff
14âMy Doubtful Cézanne Assembling Emergent Knowledges of Matter and Mattering through Painting-by-Numbers and Autoethnography during Covid
ââBriony A. Carlin
Conclusion
ââTina Sikka, Gareth Longstaff, and Steve Walls
Index
Audiences interested in contemporary research in media and cultural studies related to current âdisruptionsâ as well as those with research interest in Covid-19, #BlackLivesMatter, political extremism, gender, neoliberalism and commodification.