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Where’s Elvis and Trump? Where’s Godzilla and Gaga? Where’s Bowie and Beyoncé? Popular cultures in Social and Cultural Geography, 2000-2020

Horton, J. (2018) Where’s Elvis and Trump? Where’s Godzilla and Gaga? Where’s Bowie and Beyoncé? Popular cultures in Social and Cultural Geography, 2000-2020. Social and Cultural Geography. 20(2), pp. 265-274. 1464-9365.

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Item Type:	Article
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.
Creators:	Horton, John
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes:	Faculties > Faculty of Education & Humanities > Education, Children and Young People Research Centres > Centre for Health Sciences and Services
Date:	30 November 2018
Date Type:	Acceptance
Page Range:	pp. 265-274
Journal or Publication Title:	Social and Cultural Geography
Volume:	20
Number:	2
Number of Pages:	10
Language:	English
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2018.1559346
ISSN:	1464-9365
Status:	Published / Disseminated
Refereed:	Yes
Related URLs:	https://pure.northampton.ac.uk/en/public...
URI:	http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/12851

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