Positions

Positions aims to provide critical reflection and examination on topics in cultural studies for scholars, students, and a general audience. Participate in the podcast >

Produced by Mark Nunes and Elaine Venter

Season One: Hosted by Andrew Culp / Production by Elaine Venter, Nick Corrigan, and Lucy March / Editorial by Mark Nunes, Jeff Heydon, Ayondela McDole, Evan Moritz, Hui Peng, Shauna Rigaud, and Richard Simpson / Music by Matt Nunes

Infrastructures of Transiency: On Cruise Ships

"Commerce" by Alec Dunn. Courtesy of justseeds.org
By Richard Simpson, Constance Dijkstra, Karla Hart, Luc Renaud, Francesca Savoldi and Andrew Culp

Cultural Studies Association’s Environment, Space & Place Working Group Co-Chair Richard Simpson discusses the local, global, and transnational impact of cruise ships and the cruise ship industry with Constance Dijkstra, International Maritime Organization (IMO) policy manager for the advocacy group T & E, Karla Hart, co-founder of the Global Cruise Activist Network, and Luc Renaud, Associate Professor at the Department of Urban and Tourism Studies at the University of Quebec in Montreal. This podcast is accompanied by a scholarly commentary by Francesca Savoldi.

The World as Abyss

By Andrew Culp, Shauna Rigaud, Jonathan Pugh, David Chandler and Richard Todd Stafford

Andrew Culp and Cultural Studies Association’s Black and Race Studies Working Group Co-Host Shauna Rigaud discuss The World as Abyss: The Caribbean and Critical Thought in the Anthropocene (University of Westminster Press, 2023) with authors Jonathan Pugh and David Chandler. This podcast is accompanied by a scholarly commentary by Richard T. Stafford.

Let’s Relax!

By Andrew Culp, Hui Peng, Leigh Jackson, Hannah Simpson and Patrick McKelvey

Andrew Culp and the Cultural Studies Association’s Performance Working Group Co-Chair Hui Peng discuss “relaxed performance” with Leigh Jackson, Director of Accessibility & EDI Programming at People’s Light outside of Philadelphia, and Dr. Hannah Simpson, Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and author of Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance (Palgrave, 2022). This podcast is accompanied by a scholarly commentary by Patrick McKelvey.

For the Moment, I Am Not Scrolling

Cover of Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement In Search of the Opt-Out Button by Adi Kuntsman and Esperanza Miyake (University of Westminster Press). Image by ketchup.
By Andrew Culp, Claudia Skinner, Adi Kuntsman, Esperanza Miyake and Tero Karppi

Andrew Culp and Cultural Studies Association’s New Media and Digital Cultures Working Group Co-Chair Claudia Skinner take a look into Adi Kuntsman and Esperanza Miyake’s new book Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement: In Search of the Opt-Out Button, published by University of Westminster Press (2022). This podcast is accompanied by a scholarly commentary by Tero Karppi.